New York, NY: Wiley, Date: 1948. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 626 p. Audience: General/trade. Wiley ISBN 1443721735 9781443721738 [US]

Alcester Lodge Press 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 626 p.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Glacial Geology And The Pleistocene Epoch. ISBN 1443721735 9781443721738 [GB]

ISBN10: 1443721735, ISBN13: 9781443721738, [publisher: Lodge Press] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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Alcester Lodge Press 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 626 p.

Lodge Press 11/4/2008 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket Glacial Geology And The Pleistocene Epoch (Hardback or Cased Book)

ISBN10: 1443721735, ISBN13: 9781443721738, [publisher: Lodge Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This informative book takes a comprehensive look at the subject of glacial geology in the Pleistocene Epoch, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Preface: 'The Pleistocene epoch occupies a peculiarly important place in the time scale of geology, for it embraces the events of the latest million or more years in the history of the Earth and is therefore so recent that it bridges the gap between the geologic changes now in progress and the more remote past. 'When the work of the geologist is finished', wrote Gilbert, 'and his final comprehensive report written, the longest and most important chapter will be upon the latest and shortest of the geologic periods. The chapter will be longest because the exceptional fullness of the record of the latest period will enable him to set forth most completely its complex history. The changes of each period - its erosion, its sedimentation, and its metamorphism - obliterate part of the records of its predecessor and of all earlier periods, so that the order of our knowledge must continue to be, as it now is, the inverse order of their antiquity.' This fact in itself furnishes an adequate reason for making the principal facts of the Pleistocene epoch compactly available, not only to geologists but also to ec ...
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