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The Pre-Cambrian Rocks of Southern Co. Wicklow (Ireland)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. E. Tremlett
W. E. Tremlett
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The University, Glasgow, W. 2.
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Abstract

A sedimentary formation beneath the Bray Series is found to have an extensive outcrop in southern Co. Wicklow. Evidence is given of the Pre-Cambrian age of both series. They are exposed in a Caledonian anticlinorium, which has been cut by thrusts and high-angle faults, but they had suffered strong orogenic deformation and prolonged erosion before the unconformable deposition of Lower Palaeozoic strata.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 96 , Issue 1 , February 1959 , pp. 58 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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