BCGS

2022

BCGS trip to Dingle, Ireland – 26 to 30 September 2022.
Led by Ken Higgs.

Emeritus Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork.

Photos contributed by Ken Higgs, Ray Pratt, John and Julie Schroder and Jean.
 

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Minard Bay beach south - Ordovician Bealacoon formation. (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Minard Bay beach south - Ordovician Bealacoon formation, melange deposits. (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Minard Bay beach south - Minard Bay Fault. Ordovician Bealacoon formation (left) Devonian Bull's Head Formation (right). (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Minard Bay beach north - Early Ordovician Illaunglass formation - red and yellow mudstones. Looking across from south side. (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Minard Bay beach south - Minard Bay Fault. Ordovician Bealacoon formation (left) Devonian Bull's Head Formation (right). (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Minard Bay beach - just south of Minard Bay fault. Folded sandstones and siltstones in Devonian Bull's Head Formation. (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Minard Bay beach north - Early Ordovician Illaunglass formation - red and yellow folded mudstones. (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Minard Bay beach north - Early Ordovician Illaunglass formation - red and yellow folded mudstones with prominent sandstone layer. (Photo taken before group visit.)

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Inch Conglomerate (with Precambrian metamorphic clasts). Roadside cutting Inch - Dingle road, around 2 km. west of Inch Strand.

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Eask Tower information panel. South side of Dingle Harbour.

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Eask Tower, south side of Dingle Harbour.

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Dingle from Eask Tower. Dingle Harbour Lodge hotel - centre.

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Looking east from Eask Tower.

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Dingle and Dingle Bay from Eask Tower.

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Ken at Dunquin Harbour. Photo by Jean.

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Sea stacks, Dunquin Harbour. Steeply dipping thinly laminated sandstone and mudstone beds of the Devonian Bull's Head formation.

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Sea stacks, Dunquin Harbour. Steeply dipping thinly laminated sandstone and mudstone beds of the Devonian Bull's Head formation.

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Back wall of Dunquin Harbour. Faulted boundary between Devonian Bull's Head Formation and younger Eask Formation (centre of image)

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On Dunquin Pier in the rain.

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Dessication cracks in Bull's Head formation, Dunquin Harbour.

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Back wall of Dunquin Harbour. Faulted boundary between Devonian Bull's Head Formation and younger Eask Formation.

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Coves north of Dunquin Harbour showing former route now cut off by rock falls.

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Slea Head Formation - coarse-grained sandstones at road-side cutting.

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Slea Head. Ken describes the trace fossil burrows (right of Ken's notes) in the Slea Head formation.

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Slea Head. Trace fossil burrows in the Slea Head formation.

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Slea Head in the rain, looking towards Coomeenoole Strand.

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Wine Strand - in the rain again! Lower Devonian Glashabeg Conglomerate Formation, showing boundary with red mudstone.

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Wine Strand. Red Jasper inclusion in the Lower Devonian Glashabeg Conglomerate Formation.

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Wine Strand. Examining the Palaeogene dolerite dyke intrusion into the Glashabeg Conglomerate.

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The view north from Clogher Head. L to R: Sybil Head, the Three Sisters, Ballydavid Head. Right foreground: Clogher Strand.

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Ferriter's Cove - fossil hunting! Silurian Ferriter's Cove Formation. Fossiliferous siltstones, sandstones, mudstones and pyroclastic deposits.

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Ferriter's Cove. Favosites coral

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Ferriter's Cove. A trilobite fossil (Calymene?) found here by Ken. Photo by Jean.

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Ferriter's Cove. 'One I found earlier'! A trilobite fossil (Calymene?) found here by Ken.

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The BCGS Group at Ferriter's Cove, photo by Ken Higgs

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Ferriter's Cove

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Coolalea. Ferriter's Cove Formation

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Group gathering en route to Clogher Strand. Sybil Head behind.

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Boundary Cove, junction between the Ferriter's Cove Formation and Clogher Head Formation (pyroclastic volcanic deposits)

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The group en route to Clogher Strand with the Three Sisters and Ballydavid Head in the background. Photo by Ray.

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Jean, Liz and Val en route to Clogher Strand

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Coosaneal Cove. Photo by Ray.

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Coosaneal Cove. Photo by Ray.

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Loose boulders of Clogher Head Formation volcanics. Note fiamme, and the small sample with volcaniclastic inclusions.

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Specimen hunting around Coosaneal Cove. Looking out toTearaght and Inishtooskert islands .

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Inlet, looking SW to Clogher Head, Tearaght and Inishtooskert

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Alan studying a volcanic bomb. Photo by Jean.

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The group en route to Clogher Strand. Photo by Ray.

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Alan studying the volcanic rocks

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Val examines the trace fossils at Clogher Strand

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Mike at Clogher Strand. Photo by Ray.

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Clogher Strand

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The group on Clogher Strand. Photo by Ray.

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Inishtooskert from Clogher Strand

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Synclinal structure at Clogher Strand

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Minard Bay beach, south. Breccio-conglomerates of the Ordovician Bealacoon formation.

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Minard Bay beach, south. Mudcracks in a loose boulder from the overlying Devonian Bull's Head formation

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Minard Bay beach, north. Early Ordovician Illaunglass formation - red and yellow folded mudstones.

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Minard Bay beach north - Early Ordovician Illaunglass formation - red and yellow folded mudstones with prominent sandstone layer. Don't jump, Adrienne!

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The Group at Minard Bay beach

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Kilmurry storm beach and Minard Castle.

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Kilmurry Bay storm beach

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Kilmurry Bay. Middle Devonian Kilmurry Sandstone Formation showing aeolian cross-bedded foresets.

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MacGillycuddy's Reeks. Looking SE from Kilmurry Bay

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The South Pole Inn, Anascaul. Lunch stop on our final day.

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Trabeg beach

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Devonian Trabeg Conglomerate Formation

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Trabeg beach. Examining the conglomerates

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Trabeg beach, south cove. Eask Sandstone formation with quartz-filled tension cracks.

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Trabeg Beach. Quartz veins in the conglomerate, close to a fault zone.

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Trabeg beach. Mineralisation around the fault zone.

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Trabeg. Quaternary deposits following earlier topography. Includes an enormous erratic!

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From Trabeg beach looking south. Pointnarianna unconformity. Near horizontal beds of Upper Devonian Cappagh Sandstone overlying near vertical sandstones of Lower Devonian Bull's Head formation.

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The Skellig Islands from Connor Pass

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Striations at Loch Doon, Connor Pass

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Brandon Mountain from Loch Doon, Connor Pass