The geology and mineral resources of the North West, Central and Eastern Divisions Between long. 119° and 122 °E, and lat. 22° and 28 °S. (Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Western Australia No 83)

Description:

With a chapter on Petrology by R.A. Farquharson. Henry William Beamish Talbot (1874 – 1957) ‘will always be remembered as a pioneering geologist and explorer during the heroic early days of the Geological Survey of Western Australia, and as a pioneer economic geologist in the State’s mining and petroleum industries’ (John Blockley, Geological Society of Australia). The introduction states this bulletin ‘represents the results of three years’ work’. The author ‘with three men as camp assistants and camel men, was engaged upon it during the field seasons of 1912-13 and 1914’….’as a result most of the physical features over an area of approximately 70,000 square miles have been mapped’. The report is accompanied by a separate atlas of four miles per inch series of geological maps.

Condition

2 vols, buckram. From an Institutional library: stamps/ withdrawn stamps to titles pages and verso of maps. Good. Frontispiece bound at rear.