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: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Rae; Rona; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/26917/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/26917/2/26917.pdf; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/26917/1/26917.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 di...