Abstract
A CIVIL engineer laid the foundations of modern geology; it is therefore singularly inappropriate that civil engineers should be somewhat dependent upon the geologist for decisive opinions on the geological aspects of engineering schemes. The author would attribute the engineer's diffidence in the matter of geology to the air of specialisation with which an awesome nomenclature has invested the subject. Engineers are themselves rather at fault in having allowed the cloak of William Smith to descend on others' shoulders. The geology of field operations involves little more than a common-sense application of first principles to special types of observations made on the engineer's own ground.
Civil Engineering Geology.
By Cyril S. Fox. Pp. xvi + 144. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1923.) 18s. net.
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B., A. Our Bookshelf. Nature 112, 615–616 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112615a0
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