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XXIX.—The Highland Schists of Middle Deeside and East Glen Muick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

H. H. Read
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A glance at a geological map of Middle Deeside shows that below Cambus O'May the valley is floored by a belt of metamorphic rocks flanked on both north and south by high hills of Younger Granite, of a date later than the regional metamorphism. The area of metamorphic rocks here considered extends from Cambus O'May down river to Banchory, but in the eastern half of this region the geological problems concern injection rather than tectonics. The cordon of Younger Granites enclosing the Deeside Schists is breached on the west near Cambus O'May by a mile-wide gap through which the metamorphic rocks escape to connect with those of the east side of Glen Muick. In this latter district the schists of as far south as the Aberdeenshire-Forfarshire watershed are considered in detail. Adjacent regions farther south and south-east are dealt with only in so far as they concern the correlation of the Deeside Schists.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , 1928 , pp. 755 - 772
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1928

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