2 Old books on Geology of Palestine, 1910, 1943, English, German
1. Max Blanckenhorn. Neues zur Geologie Palaestinas und des Aegyptischen Niltals, illustrated, Berlin, 1910, in Greman.
pages 405-461 (57 pages)
Sonder-Abdruck aus der Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, Band 62, Jahrgang 1910, Heft ¾
Soft cover, 21 x 14 cm., some staining to cover, rear cover is missing.
Max Ludwig Paul Blanckenhorn (16. April 1861 in Siegen - 13. Januar 1947 in Marburg) war ein deutscher Geologe und Palaeontologe.
2. Leo Picard. Structure and evolution of Palestine, illustrated, 1943, in English, Stencil
Structure and evolution of Palestine. With comparative notes on neighbouring countries. Published by the Geological Department, Hebrew University, Jerualem. 1943, 188 pp., soft cover, 24 x 17 cm. brown paper to cover, spine os damaged, yellow /light brown paper; some damping to several last pages.
Leo Picard (3 June 1900 – 4 April 1997), was an Israeli geologist and an expert in the field of hydrogeology. ehuda Leo Picard was born in Germany in 1900, and studied at universities in Freiburg and Berlin, in Germany, and in Paris and London, and taught at the University of Florence, Italy.
Picard visited Mandate Palestine in 1922 and emigrated there in 1924, where he established the Department of Geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1943, he published his book "Structure and Evolution of Palestine", which become a primary book for the study of geology in Israel.
Leo Picard was an expert hydrogeologist and an outstanding general geologist. He wrote about paleontology and stratigraphy, structural geology and tectonics, mineralogy and ore deposits. Well-known is his contribution to the debate on the tectonics of the Dead Sea Rift. Picard was doubtful whether left-lateral offset of some 100 km took place along the Rift, and suggested instead that the rift was developed and constrained by extension.
In 1955, he was appointed president of the UNESCO committee of experts for arid areas. Following such appointment, he became an international consultant, and his investigations have assisted the development of many countries in Africa and Latin America.
He died in 1997 in Kibbutz Ginegar in northern Israel.