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Moine Supergroup
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Moine Supergroup
The
Moine Supergroup
is a sequence of
Neoproterozoic
metamorphic rocks
that form the dominant
outcrop
of the
Scottish Highlands
between the
Moine Thrust Belt
to the northwest and the
Great Glen Fault
to the southeast. The sequence is
metasedimentary
in nature and was
metamorphosed
and deformed in a series of
tectonic
events during the Late
Proterozoic
and Early
Paleozoic
. It takes its name from
A' Mhòine
, a
peat bog
in northern
Sutherland
.
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