Ref NoLDGSL/1078/C/14-18
TitleOuter Hebrides Report
Date[1978]
LevelFile
Extent5 files
FormatDocument
DescriptionOuter Hebrides Report:
C.14: List of chapters and sections with 'Proposed working limits'; 'Part I - Lewisian Gneiss', 19pp typescript + two tables and manuscript note on section on 'Parentage of Gneisses'.
C.15: 'Chapter 3 Structure', 25pp typescript + two tables, with manuscript annotations not in Watson's hand.
C.16: Photocopied manuscript figures.
C.17: 'Regional variations', 12pp typescript + table. [Latest bibliographical reference 1978.]
C.18: Material found with preceding. Includes 'Structural data on Central and South Lewis', 4pp typescript; 'Uists - structural data', 3pp typescript; figures.
Administrative HistoryFrom the late 1960s Watson collaborated with the Institute of Geological Sciences in the preparation of an IGS memoir mapping the Outer Hebrides, published as: Fettes, D.J. and British Geological Survey (1992) Geology of the Outer Hebrides: memoir for 1:100.000 (solid edition) geological sheets, Lewis and Harris, Uist and Barra (Scotland). London: HMSO. (Memoir for 1:100,000 geological sheets ... (Scotland). British Geological Survey, Lewis and Harris, Uist and Barra).

According to the preface, Watston contributed two chapters: Chapter 13 ['Structural history'] & Chapter 14 ['Regional variations of structure']

This material may be related to that at C.6, C.7, C.9, C.10.
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LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteDescription by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper, National Cataloguing Unit for Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath; slightly revised by Caroline Lam
CreatorNameWATSON | Janet Vida | 1923-1985 | scientist and geologist
SubjectGneisses
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/420WATSON; Janet Vida (1923-1985); scientist and geologist1923-1985
Places
CodePlaceName
NA67Scotland
NA405Outer Hebrides
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