The tectonothermal evolution and provenance of the Tyrone Central Inlier, Ireland: Grampian imbrication of an outboard Laurentian microcontinent?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 675-685

  Chew, D M ^a   Flowerdew, M J ^b   Page, L M ^c   Crowley, Q G ^d   Daly, J S ^e   Cooper, M ^f   Whitehouse, M J ^g  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND   (United Kingdom)

^g SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; IMBRICATION; LAURENTIA; LEUCOSOME; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; OPHIOLITE; OUTCROP; PEGMATITE; PROTEROZOIC; PROVENANCE; SILLIMANITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MIDLAND VALLEY; NORTHERN IRELAND; SCOTLAND; TYRONE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 44449152037     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-120     Document Type: Article

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