OROCLINAL BENDING IN THE CALEDONIDES OF WESTERN IRELAND
New palaeomagnetic data from the Caledonides of western Ireland indicate that the Silurian rocks of South Mayo underwent oroclinal bending, following folding, in Siluro-Devonian time. Bending was accommodated on faults cutting the Silurian sequence, and was driven by strike slip motion across the An...
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1994
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