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Department of Geology, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX, UK
Mylonites in the Outer Hebrides fault zone on Scalpay, Hams, are cut by metabasite sheets which are probably of Scourie dyke age (2400–2200 Ma) and by pegmatites of late Laxfordian age (c. 1750 Ma). The mylonites contain relicts of a gneissose banding which probably formed in the Archaean c. 2700 Ma ago. These age constraints suggest that the fault formed in the Inverian event c. 2500 Ma ago, not in the Caledonian (Silurian-Devonian) as widely reported. The fault is a long-lived structure which was reactivated as an extensional fualt in the Laxfordian, late Proterozoic (Torr-idonian) and the Carboniferous/Early Mesozoic, and as a thrust in the Caledonian. In a regional context this interpretation has important implications for the structural evolution of the Lewisian complex, for the nature of the Caledonian event in the Laurentian craton (Caledonian foreland) and for the age and geometry of the sedimentary basins in the hanging wall of the Outer Hebrides fault.
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