[HTML][HTML] Thick-skinned and thin-skinned tectonics: A global perspective

OA Pfiffner - Geosciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper gives an overview of the large-scale tectonic styles encountered in orogens
worldwide. Thin-skinned and thick-skinned tectonics represent two end member styles …

Sedimentary basin and detrital zircon record along East Laurentia and Baltica during assembly and breakup of Rodinia

PA Cawood, AA Nemchin, R Strachan… - Journal of the …, 2007 - lyellcollection.org
Tectonic processes associated with supercontinent cycles result in a variety of basin types,
and the isotopic dating of detrital minerals within sedimentary sequences assists …

Changing Silurian–Devonian relative plate motion in the Caledonides: sinistral transpression to sinistral transtension

JF Dewey, RA Strachan - Journal of the Geological Society, 2003 - lyellcollection.org
The late Silurian to mid-or late Devonian interval in the Caledonides was a period
dominated, sequentially, by sinistral transpression, strike-slip and transtension during the …

A new stratigraphic framework for the early Neoproterozoic successions of Scotland

M Krabbendam, R Strachan… - Journal of the Geological …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
The circum-North Atlantic region archives three major late-Mesoproterozoic to
Neoproterozoic tectonic episodes, the Grenville–Sveconorwegian and Renlandian …

Neoproterozoic intraplate magmatism along the western margin of the Siberian Craton: implications for breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent

II Likhanov, M Santosh - Precambrian Research, 2017 - Elsevier
The fold-and-thrust belt of Yenisey Ridge is a key to understand the Precambrian tectonic
evolution of the Siberian Craton as well as crustal evolution in the Central Asian Orogenic …

Source of the Dalradian Supergroup constrained by U–Pb dating of detrital zircon and implications for the East Laurentian margin

PA Cawood, AA Nemchin, M Smith… - Journal of the …, 2003 - lyellcollection.org
Detrital zircons in siliciclastic units of the Dalradian Supergroup yield U–Pb ages ranging
from 3.2 to 0.5 Ga. Detrital zircons from the sub-Grampian Group basement and the …

A universal power-law scaling exponent for fracture apertures in sandstones

JN Hooker, SE Laubach, R Marrett - Bulletin, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A high-resolution data set of kinematic aperture (opening displacement) of opening-mode
fractures, from large (up to 2 m long) quartz-cemented sandstone samples, shows that …

Geochronology and geodynamics of Scottish granitoids from the late Neoproterozoic break-up of Rodinia to Palaeozoic collision

GJH Oliver, SA Wilde, Y Wan - Journal of the Geological Society, 2008 - lyellcollection.org
Thirty-seven granitoids from Scotland have been dated using the sensitive high-resolution
ion microprobe zircon method. Granitoids were intruded during:(1) crustal stretching at c …

Garnet compositions in Scottish and Norwegian basement terrains: a framework for interpretation of North Sea sandstone provenance

A Morton, C Hallsworth, B Chalton - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2004 - Elsevier
Detrital garnets have proved to be useful discriminators of North Sea sandstone provenance
because they show a wide range of potential compositions and are relatively stable during …

[CARTE][B] Geologie der Alpen

OA Pfiffner - 2024 - books.google.com
Die Alpen spielen in der Geschichte der Geologie eine zentrale Rolle. In diesem Gebirge
können die unterschiedlichsten geologischen Phänomene besonders gut beobachtet …