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dc.contributor.authorMattsson, Tobias
dc.contributor.authorBurchardt, Steffi
dc.contributor.authorMair, Karen
dc.contributor.authorPlace, Joachim
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-16T12:30:33Z
dc.date.available2020-11-16T12:30:33Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-01
dc.identifier271111525
dc.identifier0fe5672b-6e52-477c-8263-e976d4665524
dc.identifier85081082001
dc.identifier.citationMattsson , T , Burchardt , S , Mair , K & Place , J 2020 , ' Host-rock deformation during the emplacement of the Mourne Mountains granite pluton : insights from the regional fracture pattern ' , Geosphere , vol. 16 , no. 1 , pp. 182-209 . https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02148.1en
dc.identifier.issn1553-040X
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-0717-4014/work/83890079
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20983
dc.description.abstractThe Mourne Mountains magmatic center in Northern Ireland consists of five successively intruded granites emplaced in the upper crust. The Mourne granite pluton has classically been viewed as a type locality of a magma body emplaced by cauldron subsidence. Cauldron subsidence makes space for magma through the emplacement of ring dikes and floor subsidence. However, the Mourne granites were more recently re-interpreted as laccoliths and bysmaliths. Laccolith intrusions form by inflation and dome their host rock. Here we perform a detailed study of the deformation in the host rock to the Mourne granite pluton in order to test its emplacement mechanism. We use the host-rock fracture pattern as a passive marker and microstructures in the contact-metamorphic aureole to constrain large-scale magma emplacement-related deformation. The dip and azimuth of the fractures are very consistent on the roof of the intrusion and can be separated into four steeply inclined sets dominantly striking SE, S, NE, and E, which rules out pluton-wide doming. In contrast, fracture orientations in the northeastern wall to the granites suggest shear parallel to the contact. Additionally, contact-metamorphic segregations along the northeastern contact are brecciated. Based on the host-rock fracture pattern, the contact aureole deformation, and the north-eastward-inclined granite-granite contacts, we propose that mechanisms involving either asymmetric "trap-door" floor subsidence or laccolith and bysmalith intrusion along an inclined or curved floor accommodated the emplacement of the granites and led to deflection of the northeastern wall of the intrusion.
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dc.format.extent12791231
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofGeosphereen
dc.subjectQE Geologyen
dc.subjectGeologyen
dc.subjectStratigraphyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQEen
dc.titleHost-rock deformation during the emplacement of the Mourne Mountains granite pluton : insights from the regional fracture patternen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Earth & Environmental Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1130/GES02148.1
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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