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The Moinian Inlier of Rosses Point, near Sligo, Eire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. G. Lemon
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, Cardiff

Abstract

The following note provides the first detailed description of an inlier of metamorphic rocks occurring in the core of an anticline of Carboniferous Limestone at Rosses Point, three miles north-west of Sligo.

The metamorphic rocks are shown to belong to the kyanite zone; comparison with the Lough Derg area suggests a Moinian Age.

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Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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