Constraining the maximum age of movements in the Moine Thrust Belt: Dating the Canisp Porphyry

Scottish Journal of Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-81

  Goodenough, K M ^a   Evans, J A ^a   Krabbendam, M ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; PORPHYRY; SILL; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLANDS; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33744745951     PISSN: 00369276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/sjg42010077     Document Type: Article

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