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Thrust sequences and the significance of low-angle, out-of-sequence faults in the northernmost Moine Nappe and Moine Thrust Zone, NW Scotland
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In common with most thrust belts, the Moine Thrust Zone, Scotland, preserves a foreland-propagating sequence of thrusting. However, significant examples of local to regional overstep sequences are also recognized and their interpretation remains controversial. Remapping of the northernmost Moine Thrust Zone has defined a thick belt of mylonites in the centre of which lies the ductile WNW-directed Moine Thrust. The base of the mylonite belt, however, is marked by a regionally ...
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Multiple fluid migration events along the Moine Thrust Zone, Scotland
Journal of the Geological Society
; Abstract: A palaeomagnetic study of different lithologies exposed along the Moine Thrust Zone from Skye to Durness, Scotland, has identified three chemical remanent magnetizations (CRMs), a potential fourth CRM, and one possible primary component that all reside in hematite. Local and regional fold
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Dating deformation and cooling in the Caledonian thrust napples of north Sutherland, Scotland: Insights from 40Ar/39 Ar and Rb-Sr chronology
Journal of the Geological Society
; Abstract: ^sup 40^Ar/^sub 30^Ar and Rb-Sr mineral ages have been determined from various lithologies exposed in the Caledonian foreland and structurally overlying thrust nappes of north Sutherland, Scotland. Rb-Sr muscovite ages of c. 428, c. 421 and c. 413 Ma obtained from Moine Thrust Zone
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Allochthonous metamorphic blocks on the Hebridean passive margin, Scotland
Journal of the Geological Society
; B. J. BLUCK', T. J. DEMPSTER1 & G. ROGERS2 Radiometric age determinations on syn-orogenic intrusive rocks coupled with evidence from field relationships, indicate that metamorphism and ductile deformation was taking place in the Scottish metamorphic blocks coeval with extension on the Hebridean
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Lateral ramps and thrust terminations: an example from the Moine Thrust Zone, NW Scotland
Journal of the Geological Society
; Detailed remapping within the Assynt Culmination in NW Scotland shows that the Ben More Thrust joins the Glencoul Thrust along a lateral branch line positioned in Loch Glencoul. This branch line marks the northern lateral termination of the Glencoul Thrust. The thrust on the northern shore of Loch
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A discussion of possible heat sources during nappe stacking: the origin of Barrovian metamorphism within the Caledonian thrust sheets of NW Scotland
Journal of the Geological Society
; Geochronological data indicate that the Caledonian thrust sheets of NW Scotland were assembled in <18 Ma, yet regional Barrovian metamorphism to amphibolite facies and local melting occurred syn-thrusting. From theoretical studies, it is clear that there is insufficient time to generate the high
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