Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-g4j75 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-23T18:15:06.607Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Iapetus suture in the British Isles – comment on its position in eastern Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. A. T. Harper ,
F. C. Murphy ,
W. S. McKerrow  and
N. J. Soper
D. A. T. Harper
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, Galway, Ireland
F. C. Murphy
Affiliation:
Fault Analysis Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K.
W. S. McKerrow
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, U.K.
N. J. Soper
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K.
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Correspondence and Notes
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 126 , Issue 6 , November 1989 , pp. 723 - 724
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

References

References

Boyce, W. D., Ash, J. S., O'Neill, P.,& Knight, l. 1988. Ordovician biostratigraphic studies in the central mobile belt and their implications for Newfoundland tectonics. Current Research Newfoundland Department of Mines, Mineral Development Division Report 88–1, 177–82.Google Scholar
Bruton, D. L. & Harper, D. A. T. 1981. Brachiopods and trilobites of the early Ordovician Otta Conglomerate, south central Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 61, 153–81.Google Scholar
Bruton, D. L. & Harper, D. A. T. 1985. Early Ordovician (Arenig–Llanvirn) faunas from oceanic islands in the Appalachian–Caledonide orogen. In The Caledonide Orogen – Scandinavia and Related Areas (eds Gee, D. G. & Sturt, B. A.), pp. 359–68. John Wiley & Sons.Google Scholar
Cooper, G. A. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127, 1–1245.Google Scholar
Harper, D. A. T., Mitchell, W. I., Owen, A. W. & Romano, M. 1985. Caradoc brachiopods and trilobites from the Clashford House Formation, Herbertstown, eastern Ireland. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 38, 287–308.Google Scholar
Harper, D. A. T. & Parkes, M. A. 1989. Palaeontological constraints on the definition and development of Irish Caledonide terranes. Journal of the Geological Society of London 146, 413–5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harper, J. C. 1952. The Ordovician rocks between Collon (Co. Louth) and Grangegeeth (Co. Meath). Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 26, 85–112.Google Scholar
McKerrow, W. S. & Soper, N. J. 1989. The Iapetus suture in the British Isles. Geological Magazine 126, 1–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murphy, F. C. 1985. Non-axial planar cleavage and Caledonian sinistral transpression in Eastern Ireland. Geological Journal 20, 257–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murphy, F. C. 1987. Evidence for late Ordovician amalgamation of volcanogenic terranes in the Iapetus suture zone of eastern Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 78, 153–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Phillips, W. E. A., Stillman, C. J. & Murphy, T. 1976. A Caledonian plate tectonic model. Journal of the Geological Society of London 132, 579–609.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Romano, M. 1980. The stratigraphy of the Ordovician rocks between Slane (Co. Meath) and Collon (Co. Louth), Ireland. Journal of Earth Sciences, Royal Dublin Society 3, 53–79.Google Scholar
Williams, A. 1956. Productorthis in Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 57B, 179–83.Google Scholar

Further references

Brenchley, P. J., Harper, J. C., Romano, M. & Skevington, D. 1967. New Ordovician faunas from Grangegeeth, Co. Meath. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 65, 297–304.Google Scholar
Harper, J. C. 1952. The Ordovician rocks between Collon (Co. Louth) and Grangegeeth (Co. Meath). Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 26, 85–112, pls 5–7.Google Scholar
McKerrow, W. S. & Cocks, L. R. M. 1986. Oceans, island arcs and olistostromes: the use of fossils in distinguishing sutures, terranes and environments around the Iapetus Ocean. Journal of the Geological Society of London 143, 185–91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Soper, N. J., Gibbons, W. & McKerrow, W. S. 1989. Introduction: Displaced terranes in Britain and Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society of London 146, 365–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar