Direct field evidence for sinistral displacements along the Great Glen Fault Zone: Late Caledonian reactivation of a regional basement structure?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-139

  Stewart, M ^a   Strachan, R A ^a   Holdsworth, R E ^b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caledonian Orogeny; Cataclasites; Great Glen Fault; Microstructure; Reactivation

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; FAULT; GREAT GLEN FAULT; REACTIVATION;

UK, SCOTLAND, CALEDONIDES;

EID: 0030785820     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.154.1.0135     Document Type: Article

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