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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland; Explanation of Sheet 75: West Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Parts of Elgin and Inverness
Essentially a mountainous region, one-fourth at least of the area under consideration rises to a height of 2000 feet above sea level, while more than 15 square miles of ground reach an elevation of upwards of 3000 feet. The eastern portion of the great high-level plane of denudation, out of which have been carved the Cairngorm Mountains, extends for 8 miles along the southern margin of the Map, with a mean elevation of over 3250 feet. To a lower plane of denudation, having a mean summit-elevation of about 2400 feet, belongs the wide extent of hilly, rather than mountainous country that occupies the larger part of the area. Erosion has here been carried much further than in the Cairngorm range, and little of the original plateau remains.
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