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THIS admirable book has developed from an intention on the part of one of the authors to illustrate each of the simpler geological structures by an ideal block diagram and also by an actual example from an appropriate tract of the earth's surface. This enterprise has now been amplified by a text in which the structures and their recognition in the field are clearly discussed with special reference to the resulting land forms. The very numerous block diagrams, representing geological structures in three dimensions, are extremely effective, and give interest and vigour to a subject of which the treatment has often been woefully dull. To students of geology the book presents in a most attractive form the means of deducing from field observations many of the leading principles of structural geology and geomorphology, while for geography students it provides a sound basis for understanding intelligently the connexion between land forms and the rocks and structures out of which the surface relief has been carved. Two chapters are devoted to the construction of block diagrams, and notes on equipment and surveying instruments and field problems are added in three appendices. The book is one for which both students and teachers may well be grateful. Its production has clearly been a labour of love.
Structure and Surface: a Book of Field Geology.
C. Barrington Brown F. Debenham. Pp. vii + 168. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1929.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Our Bookshelf. Nature 126, 532 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126532a0
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