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 | | The quartzites of is series form the highest hills in the south of Islay, occupy nearly e whole of Jura, and are continued in the mainland, where, by rjrs at or near the base of the quartzites, which cont~insfrag- rd,nts of the underlying rocks and boulders of granite not now found place in that region. |
 | | IsI On the mainland, on the north side of the compound synclinal at ding of Loch Awe, the Ardrishaig phyllites reappear at Craignish an ar Kilmartin, and the quartzites of this group are supposed to he to the surface again in Glencoe, not far fromthe outcrop of the im hiehallion quartzite. |
 | | un Dn the north and south shores of the promontory of Ardnamurchan foi ~re are smafl patches of Jurassic strata ranging from the Lower is to the Oxford Clay, and in Morvern on the shores of Loch Aline resentatives of the Upper Greensand are covered by the basaltic sh~ as of Tertiary age. |
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