Abstract
IN view of the increasing interest taken in Germany in field geology, it is to be regretted that this small guide to a very accessible district should be issued at so high a price. Schubert's Dalmatia in the same series is, in fact, slightly cheaper, and students at Bonn, Giessen, and Heidelberg may feel that they have a right to more liberal treatment. Dr. Mordziol, of Aachen, indicates at the outset the limits of the basin of Mainz, a region of subsidence, in which the youngest deposits lie in the centre, while the older Cainozoic strata appear upon the margins. The gravels laid down by the Rhine in glacial times actually lie below the present level of the sea (p. 2). On the south, the basin merges into the sunken valley-floor of the upper Rhine, as is apparent on any orographic map of southern Germany.
Geologischer Fhrer durch das Mainzer Tertirbecken.
By Dr. C. Mordziol. I. Teil, Allgemeine bersicht und Exkursionsfhrer in die Umgebung von Mainz und Wiesbaden. Pp. xii + 168, with 39 figures in the text. (Berlin: Gebrder Borntraeger, 1911.) Price 5.60 marks.
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C., G. Geologischer Führer durch das Mainzer Tertiärbecken . Nature 87, 548 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087548a0
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