Synthesis of the Caledonian Rocks of Britain;

Fettes, D. J. & Harris, A. L. [Eds.].

ISBN 10: 9027722358 / ISBN 13: 9789027722355

Published by D Reidel, Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1984, 1984

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HARDBACK original pictorial boards pages: xv 350 profusely illustrated 160mm x 242mm (6.25 x 9.5") from the library of M. P. Coward - with his signature on front end-paper very fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Synthesis of the Caledonian Rocks of Britain
• Publisher: D Reidel, Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1984
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027722358
• ISBN 13: 9789027722355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science
  • geology

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Synopsis

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.