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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
8: The Caledonian Orogeny: Late Ordovician–Early Devonian tectonic and magmatic events associated with closure of the Iapetus Ocean Available to Purchase
Author(s)
Richard D. Law
;
Richard D. Law
1
Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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Rob Strachan
;
Rob Strachan
2
School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, University of Portsmouth
, Portsmouth PO1 2DT, UK
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Matthew Thirlwall
;
Matthew Thirlwall
3
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London
, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX, UK
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J. Ryan Thigpen
J. Ryan Thigpen
4
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky
, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, USA
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Atlantic Ocean Islands
- Caledonian Orogeny
- chemical composition
- deformation
- Devonian
- displacements
- Europe
- exhumation
- extension faults
- faults
- folds
- foliation
- genesis
- Grampian Highlands
- Great Britain
- Great Glen Fault
- Iapetus
- igneous rocks
- intrusions
- lineation
- Lower Devonian
- magmas
- magmatism
- metamorphism
- Midland Valley
- Moine thrust zone
- Ordovician
- Orkney Islands
- Paleozoic
- plate tectonics
- plutons
- Scandian Orogeny
- Scotland
- Scottish Highlands
- Scottish Northern Highlands
- Shetland Islands
- Silurian
- slabs
- Southern Uplands
- spatial variations
- strike-slip faults
- structural analysis
- subduction
- subduction zones
- terranes
- thrust faults
- thrust sheets
- United Kingdom
- Upper Ordovician
- volcanic rocks
- Western Europe
- Solway Line
- Walls Boundary Fault
- Sgurr Beag thrust sheet
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