The Neoarchaean Uyea Gneiss Complex, Shetland: an onshore fragment of the Rae Craton on the European Plate

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Kinny, PD, Strachan, R. A., Fowler, M, Clark, C, Davis, S., Jahn, I., Taylor, R. J. M., Holdsworth, R. E., Dempsey, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society 2019
• Subjects: 02 - Geodynamics; Geophysics and Tectonics; Greenland; Rae; East Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4502/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4502/1/jgs2019-017.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-017

A tract of amphibolite facies granitic gneisses and metagabbros in northern Shetland, U.K., is here named the Uyea Gneiss Complex. Zircon U–Pb dating indicates emplacement of the igneous protoliths of the complex c. 2746–2726 Ma, at a later time than most of the Archaean protoliths of the Lewisian G...