Why Britain Is Sitting On The Most Valuable Land In Human History

Описание: Britain looks finished — a small, green, rained-on island that sold its coal and settled into being a museum of itself. It isn’t. Under those fields sits a stack of rock holding coal, iron ore, furnace clay and limestone in the same sequence, almost never far from water a boat can use, and that one geological accident is why the industrial world started here instead of anywhere else. Thirty-five facts on the ground Britain is actually standing on: the hollow coalfields, the tilting crust, the fastest-eroding coastline in Europe, and the drowned prehistoric country out in the North Sea that is now the most valuable land this island owns.


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