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The Highland Boundary Fault in East Tyrone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. J. Cobbing
E. J. Cobbing
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, 20 College Gardens, Belfast, 9.
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Abstract

Correlation of the metamorphic inlier of Co. Tyrone with the Connemara Schists, together with a reinterpretation of the"Tyrone Igneous Series" erected by J. J. Hartley, lends support to recent suggestions that the Highland Boundary Fault originated as a normal fault with downthrow to the north. The palaeogeographical implications of this are briefly discussed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 101 , Issue 6 , 30 December 1964 , pp. 496 - 501
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1964

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