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II.—Dating of Late-Glacial Clay Varves in Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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During a visit to Scotland this autumn I had the opportunity of meeting Dr John B. Simpson and of discussing with him the desirability of definitively dating, by varve-measuring, the interesting ice-oscillation which he had described from the southern slope of the Scottish Highlands (1933).

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1936

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