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Article: Palaeogeographical implications of two Silurian shelly faunas from the Arra Mountains and Cratloe Hills, Ireland

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 18
Part: 2
Publication Date: May 1975
Page(s): 343 350
Author(s): J. A. Weir
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WEIR, J. A. 1975. Palaeogeographical implications of two Silurian shelly faunas from the Arra Mountains and Cratloe Hills, Ireland. Palaeontology18, 2, 343–350.

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Abstract

A shelly fauna occurring in the Arra Mountains near Ballina, Co. Tipperary, is correlated with a fauna from Ballycar in the Cratloe Hills inlier, South Clare, and assigned to the upper Wenlock. The faunas are considered to have been derived from a shelf area situated to the south-east, and to have been transported north-westwards towards a basin limited south-eastwards and southwards by the Nenagh-Navan Line and by the Gallowshill-Silvermines Fault.
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