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Much attention has been given to the Buchan gravels by Aberdeen- 
shire geologists. Christie} of Banff, was perhaps the first to give 
an account of the occurrence of chalk flints at Delgaty. In 1857 
J. W. Salter? described the fossils from the chalk flints of the 
Buchan Ridge; to this description Ferguson of Kinmundy 
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appended a brief account of the distribution of the gravels. Thése 
deposits were studied especially by T. F. Jamieson of Ellon, who 
was intimately familiar with them throughout the area. In his 
first paper Jamieson described the gravels of the Buchan Ridge 
1 Hdinburgh New Philos. Journ., vol. x, 1831, p. 163. 
2 “On the Cretaceous Fossils of Aberdeenshire’”’: Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 
vol. xiii, 1857, p. 85. 
