List of geological faults of Northern Ireland

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

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

See also

• List of geological faults of England
• List of geological faults of Scotland
• List of geological faults of Wales
• List of geological folds in Great Britain
• Geological structure of Great Britain

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