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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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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.
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7: Middle Ordovician–Silurian: Midland Valley forearc basins and the Southern Uplands accretionary complex at the southern margin of Laurentia Available to Purchase
Author(s)
Philip Stone
Philip Stone
1
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Published:August 20, 2024
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- accretion
- accretionary wedges
- Arenigian
- Ayrshire Scotland
- Ballantrae Complex
- basins
- biostratigraphy
- clastic rocks
- conglomerate
- correlation
- deformation
- depositional environment
- Europe
- fore-arc basins
- Girvan Scotland
- Great Britain
- Iapetus
- inliers
- Laurentia
- lithostratigraphy
- Lower Ordovician
- metamorphism
- Middle Ordovician
- Midland Valley
- Ordovician
- Paleozoic
- provenance
- Scotland
- sedimentary rocks
- Silurian
- Southern Uplands
- succession
- tectonics
- terranes
- thermal history
- unconformities
- United Kingdom
- Western Europe
- Pentland Hills
- Gala Group
- Riccarton Group
- Hawick Group
- Moniaive shear zone
- Leadhills Supergroup
- Ettrick Group
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