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PROF. COLE'S twenty essays on common stones are written with a literary grace and charm which should give this book a firm place among British popular presentations of science. It should do to-day the service which Kingsley's “Town Geology “did for an earlier generation. The volume sketches the modern theories of rock formation, on which the author writes with the knowledge of an expert, while his references to the field occurrence of the rocks make the reader share with him the pleasure of many field days. The chapters which deal with sedimentary petrology are especially useful; one of the most attractive is that on soils, as might be expected from the head of a Geological Survey which has devoted especial attention to agricultural geology.
Common Stones: Unconventional Essays in Geology.
By Prof. G. A. J. Cole. (Common Things Series.) Pp. 259. (London and New York: Andrew Melrose, Ltd., n.d.) 6s. net.
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Common Stones: Unconventional Essays in Geology . Nature 111, 144 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111144b0
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