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V.—Note on the Highland Border Series, near Aberfoyle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

T. J. Jehu
T. J. Jehu
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Geology at the University of St. Andrews.
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The rocks of this series form an interrupted belt along the southern border of the Highlands from Stonehaven on the east to the island of Arran on the west, and they appear again on a more extensive scale in Ireland. In Scotland the series consists of cherts or jaspers and shales, sometimes associated with limestones and with some peculiar igneous rocks. The age of the series has been for years a matter of controversy. Many geologists have held that these rocks are of pre-Cambrian age, but Messrs. Peach & Horne in their volume on The Silurian Rocks of Britain (Mem. Geol. Surv., 1899) remarked on the close resemblance of the rocks of this belt to some of the Arenig rocks in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, and the belt has been marked on the Geological Survey maps as doubtfully Lower Silurian.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 9 , September 1914 , pp. 402 - 404
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

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