Moinian (redirect from Moine Supergroup)
the Moine, formerly the Moine Supergroup, is a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments that outcrop in the Northwest Highlands between the Moine Thrust...
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Moine Supergroup, metamorphic rocks that form the dominant outcrop of the Scottish Highlands Antonin Moine (1796–1849), French sculptor Claude Moine or...
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"Moine Thrust" was being used for the tectonic break at the base of Moine schists (what is now called the Morar Group of the Wester Ross Supergroup)....
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Supergroup. It is named after Knoydart, one of the localities where the event was first recognised. Evidence for a Precambrian event affecting Moine rocks...
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interpreted to be lowest (oldest) part of a "Moine Supergroup", this sequence now forms part of the Wester Ross Supergroup. They lie unconformably on Archean to...
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the Caledonian orogeny, and there are outcrops of Lewisian, Dalradian and Moine metamorphic rocks with histories similar to their equivalents on the Scottish...
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Estuarine Group Hebridean Terrane Lewisian complex Lorne plateau lavas Moine Supergroup Moine Thrust Belt Mull Rhinns complex Skye Staffa Torridonian Islands...
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Estuarine Group Hebridean Terrane Lewisian complex Lorne plateau lavas Moine Supergroup Moine Thrust Belt Mull Rhinns complex Skye Staffa Torridonian Islands...
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Highlands controversy of Northwest Scotland (category Geologic supergroups of the United Kingdom)
schists or Moine schists (or gneiss because at first schist and gneiss were not clearly distinguished) was later termed the Moine Supergroup. In his monumental...
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Estuarine Group Hebridean Terrane Lewisian complex Lorne plateau lavas Moine Supergroup Moine Thrust Belt Mull Rhinns complex Skye Staffa Torridonian Islands...
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