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Review by: Mandy Apgar
Not a book per se but more of a text, a study guide for those planning to achieve professional geologist (PG) certification. The good news is that it covers an awful lot of topics and many say it helps them focus their minds on what to study for the actual tests. The bad is that I have no idea how much of this is true and for the cost the authors should've made a lot less errors. I've found plenty of mistakes in chapters whose subjects I am most familiar with and many of them were basic high school earth science level errors. But people studying these might not know that! For example, there are about 5 or 6 questions on paleontology on the test, which is a lot - seems pretty obscure, doesn't it? Something most people (other than your friendly anal retentive reviewer) know little about? Mistakes on every page in the section, and one page had 8 errors of various kinds. Wish that it would've been more well edited and I caution any buyers to have a geologic dictionary and a basic text as well to check all terms and the major points.
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