The Trawenagh Bay granite: A multipulse, inclined sheet intruded in the flank of a synplutonic shear zone

Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn , Issue 17, 1999, Pages 51-60

  Price, Alun R ^a   Pitcher, Wallace S ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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