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A Field Guide to the Geology of Western Ireland - The Birth and Death of an Ocean (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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A Field Guide to the Geology of Western Ireland - The Birth and Death of an Ocean (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Springer Geology
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This book contains a comprehensive field guide, including detailed
itineraries and supporting data, to the Geology of Western Ireland,
a classic site for world geology. It facilitates study into the
rock record of the Neoproterozoic 'birth' to the Devonian 'death'
of the Iapetus Ocean along the Laurentian (North American) margin.
The enormous variety of lithologies and processes available for
study in this spectacularly exposed region include: fluviatile to
deep-sea sediments; layered ultramafic intrusions to reverse zoned
granite batholiths; zeolite to eclogite facies metamorphic
assemblages; continental rifting; subduction processes; island arc
evolution; arc-continent collision; Andean margin development; and
continent-continent collision. An introduction to the geology, that
includes information relevant to the planning and execution of
field trips in the region, is followed by nine chapters each
providing the necessary background, field itineraries, exercises
and points for debate, covering: the Laurentian basement and
Neoproterozoic cover of North Mayo, Sligo, the Ox Mountains and
Connemara; the metamorphic nappes and syn-orogenic intrusions of
the Ordovician Grampian Orogeny; the Cambro-Ordovician
subduction-accretion complex of Clew Bay; the obducted Ordovician
fore-arc basin of South Mayo; the post-subduction flip
late-Ordovician of South Connemara; the Silurian successor basins
deformed during the final closure of the Iapetus Ocean; the late to
post-orogenic Devonian sediments; the Devonian Granite batholiths ;
and the post-orogenic Carboniferous cratonic sediments. Two final
chapters summarise: the current tectonic interpretation of this
region; areas for future research; and the extensive sources of
geochemical and geophysical data.
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