Contemporaneous faulting, and the eruption and preservation of the Lough Guitane volcanic complex, Co. Kerry
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doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.141.3.0501 |
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| Authors: | Avison, Mark |
| Author Affiliations: | Primary: Univ. Keele, Dep. Geol., Keele, United Kingdom |
| Volume Title: | Journal of the Geological Society of London |
| Source: | Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol.141(Part 3), p.501-510. Publisher: Geological Society of London, London, United Kingdom. ISSN: 0016-7649 |
| Publication Date: | 1984 |
| Note: | In English. 15 refs.; illus. incl. 1 table, geol. sketch maps |
| Summary: | This rare Upper Devonian volcanic episode in SW Ireland formed three separate volcanic centres which erupted a rhyolitic suite of thick flows and tuffs. The largest of the centres possessed a system of contemporaneous faults, producing a subcircular depressed area enclosed within a graben 1.5 km across. These faults led to rapid thickness variations in many volcanic units; a pooled lava flow reached a thickness of 300 m. The site of a major elongate vent lies along one such fault; rapid erosion of its poorly lithified walls generated coarse sandstone boulder agglomerates and was related to the absence of normal air-fall tuffs unmixed with terrigenous sand. [R.A.H.] |
| Subjects: | Clastic rocks; Conglomerate; Devonian; Eruptions; Faults; Grabens; Igneous rocks; Lava flows; Paleozoic; Petrology; Pyroclastics; Rhyolites; Sandstone; Sedimentary rocks; Structural geology; Terrigenous materials; Tuff; Upper Devonian; Variscan Orogeny; Volcanic rocks; Volcanism; Volcanology; Europe; Ireland; Kerry Ireland; Western Europe; Bennaunmore volcanic center; Cappagh Fault; Green Sandstone Formation; Lough Guitane volcanic complex; Mangerton Anticlinorium; Munster Basin |
| Coordinates: | N520000 N520000 W0093000 W0093000 |
| Abstract Numbers: | 84M/3308 |
| Record ID: | 1985081100 |
| Copyright Information: | GeoRef, Copyright 2019 American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from Mineralogical Abstracts, United Kingdom, Twickenham, United Kingdom |
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