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INVERSION OF STRATA. 



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the main mass of material composing the higher ground has 

 been bodily thrust over the Eocene rocks, and in this process 

 some of the beds, b and c, have been folded repeatedly on them- 



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selves. Similar instances of the overthrusting of a considerable 

 thickness of strata have been described in the North-west 

 Highlands of Scotland* and elsewhere in the British Isles. It 

 is important therefore to draw attention to cases of extreme 

 ^ Geikie (93), p. 700. 



