Download or read book The Lewisian written by Graham Park and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first 2,500 million years of the geological history of Britain are stored in the gneisses of the Lewisian Complex of NW Scotland. Graham Park explores the long journey of discovery in which this history was gradually deciphered and the controversies and arguments in the scientific community over the past two centuries that arose in this period.