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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.
The Lewisian: Britain's oldest rocks
Early ideas: McCulloch, Jehu & Craig
The 1907 Geological Survey Memoir
Sutton & Watson 1951: the 'Scourian' and the 'Laxfordian'
Investigation of the Loch Maree Group and discovery of the 'Inverian'
Loch Torridon revisited
Assault on the Outer Hebrides
The Scourie-Laxford area revisited
The 1971 Lewisian Conference
Application of the shear zone concept
Comparisons abroad
The origins of the 'Fundamental Complex'
The Scourian and the Badcallian
The Scourie dykes: one swarm or two (or more?)
Improvements in geochronology
The terrane controversy
Remaining problems
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