...Brian O’Driscoll; David M. Chew Abstract Zircon separates from the contact aureole of the syn-tectonic Dawros–Currywongaun–Doughruagh Complex, western Ireland, are studied to constrain the nature and timing of magmatism associated with the early stages of the Grampian Orogeny. The samples analysed...

... 268 Scientific editing by Kate Brodie. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 155, 1998, pp. 25 37. Printed in Great Britain Timing of deformation associated with the syn-tectonic Dawros Currywongaun Doughruagh Complex, NW Connemara, western Ireland S. A. WELLINGS Department...

...B. O’Driscoll; D. G. R. Powell; R. J. Reavy Synopsis The Dawros–Currywongaun–Doughruagh Complex of NW Connemara comprises a deformed and metamorphosed suite of syntectonic mafic to ultramafic intrusions within folded, lower amphibolite grade metasediments of the Dalradian Supergroup. Field...

... Newfoundland and Britain Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 1995 23 368 379 Wellings S.A. Timing of deformation associated with the syn-tectonic Dawros-Currywongaun-Doughruagh Complex, NW Connemara, western Ireland Journal of the Geological Society, London 1998 155 25 37 Wright...

... Fe-enrichment towards the axial planes of the major structures (inverted synclines), with the overall trend in Currywongaun continued by a similar trend in Doughruagh. Early crystallizing cumulates of the basic magma are thought to be represented in the nearby Dawros peridotite that was tectonically...

... case the ultramafic lens within the central metagabbro could well be a xeno- lith. A genetic relationship between the Dawros perido- tite and the Currywongaun-Doughruagh intrusion has been postulated on petrological grounds since Ingold (1937), but the structural complexity of the area com- bined...

... main groups, the Errismore- Roundstone-Gowla and Cashel-Lough Wheelaun (CL) bodies in south Connemara and the Dawros- Currywongaun-Doughruagh complex (DCD) in north Connemara (Fig. l ) , which have been correlated across the Connemara Antiform by Leake (19700). In south Connemara, the gabbros...

...Bernard Elgey Leake Abstract Similarity of the Carlsbad-albite twin extinction angles indicates that the composition of the basic plagioclase occurring in a gabbroic layer in the Dawros peridotite is similar to that in the nearby Currywongaun-Doughruagh intrusion, in the ultrabasic Cashel-Lough...

... immediately prior to island arc collision (cf. Wellings, 1998 ; Friedrich et al . 1999 ). Figure 1 (a) Inset map of the northern region of Connemara, DCDC – Dawros–Currywongaun–Doughruagh Complex, RBS – Renvyle–Bofin Slide (adapted from O'Driscoll, Powell & Reavy, 2005 ). (b) Geological map...

... light (Leake 1964; Rothstein 1964),on its relationships to the surrounding metasediments and to the adjacent gabbroic body of Currywongaun-Doughruagh. In the course of a description of the Dawros layered sequence, the authors write somewhat abruptly: ‘The layered ultramafic sequence contains few...

... Bibole banded iron formations, northwestern Timescales of magmatism and metamorphism congo craton, cameroon: geochemical and 2245 2263 in the connemara caledonides: insights from the thermal aureole of the Dawros 2139 2150 geochronological constraints currywongaun Doughruagh complex, Arlette Pulcherie...

... Complex; CG, Dawros–Currywongaun–Doughruagh pluton; DD, Delaney Dome; M, Mweelrea Group; MT, Mannin Thrust; OG, Oughterard Granite; Ox Mt, Ox Mountains; RBS, Renvyle–Bofin Slide; SBS, Clew Bay and other slides; SCG, South Connemara Group; SH, Sheeffry Group. Modified from Dewey (2005) . ...

...: The past is the key to the present : Geological Society [London] Special Publication 143 , p. 19 – 242 . Wellings , S.A. , 1998 , Timing of deformation associated with the syn-tectonic Dawros-Currywongaun-Doughruagh Complex, NW Connemara, western Ireland : Geological Society of London...

... synchronous with or postdate crustal deformation. The oldest plutons, consisting of ultramafic and gabbroic rocks, occur in both northern (Dawros–Currywongaun–Doughruagh complex, Fig. 1 ; Kanaris-Sotiriou and Angus 1976 ) and southern Connemara (e.g., Cashel–Lough Wheelaun intrusion, Leake 1989...

..., London 1985 142 77 86 Wellings S.A. Timing of deformation associated with the syn-tectonic Dawros-Currywongaun-Doughruagh Complex, NW Connemara, western Ireland Journal of the Geological Society, London 1998 155 25 37 Yardley B.W.D. Deformation and metamorphism...

...,, at Dawros (Bennett & Gibb 1983) and En8=, at Currywongaun-Doughruagh (Kanaris-Sotiriou & Angus 1976), but compositions more magnesian than En,, are generally unusual; most range between En, and En with the lower limit (below En,) remaining to be determined. Nevertheless the absence of inverted pigeonite...

... , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 45 , 2349 – 2358 . Wellings , S.A. , 1998 . Timing of deformation associated with the syn-tectonic Dawros-Currywongaun-Doughruagh Complex, NW Connemara, western Ireland , Journal of the Geological Society of London , 155 , 23 – 25 . Whalen , J.B...

.... in Harris 1984) which strike E-W and increase in grade southwards, with a high grade area also present near to the Dawros-Currywongaun- Doughruagh intrusion in N Connemara, indicates that genetically the regional metamorphism including the early syn-D, phase, is dominantly related to the metagabbros...