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Two years ago Miss Hilda Sharpe published a field notebook of geological illustrations (see NATURE, vol. Ixxxviii., p. 74), and she has now done further service by collecting nearly half the photographs in Mr. H. B. Woodward's volume. Some of the remaining half have been previously published by the Geological Survey, and others are from the series in the care of the British Association. Among the most original and suggestive are Miss Sharpe's own “View from Summit of Caer Caradoc,” showing the outweathered cones of Uriconian rock, and Mr. Armstrong's “Escarpment of Millstone Grit, near Leek.” Landscapes like these, and the Survey's “Raised Beaches near Strome Ferry,” illustrate the geological atlas better than any number of quarry-sections. Among the latter, however, the Jurassic Clay and Limestone at Bromham (No. 68) and the Chalk and Thanet Sand at Crayford (No. 89) are highly characteristic. The Scotch views include the Torridon Sandstone and the mountainous features near Glen Etive; but the wild heart of Skye is unrepresented. Ireland is honoured by one picture, a rather distant view of the Giant's Causeway; but should this very compact basaltic lava be called a dolerite?
Photographic Supplement to Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland.
Arranged and edited by H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., with the cooperation of Miss Hilda D. Sharpe. Pp. 113. (London: Edward Stanford, Ltd., 1913.) Price 4s. net.
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C., G. Photographic Supplement to Stanford's Geological Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland . Nature 91, 346 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091346a0
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