The Geology of the Weald, (parts of the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hants.). Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales. London: H.M.S.O., 1875.
Scarce publication described by Challinor as ‘One of the most important of the earlier Geological Survey memoirs’ (p.124). Its importance lies in the fact that it is one of 3 publications (the others being Foster & Topley’s paper On the superficial deposits of the valley of the Medway with remarks on the denudation of the Weald [1865] and Whitaker’s On Subaërial Denudation, and on Cliffs and Escarpments of the Chalk and Lower Tertiary Beds [1867]) that vindicated the thesis that the geomorphology of the region, other than the coast, is due to fluvial, and not marine erosion, in the past. The book also gives an excellent synthesis of the historiography of the subject.
Challinor 219.
Large octavo (244 x 146mm). Pp. xiv, 503. Woodcut frontispiece, 2 lithographic folding maps, of which one fully hand-coloured and the other with line colouring, 5 further lithographic plates, 59 other woodcut figures, some of which full-page. (Some light spotting, more noticeable to folding maps). Modern three-quarter leather, gilt spine (covers bowed).
Provenance: Alan G. Nicholson FGS (bookplate) – Geoffrey Walton (bookplate).
The Geology of the Weald, (parts of the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hants.). Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales. London: H.M.S.O., 1875.
Scarce publication described by Challinor as ‘One of the most important of the earlier Geological Survey memoirs’ (p.124). Its importance lies in the fact that it is one of 3 publications (the others being Foster & Topley’s paper On the superficial deposits of the valley of the Medway with remarks on the denudation of the Weald [1865] and Whitaker’s On Subaërial Denudation, and on Cliffs and Escarpments of the Chalk and Lower Tertiary Beds [1867]) that vindicated the thesis that the geomorphology of the region, other than the coast, is due to fluvial, and not marine erosion, in the past. The book also gives an excellent synthesis of the historiography of the subject.
Challinor 219.
Large octavo (244 x 146mm). Pp. xiv, 503. Woodcut frontispiece, 2 lithographic folding maps, of which one fully hand-coloured and the other with line colouring, 5 further lithographic plates, 59 other woodcut figures, some of which full-page. (Some light spotting, more noticeable to folding maps). Modern three-quarter leather, gilt spine (covers bowed).
Provenance: Alan G. Nicholson FGS (bookplate) – Geoffrey Walton (bookplate).
