In addition, a number of intrusive centres, lava flows and dykes crop out in the NW corner of the island. |
The borehole is located onshore NW Wales, a few kilometres seaward of the surface trace of the Mochras fault. |
Microgadus tomcod is a close relation of the cod but much smaller and found only in the NW Atlantic, from Labrador down to Virginia. |
The fact that older rocks progressively outcrop on the plateau surface to the NW suggests that the tilted surface is not a dip slope. |
We interpret this pattern as a Mesozoic normal fault zone whose inversion gave rise, along strike to the NW, to the south Cameros thrust. |
Within the Caledonian Moine nappe of NW Scotland there are a number of basement inliers, the largest of which is the Glenelg-Attadale Inlier. |