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THE greater part of this book treats of the work of rivers, while a few chapters are added on the origin of lake basins. Much condensation was clearly necessary to compress so vast a subject into less than two hundred small pages, but Mr. Hinton has done his work well and produced a book that is not only readable but, in spite of being strictly popular, is also accurate and full. It was obviously impossible to discuss fully the topic of ice erosion and ice protection, but the main aspects of the problem are indicated, though it would have been well to refer the reader to some of the recent papers on the glaciology of the Antarctic, where ice action on a large scale is discussed. To describe a glacier as “simply a frozen mountain stream,” is not very happy, even if the following paragraphs amplify and extend the statement. The volume fully maintains the high standard of the series to which it belongs, but seventeen diagrams is a small allowance for a popular book of this scope.
Rivers and Lakes: the Story of their Development.
By Martin A. C. Hinton. (Nature Lover's Series.) Pp. x + 182. (London: The Sheldon Press; New York and Toronto: The Macmillan Co., 1924.) 6s. net.
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Rivers and Lakes: the Story of their Development . Nature 115, 673 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115673d0
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