Abstract
THIS attractive little book deals mainly with loose detrital deposits and their correlation by petrographic methods. The first chapter gives an account of sampling, treatment, and methods of examination in about a dozen pages. The next chapter (56 pages) deals with detrital minerals and is illustrated by numerous plates showing the shapes and appearances of loose grains and crystals. Following this are two chapters in which a courageous effort is made to show the value of the evidence provided by detrital minerals as a means of stratigraphical correlation, and as an aid in palxogeographical studies. A useful bibliography, a table showing the distribution of detrital minerals in British strata, and an index are included.
An Introduction to Sedimentary Petrography: With special reference to loose Detrital Deposits and their Correlation by Petrographic Methods.
By Henry B. Milner. Pp. 125. (London: T. Murby and Co., 1922.) 8s. 6d. net.
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C., T. An Introduction to Sedimentary Petrography: With special reference to loose Detrital Deposits and their Correlation by Petrographic Methods . Nature 110, 804 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110804a0
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