The Geological Description of Britain

C., G. A. J.

doi:10.1038/112354a0

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The Geological Description of Britain

G. A. J. C.

Nature volume 112, pages 354–355 (1923)Cite this article

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UNDER the direction of Dr. J. S. Flett, the Geological Survey of Great Britain, with its happily increased emoluments and staff, remains one of the most progressive scientific institutions in the British Isles. The first two memoirs here noticed are based on the revision of mapping done in earlier days, and they form an effective answer to those who hold that geological observations once recorded are incapable of improvement in the light of later knowledge,

(1) Memoirs of the Geological Survey: England and Wales.

Explanation of Sheet 96: The Geology of Liverpool, with Wirral and part of the Flintshire Coalfield. By C. B. Wedd, B. Smith, W. C. Simmons, and D. A. Wray. Pp. vi + 183. 4s. net.

(2) Memoirs of the Geological Survey: England and Wales.

Explanation of Sheet 169: The Geology of the Country around Coventry, including an Account of the Carboniferous Rocks of the Warwickshire Coalfield. By T. Eastwood, Dr. W. Gibson, T. C. Cantrill, and T. H. Whitehead. With contributions by Dr. H. H. Thomas and the late C. H. Cunnington. Pp. viii + 149 + 8 Plates. 5s. net. Also Sheet 169, 1 inch to 1 mile, colour-printed, Drift edition, 2s.

(3) Memoirs of the Geological Survey: Scotland. The Geology of Corrour and the Moor of Rannoch

(Explanation of Sheet 54). By L. W. Hinxman, R. G. Carruthers, and M. Macgregor. With contributions by the late Dr. C. T. Clough, and Petrological Notes by Dr. H. H. Thomas and H. H. Read. Pp. iv + 96. 4s. net. Also Sheet 54, 1 inch to 1 mile, colour-printed, Drift edition, 3s. (Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office; London: E. Stanford, Ltd., 1923.)