Chapter 1: A RED EARTH

THE ENIGMA OF THE ANCIENT TORRIDONIAN

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Torridonian sediments Suilven Precambrian Stratigraphic Column Absolute age Stoer Grand Canyon Mars surface winds Cyanobacteria fossils Cyanobacteria Shark Bay Burgess Shale Prokaryote and Eukaryote Precambrian climate banded ironstone formations Cambrian Explosion Hallucigenia sparsa Ediacara fauna Snowball Earth isotopes Assynt Crofters Trust

• INSTRUCTIONS                                     
• 1:  A RED EARTH                                   
• 2:  DEEP SCAR: THE MOINE THRUST     
• 3:  THE FISH GRAVES OF ACHANARRAS
• 4:  VOLCANO                                         
• 5:  THE COMING ICE AGE                      
• 6:  LEFT-OVERS                                    
• 7:  HUTTON'S ARSE (1795)                     
• EPILOGUE                                             
• GLOSSARY                                            

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