Geologica Hungarica

Abstract

NORTHERN Albania is a complex mountainous area which rises above the eastern coast of the Adriatic, where it bends abruptly from its course from north-west to south-east parallel to the grain of the country, and runs south, cutting across both the strike of the rocks and of the mountains. Northern Albania occupies a critical position in the geology and geography of the eastern borderlands of the Adriatic and of the much-debated Dinaric Mountains. The geology of the country, according to the first accounts, appeared perplexing owing to the puzzling sequence of the rocks, which has now been explained by Baron Nopcsa, after field work extending from 1905 to 1925, as due to great overthrusts. This view he has now established in a ponderous monograph, which is published as the third volume of “Geologica Hungarica” by the Geological Survey of Hungary, of which the author was until recently the Director. The most important previous contributions were those of Cvijic, whose work is dealt with briefly, and one of his misunderstandings is described as “catastrophal”.

Geologica Hungarica.

Fasciculi ad illustrandam notionem Geologicam et Palaeontologicam Regni Hungariae. Series Geologica, Tomus 3: Geographie und Geologie Nordalbaniens, von Baron Fr. Nopcsa; mit einem Anhange von H. v. Mžik: Beiträge zur Kartographie Albaniens nach orientalischen Quellen. Pp. xiv + 703 + 35 Tafeln. (Budapestini: Edidit Institutum Regni Hungariae Geologicum, 1929.)