The nature and significance of the Faroe-Shetland Terrane: linking Archaean basement blocks across the North Atlantic

• Published in: Precambrian Research
• Main Authors: Holdsworth, R.E., Morton, A., Frei, D., Gerdes, A., Strachan, R. A., Dempsey, E., Warren, C., Whitham, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Rona; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/58389/; https://oro.open.ac.uk/58389/1/Holdsworthetal2018_Precambrian_Res_with%20datafiles.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.004

Core samples of the continental basement rocks that underlie the eastern Faroe- Shetland Basin (FSB) and its inshore margins west of Shetland reveal a suite of predominantly granodioritic to granitic orthogneisses (including TTG), together with lesser volumes of foliated granitoids and subordinate d...