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THE Report of this important Survey for 1882 has just been issued as a well-printed octavo volume with maps, sections, and plates of fossils. The first division is devoted to an account of the operations of the Survey in the field. These were conducted in the Harz, where the keen-eyed Lossen still wields his powerful hammer among the eruptive rocks of that classic region; where, also, Dr. von Groddeckand Herren Halfar, Dames, Branco. and von Koenen bore a share; in northern and eastern Thuringia and the Thuringerwald, where ten geologists were engaged; in Hesse-Nassau, with a force of five surveyors; in the southern part of the Rhine province, where Herr Grebe was at work; in Silesia, where the Survey was commenced by Dr. Dathe; in the Berlin district, where the superficial deposits and agricultural features were mapped, and the special geological and agricultural map of that district, consisting of thirty-six sheets, was completely surveyed; in the low grounds about Stendal and Gardelegen, in the plain of the Lower Elbe, and further east in West and East Prussia; and lastly among the diluvial and alluvial formations to the north-west of Halle.
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Geological Survey of Prussia . Nature 29, 270 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029270b0
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