Geological Guide-Book of Oxford

Abstract

NEARLY eighty years ago there issued from the Clarendon Press Phillips' “Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames”, a classic among geological guide-books. Here, from the same Press, with a shortened title and reduced bulk, appears another. Stratigraphers who possess, and perpetually consult, Dr. Arkell's “Jurassic System” will not need to be assured that “The Geology of Oxford” is an erudite, documented and yet readable book. Although the area dealt with in detail is comprised within a ring of some thirty miles radius around Oxford, comments and comparisons range over Europe and beyond, so that the book provides a sketch of Mesozoic and later stratigraphy in which one small portion is elaborated. It is essentially a book for students, but for students everywhere.

The Geology of Oxford

By Dr. W. J. Arkell. Pp. viii+268+6 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1947.) 20s. net.