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Major nappe-like D2 folds in the Dalradian rocks of the Beinn Udlaidh area, Central Highlands, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2009

P. W. Geoff Tanner
Affiliation:
Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Gregory Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland G12 8QQ, UK Email: [email protected]
Peter R. Thomas
Affiliation:
The Pikes, 7 Bay View, Over Kellet, Lancashire LA6 1DR, UK

Abstract

Two regional-scale, recumbent folds control the structure of the Beinn Udlaidh area, Tyndrum, Perthshire. They reached their maximum development during D2, following the regional metamorphic peak, and are part of a stack of larger SE-facing recumbent folds formed during the ∼470 Ma Grampian Orogeny. The rocks belong to the Neoproterozoic–Lower Ordovician Dalradian Supergroup, and preserve a sedimentary transition between the Grampian Group and the overlying Appin Group. The latter occupies the core of the S-facing, recumbent Beinn Udlaidh Syncline (D2) which, with the underlying complementary Glen Lochy Anticline, is gently folded by a regional-scale structure, the Orchy Dome. The recumbent folds postdate an early fabric (S1), which is generally obliterated by the D2 imprint, but preserved as inclusion trails in regional metamorphic garnets, that are highly oblique to, and wrapped by, S2. It is concluded that the Dalradian rocks described here from below the Iltay Boundary Slide are in structural continuity with those of the Tay Nappe above, and that the Slide represents a structurally-modified disconformity between the Leven Schist (Appin Group) and the overlying Ben Lui Schist (Argyll Group). The Orchy Dome probably influenced the spatial distribution of minor intrusions and explosion vents of the lamprophyre suite.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2010

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