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.
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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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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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Back wall of Dunquin Harbour. Faulted boundary between Devonian Bull's Head Formation and younger Eask Formation.
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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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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. 'One I found earlier'! A trilobite fossil (Calymene?) found here by Ken.
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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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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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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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Kilmurry Bay. Middle Devonian Kilmurry Sandstone Formation showing aeolian cross-bedded foresets.
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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.