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List Price: £19.95
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Author:
Dorrik Stow
By Manson Publishing Ltd
 Superb introduction to sedimentary rocks and structures., 2006-08-20
This book is one of the best introductions to sedimentary rocks and their structures that I have come across in 25 years.
It begins with a section on the structures found in sedimentary rocks. The diagrams are clear, concise, and very well explained. The photographs that go with them are among the best I've seen for demonstrating sed structures. They are almost professional in their quality, and the features you are meant to see are actually visible in the photos (no 'eye of faith' required, unlike some other textbooks).
The rest of the book is divided into chapters dealing with each group of sedimentary rocks in turn. Ironstones, conglomerates, evaporites, limestones: you name it, it's in there. Again, the diagrams and photographs are faultless.
Finally, the book finishes with a section on how to interpret sedimentary structures in the field.
If only this book had been available when I was an undergraduate! I would thoroughly recommend this book to any undergraduate (or even post-graduate) geology student as the first thing to pack in their bag before setting off on field work.
As a final thought for geology students, the University of Southampton (where Dr. Stow works) has a superb website on the geology of the south coast of England. If you like the book, you'll love the website.
List Price: £22.50
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Author:
K.R. McClay
By John Wiley and Sons Ltd
 very good aid for mapping geological structures, 2002-02-25
Designed to be carried in the field, this how-to book is a practical guide to basic techniques in mapping geological structures. The author provides succinct information on drawing cross-sections and preparing and presenting 'fair copy' maps and geological diagrams. Contains a brief chapter on the essentials of report writing and discusses how to keep adequate field notebooks. A checklist of equipment needed in the field can be found in the appendices.
Synopsis
This is a concise guide to the techniques used to construct accurate geological maps. It explains how to draw cross-sections, draft and present "fair copy" maps and prepare geological diagrams from fieldwork suitable for inclusion in reports. There is also a brief chapter on report writing.
List Price: £9.99
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Author:
Richard Fortey
By HarperPerennial
The Earth: An Intimate History is prize-winning science writer Richard Fortey's latest book and an ambitious attempt to tell the geological story of planet Earth for the general reader. Several centuries and the combined efforts of thousands of professional geologists have been required to make any real sense of the Earth's structure and its 4.5 billion-year history. That Fortey manages to turn the most important aspects of all this into an enjoyable narrative for the general reader is a considerable achievement. The book is a sort of guided tour around a number of geological sites with which Fortey is personally familiar, such as the Grand Canyon, the European Alps and Vesuvius (the description of the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 by Pliny the Younger is probably the first clear and objective description of a geological phenomenon.) He then uses their particular geological details to build a more general story of the geology of earth as it is generally understood today. As a professional geologist at London's Natural History Museum, Fortey is well-qualified to tell this story. His writing skills have been widely acclaimed in earlier bo...
Worth the effort, 2006-09-16
The compass of this book staggered my imagination. Not a breezy book and certainly not one to course through in a sitting. The places he chooses for geological description are diverse and representative of the complex processes shaping the surface of the earth. The material is not superficial, not at all "dumbed down." Ponderous? Restructing one's view of the cosmos ... if just only the idea of earth time ... perhaps not easily digestible. The author's comprehensive synthesis (and I did not say 'simplification')in his descriptions and historical overview of the growth of knowledge and some understanding of the various macro geological processes is enviable and refreshing at least. His language, I found, lubricates the reading process for a non-specialist like me.
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Author:
W.A. Deer, R.A. Howie, J. Zussman
By Prentice Hall
excellent student textbook, 2001-09-20
Some of the 696 pages were beyond me, but the majority of the content was excellent background material for an undergraduate course. The indexing and cross-referencing are good. The organisation is good, with a consistent approach to subdivision of material. The major divisions are Ortho- and ring- silicates, Chain silicates, sheet silicates, framework silicates, non-silcates. Choosing chlorite as a typical example, the subdivisions are (general summary table of properties, 14- line general introduction), structure, chemistry, optical and physical properties, distinguishing features, paragenisis (metamorphic, igneous, sedementary rocks). This description of chlorite is supplemented with two tables and seven diagrams. I have found answers to nearly all my questions relating to the study of minerals, on an undergraduate course.
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Author:
Alan E. Mussett, M. Aftab Khan
By Cambridge University Press
best 1st year geophysics book around, 2002-12-08
The only entry level geophysics book that isn't impossible to read. Explains mathematics properly so anyone who hasn't done A-level maths can understand, Print is not to small and has plenty of diagrams, much more accessible than Lowrie's fundamentals of geophysics.
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