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Faulted Permian Dykes in the Highlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. P. Leedal
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Abstract

In the Arkaig district of Inverness-shire there is a well-defined suite of camptonite-monchiquite dykes, and several of them have been observed to be displaced laterally along sinistral faults. This provides direct evidence of transcurrent faulting in Permian or post-Permian times. Similar faulting may have occurred along the major northeasterly fracture lines of the Highlands.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 88 , Issue 1 , February 1951 , pp. 60 - 64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1951

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