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IN a recent letter1, Dr. Archie Lamont directed attention to John Kelly's account, published in 1864, of the use of current-bedding to decide which way up strata were lying. Kelly gave the credit for the discovery of the method to Patrick Ganly. Ganly had given a description of it to the Geological Society of Dublin in 18562, but he had been using it much earlier.
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FARRINGTON, A. First Use of Current-Bedding to Determine Orientation of Strata. Nature 154, 710 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154710b0
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