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Relations of Torridonian to Durness Limestone in the Broadford–Strollamus district of Skye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. B. Bailey
E. B. Bailey
Affiliation:
19 Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh.
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Abstract

Evidence strongly suggests that the Durness Limestone in Skye is a great thrust-slice between Torridonian above, at Broadford, and Torridonian below, at Strollamus and Scalpay.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , February 1954 , pp. 73 - 78
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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