Silurian subduction-related assembly of fault-defined tracts at the Laurieston Fault, Southern Uplands accretionary terrane, Scotland, U.K.

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 435-446

  Akhurst, M C ^a   McMillan, A A ^a   Kimbell, G S ^a   Stone, P ^a   Merriman, R J ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biostratigraphy; duplex structure; Gala Group; geochemistry; geophysics; Hawick Group; illite crystallinity; Nd isotopes; provenance; sedimentology

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FAULT GEOMETRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; SILURIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034886712     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: 14737116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300008282     Document Type: Article

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