Lough Neagh: The site of a Cenozoic pull-apart basin

Scottish Journal of Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-112

  Quinn, Martyn F ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; PALEOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LOUGH NEAGH; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750688517     PISSN: 00369276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/sjg42020101     Document Type: Article

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