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ENGLAND AND WALES. Drift Survey.—In the early maps published by the Survey, superficial deposits were generally left unrepresented. The importance of these deposits in questions of agriculture, drainage, water-supply, and public health having at length been recognised, it was determined that in future they should be traced and shown upon the maps. As at first they were inadequately understood by geologists, the mapping of them could not be made wholly satisfactory and complete. But as they came to be more thoroughly studied and more carefully traced, they have been represented with increasing fulness and accuracy upon the maps. It has been thought desirable to revise and complete the earlier drift surveys in the north of England, and to extend these surveys over the other parts of the country where they have not previously been made. This renewed examination of the ground is carried on upon maps of the scale of six inches to the mile, and advantage is taken of it to check, and where needful to correct, the already published mapping of the older geological formations uuderneath.
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Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. 1. Nature 49, 495–497 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049495a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/049495a0