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NOTWITHSTANDING the title of his great work, “Das Antlitz der Erde”, Suess really provided the classic account of the skeleton of the earth's crust. Machatschek proposes to describe the true face of the earth, and to discuss the geological factors that have controlled its development. The whole work will exhibit the relations between the single physiographical units of the earth's surface and the geological-tectonic raw material from which they have been derived. It will be a study in morphotectonics.
Das Relief der Erde
Versuch einer regionalen Morphologie der Erdoberfläche. Von Prof. Dr. Fritz Machatschek. Band 1. Pp. xi + 545 + 10 plates. (Berlin: Gebrüder Born-traeger, 1938.) 36 gold marks.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 1007 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451007b0
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