Faulted Permian Dykes in the Highlands
- 1 February 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 88 (1) , 60-64
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s001675680006893x
Abstract
In the Arkaig district of Inverness-shire there is a well-defined suite of camptonite-monchiquite dykes, and several of them have been observed to be displaced laterally along sinistral faults. This provides direct evidence of transcurrent faulting in Permian or post-Permian times. Similar faulting may have occurred along the major northeasterly fracture lines of the Highlands.Keywords
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