Sayles, Robert W. - Bermuda During the Ice Age

Boston, American Academy of Arts... 1931. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, (76),(26) pp, A 4cm tear to rear exterior hinge. Small stain to front cover. A small tear & some fraying to rear cover. 13 photoplates; folding map. Rubbed. A 1cm chip from head of spine. Just Good. ¶ A small stain to bottom page-edge. Series: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Vol. 66, No. 11. Pagination runs 381 - 467 + 13single-side photoplates + a folding chart + a large folding map in rear pocket. Includes textual photos, diagrams & tables. Contents: Introduction:Inception of the Theory; History of Field Work & Acknowldgments; Previous Geological Work; Topography; Igneous Rocks; Sedimentary Rocks: Rock Types; Stratigraphy; Type Localities & Special Areas; Fossil Soils: Character & Origin; Soil Bases; Paleontology: Fossil Snails; Foraminifera; Algae; Petrology & Chemistry; Physiography of Bermuda: Older & Younger Bermuda; Marine Benches; Caves of Bermuda; Evolution of Bermuda: Recapitulation of Significant Facts; Inadequacy of Subsidence Hypothesis; Pleistocene Oscillations of Sea-Level; Origin of Fossil Soils & Eolianites; Subdivisions of the Pleistocene; Correlation of Bermuda with North America;Cutting of the Bermuda Platform; Observations on the Location of the Bermuda Islands on the South and Southeast Edge of the Volcanic Platform; Summary of Geologic History of Bermuda.