International Geological Congress, Report of the Eighteenth Session, Great Britain, 1948 [and] Guide to Excursions A-C

Description:

Scarce. A complete record of the 18th International Geological Congress, held in Great Britain, 1948, just three years after the end of the Second World War. The aim of these Congresses was ‘to contribute to the advancement of investigations relating to the study of the Earth, considered from theoretical and practical points of view’. Some 2,000 individuals registered an interest in attending the London Congress and associated excursions. The organisers had to manage a range of post war organisational challenges, including ‘the relative scarcity of accommodation on some passenger shipping routes to Great Britain’. This series of 15 reports documents the scientific papers presented at the Congress by the leading international Geologists of the day. Mostly in English.

Part I. General Proceedings; Part II. Proceedings of Section A, Problems of Geochemistry; Part III. Proceedings of Section B, Metasomatic Processes in Metamorphism; Part IV. Proceedings of Section C, Rythm in Sedimentation; Part V. Proceedings of Section D, The Geological Results of Applied Geophysics; Part VI. Proceedings of Section E, The Geology of Petroleum; Part VII. Symposium and Proceedings of Section F, The Geology, Paragenesis and Reserves of the Ores of Lead and Zinc; Part VIII. Proceedings of Section G, The Geology of Sea and Ocean Floors; Part IX. Proceedings of Section H, The Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary; Part X. Proceedings of Section J, Faunal and Floral Facies and Zonal Correlation; Part XI. Proceedings of Section K, The Correlation of Continental Vertebrate-bearing Rocks; Part XII. Proceedings of Section L, Earth Movements and Organic Evolution; Part XIII. Proceedings of Section M, Other Subjects (Also including meetings on the Geology and Mineralogy of Clays); Part XIV. Proceedings of the Association des Services géologiques africains; Part XV. Proceedings of the International Paleontological Union.

Also, a complete set of detailed ‘Guides to Excursions’ that were offered to delegates, comprising; A.1-19, Long Excursions before the Session; B. Day and Half-Day Excursions based on London; C. 1-18, Long Excursions after the Session to sites around the United Kingdom.

Condition

A well-bound set. Congress Reports: 15 parts bound in 4 vols, 8vo, buckram, wrappers retained; Guide to Excursions: 3 vols, small-8vo, 2 in buckram, 1 in cloth-covered boards. Withdrawn from an institutional library with a few neat ink stamps. Good.