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The Geology of the North Cork (Kanturk) Coalfield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. E. Nevill
W. E. Nevill
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University College, Cork.
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Abstract

Basal and perhaps higher Coal Measures are overthrust by earlier rocks at the front of the Hercynian arc of southern Ireland. The marine bands, lacking cephalopod phases, are faunally poor and in respect are unlike the marine bands of the other Coal Measure outliers of the South. The coal seams are crushed and in part pulverized and appear to have developed a “pinch and swell” structure.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 103 , Issue 5 , October 1966 , pp. 423 - 431
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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