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ABOUT 2,500 gravity stations have been established in Southeast Scotland by members of the Department of Geophysics, University of Edinburgh (Fig. 1). We report here a negative long-wavelength gravity anomaly over the Southern Uplands, running SW to NE parallel to the Caledonian trend. The gravity anomaly is interpreted as being due to an underlying granite batholith, modelled in detail in the district of Tweeddale, where our station density averages 0.5 km−2. Elsewhere in the Southern Uplands, the average coverage is 0.3 km−2.
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LAGIOS, E., HIPKIN, R. The Tweeddale Granite—a newly discovered batholith in the Southern Uplands. Nature 280, 672–675 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280672a0
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