CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1

SURVEY OF FIELD 1

ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS OF THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF GEOLOGY AND OF OTHER SCIENCES 3 Mineralogy and petrology 3 Stratigraphy and paleontology 4 Structural geology 5 Physiography 6 Rock alterations or metamorphism 10 Application of other sciences 10

TREATMENT OF THE SUBJECT IN THIS VOLUME 11