The Nordfjord-Sogn detachment Zone in the Naustdal region, Norway

Late Scandian (400 – 425 Ma) exhumation in the Scandinavian Caledonides involved extensive displacement along several shear zones. The Western Gneiss Region (WGR) hosts one of these detachments also called the Nordfjord-Sogn detachment shear zone (NSDZ). It is still unclear to what extent this shear zone was involved in the exhumation of Baltica...