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2024 note: Most grid references have been recently estimated. They do not occur in the original publication.

7 References

The Geological Survey Memoir of 1928 (pp. 277–283) contains an exhaustive bibliography of publications dealing with Arran. Any papers on the geology of the island that have appeared since that date are included in the following list of publications to which reference is made in the text of the Excursion Guide.

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