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The Problem of Facies Changes and Sliding, South of Loch Leven, Argyllshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. G. Hardie
W. G. Hardie*
Affiliation:
Geological Department, Birmingham University.
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Abstract

All the bedded rocks outcropping within the fault-intrusion of Glencoe, south and west of Garbh Bheinn summit (2,835 feet, Text-fig. 1), are shown to be exotic. They probably represent down-sloped fragments of the now eroded roof of the intrusion. This change of interpretation completely invalidates the theory of rapid facies changes, proposed by the writer in 1952. New evidence relating to the remarkable thickness variation of the Binnein Quartzite on the eastern side of the Garbh Bheinn downfold is also discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 92 , Issue 6 , December 1955 , pp. 506 - 511
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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