ROY S. PORTER, The earth sciences. An annotated bibliography, New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1983, 8vo, pp. xix, 192, illus., $37.00. This handsome volume offers 808 secondary bibliographical references on the history of the earth sciences. It is the third volume in the series Bibliographies ofthe history ofscience and technology, edited by Robert Multhauf and Ellen Wells. Porter's bi...

ROY S. PORTER, The earth sciences. An annotated bibliography, New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1983, 8vo, pp. xix, 192, illus., $37.00. This handsome volume offers 808 secondary bibliographical references on the history of the earth sciences. It is the third volume in the series Bibliographies ofthe history ofscience and technology, edited by Robert Multhauf and Ellen Wells. Porter's bi...

It has been known for over a century that the Uinta Mountains contained numerous alpine glaciers during parts of the Quaternary Period, yet until recently, the glacial record on the south side of the range had received little scientifi c attention. Results of recent 1:24,000-scale fi eld mapping of surfi cial deposits in the southern Uinta Mountains indicate that glaciers in the southwestern an...