Abstract
THE issue of a second edition less than eighteen months after the first would seem to indicate that this book is meeting with a favourable reception. The new volume is larger than the earlier by some 50 pages, the addition consisting of an eighteenth and concluding chapter on historical geology. Since the authors attempt to deal, in this limited space, with the nature and use of fossils, the classification of geological time, the characters and distribution in North America of the several systems, and their economic products, the treatment is necessarily very brief and the descriptions meagre. Nevertheless, the addition of the chapter is a decided improvement, inasmuch as it provides, in what might be the only geological text-book of an engineering student, some information, at least, as to the principles, methods, and outstanding facts of stratigraphy.
Engineering Geology.
By Profs. H. Ries T. L. Watson. Second edition, enlarged. Pp. xxvii + 722. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1915.) Price 17s. net.
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C., C. Engineering Geology . Nature 97, 239 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097239b0
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