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Post-Intrusion Deformation of a Dyke Swarm, Awatere Valley, New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Gwyneth A. Challis
Gwyneth A. Challis
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge.
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Abstract

The only known regional dyke swarm in New Zealand is described. Dykes are 1·5–2 feet thick and have been intruded vertically into unconsolidated Cretaceous sediments. The present attitude of dykes is found to be affected by compaction of these sediments and by regional folding and bedding-plane slip. A rough measure of total compaction is obtained.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 98 , Issue 6 , December 1961 , pp. 441 - 448
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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