In:
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 75, No. 2 ( 1984), p. 165-171
Abstract:
The Dalradian terrane of Connemara was thrust southsoutheastwards about 460 Ma ago (Rb–Sr and K–Ar ages). It rides on a major thrust of post-D age over mylonitised acidic volcanic rocks of putative lower Ordovician age and contains a number of thrusts of similar age. Several major S- to SE-directed thrusts also limit the southeastern margin of the Dalradian rocks in Mayo and Tyrone. It is suggested by analogy with Ireland that during mid-Ordovician times the Highland Boundary fault in Scotland could have been a thrust zone which carried the Scottish Dalradian rocks over a lower Ordovician basement now represented only as fragments in the Highland Border Complex.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0263-5933
,
1473-7116
DOI:
10.1017/S0263593300013808
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1984
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2402633-5
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2085149-2
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13
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