The geology of Scotland

NH Trewin - 2003 - books.google.com
This 4th edition of The Geology of Scotland is greatly expanded from the previous edition
with 34 authors contributing to 20 chapters. A new format has been adopted to provide a …

Late Caledonian (Acadian) transpression in north-west England: timing, geometry and geotectonic significance

NJ Soper, BC Webb, NH Woodcock - Proceedings of the …, 1987 - lyellcollection.org
The late Caledonian structure of the Lower Palaeozoic slate belts which lie to the south of
the Iapetus suture in Britain is not 'Caledonoid'(NE-SW) but characterised by arcuate trends …

Strike-slip terranes and a model for the evolution of the British and Irish Caledonides

DHW Hutton - Geological Magazine, 1987 - cambridge.org
Evidence is presented that many of the major strike faults in the British and Irish
Caledonides were active as sinistral strike-slip zones in the end-Silurian to pre-mid …

The deep structure of northern England and the Iapetus Suture zone from BIRPS deep seismic reflection profiles

B Freeman, SL Klemperer… - Journal of the Geological …, 1988 - lyellcollection.org
The NEC deep seismic reflection profile images structures in the lower crust which represent
the Iapetus Suture zone beneath southern Scotland and northern England. On the basis of …

Pre-carboniferous history of the Midland Valley of Scotland

BJ Bluck - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The …, 1984 - cambridge.org
The pre-Carboniferous Midland Valley of Scotland comprises three tectonic elements: an
arc, a proximal fore-arc basin and a marginal basin. These tectonic elements have been …

A sequential back-arc and foreland basin thrust duplex model for the Southern Uplands of Scotland

P Stone, JD Floyd, RP Barnes… - Journal of the Geological …, 1987 - lyellcollection.org
Thrust imbrication of Ordovician and Silurian submarine fan sequences overlapping pelagic
deposits in the Southern Uplands has been interpreted in terms of an accretionary prism …

Role of the Midland Valley of Scotland in the Caledonian orogeny

BJ Bluck - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The …, 1983 - cambridge.org
The Midland Valley of Scotland was an arc–interarc region during most of Ordovician—
Devonian time. This arc terrane extends beneath the allochthonous Southern Uplands and …

The Scottish paratectonic Caledonides

BJ Bluck - Scottish Journal of Geology, 1985 - lyellcollection.org
The southern margin of the Laurasian continent has been destructive or strike-slip from at
least 576 Ma to c. 360 Ma. There may have been a pre-or early Arenig obduction of ophiolite …

LISPB revisited: a new look under the Caledonides of northern Britain

PJ Barton - Geophysical Journal International, 1992 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Lithospheric Seismic Profile in Britain (LISPB), shot in 1974, included a 700
km long north-south profile of the crust and upper mantle of northern Britain. The wide-angle …

Terranes

BJ Bluck, W Gibbons, JK Ingham - Geological Society, London …, 1992 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Precambrian and Lower Palaeozoic foundations of the British Isles may be
viewed as a series of suspect terranes whose exposed boundaries are prominent fault …