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Excerpt from Handbook of Geological Terms, Geology, and Physical Geography Should it be asked why I publish this volume, I answer, along with many others, Because I believe such a Handbook to be greatly needed; and under this conviction have done my best, within moderate limits, to render it useful. Go where you will - to the popular platform, the public lecture room, or the private parlour - and you hear immense interest professed in the science of Geology; but the profession, for the most part, accompanied by the regret that its hard words and forbidding technicalities should render it so difficult of acquirement. Now, while deprecating, in the strongest manner, the introduction of unnecessary terms, it is quite evident that every science must have its own tech nicalities and modes of expression new objects require new names, and new facts new phrases to express their relations. There is no avoiding this necessity in any progressive branch of human knowledge, and the only thing that can be done to lessen the difficulty - next to the rigid exclusion of whatever seems superfluous is to explain these terms in brief and simple language. This I have endeavoured to do, chiefly with a view to the requirements of the general reader, at the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.