Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History University of Chicago Press, 2020 ($65) Strata are the ribboned horizontal layers of minerals and ...
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THE practical problems involved in the interpretation of geological and topographical maps are here dealt with in a manner likely to appeal to students of geology and civil engineering. Having worked ...
On this episode of App Spotlight, we highlight a 2021 Premier PRINT Award winner in the Embossing/Debossing category. The book, "Strata: William Smith's Geological Maps," was produced by C&C Joint ...
An exhibition of hand-coloured maps by contemporary artist Kathy Prendergast opens at Scarborough Art Gallery this autumn. The exhibition, curated by award-winning art and science organisation ...
In 1797, William Smith, a surveyor and the orphaned son of an Oxfordshire blacksmith, produced the first list of the rock strata in the west of England; 1815 saw the publication of his geological map ...
A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary rock.
Before there were rock stars, one man put them on the map. That man was William “Strata” Smith, and his map of the rocks at the surface in England, Wales, and part of Scotland—completed in 1815—was ...
No work on any science has yet been published in our language more exhaustive of facts, more clear in statement, or more philosophical in general character and arrangement, than Dana’s “ Mineralogy,” ...