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IN the year 1866 the Duc de Luynes organised an expedition for investigating the physical geography and geology of the Holy Land and part of the surrounding territories. Narratives of some features of the explorations have already been given to the world, but it is only now that the first part of the geological report appears. M. Lartet, the geologist of the expedition, has chosen as the vehicle of publication for his memoir, the opening number of a new magazine—the Annales des Sciences Géologiques. Instead of confining himself to a record of what he personally accomplished, he has with much labour given a brief summary of the publications of previous writers, and has incorporated their results with his own, so as to present in a clear and connected form the sum of all that is at present known regarding the geology of the country between Lebanon and the Red Sea. Until the whole of the memoir is published it would be premature to pass judgment upon the position which it will ultimately take in the geological bibliography of Palestine. The present instalment, after its introductory and historical sections, passes on to describe the igneous and crystalline rocks, leaving the great limestone and later formations for a subsequent paper.
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GEIKIE, A. The Geology of the Holy Land . Nature 1, 509–510 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001509b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/001509b0