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| Preface to the l<sup>st</sup> Edition | |
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| Preface to the 2<sup>nd</sup> Edition | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Regional Geological History: Why and How? | |
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| Geological Framework of Britain and Ireland | |
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| The Northern Margin of the Iapetus Ocean | |
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| Early Earth History and Development of the Archaean Crust | |
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| Proterozoic Sedimentation, Orogenesis and Magmatism on the Laurentian Craton (2500-750Ma) | |
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| Middle Neoproterozoic (<750Ma) to Early Ordovician Sedimentation along the Laurentian Margin of Iapetus | |
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| The Grampian Orogeny: Mid-Ordovician Arc-Continent Collision along the Laurentian Margin of Iapetus | |
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| Mid-Ordovician to Silurian Subduction and Collision: Closure of the Iapetus Ocean | |
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| The Southern Margin of the Iapetus Ocean | |
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| Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Accretionary History of Eastern Avalonia and Armorica on the Active Margin of Gondwana | |
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| The Cambrian and Earliest Ordovician Quiescent Margin of Gondwana | |
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| Ordovician Volcanism and Sedimentation on Eastern Avalonia | |
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| Late Ordovician to Silurian Evolution of Eastern Avalonia during Iapetus Closure | |
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| The End of the Iapetus Ocean | |
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| Early Devonian Sedimentary and Magmatic Interlude after Iapetus Closure | |
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| The Acadian Orogeny and its Mid-Late Devonian Depositional Aftermath | |
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| The Variscan Cycle: Consolidation of Pangaea | |
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| Carboniferous Sedimentation and Volcanism on the Laurussian Margin | |
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| The Variscan Orogeny: the Welding of Pangaea | |
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| Post-Variscan Intraplate Setting | |
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| Permian to Late Triassic Post-orogenic Collapse and Rifting, Arid Deserts, Evaporating Seas and Mass Extinctions | |
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| Triassic-Jurassic Boundary and Jurassic: Disintegrating Pangaea | |
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| Early Cretaceous: Rifting and Sedimentation before the Flood | |
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| Late Cretaceous to Early Palaeogene Pelagic Deposits: Deposition on Greenhouse Earth | |
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| The Thulean Plume and Its Aftermath | |
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| Palaeogene and Neogene Events: the North Atlantic Plume and Alpine Pulses | |
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| The Quaternary: History of an Ice Age | |
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| Index | |