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EARLY in 1914 Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, of the United States Geological Survey, paid an official visit to several of the smaller West Indian islands, partly with help from the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Besides studying the stratigraphical geology of the islands and making notes on their physiography, he also collected large series of fossils which were sent for detailed examination to Washington. He thus obtained material for a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the Tertiary sedimentary rocks which form the greater part of these islands, and made possible satisfactory comparisons with the corresponding geological formations of the southern United States. Dr. Vaughan has already published several preliminary notes on his results, and an especially important memoir on some fossil corals and the formation of coral-reefs. His final report, however, on the details of local geology and the general conclusions are deferred until all the fossils are examined and described. He has just edited a series of these descriptions, which has been published by the Carnegie Institution (Publication No. 291, 1919) in a small volume illustrated by beautiful photographic plates.
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The Geology of the West Indies. Nature 105, 24 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105024b0
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