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The Southern Upland Fault in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. S. McKerrow
W. S. McKerrow
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University Museum, Oxford.
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Abstract

The possibility of the Southern Upland Fault of Scotland continuing to the west coast of Ireland is examined critically. No post-Carboniferous faulting has occurred along this line in Ireland. It cannot be connected with any major fault occurring in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of County Mayo or County Galway; and there is no evidence that it continues as a structural line to the south-west of Carrick on Shannon.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 96 , Issue 5 , October 1959 , pp. 347 - 352
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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