Moinianadj.n.

1938 A. K. Wells Outl. Hist. Geol. vi. 50 There is nothing inherently impossible in the suggestion that the Moinian rocks may be metamorphosed Torridonian.

1954 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 110 46 Some at least of these bodies [of Lewisian gneiss] resemble the so-called inliers of Scardroy and Fannich in being of Moinian age.

1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 46 The Lewisian also forms the basement to the Moinian Series, a dominantly arenaceous sedimentary sequence but everywhere separated from the Torridonian by the Moine thrust.

1994 Geology 22 590/2 The Moinian and Dalradian metamorphic complexes that form the mountains between the northwest Caledonian front and the Highland boundary fault in Scotland..have no known counterparts outside of Laurentia.

1938 A. K. Wells Outl. Hist. Geol. vi. 50 The great overthrusts separate an area where the succession is Lower Palæozoic rocks, on Torridonian, on Lewisian, from one..in which the succession is: Dalradian, on Moinian, on Lewisian.

1971 Geol. Mag. 108 193 The petrology and migmatization of the Moinian are discussed and Dalradian rocks are described for the first time from this area.

1996 Lithos 37 282/1 The Moinian represents an assemblage of middle to upper Proterozoic metasedimentary rocks which were deformed during the Caledonian Orogeny.