Chapter 2: DEEP SCAR: THE MOINE THRUST

THE STORY OF A BITTER SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY

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Loch Assynt Highlands Controversy Sir Roderick Murchison Moine Thrust Peach & Horne thrust faults Dornoch Firth Bridge Cambrian Quartzites Inchnadamph Knockan Crag schists Archibald Geikie Charles Lapworth British Geological Survey

• INSTRUCTIONS                                     
• 1:  A RED EARTH                                   
• 2:  DEEP SCAR: THE MOINE THRUST     
• 3:  THE FISH GRAVES OF ACHANARRAS
• 4:  VOLCANO                                         
• 5:  THE COMING ICE AGE                      
• 6:  LEFT-OVERS                                    
• 7:  HUTTON'S ARSE (1795)                     
• EPILOGUE                                             
• GLOSSARY                                            

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