Oui choice of title for this book deliberately echoes Dseison’s A Hillary ofBritiih Earthquake!, which was published by the Cambridge University Press early in the 1920s. This was one of the first in recent tiroes to make a systematic study of seismic activity in a particular country, which we have tried to emulate for Iran. By calling our study a history we wish also to emphasise the importance оf time in the unfolding of geologic processes, and of investigating the past when attempting to under-&tand the present.

Небольшая по объему книга французского геолога Раймонда Фюрона позволит советскому читателю познакомиться с основными чертами геологии и гидрогеологии Турции, а также с особенностями ее рельефа, климата, речной сети и физико-географическими элементами.