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SEVERAL books on physical geology, with special reference to North America, are already available, but Prof. Miller's contribution to the existing literature is sufficiently attractive to justify its choice as a college text-book. Although no new ground is broken, the order of treatment differs somewhat from that usually adopted. River work, for example, is not touched upon until rocks, weathering, earth-movements, and structural features have been dealt with. Underground waters, again, are considered only after volcanic action has been discussed. The effort after logical treatment in geology can, however, never be wholly successful, whatever the arrangement. Since the study of processes includes that of the alteration and origin of rocks, and that of the concomitant development of land-forms, the aspects of physical geology fall into at least three dimensions, and a written account, which is of necessity unidimensional, must therefore involve both anticipation and repetition.
An Introduction to Physical Geology: with Special Reference to North America.
By Prof. William J. Miller. Pp. xvi + 435. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1925.) 13s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to Physical Geology: with Special Reference to North America . Nature 116, 708 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116708a0
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