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2. On the Geological Relations of the Secondary and Primary Rocks of the Chain of Mont Blanc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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This paper is intended to meet the objections taken by Mr D. Sharpe, in a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for February 1855, to the views of the present writer, and those of several eminent geologists, on the structure of the chain of Mont Blane.

De Saussure first described the singular superposition of gneiss to limestone which occurs on the south-east side of the valley of Chamouni, a testimony the more clear from its obvious opposition to the Wernerian views of the period.

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Proceedings 1854-55
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 3 , 1857 , pp. 348 - 349
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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page 348 note * It will be printed at length in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for April 1856.