Is the Southern Uplands of Scotland really an accretionary prism?

We argue that there is little which demands the accretionary prism model for the widespread Silurian rocks of the Southern Uplands of Scotland (and Ireland). With new data from Ireland, we reinterpret these rocks as the turbidite fill of a successor basin that formed after the subduction of Iapetus...

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Published in:Geology (Boulder) 1986-04, Vol.14 (4), p.354-357
Main Authors: Murphy, F C, Hutton, D H W
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