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Imagine being a time-traveller, traveling back millions of years in time to join wildlife safaris and visit ancient environments teeming with life. In Fossils Alive!, experience the fauna, flora, and landscapes of ten localities in the geological past of Scotland. You will catch fish in a Devonian lake 380 million years ago in Caithness; escape a great tsunami at Helmsdale following a Jurassic earthquake; and then explore the Carboniferous forests, rivers, and volcanoes of Edinburgh. On the Isle of Skye, you wander a Jurassic shoreline and see a dinosaur dine. From a submersible, you observe the nuptial dance of ammonites. Pick your way around ancient hot-spring pools and geysers in Aberdeenshire and admire some of the first plants and animals to inhabit the land. The ten areas visited represent some of the most famous fossiliferous locations in Scotland. The safaris are presented as stories, but they are firmly based on published scientific evidence relating to the fossils and rocks o
Contents
List of Illustrations. Preface. Introduction. The Excursions:1. Fish Foray in Forfar (Tillwhandland, Forfar in the early Devonian); 2. Hot Springs and Geysers (Rhynie, Aberdeenshire in the early Devonian); 3. Fishing in Caithness (Caithness in the mid Devonian); 4. Mass Death in Fife (Dura Den, Fife in the late Devonian); 5. The Trilobite's Tale (Bishop Hill, Kinross in the early Carboniferous); 6. Volcanoes in the Jungle (Edinburgh area in the early Carboniferous); 7. The Elgin Reptiles (Hopeman Moray in the late Permian); 8. Dinosaur Dinner on Skye (Camas Malag, Skye in the early Jurassic); Amorous Ammonites (Bearreraig, Skye in the mid Jurassic); 10. The Helmsdael Tsunami (Helmsdale, Sutherland in the late Jurassic). Epilogue. Bibliography. GazetteerNER(01): WOW
