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I.—A Note on the Geology of Somali-land, based on Collections made by Mrs. E. Lort-Phillips, Miss Edith Cole, and Mr. G. P. V. Aylmer
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Since the famous expedition of the late F. L. and W. James, of E. Lort - Phillips and G. P. V. Aylmer, in 1884–5, opened the Somali plateau to European exploration, the country has been repeatedly traversed. A valuable series of geographical memoirs, hunting journals, and bluebooks has described the main features in the topography of the country, and given many suggestions as to its geological structure. The collections of Dr. Révoil and Prof. Keller have proved that Neocomian beds occur there, and thus have shown that it is of greater interest than most of the monotonous unfossiliferous wastes of East Africa.
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page 289 note 1 F. L. James, “ The Unknown Horn of Africa,” 1888.
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page 290 note 3 To determine the character of the mineral in this rock, as it throws light on the nature of some rocks collected by Dr. Donaldson Smith much further to the south, Mr. L. J. Spencer has kindly measured one of the crystals, and has determined them as epidote.
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