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dc.contributor.authorCawood, P
dc.contributor.authorMerle, Renaud
dc.contributor.authorStrachan, R
dc.contributor.authorTanner, P
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:35:44Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:35:44Z
dc.date.created2013-03-06T20:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationCawood, P.A. and Merle, R.E. and Strachan, R.A. and Tanner, P.W.G. 2012. Provenance of the Highland Border Complex: constraints on Laurentian margin accretion in the Scottish Caledonides. Journal of Geological Society. 169: pp. 575-586.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3999
dc.identifier.doi10.1144/0016-76492011-076
dc.description.abstract

Contrasting tectonic models for the Highland Border Complex in the Scottish Caledonides view it either as part of the rifted Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean or as an oceanic terrane. Detrital zircon data from sandstones of the complex yield age peaks at 2.8–2.6, 1.3 and 1.1–1.0 Ga and minor peaks at c. 1.7–1.9 Ga. These characteristics compare closely with those of the upper Dalradian Supergroup of the adjacent Grampian terrane, and with the record of eastern Laurentia. The data are also consistent with the Laurentian provenance indicated by palaeontological evidence from the complex, and field evidence for continuity with the Dalradian Supergroup. Detrital ages for the Cambrian Salterella Grit of the Caledonian foreland compare with those for approximately age-equivalent sandstones from the Highland Border Complex. Both were contemporaneous with the regressive Hawke Bay event, accounting for similarities in provenance, and further linking the Highland Border Complex to Laurentia. The Grampian terrane was being uplifted and shedding detritus throughout the Ordovician and Silurian. The absence of this event from the detrital zircon records of either the Midland Valley or Southern Upland terranes suggests that these blocks cannot have been in their current location relative to the Grampian terrane before the end of the Silurian.

dc.publisherGeological Society of London
dc.titleProvenance of the Highland Border Complex: constraints on Laurentian marginaccretion in the Scottish Caledonides
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume169
dcterms.source.startPage575
dcterms.source.endPage586
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Geological Society of London
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