Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Synthesis of the Caledonian Rocks of Britain

  • Book
  • © 1986

Overview

Editors:
  1. D. J. Fettes

    1. British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. A. L. Harris

    1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 175)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 16.99 USD 39.99
Discount applied Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 16.99 USD 54.99
Discount applied Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. The Caledonian Rocks of Britain

    • R. E. Bevins, W. Gibbons, A. L. Harris, G. Kelling
    Pages 1-27

  3. A Geotraverse through the Caledonides of Wales

    • M. G. Bassett, R. E. Bevins, W. Gibbons, M. F. Howells
    Pages 29-75

  4. Field Guide to the Lake District and Southern Uplands

    • G. Kelling, W. S. McKerrow, P. Stone
    Pages 77-111

  5. The Caledonian Geology of the Scottish Highlands

    • A. L. Harris, D. J. Fettes, W. G. Henderson, J. L. Roberts, J. E. Treagus, A. J. Barber et al.
    Pages 113-185

  6. A Comparison of the Lower Palaeozoic Volcanic Rocks on Either Side Of The Caledonian Suture In The British Isles

    • C J Stillman
    Pages 187-205

  7. The Tectonic Setting of the Southern Uplands

    • W. S. McKerrow
    Pages 207-220

  8. The Contribution of the Finnmarkian Orogeny to the Framework of the Scandinavian Caledonides

    • Donald M. Ramsay, Brian A. Sturt
    Pages 221-246

  9. The Moine Thrust Zone: A Comparison with Appalachian Faults and the Structure of Orogenic Belts

    • R. D. Hatcher Jr.
    Pages 247-257

  10. The Moine Thrust Structures

    • M. P. Coward
    Pages 259-280

  11. Some Aspects of Geophysics in the Caledonides of the UK

    • Richard T Haworth
    Pages 281-301

  12. The Caledonian Geology of the Scottish Highlands

    • D J Fettes, A L Harris, L M Hall
    Pages 303-334

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 335-350
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The Advanced Science Institute on which this publication is based took the somewhat unusual form of a geological field symposium held during late August 1984. It was designed to demonstrate to experienced earth scientists from the North Atlantic area the full range of geological phenomena encountered in the British Caledonian rocks. The ASl travelled from South Wales to the far northwest of Scotland by the route shown on the map and in doing so examined sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks from Pembrokeshire (Dyfed), Cardigan (Ceridigian), Snowdonia, Anglesey, the English Lake District and the Southern Uplands and Highlands of Scotland. Thus the fifty or so participants in the ASl studied the geological history and major structures of rocks exposed on either side of the supposed Lower Palaeozoic Iapetus Ocean the British sector of which closed to the south of the present Southern Uplands. Wales (1-5) afforded insight into the nature of the late Precambrian basement of England and Wales and the relationship of sedimentary and volcanic cover sequences to this basement. The Ordovician sequence in Wales is a sample of the volcanic rocks typical of a marginal basin, and were examined in Pembrokeshire and Snowdonia. The English Lake District (6) displays rocks from an island arc also of Ordovician age.

Editors and Affiliations

  • British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK

    D. J. Fettes

  • Department of Geological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    A. L. Harris

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Synthesis of the Caledonian Rocks of Britain

  • Editors: D. J. Fettes, A. L. Harris

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4654-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D.Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2235-5Due: 30 April 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8568-7Published: 30 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4654-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 368

  • Topics: Mineralogy

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation