The Lewisian complex or Lewisian gneiss is a suite of Precambrian metamorphic rocks that outcrop in the northwestern part of Scotland, forming part of...
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Moine Thrust Belt (section Lewisian complex)
is the full sequence characteristic of the Hebridean terrane. The Lewisian complex consists of mainly granitic gneisses that are of Archaean and Paleoproterozoic...
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Hebridean terrane (section Lewisian complex)
basement is formed by Archaean and Paleoproterozoic gneisses of the Lewisian complex, unconformably overlain by the Neoproterozoic Torridonian sediments...
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About half of the island's bedrock is Scourian gneiss assigned to the Lewisian complex and dating from the Archaean eon making it some of the oldest rock...
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Rhinns complex is dominated by a coarse-grained gneiss cut by large intrusions of deformed gabbro. Once thought to be part of the Lewisian complex, it lies...
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station at Beinn Ghott. Tiree is formed largely from gneiss forming the Lewisian complex, a suite of metamorphic rocks of Archaean to early Proterozoic age...
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awarded Dark Sky status. Coll is formed largely from gneiss forming the Lewisian complex, a suite of metamorphic rocks of Archaean to early Proterozoic age...
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on the underlying Archaean to Paleoproterozoic age gneisses of the Lewisian complex and is in turn unconformably overlain by the Neoproterozoic Torridon...
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igneous origin, though some pyroxenites are included in the metamorphic Lewisian complex of Scotland where the pyroxene-rich rocks result from the type of contact...
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Nicol. Stratigraphically, they lie unconformably on gneisses of the Lewisian complex and sandstones of the lithologically similar Mesoproterozoic Stoer...
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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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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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northwest and of southeast Scalpay is Archaean gneiss belonging to the Lewisian Complex. Across the centre of the island is a band of mylonite and protocataclasite...
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Geology and Landforms of Scotland. Edinburgh. Birlinn. p. 93 state of the Lewisian gneiss bedrock of much of the Outer Hebrides that "these rocks are amongst...
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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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the Western Isles, Barra is formed from the oldest rocks in Britain, the Lewisian gneiss, which dates from the Archaean eon. Some of the gneiss in the east...
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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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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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of Lewis is dominated by the metamorphic gneisses of the eponymous Lewisian complex. Exceptions are a patch of granite near Carloway, small bands of intrusive...
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unconformably on the Archaean to Paleoproterozoic basement rocks of the Lewisian complex and unconformably beneath the Cambrian to Lower Ordovician rocks of...
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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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(September 1994). "Depletion of gold and LILE in the lower crust: Lewisian Complex, Scotland". Journal of the Geological Society. 151 (5): 747–754. Bibcode:1994JGSoc...
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associated igneous rocks of the Archaean and Paleoproterozoic age Lewisian complex or locally over the Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Stoer...
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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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fort on Skye, which are similar in layout to that of both a broch and a complex Atlantic roundhouse. The earliest extant written reference to these islands...
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is complex, with numerous faults and fold axes. These islands are the northern outpost of the Caledonian orogeny, and there are outcrops of Lewisian, Dalradian...
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the Quaternary. The oldest rocks found on Skye are gneisses of the Lewisian complex that were formed about 2,800 million years ago during the Archaean...
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