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Geological Magazine; September 2009; v. 146; no. 5; p. 781; DOI: 10.1017/S001675680999029X
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Friend, P. F. 2009. Southern England. 414 pp.

London: HarperCollins. Price £30.00 (paperback). ISBN 9780 00 724743 1.

Peter Burgess

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One of the many joys of geology is gaining sufficient insight into a landscape to enable four-dimensional vision. Instead of seeing just a hill, the insightful geologist sees gently dipping clays and sandstone strata, deposited during a marine highstand, overlain by a series of much more recent conglomeratic terraces, deposited by a river cutting and sculpting a modern valley. Unfortunately, even the most astute and experienced geological observer often cannot interpret a landscape alone without additional information and evidence, for example relating to absolute ages and rates and the way in which geology connects . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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