Styles of basement involvement in the Moine Thrust Belt, NWScotland

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 414, Issue 414, 2006, Pages 133-151

  Butler, R W H ^a   Holdsworth, R E ^b   Matthews, S J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BP Exploration plc ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEFORMATION; SILICATE MINERALS;

CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; CONTROLLED DEPOSITION; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; LOCALIZED SLIPS; METAMORPHIC PRESSURE; SEDIMENTARY COVERS; STRUCTURAL STYLES;

BUILDINGS;

BELT; DATUM; FOLDING; GREENSCHIST FACIES; LEWISIAN; PRECAMBRIAN; REACTIVATION; THRUST; TORRIDONIAN; UNCONFORMITY;

EID: 72749086039     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2414(08)     Document Type: Article

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