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Tear Faults in the Barnesmore area, Donegal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. P. Leedal  and
G. P. L. Walker
G. P. Leedal
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science, Prince Consort Road, London, S.W. 7.
G. P. L. Walker
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science, Prince Consort Road, London, S.W. 7.
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Abstract

Tear faults cutting the Barnesmore Granite in County Donegal are described. The Lough Belshade fault trends N.E.–S.W., and there has been a lateral movement along it in a left-handed or sinistral sense of 2·2 miles; it is believed to be of the same age as the Great Glen Fault. The Barnes Lough Fault crosses and displaces the Lough Belshade fracture, and may be, in part at least, Tertiary. Although the movement along it is much smaller, it has taken place in the opposite sense.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , April 1954 , pp. 116 - 120
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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