Earth Features and Their Meaning / An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader

by William Herbert Hobbs

Joseph LeConte. Elements of Geology. (Revised by Fairchild.) Appleton, 1905, pp. 667.

A very valuable guide to the recent literature of dynamical and structural geology is Branner’s “Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Elementary Geology” (Stanford University, 1908).

On the relation of geology to landscape, a number of interesting books have been written:—

James Geikie. Earth Sculpture or the Origin of Land-Forms. New York and London, 1896, pp. 397.

John E. Marr. The Scientific Study of Scenery. Methuen, London, 1900, pp. 368.

Sir A. Geikie. The Scenery of Scotland. 3d ed. Macmillan, London, 1901, pp. 540.

Sir John Lubbock. The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to which it is Due. Macmillan, London, 1896, pp. 480.

Lord Avebury. The Scenery of England. Macmillan, London, 1902, pp. 534.

Sir A. Geikie. Landscape in History, and Other Essays. Macmillan, London, 1905, pp. 352.