A U–Pb zircon, Archaean age for granitoid rocks in the Kunes Nappe, Laksefjord Nappe Complex, Finnmark, North Norway

There had been an innovative report prepared by Lord Dawson in 1920 for the Minister of Health’s Consultative Council on Medical and Allied Services, in which he used his

In the Linnajavri northern area, ophiolite fragments are located both in the Ridoalggičohkka nappe and the Čohkul nappe, however, in a different lithological setting than in

The transitional rock type has a dioritic ground- mass and contains abundant, small, irregular- ly shaped fragments of: i) a greenish, altered, fine-grained rock which resembles

In contrast to the general westward thinning trend of the allochthon in the Swedish Caledo- nides (Gee & Zachrisson 1979), rocks of the Abisko Nappe Complex thicken from north-

There is a general thinning of th e Se ve Nappe Complex nort hwards and it wedges out in th e northernm o st part of t he study area.The overlying V addas Nappe of the Koli

A dolerite dyke cutt ing very low-grade metasedim entary rocks of the Lekvi kfjellet Group near Hamning berg, NE Varange r Peninsula, Finnmark, has yielded a U-Pb zircon upper

Alt houg h these early data,and th eir inter- pretat ion, were shrouded in con troversy (Krill & Zwaan 1987, Binns 1989,T ownsend & Gayer 1989), subseque nt and more

Zircons extracted from a felsic sheet in the bimodal, magmatic, Fånes complex of the Støren Nappe on Frosta peninsula yielded a U–Pb age of 488 ± 5 Ma, interpreted as the age