Structure of the Assynt window, Moine Thrust Zone and relationship of thrusts to alkaline igneous complexes, Caledonian orogeny, NW Scotland
The Moine Thrust Zone forms the Caledonian orogenic thrust front where the Moine Supergroup metamorphic rocks have been thrust westward across the Laurentia plate stable foreland, comprising Archean-Proterozoic granulite and amphibolite facies rocks (Lewisian gneisses), with unconformably overlying...
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Cambridge University Press
2023
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