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Abstract This paper traces the development of geological cartography from the eighteenth century practice of marking the location of mineral deposits on topographic maps through to the development of the present day geological map showing the distribution of geological formations. By the opening of the nineteenth century the geological map had largely superseded the mineralogical map, although certain characteristics of the latter persisted for much longer.

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