International dictionary of geophysics : S. K. Runcorn (editor-in-chief). Pergamon, Oxford, 1967, 2 volumes, 1,728 pp., 730 fig., £ 45.0.0

Abstract

The reader is informed about a large number of subjects in a generally brief, elucidating manner. No single source contains such a large number of short review articles. That the general framework in which the contributions are contained is weak, is no reflection on the authors, but the editor-in-chief and, to a lesser degree, the associate editors. Differences in the level at which the subjects are treated, strange ratios between the lengths of more general and more specialized articles, lack of reference from one article to other related contributions, are also mainly to be held against the coordinators. The almost classical physiographic diagrams of the South Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, by B. C. Heezen and M. Tharp, are added to the set in a separate portfolio.