The geology of the Hebrides and West Shetland shelves, and adjacent deep-water areas
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The geology of the Hebrides and West Shetland shelves, and adjacent deep-water areas
（United Kingdom Offshore regional report）
HMSO, 1993
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At head of title : British Geological Survey
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The area to the north and west of Scotland is a relatively unexplored frontier region where possibley significant hydrocarbon reserves remain undiscovered. This report describes the offshore geology of the area within the limits 56 degrees N in the south and 63 degrees 30'N in the north, and from 10 degrees W in the south west to just beyond 1 degree E in the north east, a south-west to north-east distance of approximately 1000km
Table of Contents
- Physiography
- pre-Devonian
- post-Caledonian structural development
- Devonian to Lower Carboniferous (old red sandstone)
- carboniferous
- Permian and Triassic
- Jurassic
- Cretaceous sedimentary rocks
- Cretaceous and Tertiary igneous rocks
- Tertiary sedimentary rocks
- Tertiary sedimentary rocks
- Quaternary
- sea-bed sidiments
- economic geology.
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