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ABSTRACT THIS is a plain and clearly written introduction to a branch of geology that has assumed much importance among students, and it has the merit of including a short description of the

minerals that go to make up rocks. The author's personal studies, as is well known, have been carried on mainly in Rhodesia, and there is something pleasant in finding familiar facts

illustrated from Bulawayo, Kimberley, or the Rand. The palisade structure of basaltic flows is thus well seen in the view of the Zambezi gorge on p. 92. In addition, we gain by the

introduction of the results of tropical weathering on rocks; and the remarkable banded siliceous ironstones of South Africa (p. 180) are referred to the concentration of mineral matter in a

stratified series near the surface. An Introduction to Petrology. By F. P. Mennell. Second edition. Pp. viii+204. (London: Gerrards, Limited, 1910.) Price 8_s_. net. ARTICLE PDF Authors * G.

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