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I.—The Secret of the Highlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In those parts of Britain upon which all geologists are agreed with respect to the natural order of their ascending series of rock-formations, the stratigraphy is of a comparatively simple character. The beds are either gently inclined, or but slightly convoluted. The rules by which the original sequence of the strata is worked out have been settled by common consent. The nature and effects of those physical accidents which have affected the rocks subsequent to their deposition have long since been almost exhaustively worked out. The rules and conclusions thus developed are now-a-days part and parcel of the working material of every field-geologist worthy of the name.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1883

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References

1 Mechanismus der Gebirgsbildung, A. Heim, Zurich, 1878.

2 1 have to apologize for the following errata in the previous part of this memoir:

p. 122, line 1, for north-west, read north-east.

p. 123, par. 3, line 10, for placing the whole in the Archæan, read regards the Silurian age of the Sutherland gneiss as open to doubt.

p. 123, bottom line, for Microscopical Magazine, read Mineralogical Magazine, 1879, p. 137; 1881, p. 322; 1882, No. 22, p. 5.

p. 126, line 7, for Hielem, read Heilim.

p. 127, line 13, for VI. b. read IV. b.

p. 127, line 20, for II. c. read I. c.

p. 127, line 23, for II. b. read I. b.