Book Description

Excerpt from The Student's Handbook of Stratigraphical Geology This volume is based on the Student's Handbook of Historical Geology, published by Messrs. G. Bell and Sons, and may be regarded as a second edition of that book, but it has been entirely re-written, and its title is altered from Historical Geology to Stratigraphical Geology, because it is considered that the latter is the more customary designation of the subject, though the former is, strictly speaking, the more accurate and comprehensive term. Great advances have been made in Geology during the last fifteen years, and a much larger mass of information has to be considered by the compiler of such a handbook as this than was available prior to 1886. The labour of compilation is consequently greater, and yet there are still many parts of Great Britain which have not yet been completely explored, and there are still important questions upon which authorities differ, questions not only of nomenclature and grouping, but also regarding the actual age and correlation of certain rock-groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.