Pleistocene Deep Weathering in North-East Scotland

Abstract

DEEP weathering is known in various types of rock at a large number of scattered localities in northeast Scotland. This is particularly true of the basic rocks of the Insch mass ; but sections with several feet of decomposed granite or gneiss are also well known. In most cases some glacial drift overlies the weathered rock ; but none of these sections provides unobjectionable evidence as to the date of the weathering relative to local glacial events.