Directory of mines and quarries compiled BY P. M. Harris, D. E. Highley, and D. M. Taskis 1984. British Geological Survey, London. Price: £21-50, post free from The Quarry Managers Journal Ltd, 7 Regent Street, Nottingham, NG1 5BY
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- Book ID
- 102222662
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 98 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0072-1050
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that between the geoid hump at New Guinea and the geoid depression of the Maldive Islands. Bearing in mind known plate movements and postulated changes in the geoid through time, these differences could account for many of the transgressions and regressions of which we have cognizance. Morner warn that eustasy must now be taken to mean 'ocean level changes at a particular point' rather than changes of global validity. If he is right, and I am not competent to judge, then his is one of the more important sections in the book.
David Webb (Florida State Museum) discusses two kinds of rapid faunal turnover by reference to the disappearance of the Late Miocene ungulate faunas of North America and to the subsequent invasion of South America by North American land mammals. He concludes that the chance