At many British seaside resorts fishermen speak of black peaty earth, hazel-nuts and rooted tree-stumps exposed between tide-marks after a storm. The geologist Clement Reid explains these drowned forests and what they reveal, touring the evidence from the Thames Valley and the East Coast to the Dogger Bank, the Irish Sea, the English Channel and Cornwall.
A short, lucid study of how Britain’s coastline and landscape have changed since prehistory, ideal for coast walkers and amateur geologists. Download the free EPUB.