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.
• Other Authors: Dempsey, Eddie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Lewisian; Faroe-Shetland; Neoarchean; Nagssugtoqidian; Laxfordian; U-Pb geochronology; Greenland; Rae; Rona; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/file/1155157/1/Article; https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1155157; 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...