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AbstractThough it is the most rapidly growing subject in the school curriculum in England at the present day, Geology has had a chequered career in science education in the last hundred years. Between the two world wars it nearly suffered complete extinction. That it not only survived but mushroomed into a valued tool of scientific education is the major achievement of teachers of geology in Britain in the last thirty years.
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