Abstract
Boulders from a Lower Devonian conglomerate complete the record of a phase of Ordovician plutonism associated with island arcs and blue schist metamorphism, indicating high angle subduction. Following a phase of sedimentary accretion, late Silurian plutonism was the result of low angle subduction. The two granite suites have distinct isotopic trends.
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van Breemen, O., Bluck, B. Episodic granite plutonism in the Scottish Caledonides. Nature 291, 113–117 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/291113a0
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