The Caledonian strike-swing and associated lineaments in NW Ireland and adjacent areas: sedimentation, deformation and igneous intrusion patterns

• Main Authors: Hutton, DHW, Alsop, Geoffrey Ian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Ireland; Caledonian Orogeny; lineaments; granites; NORTHWEST IRELAND; SM-ND; U-PB; DONEGAL; SCOTLAND; TERRANE; ISLAY; WEST; AGE; STRATIGRAPHY; Buttress; Greenland; Islay; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/the-caledonian-strikeswing-and-associated-lineaments-in-nw-ireland-and-adjacent-areas-sedimentation-deformation-and-igneous-intrusion-patterns(57ccd9e1-9e18-4f66-aae3-3d3ddd743585).html

Part of the major swing in strike associated with the Greenland-Labrador Promontory of the North Atlantic Caledonides is exposed in considerable detail in the metasedimentary and meta-igneous rocks of the Neo-Proterozoic Dalradian Supergroup in northwest Ireland. We show that the strike swing contro...