The Caledonian metamorphic core: an Alpine model
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- Published by Geological Society of London in Journal of the Geological Society
- Vol. 142 (1) , 129-136
- https://doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.142.1.0129
Abstract
The Neogene evolution of the Central Swiss Alps is outlined and used as an analogue for the Grampian Orogeny of Scotland. A direct comparison is made between the three tectonothermal stages which characterize the Alps and similar events in the Scottish Highlands. Geometric similarities are emphasised using geological cross-sections. Kinematic and mechanistic similarities are inferred. A net convergence model which links the metamorphic and uplift–denudation history of the Alps to its tectonic development in a crustal-scale duplex is argued to describe appropriately the history of the Dalradian and northern Scottish Highlands.Keywords
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