Synthesis of the Caledonian Rocks of Britain (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	NATO Science Series C, 175
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1986
Editors:	D.J. Fettes • A.L. Harris
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	368
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
ISBN-13:	978-9401085687
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Mineralogy > General Promotions
LSN:	9401085684
Barcode:	9789401085687

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