An Introduction to Physical Geology

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1941. Fourth edition, Sixth Printing. Hardcover quarto in beige cloth boards with gilt title to spine. 465 pages, frontispiece, b/w illustrations, 24 cm. Previous owners bookplate to inside of front cover. Very mild rubbing to spine. Else pages clean and binding tight. Near fine. . Hardcover.

Contents: Introduction - Instability of the Earth's Crust, Materials of the Earth, Minerals - Materials of the Earth, Rocks - Rock Weathering - Structure of the Earth's Crust - The Work of Streams - Glaciers and their Work - Geological Action of Wind - The Sea and its Work - Volcanoes - Subsurface Water - Mountains, Plateaus and Plans - Origin and History of Lakes - Economic Geology - Appendix - Index.