By looking at rock formations, minerals, fossils, volcanoes, coal, oil and much more Scottish Rocks and Fossils tells the story of how Scotland's landscape has changed over the last three billion years. Find out... how coal was formed from tropical swamps, about the ice age in Scotland which lasted for over two million years and ...

• how to make your own erupting volcano
• about the 150 million-year-old ichthyosaur
• what 'puddingstone' is
• which animals roamed Scotland during the Ice Age

Scottish Rocks and Fossils includes an eight page section of games, puzzles and drawings for colouring in (can be photocopied for home or classroom use) and is fully illustrated throughout with drawings, photographs and objects from the collections of National Museums Scotland.

Scottish Rocks and Fossils is part of the new-look Scotties which are a series of exciting, full-colour information books containing a wealth of interesting facts, illustrations and photographs, stimulating activities, places of interest, and selected websites