ROTATIONAL SLUMPS AND SLUMP SCARS IN SILURIAN ROCKS, WESTERN IRELAND |
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| Authors: | M. G. LAIRD |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Oxford, Oxford (Great Britain) |
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| Abstract: | Curved or planar discordant surfaces occurring within a limited stratigraphic range immediately beneath shallow marine deposits represent penecontemporaneous shear surfaces along which slumps have moved. Rotated packets of strata frequently retained within the curved discordant surfaces show both internal and external evidence of having moved laterally. Movement is considered to have been triggered off by a sudden shock or shocks which may have been either of sedimentary or tectonic origin. The slumping occurred at the change in gradient between slope and shallow marine shelf deposits. |
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