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Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

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Little Deer Park Quarry, Glenarm, Co. Antrim.

Little Deerpark Quarry (Little Deer Park Quarry), Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Taken May 2007. Type locality for gmelinite. The top of the chalk is an eroded land surface and accumulations of resiliant flint nodules in a red clay may be observed in hollows on the original surface (there's one such in the centre of the photo). The basalt lava was erupted onto this surface, and it is the first such flow, immediately above ...
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