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Drainage and Fracture Patterns in North-West Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. B. Auden
J. B. Auden
Affiliation:
Sudan Geological Survey, P.O. Box 410, Khartoum.
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Abstract

The drainage pattern of North-West Scotland is considered in relation to already known and newly inferred fracture zones, and it is concluded that a system of Tertiary fractures, connected with the plutonic centres of the Western Isles, has been superimposed on the rhombic pattern of late-Caledonian faulting.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 5 , October 1954 , pp. 337 - 351
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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