U-Pb zircon dating of basement inliers within the Moine Supergroup, Scottish Caledonides: implications of Archaean protolith ages.
Basement gneiss inliers within the Scottish Caledonides have been conventionally correlated with the Archaean Lewisian Gneiss Complex of the Caledonian foreland. Alternatively, the inliers could represent allochthonous terranes accreted to Laurentia before or during the Caledonian orogeny. SIMS U-Pb...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Geological Society Publishing House
2008
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| Online Access: | http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/4/807 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38726 |