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VII.—Experimental Researches in Mountain Building

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Henry M. Cadell
Henry M. Cadell
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Scotland.
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Among most of the geologists who had of late years been engaged in investigating the structure of the North-West Highlands, and especially among those who did not concur in Murchison's explanation of the phenomena exhibited there, it was a growing belief that great overthrusts had been largely instrumental in producing the remarkable stratigraphical relations of the rock masses of that region. After a most careful detailed examination of the ground by the Geological Survey, the existence and importance of such thrusts was not only placed beyond a doubt, but a variety of additional remarkable structures were discovered, which open up new fields of investigation to the physical geologist.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 1889 , pp. 337 - 357
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1889

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page 337 note * Since this paper was read, a detailed account of the structure of the North-West Highlands has been published in the “Report on the Recent Work of the Geological Survey in that region, based on the Field Notes and Maps of Messrs B. N. Peach, J. Horne, W. Gunn, C. T. Clough, L. Hinxman, and H. M. Cadell” ( Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., August 1888, pp. 378–441 Google Scholar).

page 338 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. vii. p. 85 Google Scholar.

page 338 note ‡ Mechanismus der Gebirgsbildung, p. 23.

page 338 note † Nature, xix. p. 103 Google Scholar.

page 338 note § Ge'ologie experimentale, p. 321.

page 347 note * This has often taken place in nature. See sections through Ben More, Assynt, &c, figs. 15, 16, 17, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1888, pp. 421, 423Google Scholar.

page 348 note * Compare fig. 14 with the horizontal sections in the Survey Report, loc. cit.