New structural and Re–Os geochronological evidence constraining the age of faulting and associated mineralization in the Devonian Orcadian Basin, Scotland.

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Dichiarante, A.M., Holdsworth, R.E., Dempsey, E.D., Selby, D., Mccaffrey, K.J.W., Michie, U., Morgan, G., Bonniface, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2016
• Subjects: Greenland; Norway; Sutherland
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/16994/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/16994/1/16994.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-118

The Devonian Orcadian Basin in northern Scotland belongs to a regionally linked system of post-Caledonian continental basins extending northwards to western Norway and eastern Greenland. Extensional fault systems that cut the Orcadian Basin sequences are commonly assumed to be Devonian, with some li...