Tectonostratigraphic relationships and obduction histories of Scandinavian ophiolitic terranes

Abstract

The Scandinavian Caledonides represents a now linear montage of nappes and thrust-sheets derived by imbrication of the Baltoscandian continental rise prism and miogeocline and from the accretion of far-travelled, outboard, oceanic terranes. The originally near-continuous pattern of such geotectonic features was destroyed during the episodic Caledonian, contractional and strike-slip, orogenic processes that eventually led to juxtaposition of tectonic units which, in many cases, represent terranes of considerable, though unknown, geographical separation. -from Authors