Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain

Abstract

THE Lizard district had long been famous as a field of geological research and controversy prior to the publication in 1912 of the Geological Survey Memoir on it, and on many of its petrological, structurah and stratigraphical problems there was scarcely a general consensus of opinion. This second edition, by the late Sir John Flett, one of the original authors, reveals him in the full maturity of his scientific judgment and mental vigour. It has been entirely rewritten after a re-examination of the area that, followed his retirement from the directorship of the Geological Survey in 1935. Many will visualize in these accounts of the cliffs and exposures "alongside the path leading from the hotel to the beach" that powerfully built figure with deliberate step and penetrating all-embracing eye.

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain

England and Wales. Explanation of Sheet 359 : Geology of the Lizard and Meneage. By J. S. Flett and J. B. Hill. Second edition, by Sir John Smith Flett. Pp. xi+208+11 plates. (London : H. M. Stationery Office, 1946.) 2s. 6d. net.