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Title: Over-rated photographs!
Review: As a university professor of geology, I received a promo post card raving about the photographs in this book ("Probably the best in any book on geology" etc.) The reviewers can not have seen a production copy - these photographs are muddy and fuzzy - very disappointing! I feel I have been had!The text is OK, although the author uses terms like "geosyncline" that most of use discarded years ago because of the changed interpretations that came with the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s.If you really want coffee-table quality geological photographs, there are a number of text books in physical geology out there that fit the bill (I like Tarbuck and Lutgens, for example) although the prices are double that of this book. I am reminded of the old expression "If it seems too good to be true at the price then it probably is."
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