Stereographic Projection Techniques for Geologists and Civil Engineers (2nd Edition).(Book review)

Publication: Geoscience Canada

Publication Date: 01-MAR-06

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Stereographic Projection Techniques for Geologists and Civil Engineers (2nd Edition)

By Richard J. Lisle and Peter R. Leyshon Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004 ISBN 0-521-53582-4 US $35.00, softcover, 112p.

When I read this book, it brought to me pleasure and sorrow. It was a pleasure to surf through the simply explained and well-illustrated problems and it was sorrow to remember what I had to endure as a student to acquire sufficient understanding of the stereographic method, without having such a book. I remember well those years back in my native country, when I tried to study the stereographic method from a crystallographic manual, simply because there was not a good book on the geological applications of the projection techniques. Later, I discovered many structural geological manuals with introductory chapters on stereographic projection techniques, but found most of them unsatisfactory.

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