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Lava Ploughing in the Tertiary Basalts of County Antrim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. E. Wilson
H. E. Wilson
Affiliation:
Geol. Surv. Great Britain, Ring Road Halton, Leeds 15.
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Abstract

A quarry face in County Antrim appears to show that the toe of a Tertiary lava flow has ploughed into the weathered top of the underlying lava and carried some of the weathered material forward.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 102 , Issue 6 , December 1965 , pp. 538 - 540
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1965

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