Question

How did Roderick Murchison's and Charles Lapworth's views of the formation of Scotland's mountains differ?​

Answer 1

Roderick described everything in the region as a silurian in age because the rocks were either metamorphic or barren sedimentary layers and he had little fossil data to countermand or support. While with Charles he suggested that movement along low angle reverse faults , which the fault plane is parallel to the bedding plane , where it had brought schists from east to west , overriding younger sedimentary strata.