The British Isles has a huge variety of landscapes. The effects of just about every natural
geological process can be seen somewhere. There are dramatic U-shaped valleys carved by assorted
ice ages in the North, and V-shaped valleys carved by rivers in the South. But if you know what to
look for, you can find so much more. The pages below explain more of the geomorphology (phew!
thats a big word - 'geo' means 'ground', 'morph' means 'change', and 'ology' makes it a science -
so its about the way the landscape changes).
Now you've read about the landscape, what about the rocks scattered around it. These pages tell you
a bit about the rocks commonly found in Britain (and a few you won't find). Each of them has posed
for the page by sitting on my scanner.
Finally, if you were wondering what rock I used for the background to this page, I can now reveal
it was a red sandstone from the Isle Of Arran - though I've had to mute the colour to make this text
legible.