Tectonic essays : mainly Alpine
1968, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Faint foxing to edges and prelims. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Item #476899
Physical description; xii, 200 pages : folded frontispiece, illustrations, folded maps, profiles ; 25 cm. Notes; "References" at end of each chapter. Contents; Chronology of Tectonic discovery: 1775-1893 – Switzerland – Glarus – Glarus discovery – Prealps – Prealpine discovery – High Limestone Alps of Rhone sector – Pennine Alps – The Window of the Hohe Tauern – Marcel Bertrand in Provence – Gavarnie of the Pyrenees. Subjects; Geology – Alps. Geology, Structural – Alps.
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