Download or read book Geology of the Ballater District written by Charles Gordon Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir describes the bedrock geology of the mountainous country lying between upper Deeside and upper Glen Clova in north-east Scotland (1:50,000 geological sheet 65E (Scotland)). The greater part of the Balmoral estate lies in this district, and the large granite/diorite mass of Lochnagar dominates the country, which is popular with climbers and walkers and immortalised in verse by Lord Byron.