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Hornfels from
Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Type:Hornfels
Age information
Maximum recorded age:55.0 ± 0.8 Ma
Minimum recorded age:53.6 ± 0.8 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
155.0 ± 0.8 MaEoceneNI28
253.6 ± 0.8 MaEoceneNI28
Sample references:
1NI28
2NI28
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hornfels data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1095424
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1095424:1
GUID (UUID V4):5622c8cf-71f5-4416-b493-7883bc875ea9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Geology of North-East Ireland account of the geology of North-East Ireland, which lies within the region...Geological Survey of Ireland, contributions have been made by C. H. Emeleus (Mourne granites), A. E. Griffith...(Fig. I). In the south they consist of the worn-down stumps of the Caledonian orogene of Ordovician and...(and their western continuation in the Sperrin Mountains) and the Old Red Sandstone of Cushendun-Cushendall... 71, PART 4. 1960 28 GEOLOGY OF NORTH-EAST IRELAND 430 ~Rot hlin (i Isla nd t . . '''Iyol''.
Report (issue)
Geology around the University Towns: North-East Ireland-The Belfast Area by J. K. CHARLESWORTH and J. PRESTON...Immediate Surroundings II. Slievc Croob and the Mourne Mountains 111. Slicvc Gullion and its Ring-Dyke IV....1958 PRICE; THREE SHILLINGS . .• North-East Ireland: the Belfast Area b�· J. k. CHARLESWORTH and J...and (on a clear day) of Slieve Croob and the Mourne Mountains. The monument on Scrabo Hill is also visible...CHARLESWORTH AND J. PRESTON ·-+- NORTH-EAST IRELAND-THE BELFAST AREA 3 Fig.�- Sketch-map of Collin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lava eruption in Northern British Tertiary volcanic province are listed and Ireland may not be represented...Mull, Staffa, Arran, Antrim, Eocene. the Mountains of Mourne, Carlingford, the ' T E R T I A R Y ' VOLCANIC...Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde, in northeast Ireland, on L u n d y island in the Bristol C h a n n e...x29, t973, PP. 4t9-443, 6 figs. Printed in Northern Ireland. Downloaded from http://jgs.lyellcollection...for the one determination of 75 4- 7 m.y. on the Mourne granite, which appears to be incompatible with
Book
LIBRARY j s i~sc_::. HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF' IRELAND Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with...org/details/historicalgeolog0000jkch HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF IRELAND BY J. K. CHARLESWORTH C. B.E., D .Sc., PH.D....been attempted for Ireland since Cole and Hallissy's Handbook of the Geology of Ireland of 1924: the author's...author's Geology of Ireland: An Introduction ( r 953) had in mind the elementary student or the general...improve our knowledge of the various systems in Ireland. Many problems, however, await their final solution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens found by the late Arthur Kingsbury (I9O6-68). County references are to the old boundaries, throughout...limestone, at Gortdrum mine, Oola, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. BM(NH) specimens, collected by A. J. Criddle and...mineral or both, on quartzose matrix at Hingston Down Consols, Calstock, Cornwall. A new species. R. J...thermally altered chalk at Carneal, Co. Antrim, Ireland. A new species. C. Henmi, I. Kusachi, K. Henmi...record by S. Haughton (I856), from the Mourne Mountains, Ireland, lacked confirmatory detail.] Cinnabar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
International Reference samples and those from the Mourne Mountains) were crushed in a jaw crusher, with steel...greisen from Grainsgill in the Lake District of northern England is not. Greisens from both areas are metalliferous...( 4 ) ~ aplite (1) quartz tourmaline rock (1) hornfels (1) Land's End -- granites (4) pegmatite (1) greisenized... Lake District, northern England: Greisen (1) 0.20 Mourne Mts., northern Ireland: Granites (3) Aplite...University, Belfast, for supplying sample powders of Mourne Mountain granites, and to Drs. W.J. Rea and P.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated igneous breccias. A thin biotite-grade hornfels occurs in the undeformed shale, siltstone and...xenoliths, sodalite syenite, nepheline syenite, hornfels, igneous breccias and sodalite syenite xenoliths...Alaska (Coats and Fahey, 1944), Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland (Nockolds and Richey, 1939) and...(1939) Replacement veins in the Mourne mountains granites, Northern Ireland. Amer. J. Sci., 237, 27-47. Rancourt
Catalog/List
wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway l x2 50p...masses in qu artz, under Flux Canyon.Santa Cruz County, ½ x ½ magn ificati on there are small crystals...mixture with Chrysotile. pale grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2...mm long in matrix with Pyrrhotite Ghana Hingston Down Rich silvery masses with Chalcopyrite Quarry,Cornwall...Apple green coatings on granite.Quite well Hingston Down Mine,Hingston ,Cornwall covered Saga Quarry, Tvedalen
Report (issue)
Major granite outcrops in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England 27 Fig 4 Distribution of...major metamorphic 33 rocks of Scotland and Northern Ireland Fig 8 South West England: distribution of...(counties of Leicester and Warwick) 42 Fig 11 Northern England and Southern Scotland: distribution of...outcrop mainly in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the South West and Northern Regions of England. Other...following groups,Artificial, Gritstone, Basalt, Hornfels, Flint, Limestone, Gabbro, Porphyry, Granite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
east coast of Ireland in Co. Louth, 3 miles south of the Irish Free State-Northern Ireland border. The...(1932b), Eeynolds (1951) and Bailey (1956). The Mourne Mountains lie some 5 miles to the north-east of the...the Carlingford complex to the Slieve Gullion and Mourne complexes (in part after Eichey 1932a and Reynolds...The hornfels could have been formed by a gabbro now faulted down and out of sight. This hornfels has...exposures between the gabbroic rocks and Silurian hornfels are infrequent but those seen are sharp (see PL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lxxxviii, XXIII THE TERTIARY RING COMPLEX GULLION (IRELAND) OF SLIEVE BY JAMES ERNEST RICHEY, M.C. B.A...rocks of north-eastern Ireland are confined to two main areas--the Mourne Mountains in Co. ])own and the...Tertiary basalt lavas in western Scotland. In Ireland, the basalts overlie the Antrim chalk and transgress...Silurian, and Ordovician sediments of Armagh and Down. Remnants of the basalts are now known to occur...Slieve Gullion, during the original survey of Ireland over fifty years ago, a typical ring-dyke of acid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
441 THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH-EAST IRELAND. [Written for the Summer Field Meeting, 1935.J CONTENTS. PAGE...Igneous Complex. (b) The Lamprophyre Dykes of Co. Down. CARBONIFEROUS. F.G.S. By Prof. 455 PERMIAN....D., F.G.S., and S. I. Tomkeieff, F.G.S. i. The Mourne Granites and their Dyke-Swarm. ii. The Slieve Gullion...North-East Ireland are simply disposed (see Fig. 5I). They consist in the south of the worn-down stumps of...(Caledonian) and the Mourne (Tertiary) Granites that form the highest eminences in Co. Down. The greater part
Book
location of gemstones in the United Kingdom and Ireland to be published for a hundred years. Based on many...their geographical England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland occurrence. detail, in separate chapters, and specific...M. A. Cunningham, of the Geological Survey of Ireland; W. F.-Davidson, of Penrith; J. N. M. Firth; L...Geological Sciences, Leeds; Miss M. C. Hill, County Archivist, Salop County Council; P. G. Hines; Robert Hogg,...James, Curator, Shrewsbury Museum; D. O. Jones, County Librarian, Anglesey; K. A. Jones, of Queen’s University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
olivine-clinopyroxene-plagioclase-Fe/Ti oxide cumulates. Down faulted against these are a considerable thickness...hundred metres out from the intrusion the basalts are down-warped, becoming near vertical at the contact. Because...development of a granoblastic mosaic with a pyroxene hornfels facies assemblage of plagioclase, spinel, clinopyroxene...~ JMagmotic LiUoise~ .dl~.H20 "" "~ " ',.o/ Mourne Mtns t~O-lO( . . . . \ .~.- .... ~ /~ /i...data for Ailsa Craig, Kangerdlugssuaq and the Mourne Mountains are from Sheppard, Bowden and Brown (unpublished
Catalog/List
SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;;...Pure grey cleavable massive Crystal peak, Park County, Colorado, USA Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 1"...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr CO/3 Montana...lx2 £2 mixture with Chrysotile, pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall MgFeSiO massive...ARSENOPYRJTE Rich silvery masses with Chalcopyrite Hingston Down lx2£1.S0 2x2£3 2x3 £5 FeAsS Qu~,Comwall,England
Journal (volume)
fergusonite and gadolinite in the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland Norman R. Moles and Andrew G. Tindle...Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S. Rumsey, George Ryback and Richard...Goethite pseudomorphs after marcasite from the Northern Pennine Orefield Brian Young and Trevor F. Bridges...professional mineralogists and geologists both in the UK and overseas. One of the main aims of the Society...and let us have your feedback. Forty years ago the UK still had an active metalliferous mining industry
Report (chapter)
women in the history of geological studies in Ireland BETTIE HIGGS1 & PATRICK N. WYSE JACKSON2 1 Department...Cork, Ireland (e-mail: b.higgs@ucc.ie) 2 Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland (e-mail:...of women in the history of geological study in Ireland, interesting social and cultural factors are emerging...geologists, particularly in the Geological Survey of Ireland, but more slowly in academic circles. This paper...start at the very beginning of human settlement in Ireland and speculate who were the first women to take
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fulfilled the conditions which Henry Stopes laid down for its recipients: to have worked 'on the prehistory...breadth of the country and even shipped to or from Ireland . At the factory site or mine it is unusual to...penetration into mid-Wales and even into north-east Ireland. Axes of Group VI and VII have often been found...distinguished. Axes of this type concentrate in north-east Ireland, but two have been found near Limerick and, more...well-known spotted dolerite of the Prescelly Mountains in Pembroke- PREHISTORIC MAN'S USE OF STONE
Book
who is responsible for the parts on Wales and Ireland; and to John Adams, Peter Shepherd, Joan Lawson...EYE VIEW 2 5 1 THE SOUTH WEST 2 WALES 3 IRELAND 4 NORTHERN ENGLAND 6 8 10 5 FROM TWEED TO THAMES...hematite in West Cumberland, lead and zinc in the northern Pennines and a wide variety in the Lake Dis­ trict...widespread in Britain, they are found elsewhere in Ireland, and also, with copper, in the Isle of Man). Copper...mines predominate in the south western tip of Ireland, while some iron occurs to the north. Apart from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the status of the Connemara Schists in western Ireland, potassium-argon ages on which are included in...relationships displayed in Ireland (George, 1960 ; Read, 1961). In Ireland the stratigraphic work of Hartley...schist Moine schist Moine schist Moine schist 30 Hornfels from aureole Pelitic Moine v near contact with...GRANITIC ROCKS FROM THE LOCH LAGGAN AREA, MONADLEATH MOUNTAINS I.D. I.D. I.D. I.D. Method. Co -A AS lies...Sgurr na Seamraig, but there is a spread of ages down to values of 459 and 446 million years for the Loch
Book (volume)
Coast VOLUME ONE The rugged nortl1ern coast of Ireland displays some of the most dramatic geology in the...flow (NI 712) ... - GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND Department of Commerce of the Causewa Coast...MSc, Ml1,1:NI, Ml(}eol Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Belfast P. I. MANNING, TD, BSc, l\tlIWES...Bennett, BSc Geological Survey of ./V�orthern Ireland, Belfast T. P.. Fletcher, MSc, PhD and G. Warrington...SW7 Publications of tl1c Geological Survey of Northern Irelancl BOOKS . The compositio11 and origin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
found, namely between Kukunor and the Nan-Schan mountains, in the Chinese province Kansu. L. J. S. Analyses...composition. 11. J. S. Zinnwaldite from Mourne Mountains, Co. Down. By WILLIAM J. SOLLAS (Proc. Roy. Irish...axial plane, has not been before recorded from Ireland. L. J. S. The so-called Schneebergite. By ARTHURS...100-23 l00*761 98-72 99.49 I L. J. S. Garnet Hornfels from CO. Dublin. By WILLIAM J. SOLLAS (Sci. Proc
Book
This book describes the island of Ireland as a physical whole. Ireland has a peculiar significance in modern...In the early part of the Palaeozoic, north-west Ireland belonged with the New World and the remainder of...Telephone: 01242 714600 A GEOLOGY OF IRELAND Gweedore, County Donegal in September, looking towards...granite mountains under cloud. Frontispiece Photograph by M. C. F. Proctor A GEOLOGY OF IRELAND Edited...E. Wilson Formerly: Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Belfast; presently: Institute of Geological
Report (chapter)
the southern centre, and 6.2 to 4.9 Ma in the northern one. The felsic ring dykes were injected by coeval...episode of cauldron-subsidence of a crustal block down to the degassed magma chamber, induced by pressure...validated by Richey who interpreted the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland (Richey 1928) and afterwards the...Hawaii (Giret et al. 1997). It is located at the northern tip of the Kerguelen Plateau at latitudes 48-50°S...as southern (S), intermediate (I), western (W), northern (N) and northeastern (NE). From 1976 to 1994,
Book
Professor of Geology, University College, Cardiff, UK PERGAMON PRESS QE 2fcl ASI7 Date due 97 11...Caledonian Front The Northern Highlands Shetland The Grampian Highlands (Scotland and Ireland) Connemara and...Southern Uplands The "Southern Uplands" in Ireland South-East Ireland HERCYNIAN TERRAINS 156 7.1 7.2 156...England Midland Valley of Scotland Central Ireland Southern Ireland vii 173 188 201 210 231 238 Contents...9.1 9.2 270 286 Western Scotland North-East Ireland Chapter 10. GEOLOGY OF SOME TRANSPORT ROUTES
 
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