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WE have dated samples of schistose granite from Shetland using Rb–Sr methods. This provides further evidence for the early phase of Caledonian high grade metamorphism and migmatisation (the Grampian event) which has been detected all the way from western Ireland to northern Norway.
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FLINN, D., PRINGLE, I. Age of the migmatisation in the Dalradian of Shetland. Nature 259, 299–300 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259299a0
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