Selected references on the geology of NW Scotland

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Allison, I., May, F. and Strachan, R. 1988. An excursion guide to the Moine geology of the Scottish Highlands. Scottish Academic Press. 270pp.

Alsop, G.I. & Holdsworth, R.E. 1993. The distribution, geometry and kinematic significance of Caledonian buckle folds in the western Moine Nappe, northwest Scotland. Geological Magazine 130, 353-362.

Alsop, G.I., Holdsworth, R.E. & Strachan , R.A. 1996. The generation and geometry of transport-parallel cross folds within a mid-crustal Caledonian thrust stack, northern Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 18, 783-790.

Alsop, G.I. & Holdsworth, R.E . 1999. Vergence and facing patterns in large-scale sheath folds. Journal of Structural Geology 21, 1335-1349.

Alsop, G.I. & Holdsworth, R. E. 2002. The geometry and kinematics of flow perturbation folds. Tectonophysics  350, 99-125.

Alsop, G.I. & Holdsworth, R.E. 2004. Shear zone folds: records of flow perturbation or structural inheritance? In: Alsop, G.I., Holdsworth, R.E., McCaffr ey, K.J.W. & Hand, M. (Editors) Flow Processes in Faults and Shear Zones. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 224, 177-199.

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Bailey, E. B. 1939. Caledonian tectonics and Moine metamorphism in Skye. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain 2, 46-62.

Bailey, E. B. 1955. Moine tectonics and metamorphism in Skye. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society 16, 93-166.

Barber, A. J. 1965. The history of the Moine Thrust Zone, Lochcarron and Lochalsh, Scotland. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association of London 76, 215-242.

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Barton, C.M. 1978. An Appalachian view of the Moine Thrust. Scottish Journal of Geology, 14, 247-270.

Beach, A., 1973. The mineralogy of high temperature shear zones at Scourie, N.W. Scotland. Journal of Petrology, 14, 231 -248.

Beach, A., Coward, M.P. & Graham, R.H. 1973. An interpretation of the structural evolution

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Bowler, S. 1987. Duplex geometry: an example from the Moine Thrust Belt. Tectonophysics, 135, 25-35.

Bowler, S. 1989. Shape fabric formation by ataclasis in a quartzite from the Moine thrust zone, northwest Scotland. Geology, 17, 353-356.

Boyer, S. E. and Elliott, D. 1982. Thrust systems. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 66, 1196-1230.

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Butler, R. W. H. 1982. A structural analysis of the Moine Thrust Zone between Loch Eriboll and Foinaven, NW Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 4, 19-29.

Butler, R. W. H. 1984. Structural evolution of the Moine Thrust Belt between Loch More and Glendhu, Sutherland. Scottish Journal of Geology 20, 161-179.

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Butler, R.W.H. 1997.   Late Proterozoic rift faults and basement-cover relationships within the Ben More Thrust Sheet, NW Scotland. J. Geol. Soc. London 154, 761-764.

Butler, R.W.H. 2004. The nature of ‘roof thrusts” in the Moine Thrust Belt, NW Scotland: implications for the structural evolution of thrust belts. J. Geol. Soc. London 161, in press.

Butler, R. W. H. and Coward, M. P. 1984. Geological constraints, structural evolution and deep geology of the NW Scottish Caledonides. Tectonics 3, 347-365.

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Callaway, C. 1883. The age of the newer gneissic rocks of the northern Highlands. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 39, 355-422.

Cartwright, I. and Barnicoat, A.C., 1986. The generation of quartz normative melts and corundum-bearing restites by crustal anatexis: petrogenetic modelling based on an example from the Lewisian of north-west Scotland. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 4, 79 -99.

Cartwright, I., Fitches, W.R., O’Hara, M.J., Barnicoat, A.C. and O’Hara, S., 1985. Archean supracrustal rocks from the Lewisian near Stoer, Sutherland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 21, 187 - 96.

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Christie, J. M. 1960. Mylonitic rocks of the Moine Thrust Zone in the Assynt Region, North-West Scotland. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society 18, 79-93.

Christie, J. M. 1963. The Moine thrust zone in the Assynt region, Northwest Scotland. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 40, 345-440.

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Coward, M.P. 1974. Flat lying structures within the Lewisian basement gneiss complex of NW Scotland. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 85, 459 - 472.

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Coward, M. P. 1980. The Caledonian thrust and shear zones of NW Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 2, 11-17.

Coward, M. P. 1982. Surge zones in the Moine Thrust Zone of NW Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 4, 247-256.

Coward, M. P. 1983. The thrust and shear zones of the Moine Thrust Zone of NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society of London 140, 795-811.

Coward, M.P. 1983. Thrust tectonics, thin skinned or thick skinned and the continuation of thrusts to deep in the crust. J. Struct. Geol. 5, 113 - 123

Coward, M.P. 1984. Major shear zones in the Precambrian crust; examples from NW Scotland and southern Africa and their significance. Precambrian tectonics illustrated. E Schweizbartische Verlagsbuchhanglung, Stuttgart, Germany, 207 - 235.

Coward, M. P. 1984. A geometrical study of the Arnaboll and Heilam thrust sheets, NW of Ben Arnaboll, Sutherland. Scottish Journal of Geology 20, 87-106.

Coward, M. P. 1984. The strain and textural history of thin-skinned tectonic zones: examples from the Assynt region of the Moine thrust zone. Journal of Structural Geology 6, 89-99.

Coward, M.P. 1984. Moine Thrust zone - a field guide. In: Fettes, D.J. & Harris, A.L. (eds) Geological synthesis of the Caledonide rocks of the UK. Nato Advanced Studies Institute G84/83, 177 - 215.

Coward, M. P. 1985. The thrust structures of southern Assynt, Moine thrust zone. Geological Magazine 122, 596-607.

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Coward, M.P. 1990. Shear zones at the Laxford Front, NW Scotland and their significance in the interpretation of lower crustal structure. J. geol. Soc. London. 147, 279-286.

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Coward, M.P. & Park, R.G. 1987. The role of mid-crustal shear zones in the Early Proterozoic evolution of the Lewisian. In: Park R.G. & Tarney J. (eds) The Lewisian. Spec.Publ. geol. Soc. London, 27, 127-138.

Coward, M. P. and Potts, G. J. 1983. Complex strain patterns at the frontal and lateral tips to shear zones and thrust zones. Journal of Structural Geology 5, 383-399.

Coward, M. P. and Potts, G. J. 1985. Fold nappes: examples from the Moine Thrust Zone. In: The Caledonide Orogen - Scandinavia and related areas (edited by Gee, D. G. and Sturt, B. A.), 1147-1158.

Coward, M. P. and Whalley, J. S. 1979. Texture and fabric studies across the Kishorn Nappe, near Kyle of Lochalsh, Western Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 1, 259-273.

Coward, M. P., Kim, J. H. and Parke, J. 1980. A correlation of Lewisian structures and their displacement across the lower thrusts of the Moine thrust zone, NW Scotland. Proceedings of the Geological Association 91, 327-337.

Coward, M.P., Nell, P.R. & Talbot, J. 1992. An analysis of the strains associated with the Moine Thrust zone, Assynt, Northwest Scotland. In Mitra, S. & Fisher, G.W. (eds). Structural Geology of Fold and Thrust Belts. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 105-22.

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Elliott, D. and Johnson, M. R. W. 1980. Structural evolution in the northern part of the Moine Thrust Belt, NW Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 71, 69-96.

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Evans, D. J. and White, S. H. 1984. Microstructural and fabric studies from the rocks of the Moine Nappe, Eriboll, NW Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 6, 369-389.

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