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This is a list of the named geological faults affecting the rocks of Northern Ireland.
Terminology
See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature but in brief, the main types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust faults and strike-slip faults.
Key to table
- Column 1 indicates the name of the fault. Note that different authors may deploy different names for one and the same feature, or a part of a feature. Conversely the same name may be applied to two different features, particularly in the case of smaller faults with a wide geographic separation.
- Column 2 indicates the county in which the fault occurs. Some traverse two or more counties of course.
- Column 3 indicates the Irish grid reference for the approximate midpoint of the fault (as mapped). Note that the mapped extent of a fault may not correspond to its actual extent.
- Column 4 indicates on which sheet of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland's 1:50,000 scale geological map series of Northern Ireland, the fault is shown and named (either on map/s or cross-section/s or both). Some of the faults are also depicted on the 1:250,000 scale geological map of Northern Ireland.[1]
- Column 5 indicates a selection of publications in which references to the fault may be found. See references section for full details of publication.
Tabulated list of faults
Sortable table of faults
Fault name
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County
|
grid ref
|
GSNI map sheet
|
book reference/s
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Ballyconnell-Belturbet Fault
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|
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NIr 57/58
|
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Ballytober Fault
|
Antrim
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D3304
|
|
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Belcoo Fault
|
Fermanagh
|
G1842
|
NIr 44
|
Mem NI 44
|
Camlough Fault
|
Armagh
|
J0621
|
|
|
Carnlough Fault
|
Antrim
|
D2508
|
|
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Clogher Valley Fault
|
Fermanagh
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G4545
|
|
|
Elagh Fault
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Tyrone
|
H8573
|
|
|
Great Gaw Fault
|
Antrim
|
|
|
Lyle P. 2003 (p170,177)
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Killadeas - Seskinore Fault
|
Fermanagh, Tyrone
|
G4161
|
|
|
Kinnegoe Fault
|
Armagh
|
H0459
|
|
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Laghy Fault
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Tyrone
|
H0984
|
|
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Newry Fault
|
Armagh, Down
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J0829
|
|
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Omagh Fault
|
Tyrone
|
|
|
Lyle P. 2003 (p117,124,125)
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Omagh Thrust
|
Tyrone
|
G4573
|
|
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Orlock Bridge Fault
|
Armagh, Down
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J5079
|
|
Lyle P. 2003 (p41,42)
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Pettigoe Fault
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Tyrone
|
H2080
|
|
|
Sixmilewater Fault
|
Antrim
|
J3091
|
|
|
Tempo - Sixmilecross Fault
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Fermanagh
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H3547
|
|
|
Tow Valley Fault
|
Antrim, Londonderry
|
C9524
|
|
Lyle P. 2003 (p63,65,177,179)
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References
- Map sheet 44 (and accompanying memoir) of the series of 1:50,000 scale geological maps of Northern Ireland published by Geological Survey of Northern Ireland.
- Lyle, P. 2003 Classic geology in Europe 5 The north of Ireland Terra Publishing, Harpenden
- ↑ Geological Survey of Northern Ireland 1997 Northern Ireland. Solid Geology (2nd edn) 1:250,000 (Keyworth, Nottingham; British Geological Survey).
See also
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