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The Geology of Moncreiffe Hill, Perthshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Charles F. Davidson
Charles F. Davidson
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University College, Dundee.
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MONCREIFFE Hill, Perthshire, is the inclusive name for the series of low hills which form the uplands to the south and south-east of the City of Perth, and whose heather and grasscovered slopes reach in the summit of Moncreiffe Hill proper, a height of 725 feet above sea-level. The alluvium of the River Tay forms the northern boundary of the area under consideration, while on the east and south-east the hills are bounded by a continuation of the northern of the two faults which let down the Upper Old Red Sandstone outlier of the Carse of Gowrie, and by the Carse and Arctic clays of the River Earn. To the east of the City of Perth the area is bounded by the Lower Old Red Sandstone.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 69 , Issue 10 , October 1932 , pp. 452 - 464
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1932

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