An Excursion Guide to the Moine Geology of the Northern Highlands of Scotland

摘要

This updated edition of An Excursion Guide to the Moine Geology of the Northern Highlands of Scotland represents a complete and comprehensive field guide to Moine geology, building on the first 'Moine field guide' that was published by Scottish Academic Press in 1988 on behalf of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Geological Societies (an accreditation also bestowed on the current volume). Since the last edition was published by Allison and others in 1988 some of the classic excursions have been thoroughly updated with the latest developments within Highland geology, taking into account new geological information, as well as new outcrops and/or additional constraints on access, while others have been completely rewritten. Due to the pace of geological research, and indeed the increasing scientific specialisms of those undertaking that research, there is clearly a growing need for such integrated regional texts. Accordingly, this guide is set out with the aim to provide an up-to-date summary of the geological evolution of the Moine Supergroup, while allowing geological field parties to see the wide variety of rocks and structures that occur within the outcrop of the Moine Supergroup, as well as the Moine Thrust Zone that separates these rocks from those of the Caledonian foreland to the north-west.