Geology in Austria-Hungary

Abstract

THE widely representative character of the work of the Geologische Reichsanstalt of Vienna is fully maintained in recent issues of the Jahrbuch. One of the most notable publications from the point of viev of students and teachers of geology is that by 0. Ampferer and W. Hammer, entitled “Geologischer Querschnitt dJch die Ostalpen vorn Allgäu zum Gardasee” (lxi. Bd., u. 4 Heft, p. 513). This includes a critical description, district by district, of a coloured section drawn on the horizontal and vertical scale of 1: 75,000, and published with this double part of the Jahrbuch as a folded illustration three and a half metres in length. The authors acknowledge their indebtedness to the administration by the Reichsanstalt of the Urban Schlnbach travelling-fund. Bibliographies are appended to each division of the description, and the whole may be regarded as a development and replacement of the remarkable single-handed work of Rothpletz, published in 1894. The authors point out (p. 535) that Rothpletz recognised the influence of great overthrusts, being in this matter a pioneer well ahead of most of his contemporaries.