The Renlandian Orogeny is a Tonian (early Neoproterozoic) tectonic and metamorphic event that is found in East Greenland, on Svalbard, on Ellesmere Island and in Scotland. It takes its name from Renland in East Greenland, where the event was first recognised.[1]
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The RenlandianOrogeny is a Tonian (early Neoproterozoic) tectonic and metamorphic event that is found in East Greenland, on Svalbard, on Ellesmere Island...
Knoydartian is an orogeny related to continuing subduction, possibly as a result of arc accretion. Together with the proposed earlier RenlandianOrogeny, which occurred...
deposited in the interval 900–870 Ma, after the RenlandianOrogeny and before the Knoydartian Orogeny. Howarth, Richard John; Leake, Bernard E (2002)...
match the Grenville Orogeny. In contrast, the Glenfinnan Group has a youngest zircon population that matches the RenlandianOrogeny, an event that is now...
the Morar Group, confirming that these rocks were affected by the RenlandianOrogeny (960–920 Ma) and providing a lower bound. Together these data give...
from the Badenoch Group giving an age of 900±17 Ma, postdating the RenlandianOrogeny. Igneous intrusions that cut the Glenfinnan Group give crystallization...
age, the Renlandian, the Knoydartian, and the Grampian and Scandian phases of the Caledonian Orogeny. The effects of the Relandian Orogeny have only...
younger than 950 Ma (million years ago), showing that they postdate the RenlandianOrogeny, a tectonic and thermal event that affected the Morar Group. The group...
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