Traité de Géologie I Les Phénomènes géologiques

Abstract

AMONG the most important of the perpetual needs of geology is the frequent renewal of the international supply of advanced text-books, from which the general conclusions of foreign authorities and the outlines of the geology of foreign lands may be learnt apart from the now overwhelming mass of original literature. In such books the interests of the local students, to whom illustrations of normal phenomena are most important, to some extent conflict with the requirements of foreign geologists, who will profit by the description of exceptional occurrences; but fortunately most authors of advanced works may be trusted to enliven their books by a sufficient number of special cases to make them useful to foreign geologists. The issue of an extensive treatise on geology by Prof. Émile Haug, of the University of Paris, is, therefore, to be warmly welcomed by British geologists, as we may expect it to give an instructive account of geological phenomena in France, a guide to the original literature, and a clear exposition of the current state of geological thought in that country.

Traité de Géologie. I. Les Phénomènes géologiques.

By E. Haug. Pp. 536; 195 figs., 71 plates. (Paris: Armand Colin, 1907.) Price 12.50 francs.