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The British late Caledonian granites display a close correspondence between inherited U–Pb systematics in zircons and initial εNd indicating that both were controlled by the age of a major component of continental crust. The data confirm and refine previous models of a basement comprising young crust in the south which includes arc and oceanic crust scrapings and progressively older continental crust northwestwards across Scotland.
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Halliday, A. Coupled Sm–Nd and U–Pb systematics in late Caledonian granites and the basement under northern Britain. Nature 307, 229–233 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/307229a0
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