Lexicon de Stratigraphie

Abstract

A COMMISSION, elected at the fifteenth meeting of the International Geological Congress assembled at Pretoria in 1929, decided to produce a "Lexicon de Stratigraphie'', with a volume devoted to each continent in turn. The general editorship was entrusted to Dr. S. H. Haughton, who has naturally started with Africa. The purpose of each volume is to furnish definitions of all stratigraphical terms that have appeared in the geological literature of the particular continent, and to arrange them for convenience of reference in alphabetical order. The definitions must be accompanied by appropriate references and must indicate past and present meanings. Thus, in the case of a formation of local origin, the original meaning is cited along with the more significant of subsequent changes. Comments are added regarding geographical and geological relations; the whole, of course, in brief dictionary style.

Lexicon de Stratigraphie

Vol. 1: Africa. Edited by Dr. S. H. Haughton. Pp. vi + 432. (London: Thomas Murby and Co., 1938.) 31s. 6d. net.