Correlation of depositional sequences in a structurally complex area: The Dalradian of Glenn Fearnach to Glen Shee, Scotland

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 503-513

  Goodman, S ^a   Crane, A ^a   Krabbendam, M ^b   Leslie, A G ^c   Ruffell, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appin Group; Argyll Group; Dalradian Supergroup; Palaeogeography; Perthshire; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DALRADIAN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC;

UK, SCOTLAND, CENTRAL, PERTHSHIRE;

EID: 0030698280     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300018162     Document Type: Article

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