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The Location of the Southern Uplands Fault in Central Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Bernard E. Leake
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University, Bristol, 8.

Abstract

It has been suggested that the Southern Uplands fault of Scotland does not continue across central and western Ireland. Published geophysical evidence, however, strongly suggests that the fault does continue, under the Carboniferous cover, at least as far as the neighbourhood of Galway.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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