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THE preface states that this work originated in a handbook printed in 1908 for distribution to members of the United States Geological Survey. Requests for copies of this were so numerous that it was rewritten, omitting those instructions which apply only to members of the Government Geological Survey, and enlarging upon certain features which will be of service to students preparing for work in field geology. In spite of this declaration the book still contains much which is only applicable to members of a Government Survey in the United States, but is, besides, a very practical little handbook, the treatment of the problems connected with the determination of dip, thickness, and depth of beds being perhaps the least satisfactory part. These problems, if properly put, are of great simplicity; but the beginner, trusting to Dr. Hayes, might well conclude that there was some subtle difference between the dip of a fault plane and the dip of a stratum, and that problems which may be tackled in the one case are insoluble in the other.
Handbook for Field Geologists.
By Dr. C. W. Hayes. Pp. ix + 159. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1909.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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Handbook for Field Geologists . Nature 81, 455 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081455c0
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