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Age-Problems of the Moine Series of Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. H. Read
H. H. Read
Affiliation:
Professor of Geology, University of Liverpool.
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The Chapters on the Geology of Scotland, by B. N. Peach and John Home, reveals very clearly the complete divergence in the views of these two masters concerning certain fundamental problems of the Moine Series. Peach (1, pp. 199–200) regards the Moine Series as the equivalent of the Torridonian and its metamorphism as entirely post-Cambrian. Home (1, pp. 200–1), on the other hand, believes the Moine Series to consist mainly of sedimentary schists of pre-Torridonian age which formed part of the land-barrier separating the Cambrian sea in the North-West Highlands from that in which the fossiliferous Highland Border Rocks (Cambro-Ordovician) were laid down.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 71 , Issue 7 , July 1934 , pp. 302 - 317
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1934

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