 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | basement in Ireland and its cover relationships M. D. Max* and C. B. Long Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars...Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland Pre-Caledonian basement is exposed in three areas within...Irish orthotectonic Caledonides: 1. In northwest County Mayo the Erris Complex comprises the Annagh Division...In the northeast Ox Mountains, Roses Point and Lough Derg inliers there is a granulite facies, dominantly...Inishtrahull Platform northeast of Malin Head, County Donegal. In addition, some gneisses within the |  | | Report (chapter) | | Patterns of metamorphism in the Ox Mountains and adjacent parts of Western Ireland B. W. D. Yardley, C. B. Long...of regional metamorphism are present in the Ox Mountains inlier. High pressure granulites occur in the...the northeast, but elsewhere most Ox Mountains rocks show a single progressive Barrovian metamorphism...retrogression occurs principally in the north central Ox and affects both granulites and the lower grade metasediments...granulites and Barrovian kyanite zone rocks in the Ox is analogous to that in southern Donegal and the |  | | Report (chapter) | | distribution of pre-Caledonian basement in the Ox Mountains inlier, Ireland C. B. Long & B. W. D. Yardley SUMMARY:...SUMMARY: Studies in the Ox Mountains inlier of NW Ireland in recent years have led to conflicting views by...relationships between the rocks of the Ox Mountains inlier of Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim (Fig. 1) and the rest...northwest of Sligo, and subsequently described related high-grade rocks from the NE Ox Mountains (Lemon 1971)...southwest of Sligo. Dalradian affinities for the rocks of the central and southwestern Ox Moun- tains |  | FLOWERDEW, M. J., DALY, J. S., GUISE, P. G., REX, D. C. (2000) Isotopic dating of overthrusting, collapse and related granitoid intrusion in the Grampian orogenic belt, northwestern Ireland. Geological Magazine, 137 (4) 419-435 doi:10.1017/s0016756800004209 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | intrusion in the Grampian orogenic belt, northwestern Ireland M. J. FLOWERDEW*‡, J. S. DALY*, P. G. GUISE† &...University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland †Department of Earth Sciences, Leeds University...Grampian (Ordovician) orogenic belt in northwestern Ireland the Dalradian Supergroup abuts and interleaves...psammite-dominant unit, with relict latest Precambrian granulite-facies assemblages, known as the Slishwood Division... retrograde hornblende poikiloblasts grew in granulite-facies metabasite pods within the Slishwood Division |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Serpentinites in the North-East Ox Mountains, Eire By G. G. LEMON ABSTRACT Six serpentinites occur in...in the Moinian granulites of the North-East Ox Mountains. Four have been known for some time and have...serpentinite bodies occur in that part of the Ox Mountains shown in Text-fig. 1. Only four have been previously...and Pollboy (1, Text-fig. 1.), in the counties of Sligo and Leitrim. Cole (1913) shows the position of some... VOL. 103 NO. 2 Serpentinites in the N.E. Ox Mountains, Eire 125 126 G. G. Lemon- magnetite. In |  | | Report (chapter) | | development in a Caledonian shear zone in N W Ireland: evidence for a multi-stage movement history D...University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland 3British Antarctic Survey, c/o NERC Isotope Geosciences...223 62 Lund, Sweden Abstract: In Scotland and Ireland, a Laurentian passive margin sequence, the Dalradian...formation of crustal-scale recumbent nappes. In Ireland, this passive margin sequence is in general bounded...major shear zone within the Caledonides of N W Ireland, the Fair H e a d - C l e w Bay Line. Detailed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Easky adamellites in the central Ox Mountains, N.W. Ireland, and their structural significance C...Dublin 4, Ireland The Lough Talt and Easky adamellites in the north-central Ox Mountains inlier were...emplacement with the more strongly deformed c. 480 Ma Ox Mountains granodiorite. They are now shown by Rb-Sr whole-rock...Devonian Newer Caledonian granites in the central OX Mountains inlier indicates that the thermal overprinting...adamellites of the regionally metamorphosed Ox Mountains succession is not an early Ordovician event |  | | Report (chapter) | | Caledonides in Ireland P. S. Kennan, W. E. A. Phillips & P. Strogen SUMMARY: In NW Ireland the exposed pre-Caledonian...for the amphibolite- and granulite-facies metasediments of the Ox Mountains, Lough Derg and Central Tyrone...Longford-Down zone in central Ireland. Pre-Caledonian basement is also exposed in SE Ireland. An important change...basement composition is inferred across central Ireland from regional magnetic data and from lead isotope...in the vicinity of the lapetus suture both in Ireland and Britain. E x p o s e d pre-Caledonian basement |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | high-pressure granulite facies metamorphism in the north-east Ox inlier, north-west Ireland I. S. SANDERS...Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland J. S . DALY, Department of Geology, University...University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 , Ireland G . R. DAVIES, Department of Earth Sciences, The University...Abstract. High-pressure granulite-facies gneisses in the NE Ox inlier in NW Ireland have undergone extensive...geothermobarometry; high-pressure granulite facies; Ireland; isobaric cooling; north-east Ox inlier; Proterozoic; |  | Pitcher, W.S., Cheesman, R.L., Anderson, J.G.C., Neville George, T., Read, H.H., Shackleton, R.M., Akaad, M.K., Lemon, G.G., Oswald, D.H., Pande, I.C., Tozer, C.F., Whitten, E.H.T. (1954) Summer field meeting in North-West Ireland with an introductory note on the geology. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 65 (4) 345 doi:10.1016/s0016-7878(54)80028-9 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Summer Field Meeting in North-West Ireland with an Introductory Note on the Geology 9-25 September 1953...various aspects of the solid geology of North-West Ireland. It was emphasised by the Directors that no complete...PITCHER AND R. L. CHEESMAN The greater part of County Donegal (Fig. 1) is composed of metamorphosed sediments...Barnesmore and Fanad Head. To the south of the county the metamorphic rocks are unconformably overlain...significant feature marked throughout the west of Ireland. During the fold-movements a regional metamorphism |  | | Book | | This book describes the island of Ireland as a physical whole. Ireland has a peculiar significance in modern...In the early part of the Palaeozoic, north-west Ireland belonged with the New World and the remainder of...Telephone: 01242 714600 A GEOLOGY OF IRELAND Gweedore, County Donegal in September, looking towards...granite mountains under cloud. Frontispiece Photograph by M. C. F. Proctor A GEOLOGY OF IRELAND Edited...Wilson Formerly: Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Belfast; presently: Institute of Geological Sciences |  | | Report (chapter) | | DUNNING- GENERAL REVIEW KENNAN ET AL-- PARATECTONIC IRELAND BAMFORD-- SEISMIC CONSTRAINTS km 100 I Downloaded...Details of units within the Midland Valley block in Ireland are given on pp. 80--83. Two assemblages which...Archaean ( - 2 7 0 0 Ma). (ii) 'Old Moines' and Ox Mountains metasediments: earliest metamorphic events Grenville...the Annagh Gneiss complex of Co. Mayo, western Ireland, which have earlier been compared with the Laxfordian...Boundary fault and its correlative structures in Ireland. Excluding the problematical 'Old Moines', whose |  | | Book | | LIBRARY j s i~sc_::. HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF' IRELAND Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with...org/details/historicalgeolog0000jkch HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF IRELAND BY J. K. CHARLESWORTH C. B.E., D .Sc., PH.D....been attempted for Ireland since Cole and Hallissy's Handbook of the Geology of Ireland of 1924: the author's...author's Geology of Ireland: An Introduction ( r 953) had in mind the elementary student or the general...improve our knowledge of the various systems in Ireland. Many problems, however, await their final solution |  | | Report (chapter) | | Society of London. Observations on eclogite- and granulite-facies rocks in the basement of the Caledonides...continental lower crust. Granulite-facies rocks of the NE Ox Mountains inlier, W Ireland, show evidence of Caledonian...origin of the granulite-facies rocks from the NE extension of the Ox Mountains inlier in W Ireland. of the...2015 O b s e r v a t i o n s on eclogite- a n d granulite-facies equilibrated by compariag certain critical...terrain. The Ox Mountains inlier The narrow arcuate outcrop of the NE extension of the Ox Mountains inlier |  | | Report (chapter) | | Scotland, in the Central Highland Granulite region and in Ireland. The existence of pre-Caledonian basement...whole rock isochron of 860 Ma from the NE Ox Mountains, Co. Sligo (Long & Yardley this vol.) also indicates...identified on the Rockall Plateau; it presumably enters Ireland between north Mayo (Grenville ages) and Inishtrahull...granulites in the Midland Valley and under central Ireland are probably Grenville rather than Archaean. This...appears to the writer to be the identification of granulite facies Lewisian extending from the Caledonian |  | | Report (chapter) | | metamorphism in the Caledonide Orogen of Britain and Ireland D, J . F e t t e s , C. B. L o n g , R. E. B e...is represented by coloured dots, for example granulite-facies relics of Lewisian basement. In some Foreland...1600 Ma). The metamorphism was generally in the granulite or upper amphibolite facies. Rocks similar to...Boundary fault. In Ireland the NE Antrim, Donegal-Fermanagh, Tyrone, Ox Mountains, NW Mayo and Connemara...Kyanite, Staurolite AB 1 Sillimanite AB AC Granulite GN Blueschist BS Plagioclase (An < 10) Epidote |  | | Report (chapter) | | (Soper & Brown 1971, Soper & Wilkinson 1975). In Ireland the greenschist-amphibolite boundary is based on...break (Pitcher et al. 1971) the high grade (?granulite-facies) rocks of the Lough Derg inlier are considered...probable basement as also are similar rocks of the Ox Mountains (Yardley et al., this volume). The amphibolite-greenschist...staurolite-kyanite assemblages in the north. Within the Ox Mountains two facies groups can be determined, amphibolite... In Ireland, Yardley (1976) has contrasted the Barrovian-style facies series of the Ox Mountains with |  | | Book | | Appalachians into the Caledonides of Britain and Ireland 2. 33 BASEMENT-COVER RELATIONSHIPS WATSON,... SANDERS,I. S. Observations on eclogite- and granulite-facies rocks in the basement of the Caledonides...distribution of pre-Caledonian basement in the Ox Mountains inlier, Ireland 153 KENNAN, P. S., PHILLIPS, W. E...Pre-Caledonian basement to the paratectonic Caledonides in Ireland 157 Contents vi TECTONICS JOHNSON, M. R. W...J. Deformation in the Caledonides of England, Ireland and Scotland 165 COWARD, M. P. • SIDDANS, A. |  | Ryan, P. D., Soper, N. J., Snyder, D. B., England, R. W., Hutton, D. H. W. (1995) The Antrim–Galway Line: a resolution of the Highland Border Fault enigma of the Caledonides of Britain and Ireland. Geological Magazine, 132 (2) 171-184 doi:10.1017/s0016756800011730 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fault enigma of the Caledonides of Britain and Ireland P. D. RYAN*, N. J. SOPERf, D. B. SNYDERJ, R. W...Geology Department, University College, Galway, Ireland t Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds...Highland Border fault of Scotland (HBFZ) into Ireland is problematic. It is widely thought to follow...strike-slip are different on the HBFZ and FCL. In Ireland the FCL is a north-dipping feature that can be...such signature. Terrane amalgamation in western Ireland was completed by the late Ordovician, while in |  | | Report (chapter) | | Publications The Laurentian Caledonides of Scotland and Ireland David M. Chew and Rob A. Strachan Geological Society...2014 The Laurentian Caledonides of Scotland and Ireland DAVID M. CHEW1* & ROB A. STRACHAN2 1 Department...Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland 2 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,...ie) Abstract: The Caledonides of Britain and Ireland are one of the most intensively studied orogenic...Scotland and Ireland are discussed at the end of this review. The Caledonides of Britain and Ireland occupy |  | | Report (chapter) | | initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios, only that from the Ox Mountains has been determined recently; Pankhurst et al...granites. Key--a Donegal; b Ox Mountains (Pankhurst et al. 1976); b' Ox Mountains (Max et al. 1976); c Omey;...of basic (Pitcher & Berger 1972) or pyroxene granulite material or, as has been postulated elsewhere...Geochemistry of the Northern Units. Bull. geol. Surv. Ireland 2, 107-41. CLAXTON, C. W. 1971. The petrology,...E. 1978. Granite emplacement: the granites of Ireland and their origin. In BOWLS, D. R. & LEAKE, B. E |  | | Book | | ofNorth,rn lrIRELAND Geology of the country around Derrygonnelly and...Photograph No. N.609) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND Dcpartn1ent of Econo1nic Development IC LEGG TPJOHNSTON...000 Geological Sheets 44, 56 and 43 (Northern Ireland) SECOND EDITION London: TheStationery Office ...on material fron1 Ordnance Survev of Northern Ireland 1:50 000 rnaps number 17, 26 and 27 with Lhe pennission...Geological Su1vey of t· •./orlhern Ireland, Sheet 44, 56 and 43 (Northern Ireland). Authors I C Legg, BSc, PhD |  | | Report (chapter) | | London. Deformation in the Caledonides of England, Ireland and Scotland M. R. W. Johnson, D. J. Sanderson...Archaean gneisses of the Caledonian foreland. In Ireland small areas of Grenville basement are in slide...and possible pre-Caledonian basement in W Ireland. In Ireland the structural pattern in the Scottish Highlands...central Ireland. The pattern of Ordovician vulcanicity in northern England, Wales and SE Ireland has been...slate belts of the Lake District, Wales and SE Ireland with polyphase structural evolution. T h e division |  | | Report (chapter) | | deformation in the Caledonide Orogen of Britain and Ireland D. Powell & W. E. A. Phillips Considerable problems...lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic record in Britain and Ireland from the Precambrian to the base of the Permian...data relating to the geometry of structures in Ireland which is less well known than the geometry of structures...and its possible correlatives in Shetland and Ireland (Fig. 1 .). Recent field, isotopic, and geophysical...tectonic and igneous history of the Dalradian zone (Ireland) (symbols as Fig. 2). to have been equivalent to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | typical basement rocks from southern Britain and Ireland, which together with published data from northern...): (1) Precambrian basement ranging from the granulite and amphibolite facies Archaean gneisses of northwest...schist and metasedimentary inliers in southeast Ireland, Anglesey and the Midlands of England; (2) Caledonian...largely undeformed except in southwest England and Ireland where they occur in (4) the Variscan orogenic area...a ; R = Rosslare; W = Welsh Borderlands; X = Ox Mountains; O = Open University, s a m p l e collection |
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