Scotland's Earth Heritage and Landscape

Scotland’s rocks, fossils, landforms and soils

Useful links, publications and contacts

• ‘Conserving Scotland’s rocks, fossils and landforms’ ’ (ISBN 1 85739 057 3) is available FREE from our publications section

• scottishgeology.com. The gateway to Scottish geology on the web. Including information about ‘Rock On’, the bi-annual Scottish Geology Festival.

• Landscape Fashioned by Geology. This series of SNH booklets interprets the landscape and geology of Scotland. Titles to date are: - Scotland: Creation of its Natural Landscape, Edinburgh, Skye, Cairngorms, Loch Lomond to Stirling, Orkney and Shetland, East Lothian and the Borders, Arran and the Clyde Islands, Fife and Tayside, Northwest Highlands. (See also scottishgeology.com/publications for further information)

• Scotland’s Living Landscape. This series of SNH booklets looks at Scotland’s habitats, how they developed and the wildlife they support. Titles to date of Earth heritage interest include:- Soils, Coasts, Machair, Boglands.

• Natural Heritage Management. This series of SNH booklets are particularly useful to professionals working in the land management, planning, tourism and environmental fields. Titles to date of Earth heritage interest include: Minerals and the Natural Heritage in Scotland’s Midland Valley; Beach Dunes.

• Earth Heritage. A FREE twice-yearly journal that contains articles on Earth heritage conservation from Britain and abroad as well as news of recent developments and reviews of the latest publications. It is aimed at all with an interest or involvement in Earth science conservation. For subscription information and contacts see scottishgeology.com/publications

• Earth Science and the Natural Heritage – summary booklet, full conference proceedings and abstracts from the 1999 SNH conference on Earth Science and the Natural Heritage. Current views and issues relating to the Earth Sciences in Scotland with a focus on working towards sustainable management of our Earth heritage.

• RIGS. For information on RIGS visit the scottishgeology.com website
  or contact UKRIGS at The National Stone Centre, Porter Lane, Wirksworth, Derbyshire DE4 4LS.

Find a more complete list of recent SNH Earth Science publications

For further information please contact:

Earth Science Group
Scottish Natural Heritage
2 Anderson Place
Edinburgh
EH6 5NP
Tel: 0131 447 4784
Fax: 0131 446 2406