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
|
| LSN: |
9401085684 |
| Barcode: |
9789401085687 |
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