The Geology Of The Country South And West Of Shaftesbury

This volume details all British sites that have yielded fossil reptiles, describing in detail the fifty most important localities and providing an extensive bibliography of everything published on British Fossil reptiles since 1676.

This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War. The book deals with the burgeoning of the eustatic theory, the concepts of isostasy and epeirogeny, and the first complete statements of the cycle of erosion and of polycyclic denudation chronology.

In addition to being a source of inspiration to writers and poets, the Shaftesbury area has also been an area of great interest to geologists since the early-19th century. This study provides data, detailed maps and structural syntheses on this particularly attractive part of England.