Excerpt from The Geology of the Country Around Torquay (Explanation of Sheet 350)The district is one of exceptional difficulty, owing to the want of persistence in well marked lithological horizons and to stratigraphical complications of a most intricate character due to folding and faulting. Detailed work was therefore necessary before even the broader tectonic features could be made out. This work has, however, met with its reward. The three main divisions of the Devonian formation have not only been recognised, but their boundaries have been ascertained with at least approximate accuracy, and the rocks of the Torquay area have been bro'ught into line with their continental equivalents, Many workers have contributed to this result, and a general account of the extensive literature relating to the geology of the district is given in the introduction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.