Textbook of Lithology

Description

Author: Jackson, Kern C.  (1920-2008)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Pub Date: 1978 (Sixth printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Smudging to front and rear boards.  Wear to head and foot of spine.

Notes:  Basic undergraduate text in geology.  “Lithology is defined in part by the 1960 edition of the AGI Glossary of Geology as ‘the study of rocks based on megascopic examination of samples.’  Petrology, a term most commonly applied to courses for which this text is designed, is defined in the same volume as ‘a general term for the study by all available methods of the natural history of rocks, including their origins, present conditions, alterations and decay.'”  (From the Preface)  Jackson was a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.