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Current controversies in the Caledonides
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Keywords: Proterozoic, Scotland, orogenesis, tectonics, geochronology.
This set of papers arose from a Discussion Meeting held in the Department of Geology & Applied Geology, University of Glasgow, on 9-10 September 1997. The aim of the Meeting was to review the progress which had been made in resolving some of the more controversial aspects of the pre-Silurian Caledonide geology of the British Isles and Scandinavia. It was also held to mark the retirements of two well-known Caled...
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