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THIS new edition of the brief general geological guide to the London District, issued at a moderate price, will be of interest to thousands of citizens who spend their daylight leisure in rambles beyond London's fringe. The nature of the ground below the city is well brought out; but the four sheets of the one-inch map covered by the memoir also include pleasant fields where the outcrops of the strata may be traced. The description of the gravels shows how much may be learned from material excavated in the urban areas, when this is correlated with the terraced deposits of the Thames valley as a whole. The description and classification of stone implements is brought well up-to-date.
Memoirs of the Geological Survey: England and Wales. The Geology of the London District.
(Being the Area included in the Four Sheets of the Special Map of London.) By H. B. Woodward. Second edition, revised, by C. E. N. Bromehead; with Notes on the Palæontology by C. P. Chat win. Pp. vi + 99. (Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office; London: E. Stanford, Ltd., 1922.) 1s. 6d. net.
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C., G. Memoirs of the Geological Survey: England and Wales The Geology of the London District . Nature 111, 251 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111251b0
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