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III.—The Application of Petrological and Quantitative Methods to Stratigraphy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. G. H. Boswell
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London, S.W.

Extract

On account of the aid it has given, palæontology has been termed the handmaiden of stratigraphy, but up to the present time petrology has not been called upon, so far as it might have been, to fulfil its appropriate duty towards the elucidation of the problems of stratigraphical geology and palæogeography.

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