Palynology of the kingscourt outlier (Ireland)

• Autor(es): Fernandes, Paulo ; Clayton, Geoff
• Data: 2012
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/5111
• Origem: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Assunto(s): Namurian; Kingscourt outlier; Palynology; Ireland
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Português

Descrição

The Kingscourt Outlier occupies a roughly triangular area on the southern part of the Lower Palaeozoic Longford–Down Massif in eastern Ireland. It comprises a condensed succession of sedimentary rocks that record the onset of fluvio‐deltaic sedimentation across eastern Ireland during Late Viséan to Late Bashkirian (Jackson, 1955, 1965). The outlier forms a syncline structure with an axis orientated approximately north‐south and parallel with the normal Kingscourt Fault that downthrows beds of Carboniferous and Permo‐Triassic age against the Lower Palaeozoic rocks.