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V.—Outcrops

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. W. Watts
Affiliation:
Fellow of Sidney College, Cambridge, and sometime Deputy-Professor of Geology at Oxford

Extract

Now that mapping constitutes such an essential part of field-work, it may be of use to some of your readers to connect together a few rules which have occurred to me on this subject.

Valley-Outcrops.—Professor Green has devised an admirably common sense method by which the outcrop of a flat rock-bed can be traced by means of contour lines. The main results gained from this method may be thus summed up:—

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1888

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