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IN his recent contribution to this journal, Prof. Tuzo Wilson1 describes the Cabot fault in the eastern coastal region of North America and compares it with the Great Glen fault which bisects the Scottish Highlands from the Firth of Lorne to the Moray Firth. He finds that trans-current movements on the line of the Cabot fault occurred during an interval extending from late Devonian to early Carboniferous times, and cites Kennedy's2 similar findings for the age of movements on the Great Glen fault as additional evidence of the close similarity of the two faults.
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Wilson, T., Nature, 195, 135 (1962).
Kennedy, W. Q., Quart. J. Geol. Soc. Lond., 102, 41 (1946).
Eyles, V. A., and MacGregor, A. G., Geol. Mag., 89, 426 (1952).
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HOLGATE, N. The Cabot and Great Glen Faults. Nature 197, 680 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197680a0
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