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The Cairnsmore of Fleet Granite and its Metamorphic Aureole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Charles Irving Gardiner  and
Sidney Hugh Reynolds
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The Cairnsmore of Fleet granite is the second in point of size of the four plutonic masses which penetrate the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, being exceeded in area only by that of the Criffel. Its outline is roughly oval and it measures 11 miles by 7 miles, the long axis trending N.E.—S.W., exactly parallel to the strike of the rocks of the Southern Uplands.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 74 , Issue 7 , July 1937 , pp. 289 - 300
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1937

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