New high-pressure granulite event in the Moine Supergroup, northern Scotland: Implications for Taconic (early Caledonian) crustal evolution

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 543-546

  Friend, C R L ^a   Jones, K A ^a   Burns, I M ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caledonides; High pressure granulites; Scotland; Taconic

Indexed keywords

ANATEXIS; CALEDONIDES; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DETRITAL ZIRCON; HIGH-PRESSURE GRANULITES; NEOPROTEROZOIC; SCOTLAND; TACONIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DEFORMATION;

AGE; ANATEXIS; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; GRANULITE; METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034432058     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<543:NHGEIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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