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Reply to “Constraints on the significance of the Orlock Bridge Fault within the Scottish Southern Uplands”, a discussion of “The Orlock Bridge Fault: a major Late Caledonian sinistral fault in the Southern Uplands terrane, British Isles”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

T. B. Anderson  and
G. J. H. Oliver
T. B. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland.
G. J. H. Oliver
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9ST, Scotland.
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We naturally regret our failure to convince the British Geological Survey's Southern Uplands team of the nature and importance of the fault which separates Northern and Central Belts, two of the three fundamental divisions of the Southern Uplands terrane which were so brilliantly recognised and defined by their illustrious predecessors (Peach & Home 1899). We welcome the opportunity to clarify the basis of our argument and correct some quite erroneous impressions.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , 1987 , pp. 223 - 225
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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