Moine Thrust belt defining the western edge of the Moine Supergroup outcropThe Glencoul Thrust, part of the Moine Thrust Belt, dipping downwards from left to right, where Precambrian Lewisian gneiss has been pushed along the thrust fault and now lies above younger well-bedded Cambrian quartzite, which itself lies unconformably above Lewisian gneiss
The Moine Thrust Belt or Moine Thrust Zone is a linear tectonic feature in the Scottish Highlands which runs from Loch Eriboll on the north coast 190 kilometres (120 mi) south-west to the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye. The thrust belt consists of a series of thrust faults that branch off the Moine Thrust itself. Topographically, the belt marks a change from rugged, terraced mountains with steep sides sculptured from weathered igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks in the west to an extensive landscape of rolling hills over a metamorphic rock base to the east. Mountains within the belt display complexly folded and faulted layers and the width of the main part of the zone varies up to 10 kilometres (6.2 mi), although it is significantly wider on Skye.
Moine Supergroup is a sequence of Neoproterozoic metamorphic rocks that form the dominant outcrop of the Scottish Highlands between the MoineThrust Belt...
in western France La Moine River, a tributary of the Illinois River in western Illinois in the United States MoineThrustBelt, a major geological feature...
Caledonian orogenic belt in northwest Scotland. Its boundary with the neighbouring Northern Highland Terrane is formed by the MoineThrustBelt. The basement...
Spanish forces in 1719. The loch lies between hills just east of the MoineThrustBelt, an unusual geological structure that runs from the Sleat peninsula...
composed of Cambrian quartzite can be found in the far north-west MoineThrustBelt running in a narrow band from Loch Eriboll in a south-westerly direction...
monolithic mountains that surround it, the mountain is within the MoineThrustBelt and is made up of imbricated layers of Cambrian quartzite which overlie...
tectonic break at the base of Moine schists (what is now called the Moine Supergroup). The recognition of the MoineThrustBelt in the early 1880s was a milestone...
great complexity and scientific importance of the discovery of the MoineThrustBelt and the geological processes involved in its creation led to field...
the Alps working on the Glarus Thrust; Charles Lapworth, Ben Peach and John Horne working on parts of the MoineThrust in the Scottish Highlands; Alfred...
the Caledonian orogeny, and there are outcrops of Lewisian, Dalradian and Moine metamorphic rocks with histories similar to their equivalents on the Scottish...
Ullapool sits on a substantial geological structure known as the MoineThrustBelt. This geological feature spans a considerable distance from Loch Eriboll...
(PDF). In Rast, Nicholas; Delany, Frances M. (eds.). Profiles of Orogenic Belts. Geodynamics Series. Vol. 10. American Geophysical Union. Dewey, J. F. (2005)...
which culminated in the development of the MoineThrustBelt, Ben Hope Thrust and Naver-Sgurr Beag Thrust (435–420 Ma) and led to igneous intrusion in...
metasediments of the Moine Supergroup are found above strongly deformed Lewisian rocks. The Lewisian and Moine sequences are thrust over another sequence...
foreland basin of the MoineThrustBelt in the Scottish Northwest Highlands and is incorporated into this belt's lowermost thrust sheets, where it is often...
traversed by a handful of normal faults running WNW-ESE and by west-facing thrust faults bringing nappes of gneiss from the east. Blown sand masks the bedrock...
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