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I.—On the Close of the Highland Controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Charles Lapworth
Charles Lapworth
Affiliation:
Mason Science College, Birmingham.
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All those British geologists who have interested themselves in the long-vexed question of the geological position and true mode of origin of the Metamorphic rocks of the Highlands of Scotland must have read with the greatest interest and pleasure the clear and vivid “Report on the Geology of the North-West of Sutherland,” by Messrs. Peach and Horne, in the pages of “Nature” for November last; and the manly and candid Introductory Observations by the Director-General of the Geological Survey. Not only does the publication of this Report put an end to one of the most keenly agitated controversies in the history of British Geology, but it explains and harmonizes the diverse views of the contending parties. The issue appears to me to be most creditable to all concerned. For many years the Highland controversy has appeared to outsiders, and to those geologists who were unaware of the difficulties attending the stratigraphy of the older rocks, as a trivial dispute between the Geological Survey on the one hand and a few misguided amateurs on the other.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , March 1885 , pp. 97 - 106
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1885

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page 103 note 1 Read at Ordinary Meeting of Geologists' Association, 07 4th, 1884.

page 103 note 2 The communication is printed as read. A few words have been added by Prof. Lapworth for the sake of clearness of description. These are given in brackets.—J. J. H. TEALL.

page 105 note 1 (i.e. the heterogeneous materials of which it is composed have undergone re-arrangement, and have received a new and a common set of petrological features, through the agency of the great Earth-mill).