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The Lizard-Start Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. B. Scrivenor
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Abstract

Two questions are discussed: what is the nature of the boundary between the Devonian rocks of the Meneage and of the Start area on the one hand, and the mica- and green schists to the south of them on the other; and are the latter also Devonian or older than Devonian ? The author gives his views on the boundary in both cases, and concludes that the mica- and green schists in both are of Devonian age.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 86 , Issue 6 , December 1949 , pp. 377 - 386
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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