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Mandatory Fields
Meere, PA;Mulchrone, KF
2006
May
Journal of The Geological Society
Timing of deformation within old red sandstone lithologies from the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland
Validated
WOS: 18 ()
Optional Fields
SINISTRAL TRANSPRESSION STRAIN ESTIMATION IRISH VARISCIDES FINITE STRAIN WALES ROCKS TRANSTENSION TECTONICS EXAMPLE MODEL
163
461
469
Finite strain analysis of deformed elastic sedimentary rocks below and above the Acadian unconforinity oil the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland, reveals that this boundary represents a significant bulk strain discontinuity. The Late Emsian Acadian event is primarily responsible for penetrative cleavage development and high strain in rocks below the unconformity and not, as previously held, the later Variscan event, which overprinted the peninsula with a weak and localized disjunctive cleavage. The presence of apparent anticlockwise transecting cleavage and implied dextral Closure of the Dingle Basin during the Acadian event is compatible with northward convergence of Armorica with respect to Eastern Avalonia.
BATH
0016-7649
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