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IN the overthrust Caledonian metamorphics of Swedish Lapland there are traces of at least three main phases of deformation. This has been proved by graphic-statistical studies on the tectonics of a sequence of six small areas1,2. Each of the phases is distinguished by certain directions of main transport that are constant for all the areas. There is a fair amount of evidence of several kinds to establish the age-relations of the phases. First, there were transport directions toward east-south-east, then toward the south-south-east, then toward the east (and/or south ?).
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LINDSTRÖM, M. Different Phases of Tectonic Deformation in the Rhinns of Galloway. Nature 182, 48–49 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182048a0
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