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Journal articles on the topic "Geophysics of Great Glen Fault"

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McBride, J. H. "Does the Great Glen fault really disrupt Moho and upper mantle structure?" Tectonics 14, no. 2 (April 1995): 422–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/94tc02172.

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Storetvedt, K. M. "Major late Caledonian and Hercynian shear movements on the Great Glen Fault." Tectonophysics 143, no. 4 (December 1987): 253–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(87)90213-7.

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Rock, N. M. S. "Major late Caledonian and Hercynian shear movements on the Great Glen Fault—Discussion." Tectonophysics 154, no. 1-2 (November 1988): 171–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90234-x.

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Storetvedt, K. M. "Major Late Caledonian and Hercynian shear movements on the Great Glen Fault—Reply." Tectonophysics 154, no. 1-2 (November 1988): 175–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90235-1.

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McBride, J. H. "Investigating the crustal structure of a strike-slip “step-over” zone along the Great Glen fault." Tectonics 13, no. 5 (October 1994): 1150–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/94tc00539.

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Storetvedt, K. M., E. Tveit, E. R. Deutsch, and G. S. Murthy. "Multicomponent magnetizations in the Foyers Old Red Sandstone (northern Scotland) and their bearing on lateral displacements along the Great Glen Fault." Geophysical Journal International 102, no. 1 (July 1990): 151–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.1990.tb00537.x.

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Torsvik, T. H., A. Trench, and M. A. Smethurst. "The British Siluro-Devonian palaeofield, the Great Glen Fault and analytical methods in palaeomagnetism: comments on paper by K. M. Storetvedtet al." Geophysical Journal International 105, no. 2 (May 1991): 467–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.1991.tb06725.x.

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CANNING, J. C., P. J. HENNEY, M. A. MORRISON, P. W. C. VAN CALSTEREN, J. W. GASKARTH, and A. SWARBRICK. "The Great Glen Fault: a major vertical lithospheric boundary." Journal of the Geological Society 155, no. 3 (May 1998): 425–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.155.3.0425.

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STRACHAN, R. A., and J. A. EVANS. "Structural setting and U–Pb zircon geochronology of the Glen Scaddle Metagabbro: evidence for polyphase Scandian ductile deformation in the Caledonides of northern Scotland." Geological Magazine 145, no. 3 (March 6, 2008): 361–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756808004500.

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AbstractWithin the Scottish Caledonides, the Glen Scaddle Metagabbro was intruded into the Moine Supergroup of the Northern Highland Terrane after Grampian D2 folding and prior to regional D3 and D4 upright folding and amphibolite-facies metamorphism. A U–Pb zircon age of 426 ± 3 Ma obtained from the metagabbro is interpreted to date emplacement. D3–D4 folding is constrained to have occurred during the Scandian orogenic event. In contrast, polyphase folding and regional metamorphism of the Dalradian Supergroup southeast of the Great Glen Fault is entirely Grampian. These differences are consistent with published tectonic models that invoke a minimum of 700 km of post-Scandian sinistral displacements across the Great Glen Fault to juxtapose the Grampian and Northern Highland terranes.

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Bluck, B. J. "W. Q. Kennedy, the Great Glen Fault and strike-slip motion." Geological Society, London, Memoirs 16, no. 1 (1995): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.mem.1995.016.01.08.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Geophysics of Great Glen Fault"

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Meju, Maxwell Azuka. "The deep electrical structure of the Great Glen Fault, Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/12649.

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Stewart, Martyn. "Kinematic evolution of the Great Glen Fault Zone, Scotland." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364096.

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Rodgers, David Andrew. "Devonian correlations, environments and tectonics across the Great Glen Fault." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236003.

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New mapping, facies analyses, aerial photo interpretation, palaeocurrent, conglomerate provenance and clast size data are combined with a compilation of previously recorded, published and unpublished data to revise the stratigraphy of the Old Red Sandstone (ORS) around the SW Moray Firth, at the south end of the Orcadian Basin, astride the controversial Great Glen Fault (GGF). There was post-U.ORS compression, but previous notions of regional Lower-Middle and M.-Upper ORS unconformities, and of associated M. Devonian compression, are disproved. The ORS basin's configuration prior to later strike-slip is reconstructed. There is compelling evidence for net post-ORS dextral motion on the GGF of only 25-30 km, 8 km in the Mesozoic, the rest in the latest Devonian to early Permian. On parallel faults in the area, the data admit small dextral offsets, certainly less than 40 km total. Contrary to many syntheses, there is no compelling evidence for post-earliest Devonian sinistral motions along the Caledonides, only for dextral. The Lower ORS represents small, closed basins, with playas fed by ephemeral alluvial systems from adjacent small drainage basins. The Moray Firth M.ORS records the interaction, at the edge of a much larger basin, of ephemeral alluvial systems, supplied from much further afield, with the lakes which dominated the centre of the basin in Caithness. Aeolian dune and beach deposits are recognised for the first time in this succession, which is interpreted using a revised understanding of the relative importance of ephemeral and permanent lakes in Caithness. Arid and semi-arid climates alternated. Southern hemisphere trade winds prevailed. The Upper ORS contains braided river and aeolian dune deposits, plus sabkha sandstones which have proved to be particularly sensitive palaeoenvironmentally, indicating damp, dry, wet and, most abundantly, salt-cemented surfaces. Evaporitic features include those previously misinterpreted as adhesion ripples. True adhesion structures occur, but are rare. Contrary to previous suggestions, the climate was arid. Whereas the Middle ORS basin had been connected to the sea, by rivers, only during permanent lake episodes, the Upper ORS (latest M. to earliest U. Devonian) represents a coastal sabkha in a huge, semi-enclosed, Rann of Kutch-like gulf. The U.ORS ichnofauna is one of the oldest described from subaerial environments and includes possibly the earliest known land vertebrate trackway. Strike-slip faults of the GGF set did not control the ORS basin. In all three ORS subdivisions, subsidence and palaeogeography reflected NW-SE crustal extension. Half graben were separated by transfer faults: lines of differential subsidence and of access for drainage to the basin. Syn- and antithetic faulting caused uplift of previously subsiding areas to supply ORS clasts to later ORS alluvial fans. Within the ORS, no unconformity has to be attributed to compression. The (Emsian-Frasnian) extensional episode also affected E Greenland and W Norway. The Orcadian Lower, Middle and Upper ORS should be recognised as facies representing partly diachronous-stages in the interaction of drainage, sea level, and extensional tectonics.

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Peters, D. "A geochemical and geochronological assessment of the Great Glen Fault as a terrane boundary." Thesis, Keele University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.344063.

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The Great Glen Fault (GGF) is a major northeast to southwest trending structure and has been interpreted as a terrane boundary separating the Precambrian Moine terrane to the northwest from the Precambrian Dalradian terrane to the southeast (e. g. Bluck & Dempster 1991). If the GGF is a terrane boundary no `Moine' rocks could be found southeast of the GGF and no `Dalradian' rocks could be found to the northwest of the GGF and each crustal block would have distinct tectonometamorphic, provenance and igneous intrusive characteristics. To assess this, carefully selected orthoamphibolite and metasediment samples were collected from both the Northern and Central Highlands, and were analysed by a combination of petrography, geochemistry and geochronology. Geochemical analysis suggests that a Neoproterozoic metagabbro and metadolerite suite was emplaced during crustal extension across the Northern and Central Highlands at approximately the same time, and that this suite represents an earlier intrusive event to that represented by amphibolites in the Dalradian Appin Group. Geochemistry also suggests that the Upper Morar Psammite Formation of the Moine Supergroup in the Northern Highlands is unlikely to correlate with the pebbly psammite formations in the Central Highlands and shows that the Upper Shiaba Psammite Formation metasediments on the Isle of Mull are geochemically distinct from the Upper Morar Psammite Formation metasediments on the mainland. The Glen Urquhart Complex in the Northern Highlands cannot be correlated with the Ord Ban Subgroup or Grantown Formation in the Central Highlands. However, despite these differences U-Pb detrital geochronology shows that the Upper Morar Psammite and Central Highland pebbly psammite formations are dominantly derived from similar Mesoproterozoic and Palaeoproterozoic sources, with a small amount of material of Archaean derivation. This, together with the matching amphibolite suites, means that the Great Glen Fault is very unlikely to be a terrane boundary.

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Le, Breton Eline. "L'ouverture différentielle de l'océan Atlantique Nord-Est et ses effets sur les déformations postbreak-up des marges continentales." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00714418.

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La théorie de la tectonique des plaques implique que les plaques lithosphériques soient rigides. Or les reconstructions de l'ouverture de l'océan Atlantique NE, utilisant deux plaques rigides (Eurasie et Groenland), conduisent à des zones de recouvrement. De plus, l'ouverture océanique de la zone située entre l'Islande et la zone de fracture de Jan Mayen (JMFZ) fut très complexe, incluant la formation progressive du microcontinent de Jan Mayen (JMMC) et un saut de ride. J'ai développé une méthode de reconstruction palinspastique d' ouverture de l'Atlantique NE, à partir de données d'anomalies magnétiques et de zones de fracture, méthode qui permet d'obtenir un bon ajustement des anomalies magnétiques. Le modèle prédit des différences de direction et de taux d'ouverture entre les segments océaniques. Cette ouverture différentielle a induit des mouvements décrochants sénestres le long des zones de fractures océaniques, compatibles avec le développement de structures compressives le long de la marge continentale européenne, (1) de l'Éocène inférieur à l'Oligocène supérieur, le long de la zone de fracture des îles Féroé (FFZ), et (2) de l' Éocène supérieur à Oligocène inférieur, et au Miocène, le long de la JMFZ. Aussi,j'ai mis en évidence, par une étude de terrain, une réactivation Cénozoïque en dextre de la Great Glen Fault, en Ecosse, que j'interprète comme étant due aux mouvements senestres le long de la FFZ. Je suggère également que les forces motrices proviennent du point chaud, actuellement sous l'Islande, qui était en mesure de générer une ouverture différentielle de l'Atlantique NE et les déformations compressives de la marge continentale européenne.

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Books on the topic "Geophysics of Great Glen Fault"

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Stewart, Martyn. Kinematic evolution of the Great Glen fault zone, Scotland. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, 1997.

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Emery, K. O., and David Neev. The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090949.001.0001.

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The story of the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho--three cities situated along a major fault line extending 1,100 kilometers from the Red Sea to Turkey--is the oldest such description in human history. In this book, noted geologists K.O. Emery and David Neev have revisited that story to shed light on what happened there some 4,350 years ago. With all the benefits of modern geological and forensic science techniques at their disposal, the authors explore an area where earthquakes, volcanic activity, variations in the Dead Sea's level, and oscillations between arid and wet climates have affected life there for over 10,000 years. In reviewing the geology, biblical paleogeography, and limnology of the region, the authors have produced fascinating insights into the tectonic and climatic changes that have occurred in the region over the last 6,000 years and how those changes have affected cultural life in the Middle East. The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho is the first book to combine modern science and biblical archaeology to produce an authoritative account of the of these three great cities. It will fascinate students and researchers in geology, geophysics, and archaeology alike.

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Book chapters on the topic "Geophysics of Great Glen Fault"

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Oreskes, Naomi. "From Fact to Theory." In The Rejection of Continental Drift. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117325.003.0012.

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If continental drift was not rejected for lack of a mechanism, why was it rejected? Some say the time was not ripe. Historical evidence suggests the reverse. The retreat of the thermal contraction theory in the face of radioactive heat generation, the conflict between isostasy and land bridges, and the controversy that Wegener’s theory provoked all show that the time was ripe for a new theory. In 1921, Reginald Daly complained to Walter Lambert about the “bankruptcy in decent theories of mountain-building.” Chester Longwell opined in 1926 that the “displacement hypothesis, in its general form . . . promises a solution of certain troublesome enigmas.” A year later, William Bowie suggested in a letter to Charles Schuchert that it was time for “a long talk on some of the major problems of the earth’s structure and the processes which have caused surface change. The time is ripe for an attack on these larger phases of geology.” One possibility is that the fault lay with Wegener himself, that his deficiencies as a scientist discredited his theory. Wegener was in fact abundantly criticized for his lack of objectivity. In a review of The Origin of Continents, British geologist Philip Lake accused him of being “quite devoid of critical faculty.” No doubt Wegener sometimes expressed himself incautiously. But emphatic language characterized both sides of the drift debate, as well as later discussions of plate tectonics. The strength of the arguments was more an effect than a cause of what was at stake. Some have blamed Wegener’s training, disciplinary affiliations, or nationality for the rejection of his theory, but these arguments lack credibility. Wegener’s contributions to meteorology and geophysics were widely recognized; his death in 1930 prompted a full-page obituary in Nature, which recounted his pioneering contributions to meteorology and mourned his passing as “a great loss to geophysical science.” Being a disciplinary outsider can be an advantage — it probably was for Arthur Holmes when he first embarked on the radiometric time scale. To be sure, there were nation alistic tensions in international science in the early 1920s— German earth scientists complained bitterly over their exclusion from international geodetic and geophysical commissions— but by the late 1920s the theory of continental drift was associated as much with Joly and Holmes as it was with Wegener.

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