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XXX.—The Dolerite Isles of the North Minch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Frederick Walker
Frederick Walker
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Geology, University of St Andrews.
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North of Skye the waters of the Minch conceal Tertiary igneous rocks, probably of great interest, the nature of which may be surmised only from the study of a few small skerries or islands projecting above sea-level. The group of the Shiant Isles is the best known and most interesting of these, and has been described elsewhere; but the more southerly islets, which form the subject of the present communication, are not without importance in themselves, besides forming a useful geological connecting link between the Shiants and Trotternish. As shown in the sketch map (fig. 1), they comprise the little archipelago a league off the Trotternish coast, which will be referred to as the Fladda group; the island of Trodday, two miles north-east of Rudha Hunish in Skye, and three small rocks or skerries lying close to the track of the Harris mail steamer.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , 1931 , pp. 753 - 766
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1931

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