Author: Broughton, J.G.; Fisher, D.W.; Isachsen, Y.W.; Rickard, W.B.
Title: Geologic Map of New York, 1961 / The Geology of New York State (New York State Museum and Science Service Geological Survey. Map and Chart Series: No. 5 (Maps & Text))
Description: The University of the State of New York. The State Education Department. State Museum and Science Service 1962 10, 5 large col maps (partly folding). . PB. Large format (865x940mm), wiro binding. Withdrawn from an institutional library with neat ink stamps to front wrapper and lower blank margins of maps. Good.. Complete map folio with 5 large-format colour geological maps (some folding) and the accompanying 42 uncut pages of text with figures, printed on 5 leaves. A review of this work, published in Science Vol. 140, stated ‘that ‘the first new geologic map of New York State in three-score years, is not only a splendid scientific achievement in mapping, but the accompanying text provides a brief, comprehensive, geologic history of the area’…and amusingly notes in the space age era ‘All that is needed is a seven armed Martian to handle the folio in high wind, on a loose talus slope. Of course, Earth Men can take separate, folded sheets into the field’..

Keywords: Geological Map; Geology; New York State; America; North America


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