Detrital zircon signature of the Moine Supergroup, Scotland: Contrasts and comparisons with other Neoproterozoic successions within the circum-North Atlantic region

2008/02/09 by Christopher L. Kirkland, C.L. Kirkland, Rob Strachan +3 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #High-pressure geophysics and materials #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.01.003

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Citations

• Late Precambrian U–Pb titanite age for peak regional metamorphism and deformation (Knoydartian orogeny) in the western Moine, Scotland
• U–Pb geochronology of regional migmatites in East Sutherland, Scotland: evidence for crustal melting during the Caledonian orogeny
• The structural setting and tectonic significance of the Glen Dessary Syenite, Inverness-shire
• Relationships between marginal thrusting and movement on major, internal shear zones in the Northern Highland Caledonides, Scotland
• Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis
• U–Pb geochronology of deformed metagranites in central Sutherland, Scotland: evidence for widespread late Silurian metamorphism and ductile deformation of the Moine Supergroup during the Caledonian orogeny
• The Loch Quoich Line—a limit of early Palaeozoic crustal reworking in the Moine of the Northern Highlands of Scotland
• Structural setting and U–Pb zircon geochronology of the Glen Scaddle Metagabbro: evidence for polyphase Scandian ductile deformation in the Caledonides of northern Scotland
• The structural setting and U–Pb geochronology of Knoydartian pegmatites in W Inverness-shire: evidence for Neoproterozoic tectonothermal events in the Moineof NW Scotland
• Basement-cover relationships at Lewisian inliers in the Moine rocks
• U-Pb zircon geochronology of migmatization in the northern Central Highlands: evidence for pre-Caledonian (Neoproterozoic) tectonometamorphism in the Grampian block, Scotland
• The Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test for Goodness of Fit

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