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

• Main Authors: P. D. Kinny, R. A. Strachan, C. R. L Friend, H. Kocks, G. Rogers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Scotland; Moine Supergroup; Caledonian orogeny; zircons; titanites; metagranites. Caledonian orogenesis (sensu lato) in the North Atlantic region was assoc; Sutherland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.599.2919; http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/261/1/Kinny,Strachan.pdf

Abstract: Within the Caledonides of central Sutherland, Scotland, the Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Moine Supergroup record NW-directed D2 ductile thrusting and nappe assembly, accompanied by widespread tight-to-isoclinal folding and amphibolite-facies metamorphism. A series of metagra...