Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy of the Northern Atlantic Regions

Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy of the Northern Atlantic stimulating and their prompt submission of text and illustrative material has enabled rapid production of Regions aims to produce a concise and up-to-date synthesis of the later Proterozoic geology of those lands the book. Funding for this research has come from many bordering the North Atlantic that were once situated sources, including the Natural Environment Research north of the Iapetus Suture and the Tornquist Line. Council, the British Geological Survey, the Geological Proterozoic rocks deposited between 1150 and 650 Ma Surveys of Greenland and Newfoundland and many (the latter date marked by the Varanger glaciation) are universities. the main subject of the book, although reference is also Many of the chapters use differing and interesting made to deposits laid down at the end of the Proterozoic methods of approach, including structural analysis, in Scandinavia, Newfoundland and Greenland. The sedimentology, whole-rock trace element geochemistry, need for such a comprehensive review has become geophysics, and isotopic age dating. The scope of the increasingly apparent in recent years, because the original research was extended to include formerly introduction of many new methods of resolving pro­ adjacent areas and, as a result, a number of useful blems in complex metamorphic terrains has unlocked a correlations between these regions can be made. The vast store of new information. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-13 Sedimentary structures and sequences within a late Proterozoic tidal shelf deposit: the Upper Morar Psammite Formation of northwestern Scotland....Pages 14-31 The Glenfinnan and Loch Eil Divisions of the Moine Assemblage....Pages 32-45 The Central Highland Division....Pages 46-53 The Moine Assemblage in Sutherland....Pages 54-73 The Moine rocks of Shetland....Pages 74-85 The Krummedal supracrustal sequence in East Greenland....Pages 86-96 The Stoer Group, Scotland....Pages 97-103 The Sleat and Torridon Groups....Pages 104-112 The Double Mer Formation....Pages 113-118 The Colonsay Group....Pages 119-130 Pre-Dalradian rocks in NW Ireland....Pages 131-145 The Grampian Group, Scotland....Pages 146-161 The Erris Group, Ireland....Pages 162-176 The Appin Group....Pages 177-199 Stratigraphy of the Fleur de Lys Belt, northwest Newfoundland....Pages 200-211 The Eleonore Bay Group (central East Greenland)....Pages 212-236 The ‘Sparagmites’ of Norway....Pages 237-252 Later Proterozoic environments and tectonic evolution in the northern Atlantic lands....Pages 253-270 Back Matter....Pages 271-279