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A Field Guide to the Geology of Western IrelandThe Central Ox Mountains

A Field Guide to the Geology of Western Ireland: The Central Ox Mountains [The Central Ox Mountains is a southwest—northeast trending inlier of Dalradian rocks, mostly attributed to the Argyll Group, that lie along a major fault, the Fair Head—Clew Bay Line (FCL). Deposition was associated with rift related magmatism. These rocks were deformed, metamorphosed (up to kyanite zone) and subsequently exhumed during the mid-Ordovician Grampian Orogeny. Subsequent sinistral transpression along the FCL was associated with the emplacement of the granitoids of the Ox Mountains Igneous Complex and the development of major syn-metamorphic shear zones or ‘slides’ during the Early Devonian Acadian Orogeny. This chapter examines: evidence for early rifting along the FCL coeval with the opening of the Iapetus Ocean; Grampian deformation and metamorphism attributed to mid-Ordovician arc-continent collision; and the emplacement of the OMIC and the later development of the slides during early Devonian Acadian transpression attributed to the closure of the Iapetus Ocean.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Field Guide to the Geology of Western IrelandThe Central Ox Mountains

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-97478-7
Pages
107 –130
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-97479-4_4
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Abstract

[The Central Ox Mountains is a southwest—northeast trending inlier of Dalradian rocks, mostly attributed to the Argyll Group, that lie along a major fault, the Fair Head—Clew Bay Line (FCL). Deposition was associated with rift related magmatism. These rocks were deformed, metamorphosed (up to kyanite zone) and subsequently exhumed during the mid-Ordovician Grampian Orogeny. Subsequent sinistral transpression along the FCL was associated with the emplacement of the granitoids of the Ox Mountains Igneous Complex and the development of major syn-metamorphic shear zones or ‘slides’ during the Early Devonian Acadian Orogeny. This chapter examines: evidence for early rifting along the FCL coeval with the opening of the Iapetus Ocean; Grampian deformation and metamorphism attributed to mid-Ordovician arc-continent collision; and the emplacement of the OMIC and the later development of the slides during early Devonian Acadian transpression attributed to the closure of the Iapetus Ocean.]

Published: Jul 17, 2022

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