Basin thermal history favours an accretionary origin for the Southern Uplands terrane, Scottish Caledonides

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 829-836

  Stone, P ^a   Merriman, R J ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretionary tectonics; Heat flow; Low grade metamorphism; Sedimentary basins; Southern Uplands

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HEAT FLOW; IAPETUS OCEAN; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; SOUTHERN UPLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4344588625     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-170     Document Type: Article

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