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The production of a geological map of a certain area is a means of making understandable the geology of this area in a relatively simple way. On such a map different rock types or related groups of rocks are represented, and these are shown as having formed at various periods during the history of the Earth. Each of these rocks formed under, or has been affected by, a definite set of conditions. Some of the rocks that are exposed at the surface today must at one stage have been deep down in the crust. Other rock types are from old mountain chains or old volcanoes. Some of the rocks formed under cold, glacial conditions, others in deserts, some in swamps, and many obviously under the sea. It is the piecing together of all the available information about the rocks themselves that will provide a picture of the geological development of each particular country or territory in this atlas.
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(2008). Aims and Concepts of the Atlas. In: Geological Atlas of Africa. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76373-4_1
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