Excerpt from The Earth and Its Story: A First Book of Geology In the preparation of this volume it has been the aim of the author to present briefly, forcibly, and possibly in a more popular form than in most books of a similar nature, the general facts of geology. In its relation to the more advanced and technical treatises on the subject this work may stand as introductory, and yet independent by itself. While its treatment of the science of geology is not burdened with numberless details, nor made too analytical in method, it is believed to be sufficiently comprehensive to meet the needs of the average student, and to appeal to the large class of readers who would pass by a difficult technical work, and at the same time would not be satisfied with a mere elementary text-book. The author is conscious of the difficulty of compressing into a limited space the mass of material that bears upon the subject, and has found it necessary to leave untouched many points which might otherwise have been exhibited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.