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A marginal Late Proterozoic ocean basin in the Welsh region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. W. Baker
J. W. Baker
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Geology Dept, University College, Cardiff
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Summary

Re-assessment of the idea that the Monian and Longmyndian accumulated along the margin of a palaeo-ocean suggests that Monian sedimentation occurred near the eastern shoreline of a micro-continent. If Monian igneous activity, metamorphism and deformation are attributed to an underlying subduction zone, this must have dipped northwestwards away from a small ocean basin to the southeast. Consumption of this ocean floor brought about collision with the continental shield and simple deformation of the Longmyndian.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 110 , Issue 5 , September 1973 , pp. 447 - 455
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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