Ductile fault rocks and metamorphic zonation in the Dalradian of the highland border SW of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire

Scottish Journal of Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-93

  Phillips, E R ^a   Auton, C A ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DUCTILE DEFORMTAION; METAMORPHISM; MYLONITE; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR;

UK, SCOTLAND, GRAMPIAN, STONEHAVEN;

EID: 0030807869     PISSN: 00369276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/sjg33010083     Document Type: Article

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