Chapters on the Geology of Scotland

Abstract

THE late Dr. B. N. Peach, of the Scottish Geological Survey, is well known to have advocated the view that the Moine gneiss, the most extensive formation in Scotland, is the metamorphosed eastern extension of the Torridon Sandstone. His remarkable personal influence gave that conclusion long currency among his colleagues and inspired a series of ingenious hypotheses to reconcile it with the facts. This view was, however, never adequately explained in print and remained generally unintelligible. One of its unfortunate consequences was that it prevented the preparation of the work on the geology of Scotland which had been planned by Peach and Home; for Home rejected this view of the relation of the Moine and Torridonian rocks and the two authors could not complete their account of the first section of Scottish geology.

Chapters on the Geology of Scotland.

Dr. Benjamin Neeve Peach Dr. John Horne Pp. xvi + 232 + 18 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1930.) 10s. 6d. net.