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THERE is considerable debate concerning both the age of sedimentation of the Moine Series and its tectonometa-morphic history. Though several workers have argued for the presence of Precambrian metamorphic and tectonic features within the Moine (see, for example, ref. 1), others have considered these features to be essentially of Caledonian age (see ref. 2). In consequence, syntheses of the evolution of north-western Scotland during Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic time include the Moine either as an older part of the Dalradian sedimentary prism which became involved in both early and late Caledonian orogenic activity3, or as a pre-Dalradian sediment wedge affected by pre-Dalradian (Morarian) subduction4.
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BROOK, M., BREWER, M. & POWELL, D. Grenville age for rocks in the Moine of north-western Scotland. Nature 260, 515–517 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260515a0
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