Author: Arkell, W. J.
Title: The Jurassic system in Great Britain.
Description: Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1933. Large, thick 8vo (25.0 x 17.0 cm). Frontispiece, xii, 681 pp.; 97 text figures, 38 plates. Original blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. = One of the two great "big" works by the British geologist and palaeontologist William Joscelyn Arkell (1904-1958) on the Jurassic geology, geomorphology, and palaeontology (the other being his 1956 "Jurassic geology of the world". Arkell was the foremost authority on the Jurassic in the 20th century, if not the greatest authority ever. His special interest in molluscs is shown by the inclusion of a chapter, "Illustrations of the principal species of ammonites employed as zonal indices in the British Jurassic with the characteristic lamellibranchs of the Rheatic and Pre-planorbis bed...", which takes 12 plates with bivalves and ammonites. Appendix I, "Notes on the terminology of fossil coral reefs, geosynclines and peneplains" contains some quite hilarious critcism. Hinges reinforced, stamps on the front free endpaper, half-title and title page, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

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