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IN the central portion of Skye there is a group of mountains unequalled elsewhere in Britain for rugged grandeur. To the south and south-west lie the Cuillin Hills, the serrated peaks of which rise to an elevation of more than 3000 feet; they are built essentially of a great laccolitic mass of gabbro, traversed by countless dykes and sheets of basalt. To the north lie the Red Hills, the smoother outlines and often ruddy aspect of which contrast markedly with the dark and rough elevations of Blath-bheinn, or Blaven, and the Cuillins; they are composed of granite and granophyre, and rise to heights rarely exceeding 2500 feet.
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The Ancient Glaciers of Skye . Nature 65, 189 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065189a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/065189a0