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XXIV.—The Igneous Geology of the Burntisland District

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Douglas A. Allan
Affiliation:
Falconer Fellow of the University of Edinburgh.

Extract

The district examined in the course of the research embodied in this paper is the south-eastern part of the county of Fife, lying between the coast-towns of Aberdour and Kirkcaldy, and stretching inland to a roughly semicircular boundary enclosing Auchtertool, Raith and Chapel. The area within these limits, amounting to approximately 30 square miles, was mapped on a scale of 6 inches to a mile, and the chief results of the field-work are shown in the map on Plate III.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1925

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