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THE treatise is a bold and ambitious attempt to present a comprehensive statement of our present knowledge of sediments and the processes which control their formation and development. From the point of view of work accomplished in America, it may be satisfactory as a p/eliminary basis for the discussion of future researches, but it is unfortunate that many British and European contributions to the subject matter should have been overlooked. The committee on sedimentation has apparently realised this source of weakness in their earlier work, for Prof. L. W. Collet has now been added as a European representative. In the treatise itself the lack of international proportion is shown by the fact that there is only one nominal reference to the far-reaching work of Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, and that to the statement that “sand is predominantly composed of quartz grains.” On p. 629 one of Boswell's memoirs is wrongly attributed to Crook, but in compensation Crook's name does not appear in the index.
Treatise on Sedimentation. Prepared under the Auspices of the Committe on Sedimentation, Division at Geology and Geography, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
By William H. Twenhofel and Collaborators. Pp. xxv + 661 + 38 plates. (Baltimore, Md.: Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, 1926.) 34s. net.
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Treatise on Sedimentation Prepared under the Auspices of the Committe on Sedimentation, Division at Geology and Geography, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences . Nature 120, 327 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120327a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120327a0