Chapter 1: Further Reading

Books, Pamphlets

Ager, Derek. 1981. The nature of the Stratigraphical Record. Macmillan Press. London. 2nd Edition. pp.122. ISBN 0 333 31077 2
Bengtson, Stefan (Ed). 1994. Early Life on Earth. Nobel Symposium No 84. Columbia University Press. New York. pp.630. ISBN 0 231 08088 3.
Craig, G.Y. (Ed.) 1991. Geology of Scotland. Geological Society London. 3rd Edition. pp.612. ISBN 0 903317 64 8
Gould, Stephen Jay.1990. Wonderful Life. Hutchinson Radius. pp.347. ISBN 0 09 174271 4
Lamb, Simon and Sington, David 1998. Earth Story. BBC Books. pp.223. ISBN 0 563 38799 8
Levin, Harold L. 1996. The Earth Through Time. Saunders College Publishing. 5th Edition. pp.568. ISBN 0 03 023751 3
MacAskill, J. 1999. We Have Won the Land. Acair Scotland. pp.224. ISBN 086152 221 4
Macculloch, J. 1819 A description of the Western Islands of Scotland, including the Isle of Man, comprising an account of their geological structure, with remarks on their agriculture, scenery, and antiques. 3 Vols. London.
Morris, Simon Conway.1998. The Crucible of Creation. Oxford University Press. pp.242. ISBN 0 19 850256 7
Schopf, J.William. (Ed) 1992 Major Events in the History of Life. Jones and Bartlett, Boston. pp 575. ISBN 0 86720 268 8
Schopf, J. William.1999. Cradle of Life. Princeton University Press. pp.367. ISBN 0 691 00230 4
Walker, Gabrielle. 2003. Snowball Earth. Bloomsbury. pp.269. ISBN 0 7475 6433 7

Barber, A.J., Beach, A., Park, R.G., Tarney, J. and Stewart, A.D. 1978. The Lewisian and Torridonian Rocks of North-West Scotland. The Geologists' Association. No. 21, pp.99.
Brasier, M.D. 1992. Introduction, Background to the Cambrian Explosion (thematic set). Journal of the Geol. Soc. London. Vol.149, pt. 4, July. p.585-655.
Flemming, G. C. 1989. Petroleum Geology of North Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse. No.158.
Hambury, M.J., Fairchild, I.J., Glover B.W., Stewart, A.D., Treagus, J.E. and Winchester, J.A. 1991. The Late Precambrian Geology of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The Geologists Association, No 44, pp. 130.
Hoffman, P.E. and Schrag, D.P. 2000. Snowball Earth. Scientific American. Vol. 282, No. 1, p. 5-57.
Hoffman, P.E., Kaufman, A.J., Halverson, G.P. and Schrag, D.P.1998. A Neoproterozoic snowball Earth. Science. Vol. 281, p.1342-1346.
Stewart, A.D. 2002. The Late Proterozoic Torridonian Rocks of Scotland: their Sedimentology, Geochemistry and Origin. Geological Society London, Memoir No. 24, pp.130
Walker, James C.G.2001. Strange Weather on Snowball Earth. Earth System Processes. Conference, Edinburgh. June 24-28. Abstract. p.101.
Walter, M.R. 1994. Stromatolites: the main geological source of information on the evolution of the early benthos. In: Early Life on Earth. Nobel Symposium No 84. Bengston, Stefan (Ed.), Columbia University Press. p.270-286.