The Journal Of Geology 1893 Vol 1

Excerpt from The Journal of Geology, 1893, Vol. 1: A Semi-Quarterly Magazine of Geology and Related Sciences During the last twenty years much has been written about the pre-cambrian rocks of the British Isles. Unfortunately when attention began to be sedulously given to the study of these ancient formations, the problems of metamorphism were still a hundred fold more obscure than they have since become; the aid of the microscope had not been seriously and system atically adopted for the investigation of the crystalline schists, and geologists generally were still under the belief that the broad structure of these schists could be treated like those of the sedimentary rocks, and be determined by rapid traverses of the ground. W'e have now painfully discovered that these older methods of observation were extremely crude, and that the work performed in accordance with them is now of little interest or value save as a historical warning to future generations of geol ogists. Geological literature has meanwhile been burdened with numerous contributions which remain as a permanent incubus on our library shelves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.