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Some Effects of Palaeozoic Folding on the Pre-Cambrian Rocks of the Frenchmans Cap Area, Tasmania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Spry  and
D. Gee
A. Spry
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.
D. Gee
Affiliation:
Geological Survey, Department of Mines, Hobart, Tas.
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Abstract

Small–scale isoclinal folds in Pre–Cambrian schists and quartzites near Frenchmans Cap, Tasmania, were formed during the Pre–Cambrian Frenchman Orogeny but the large open folds were produced during the Devonian Tabberabberan Orogeny. The Mary Antiform (Devonian) at the Raglan Range can be “unrolled” to leave the foliations almost horizontal, indicating that the isoclinal folds were recumbent prior to the Palaeozoic.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 101 , Issue 5 , 31 October 1964 , pp. 385 - 396
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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