Accession Number:
AD0698399
Title:
DEEP ALTERATION OF CARBONIFEROUS STRATA IN THE MIDDLETON, CO. CORK DISTRICT AS DETECTED BY GRAVITY SURVEYING. PLATES XXVL-XXVII,
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Corporate Author:
ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY DUBLIN
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Report Date:
1966-02-22
Pagination or Media Count:
19.0
Abstract:
At several places in the Cork Syncline, in particular close to the northern Devonian-Carboniferous contact, closed negative gravity anomalies occur. These range up to 4 mgal amplitude and cover about a square kilometre. The cause suggested is decomposition of the Carboniferous Shale and solutioning of the Carboniferous Limestone to a depth of 180 m below the surface, the cavities being filled with the insoluble residue of the limestone and shale together with other washed-in material. The age, by comparison with similar known occurrences in Ireland and England, is probably Tertiary. Author
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- Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy