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IT may be of interest to Alpine geologists to note that the general results now obtained by Mr. Lamplugh in the Isle of Man are, in respect of the origin of the “Crush-Conglomerates” and the causes and effects of differential movements between subjacent series of rock, practically the same as the results previously obtained and described by me in maps and sections of the Enneberg area in South Tyrol (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., cf. M. M. Ogilvie Gordon, 1899, and G. W. Lamplugh. 1900). In both cases the geologist deals with resultant local effects combining the pressure-components of at least two epochs of disturbance. In both cases the geologist is presented with strongly-marked lithological contrasts in the original succession, and, as a consequence, with highly complex superinduced structures due to differential movements between subjacent beds. This remarkable parallelism between the essential geological structures in two neighbourhoods so remote from one another, and in belts of strata belonging to utterly distinct geological epochs, is well worthy of comment and consideration by our present school of geologists.
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GORDON, M. Similar Geological Structures in South Tyrol and the Isle of Man. Nature 61, 490 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061490c0
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