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2. On the Old River Terraces of the Spey, viewed in connection with certain proofs of the Antiquity of Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Abstract

The author referred to the paper which he had read on the terraces of the Earn and Teith, and then described similar deposits which he had observed last autumn on the Spey, giving examples with drawings, from the neighbourhood of Kingussie, Dalvey, and Ballindalloch. The arguments formerly adduced were equally conclusive in the Spey to show that these terraces were not old sea beaches nor lake margins, but the fluviatile deposits of some former epoch when the floods rose to a greater height.

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Proceedings 1870-71
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1872

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page 399 note † Trans. Roy. Soc. Ed. 154–163.

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page 401 note * As yet unpublished; but these results were obligingly communicated by Col. Sir H. James, F.R.S.

page 401 note † Phil. Trans., vol. cliv., p. 265.

page 401 note ‡ Phil. Trans., 292.

page 401 note § Phil. Trans.

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