TY - JOUR
T1 - The Tuskar Group of southeastern Ireland
T2 - its geochemistry and depositional provenance
AU - Max, M. D.
AU - Ryan, P. D.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - The Tuskar Group is a newly recognized succession of cleaved, steeply dipping, north younging basic volcanics, tuffs, tuffaceous sediments, black shales and medium to fine grained greywackes and turbidites which occur largely in the sea area around the Tuskar Rock, Co. Wexford and in xenoliths in the Carnsore Granite on the mainland. Foliated granodiorites occur along a probable shear zone at the northern contact with the Rosslare Complex. This succession is lithologically similar to parts of the Gwna Group on Anglesey which lies to the northeast along strike. The chemical affinity of metabasites within the Tuskar Group is dissimilar from that of the basic volcanic rocks of the Gwna Group, however, and the overall sense of younging is opposed to that seen on Anglesey.
AB - The Tuskar Group is a newly recognized succession of cleaved, steeply dipping, north younging basic volcanics, tuffs, tuffaceous sediments, black shales and medium to fine grained greywackes and turbidites which occur largely in the sea area around the Tuskar Rock, Co. Wexford and in xenoliths in the Carnsore Granite on the mainland. Foliated granodiorites occur along a probable shear zone at the northern contact with the Rosslare Complex. This succession is lithologically similar to parts of the Gwna Group on Anglesey which lies to the northeast along strike. The chemical affinity of metabasites within the Tuskar Group is dissimilar from that of the basic volcanic rocks of the Gwna Group, however, and the overall sense of younging is opposed to that seen on Anglesey.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0022557789
U2 - 10.1016/S0016-7878(86)80007-4
DO - 10.1016/S0016-7878(86)80007-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0022557789
SN - 0016-7878
VL - 97
SP - 73
EP - 79
JO - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
JF - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
IS - 1
ER -