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KNOWLEDGE of the geology of the Australasian region has expanded apace since the end of World War II as a result of two main factorsthe extensive programme of reconnaissance mapping being carried out by the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources and the various State Geological Surveys, and the 1:250,000 mapping project of the New Zealand Geological Survey, on the one hand, and the increased activity of oil and mining companies, particularly in geophysical and drilling work, on the other. All phases of this work are still proceeding and no doubt will continue, perhaps at an increasing rate. Consequently in a book of this kind, all that can be offered is a single (and somewhat arbitrary) cross-section of a continuously and rapidly developing spectrum of ideas. Many of the data that have been collected are not yet available in published form, being either in oil company files or awaiting publication by governmental agencies, so that some of the opinions expressed here will have to be modified almost before the book is published. Under such circumstances, publication at the present time needs some justification.

This work is not intended to be a detailed compendium of the stratigraphy of Australia and New Zealand, though it is hoped that it may in some measure meet the need for an up-to-date teaching aid in this field. It may, in particular, be used to assist students to obtain a knowledge of the stratigraphy of their own country, so as to supplement and illustrate the courses on stratigraphic principles that have formed an increasing part of formal teaching in stratigraphy in recent years. For Australia, it cannot, of course, replace David and Brownes Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia as a source of information. This excellent work, however, was issued in 1950 (and is now out of print), too early to incorporate the major post-war advances in knowledge. Moreover, the State geology volumes being issued by the Geological Society of Australia are in the nature of reference works rather than textbooks, and to date there are none available for New South Wales, Victoria, or the Northern Territory. Other works, such as The Geology of Australian Ore Deposits and The Economic Geology of New Zealand, published by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy for the Eighth Commonwealth Mining and Metallurgical Conference, are concerned with special aspects of Australasian geology.

In so far as New Zealand is concerned, there is no modern text available of a kind suitable for teaching the regional stratigraphy to undergraduate students, though reference may be made to the valuable summaries accompanying the series of 1:250,000 geological maps now in process of publication. Presumably teachers and students in overseas universities also have a need for a textbook such as this at the undergraduate level, though it is hoped that the method of presentation will make the subject matter intelligible to the interested layman also. For the reason, too, that we expect the book to be consulted by non-Australasians, we have used the metric system of measurement throughout.