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Geological Society, London, Geology of Series
The Geology of Scotland
Editor(s)
Rob Strachan
Rob Strachan
2
University of Portsmouth
, UK
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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by The Geological Society of London. All rights reserved
© 2024 The Author(s)
ISBN electronic:
9781786206893
ISBN print:
9781786206138
Publication date:
August 20, 2024
The Geology of Scotland is a fully revised and updated key text celebrating Scotland's onshore and offshore geology. It provides a modern review of advances in our understanding over the last two decades of academic and applied research. The volume is broad based, aimed at undergraduates, academic- and industry-based geoscientists, policy makers and amateur geologists.
Book Chapter
5: Middle Neoproterozoic–Early Ordovician: foreland basins, climatic extremes and rift-to-drift margins Available to Purchase
Author(s)
Tony Prave
;
Tony Prave
1
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews
, Bute Building Queen's Terrace, St Andrews KY16 9TS, UK
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Anthony E. Fallick
;
Anthony E. Fallick
2
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow
, Rankine Avenue, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK
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Rob Strachan
;
Rob Strachan
3
School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, University of Portsmouth
, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK
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Maarten Krabbendam
;
Maarten Krabbendam
4
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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A. Graham Leslie
A. Graham Leslie
4
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- alkaline earth metals
- basins
- C-13/C-12
- carbon
- chemostratigraphy
- chronostratigraphy
- continental margin
- Cryogenian
- Dalradian
- depositional environment
- Europe
- foreland basins
- glaciation
- Grampian Highlands
- Great Britain
- Iapetus
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- Laurentia
- lithostratigraphy
- Lower Ordovician
- metals
- Neoproterozoic
- Ordovician
- paleoclimatology
- Paleozoic
- passive margins
- plate tectonics
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- Re/Os
- rifting
- Sauk Sequence
- Scotland
- Scottish Highlands
- snowball Earth
- Sr-87/Sr-86
- stable isotopes
- stratigraphic units
- strontium
- succession
- tectonics
- tectonostratigraphic units
- United Kingdom
- upper Precambrian
- Western Europe
- Colonsay Group
- Durness Group
- Bowmore Sandstone
- Ardvreck Group
- Trossachs Group
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