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Clastic dykes in the Namurian shales of Co. Leitrim, Republic of Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Brandon
A. Brandon
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Northern Ireland 20 College Gardens Belfast BT9 6BS
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Summary

A description is given of the numerous thin dolomitic sandstone dykes cutting dark marine shales of E1a age in Co. Leitrim. They are almost wholly confined to the Dough–Thur Mountain area, which is cut by the Caledonoid trending Ox Mountain and Belhavel Faults. It is thought probable that movement along one of these faults, possible in E1c times, conferred thixotropic properties to a sand horizon in the marine shales and also produced fractures in the shales up which the sand was intruded.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 109 , Issue 4 , July 1972 , pp. 361 - 367
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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