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XIV.—Submarine Faulting in Kimmeridgian Times: East Sutherland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

E. B. Bailey  and
J. Weir
E. B. Bailey
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University of Glasgow.
J. Weir
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University of Glasgow.
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Although it is unlikely that the east of Sutherland will ever rival the west in geological renown, its varied interests have already furnished material for a considerable literature. Attention has been specially focussed upon a down-faulted coastal strip of Mesozoic rocks, which, starting at Golspie, extends north-eastwards for twenty miles through Brora and Helmsdale to the county boundary at the Ord (fig. 1). Golspie itself stands on a narrow outcrop of Trias. Jurassic follows, with a generally ascending sequence that leads up to Kimmeridgian at Kintradwell, a couple of miles north of Brora (fig. 2). Beyond this Corallian reappears, but only for a short distance. Then Kimmeridgian returns and holds the coast-line continuously for nearly nine miles, until, at the Ord, it disappears beneath the sea. The width of the Kimmeridgian exposures is occasionally three-quarters of a mile, but generally much less.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , 1933 , pp. 429 - 467
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1933

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