Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of six reviews on the Quaternary of Scotland produced in honour of J\B\Sissons. For over twenty years, from the late 1950s until his retirement in 1982, Sissons was the dominant figure in British Quaternary geomorphology. During this time he left few major areas of the subject untouched and singlehandedly transformed our understanding of the Quaternary geomorphology of Scotland. He contributed in two main ways: first as a fieldworker, mapping, surveying and interpreting the terrain to reconstruct various aspects of former environments and landscape evolution; and secondly in attempting to provide a logically consistent synthesis of current knowledge, both in his books and in a series of important reviews.
