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THE southern Highlands of Scotland consist of a complex series of gneisses, schists, crystalline limestones, and quartzites, trending across Scotland approximately from south-west to north-east. These metamorphic rocks are bounded abruptly to the south by the Highland boundary fault, which brings them against Upper Palæozoic rocks. Their northern boundary is less regular, and is generally the junction with the Moine gneiss, the rock which occupies so much of the Northern and Central Highlands. The schists and the associated rocks between the Moine gneiss and the boundary fault may be conveniently grouped together, under the name proposed by Sir Archibald Geikie, as the Dalradian system.
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Problems of the South-Western Highlands 1 . Nature 83, 171–172 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083171a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/083171a0