Orogenic versus extensional settings for regional metamorphism: Knoydartian events in the Moine Supergroup revisited

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-204

  Cutts, K A ^a   Hand, M ^a   Kelsey, D E ^a   Strachan, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; OROGENY; P-T CONDITIONS; PROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

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

EID: 69249186422     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-015     Document Type: Article

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