Movement and mineralization in the Tyndrum Fault Zone, Scotland and its regional significance

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 591-604

  Treagus, J E ^a   Pattrick, R A D ^a   Curtis, S F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Dames and Moore ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Caledonian; Carboniferous; Faulting; Mineralization; Orogeny; Transtension

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; MINERALIZATION; SILURIAN; TERRANE; TRANSTENSION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033489874     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.3.0591     Document Type: Article

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