Ordovician to silurian magmatism on the Utsira High, North Sea: Implications for correlations between the onshore and offshore Caledonides

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 390, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 513-523

  Lundmark, A M ^a   Saether T ^b   Sorlie R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Lundin Norway AS ^*  (Norway)

^c Lundin Norway AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BASEMENT ROCK; GRANITE; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; ORDOVICIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SILURIAN; SYENITE; TACONIC OROGENY; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALEDONIDES; GLEN MORE; HIGHLAND; MIDLAND VALLEY; NORTH SEA; SCOTLAND; SHETLAND BASIN; UNITED KINGDOM; VIKING GRABEN;

EID: 84897943465     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP390.21     Document Type: Article

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