Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
In my recent paper on the Lochaber Series (Hardie, 1952), I gave detailed facts about the lithology of several of the stratigraphical units, and I concluded that the remarkable thickness variations were due to original sedimentary processes rather than to mechanical rearrangement. Sir Edward Bailey, in his paper in this current number of the Geological Magazine, strongly disagrees with my views, and argues in favour of sliding. In reply I would like to make the following three points.