| Abstract/Notes | It must inevitably happen sometimes that an author does not quite convey to his readers the whole of his own conception of a subject. It may be perhaps that certain objects in his mental picture are to him so obvious as to be unworthy of emphasis, and he is apt to forget that to his readers no part of the picture is, in the first instance, obvious. From the recent paper by Messrs. A. K. Wells and S. W. Wooldridge (“The Mechanism of Sedimentation Cycles”, Geol. Mag., Vol. LX, December, 1923, pp. 545–50), it is evident that I have failed to convey, to them at least, the whole of my conception of the Anglo-Franco-Belgian Basin. I apologize, therefore, to readers of my Introduction to Stratigraphy for any lack of clarity, and I should like to thank Mr. Wells and Mr. Wooldridge for bringing the matter into the light of day and allowing me an opportunity of stating very simply my ideas, all of them already published, on the geography of the Anglo-Franco-Belgian Basin in Eocene times. Perhaps had my critics, before rushing into print, read pages 278–9 of my book as well as page 267, the occasion would never have occurred. |
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