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I AM glad to see my friend Mr. Reid Moir is turning his attention to the surface-structures of fractured and fissured flints (NATURE, April 16, p. 560); and I am sure we shall know something more about them before he has done with them. For more than fifty years I have been pointing out some of these, and the differences in their subsequent disposition to metamorphoses. I used to liken them sometimes to bread cut and broken, both in appearance and in their action when we turn them into the soup. The transitional Fawkhamian implements are splendid examples of these: every man-fractured (or flaked) face is now porcellanised, while the ‘natural’ facets have been altering ever since.
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ABBOTT, W. The Microscopical Examination of Flint Surfaces. Nature 119, 747 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119747b0
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