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VI.—The Secret of the Highlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

Having gained a general comprehension of the probable physical and palæontological sequence among the Lower Palæozoic strata of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, as partly published in my memoirs upon the “Moffat Series,” and the Girvan Succession, I felt myself at liberty last summer to commence the study of those rocks of the North-west Highlands, which are supposed to be of corresponding age.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1883

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page 120 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, May, 1878.Google Scholar

page 120 note 2 Ibid.., November, 1882.

page 121 note 1 The illustrative Figures will appear in the second part of this paper.

page 122 note 1 Geikie, Handbook of Geology, 1882, p. 584.

page 122 note 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. August, 1859.Google Scholar

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page 126 note 1 Between the base of the Fucoid or Hielem beds and the top of the Scoriaceousbed the rocks all weather to a yellowish-buff colour upon exposure to the weather, forming a striking contrast to the white quartzite below and the dark limestone above.