Caledonian Structures in Britain

The aim of the "Geological Conservation Review Series" is to inform geologists and other scientists, landowners and occupiers of land, planners and members of the public of special features of interest in sites being considered for notification as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSIs). This volume deals with those sites selected as part of the Geological Conservation Review within the southern British part of the Caledonides - a Caledonian terrain without strong and pervasive deformation and metamorphism, such as occured further north. It is of particular interest because the former Caledonian mountain chain, which can be seen today in fragmented pieces in Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland and North America, was ultimately the result of the collision of two continental plates and the closure of a former ocean, Iapetus.