The Face of the Earth

Abstract

THE Oxford translation of the third volume of Suess's great geomorphology will be welcomed as warmly as its predecessors, though this part of his work is perhaps of less educational value and a smaller proportion of it interesting to general readers. Most of this volume is occupied by a detailed account of the stratigraphy of central and northern Asia. Much of the literature is so inaccessible that Prof. Suess's summary of the researches of the Russian surveyors will be of permanent value as a work of reference, and as he interprets and correlates the facts with his usual genius, the work is of the highest value as an original contribution to the tectonic geology of Asia. It is accompanied by a most valuable map. of the structural geography of Central Asia.

The Face of the Earth. Vol. iii

E. Suess. Translated by H. B. C. Sollas. Pp. vii + 400; 7 plates, 23 figures. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.)