Robert R. Compton

This book was used by nearly all college geology programs to teach field methods during the 1960s and 1970s. Current courses use other texts mostly but still recommend this as a second source of information. The focus of the book is to teach methods of mapping geological surface features. The principles are still the same but the techniques are a little different now than when this version of the book came out. Still a worthwhile book to have and use.