Cainozoic Geology and Landscape Evolution of North-east Scotland: Memoir for the Drift Editions of 1:50 000 Geological Sheets 66E Banchory, 67 Stonehaven, 76E Inverurie, 77 Aberdeen, 86E Turriff, 87W Ellon, 87E Peterhead, 95 Elgin, 96W Portsoy, 96E Banff and 97 Fraserburgh (Scotland)A detailed account of the geology shown on the complementary 1: 50 000 (or earlier 1: 63 360) geological map(s) |
Contents
Caledonian orogeny and magmatism | 5 |
Chronostratigraphy | 11 |
Hydrogeology | 21 |
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Aberdeen Appendix Auton Banchory Banff Banffshire Banffshire Coast Drift basin bedrock boreholes Bremner British Geological Survey Buchan Ridge channels clasts Coast Drift Group coastal Connell Cruden deglaciation Devensian glaciation diamicton district East Grampian Drift East Grampian ice Elgin Ellon erosion erratics esker Figure formed Fraserburgh Gardenstown Gelifluctate glacial glaciofluvial deposits glaciolacustrine deposits glaciomarine Grampian Drift Group Grampian ice sheet granite Gravel Formation Hall Hill ice flow ice stream Interstadial Inverurie kaolinitic Kirkhill locally Loch Logie-Buchan Drift Group Main Late Devensian margin meltwater Merritt Moray Firth Moray Firth ice Moss moundy North Sea north-east Scotland occur offshore overlying Peacock peat periglacial Peterhead Portsoy quartzite Quaternary retreat River rocks sand and gravel Sandstone sandy saprolites Scotland Scottish sediments Sejrup sequence Sheet 66E Sheet 87W Silt Formation silts and clays Spey St Fergus Stadial Stonehaven striae subglacial surface Teindland terraces Turriff Ugie valley weathering Ythan