A unifying model for the Torridon Group (early Neoproterozoic), NW Scotland: Product of post-Grenvillian extensional collapse

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 34-49

  Williams, George E ^a   Foden, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depositional environment; Extensional collapse; Grenvillian orogenesis; Provenance; Sm Nd isotopes; Torridonian

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LEWISIAN; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; SAMARIUM; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; TORRIDONIAN; UNCONFORMITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80051784834     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.05.004     Document Type: Review

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