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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
10: Carboniferous: oblique-slip basins, intraplate magmatism and the Variscan Orogeny
Author(s)
Alison A. Monaghan
;
Alison A. Monaghan
1
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Correspondence: [email protected]
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David Millward
;
David Millward
1
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Tim I. Kearsey
;
Tim I. Kearsey
1
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Michael A. E. Browne
;
Michael A. E. Browne
1
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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A. Graham Leslie
A. Graham Leslie
1
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Asbian
- basalts
- Carboniferous
- coastal environment
- deltaic environment
- depositional environment
- dikes
- Europe
- eustasy
- extension tectonics
- faults
- Fife Scotland
- fluvial environment
- fossils
- Great Britain
- igneous rocks
- intraplate processes
- intrusions
- lacustrine environment
- Lower Carboniferous
- Lower Mississippian
- magmatism
- marine environment
- Middle Mississippian
- Midland Valley
- Mississippian
- Namurian
- oblique-slip faults
- orogeny
- paleoclimatology
- paleoenvironment
- Paleozoic
- Scotland
- Scottish Highlands
- sea-level changes
- sedimentation
- sills
- Southern Uplands
- Stephanian
- succession
- tectonics
- tholeiite
- Tournaisian
- unconformities
- United Kingdom
- Upper Carboniferous
- Variscan Orogeny
- Visean
- volcanic rocks
- volcanism
- Western Europe
- Westphalian
- Tweed Basin
- Northumberland-Solway Basin
- Clyde Plateau Volcanic Formation
- Garleton Hills Volcanic Formation
- Arthur's Seat Volcanic Formation
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