Abstract

Comparison of the early Ordovician Grampian orogeny in Scotland with Cenozoic collision belts elsewhere suggests that the Grampian event was an island arc-continent collision which followed southeastward subduction of ocean floor, and was succeeded by northwestward subduction of the Caledonian orogeny.

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