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THIS work by the veteran Prof. G. Steinmann gives an excellent summary of what is at present known of the geology of Peru. Unlike Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela, which were visited in the first half of the nineteenth century by D'Orbigny, Darwin, and Humboldt respectively, scarcely any investigations into the geology of Peru were made before the work of Raimondi, whose first publication appeared in 1862. The bibliography now given by Steinmann extends to 22 pages, but owing to the extent of the country and its climatic and physical characters, vast tracts are still unknown or almost unknown geologically. Much of the knowledge we have is due directly or indirectly to the work of geologists who have been primarily concerned with the investigation of the mineral resources (gold, silver, zinc, copper, quicksilver, iron, nickel, cobalt, wolfram, antimony, petroleum, coal, etc.).
Geologie von Penú.
Von G. Steinmann. Mit Beiträgen von R. Stappenbeck: Nutzstoffe; F. Sieberg: Erdbeben; C. Lissón: Geologische Karte. Pp. xii + 448 + 9 tafeln. (Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1929.) 28 marks.
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Geologie von Penú . Nature 124, 943 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124943b0
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