Structural interpretations of the Southern Uplands Terrane

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 363-373

  Anderson, T Bernard ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accretionary prism; Iapetus; Lower Palaeozoic; suspect terrane; transecting cleavage; transpression

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; IAPETUS; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TRANSPRESSION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034885832     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300008245     Document Type: Article

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