THE well-known volume of Conybeare and Phillips, entitled “Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales,” which was published in 1822, and was based on an earlier and slighter work of the second-named ...

Before there were rock stars, one man put them on the map. That man was William “Strata” Smith, and his map of the rocks at the surface in England, Wales, and part of Scotland—completed in 1815—was ...