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A Suggested Interpretation of the Scottish Caledonide Structure1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Franz E. Suess
Affiliation:
University of Vienna

Extract

I venture to present before the Section a new interpretation of the Scottish Caledonide structure. This essay is based partly on the impressions that I got on a short visit to the Northern Highlands and on a most instructive excursion to Ballachulish under Mr. E. B. Bailey's inspiring guidance; partly on my own experience of the tectonics of Central European crystalline regions; but of course, above all, on the work of many Scottish geologists.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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Footnotes

1

Paper read before Section C, Geology, British Association. Johannesburg, 1929.

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