Map of the distribution of the Moine Supergroup on Mainland Scotland and the Inner Hebrides
The Moine Supergroup is a sequence of Neoproterozoic metamorphic rocks that form the dominant outcrop of the Scottish Highlands between the Moine Thrust Belt to the northwest and the Great Glen Fault to the southeast. The sequence is metasedimentary in nature and was metamorphosed and deformed in a series of tectonic events during the Late Proterozoic and Early Paleozoic. It takes its name from A' Mhòine, a peat bog in northern Sutherland.[1]
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The MoineSupergroup is a sequence of Neoproterozoic metamorphic rocks that form the dominant outcrop of the Scottish Highlands between the Moine Thrust...
Torridonian Supergroup and the MoineSupergroup of the Northern Highlands Terrane, in the hanging wall of the Moine Thrust. The Torridonian Supergroup is of...
MoineSupergroup, metamorphic rocks that form the dominant outcrop of the Scottish Highlands Antonin Moine (1796–1849), French sculptor Claude Moine or...
billion years (Ga). They form the basement on which the Torridonian and MoineSupergroup sediments were deposited. The Lewisian consists mainly of granitic...
Laurentia. Rocks now ascribed to the MoineSupergroup occur along the northwestern edge of the Park. The Dalradian and Moine successions were intensely faulted...
the Caledonian orogeny, and there are outcrops of Lewisian, Dalradian and Moine metamorphic rocks with histories similar to their equivalents on the Scottish...
Neoproterozoic metasediments of the MoineSupergroup are found above strongly deformed Lewisian rocks. The Lewisian and Moine sequences are thrust over another...
Caithness, this sandstone rests upon the metamorphic and igneous rocks of the Moine series, as may be seen on the Mainland, where a narrow strip is exposed...
the Caledonian orogeny and there are outcrops of Lewisian, Dalradian and Moine metamorphic rocks with similar histories to their equivalents on the Scottish...
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