The Carboniferous rocks of the Donegal syncline
- 1 October 1957
- journal article
- Published by Geological Society of London in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society
- Vol. 113 (1-4), 137-183
- https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1957.113.01-04.07
Abstract
The Donegal syncline in north-western Ireland is a shallow faulted downfold preserving a thickness of over 4000 feet of Lower Carboniferous rocks. Only the lower zones of the Viséan stage are represented : they rest upon the underlying metamorphic rocks with strong unconformity.Keywords
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