THE FACE OF THE EARTH
THE EARTH'S CRUST, by L. Dudley Stamp; Harrap. DELIGHT in the beauties of the natural landscape is enhanced by an understanding of the processes which have produced it. Writers of books on the earth’s face have frequently been leaders in the use of illustrations, and this book makes a fresh approach with a series of coloured plates of topographical models by T. Bayley. It would be difficult to praise too highly either these delightful models or the excellence of the work of the blockmaker and printer; to study them is a lasting pleasure. Unfortunately, the letterpress is in a different category. It is an astonishing record of illogical arrangement, of misused terms ("peneplane" of marine erosion), of wrong definitions (e.g., eustatic sealevel change), of poor line drawings (glaciated valley), of misprints (depth of Gutenberg discontinuity 700 instead of 1700 miles in text and figure), and of just sheer mistakes ("the principal causes of earthquakes are underground movements of molten or semi-molten material"). The model maker has made a mistake in painting the model of river terraces in showing the older gravels lying on the younger. This is described in the text as "deliberate," which, of course, it is not, and ag corrected on a later page, which again it -_-
is not.. The errors in the text, however, will matter little to a generation used to "looking at the pictures," for they
are well worth looking at.
D.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 11
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243THE FACE OF THE EARTH New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 11
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