Notices of new literature: Antarctic map folio series. Folios 1, 2, 3

Summary

This page contains the conclusion of a review of an Antarctic reference work and notices of new geographical publications. Friedrich Wilhelm describes a volume prepared by the New Zealand Antarctic Society, with contributions from 21 scientists active in Antarctic research. Its four sections cover national activities and international agreements, the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic continent, and the polar atmosphere. He praises its coverage of observation techniques, research results, the history of knowledge, and chapter bibliographies, recommending it for geoscience libraries and schools. The notices concern Saharan petroleum, Tunisian pottery, regional geography outside Europe, caves, loess and fossil soils, peatland soils, northeastern Atlantic climate, and hydrometry. Bronger’s dissertation examines southern Baden’s Pleistocene stratigraphy through micromorphological, chemical, and physical analyses of a loess profile at Heitersheim and comparisons with nearby profiles. Göttlich’s study addresses landscape-ecological relationships between soils and water bodies using peatlands in the Baar and Black Forest.