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| Guide: Basins and petroleum geology in the north of Ireland JOHN PARNELL, BRYAN MONSON & JIM BUCKMAN Department...Belfast, Belfast B T7 1NN, UK Introduction to basins in the north of Ireland The pre-Devonian terranes...terranes of the north of Ireland consist, from northwest to southeast, of Dalradian and Moinian rocks forming...an Ordovician volcanic terrane which crops out in Co. Tyrone, and the Ordovician- Silurian Longford- Down...Sandstone) sediments which constitute the Fintona Block in Co. Tyrone. The outcrop of Carboniferous rocks (Fig |
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| Geology of the Causeway Coast VOLUME ONE The rugged nortl1ern coast of Ireland displays some of the...science. 1''he close-packed colun1ns of the Giant's Causeway, long re11ow: ned in folklore, and the ammonites...geothermal energy. Plate 1 The Giant's Harp and Chimney Tops, Giant's Causeway. The red ferruginous laterite...Interbasaltic Bed is overlain by two flows of Tholeiitic Basalt lava. Columnar jointing has developed in the lower...flow (NI 712) ... - GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND Department of Commerce of the Causewa Coast |
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| BT9 5AB, Northern Ireland AND E I L E E N FARLEY Geological Section, National Museum of Ireland, 7-9 Merrion...occurrences in Ireland more recent than the Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland of Greg and...known from the British Isles, about 360 occur in Ireland. Forty of these Irish minerals are listed here...the recent growth in mining and quarrying. The Antrim basalts have long been quarried and a notable source...exploration of metalliferous deposits in the Republic of Ireland. Indeed, about half the entries in the list below |
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| 54 Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Roemer—A Visit to Ireland. Man, some well-preserved striations on the sandstone...great land-ice had subsided, the snowfall in these northern regions continued heavy enough to nourish in BO...T HAVE been this autumn in the Land of the Giant's Causeway X. and of the Giant Stag. For a long time...companion on my journey. It is easy to get to Ireland. In a single night's journey one is whirled from...to be had at the Geological Survey Office for Ireland, which forms a department of the Government Geological |
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| Geology of the Coasts of Antrim and Londonderry, and on the Age of the Giant's Causeway; being Observations...Observations made in the North of Ireland in the Autumns of 1865 and 1866. By Mr THOMAS SMYTH. The distance from...from Belfast in Antrim to the shores of Lough Foyle in Londonderry is/as the crow flies, about 60 miles...tourist and geologist as the coast of the north of Ireland, consisting, as it does, of frowning precipices...but lovely glens, and narrow ravines cut in the basalt and chalk. The western portion was -visited by |
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| 493 SUMMER FIELD MEETING, 1935. NORTH-EAST IRELAND. August 13th to 23rd, 1935. Report by Professor J...Belfast , from 13th August to roth August , and th e Antrim Arms Hot el, Ballycast le, from roth August to...The members entered the Scrabo quarries at th e northern end, where lunch was taken, and work ed syst ematically...comple x by coach. A halt was first made at the northern end of the hill Seeconn eIl, where the biotite-pyroxenite...the Carrickbroad vent-materials and the Glendooey basalt lavas. Beyond Mullaghbawn the party ascended the |
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| • Geology of the Causeway Coast VOLUME TWO The rugged northern coast of Ireland displays some of the...the science. The close-packed columns of the Giant's Causeway, long renowned in folklore, and the ammonites...geothermal energy. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND Department of Commerce H. E. WILSON and P...H. E. and MANNING, P. I. 1978. Geology of the Causeway Coast. 2 vols. Mem. Geol. Surv. North. lrel.,...WILSON, MSc, MIMM, MIGeol Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Belfast P. I. MANNING, TD, BSc, MIWES Institute |
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| September 1998 University College, Worcester 1st UK RIGS Conference With the RIGS initiative forging...Lake District Matthew Parkes: Site protection in Ireland Philip Doughty: Survey of progress in conservation...and failures. Experts and practitioners from the UK and Europe will be involved in what will be an historical...Dinosaur Society UK: British dinosaurs - their life and times. Contact: The Dinosaur Society UK, PO Box 329...Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, and the Environment and Heritage Service (Northern Ireland). Early arrivals |
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| naturalist, Dr. Roemer, writing in 1 8 7 6 , calls Ireland "the Land of Giant Stags, and Giant Causeways,"...be seen in our museums, but to study the " Giant's Causeway" we must visit the Emerald Isle itself, and...part of which two tunnels have been cut for the Northern Counties Railway. Beyond this the coast-line,...Castle, said to be amongst the most picturesque in Ireland, and from it very fine views of the wide coast... and the high cliffs which overhang the " Giant's Causeway." Then comes White Bay, from which the " White |
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| The amygdale minerals in the Tertiary lavas of Ireland. iII. Regional distribution. By G. P. L. WALKER...occur at most of the 670 localities studied in the Antrim Basalts, and the ten most abundant species, in...age of zeolitization in the volcanic history of Antrim. In places the zeolite zones are missing, and in...tholeiite lavas that occupy a smal! area in north Antrim have an amygdale mineral assemblage different from...and other secondary minerals in amygdales in the Antrim Basalts. The study has been based on the examination |
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| to the north of Ireland, where I utilised my spare time by visiting the Giant's Causeway and the district...which most interesting views were obtained of the Antrim chalk cliffs with their basaltic caps. This most...equivalent of the English chalk, and overlaid by basalt which has burnt them nearly as hard as itself....runs inland, and shortly we arrive at the Giant's Causeway, the terminus of the car line. On my second...another drive of 13 miles brought us to the Giant's Causeway. By taking the electric car to Portrush, and |
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| and even harder rocks, like those of Muckros Head, co. Donegal (see Plate XX), are constantly subject to...Carboniferous Sandstone : Muckros Head, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core...E. Welch ; 1890. At Muckros Head, in the west of Co. Donegal, an outlier of Lower Carboniferous, sandstone...may be specially mentioned a fine example of a basalt dyke taken by Mr. E. Welch, (B.A.) 974, and described...chalk on the south side of Cave Hill, Belfast, co. Antrim. The chalk itself is converted into a hard white |
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| p is jJY;lIteti all f ape ,..suitable for usater-co/our, VI. T tie narrow nnsttadcd a1'cas on tlu:...'o zl'" L ou.!Jh- JVR..ajllv. GEOLOGICAL MAP OF CO UNTY AN TRDI, By A. ~ IcIlE:\RY S(t"~' 4 tI, J...~1lI \t.) . ) 12 9 SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF CO. ANTRIM. BvALEX. McHENRY ~I.R.I.A., ofthe Geological...SZI1vey of Ireiand, Read 5th Juty, I895.) County Antrim is particularly interesting to the Irish T H Egeologist...occurs throughout Ireland. Beginning with the older formations, we have, in the northern portion of the |
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| Natrolite occurrence near Kinbane (White Head~, County Antrim. B y F. N. As~c~o~'T, M.A., F.G.S. [Read November...however, t h e y are usually labelled as from the Giant's Causeway2 This error in localization is largely...tbr by the fact t h a t the guides at the Giant's Causeway regularly offer specimens of the mineral for...visitors, together w i t h other so-called Giant's Causeway minerals, fossils, and flint implements. When...When v i s i t i n g the Giant's Causeway in J u n e , 1909, several good specimens of this natrolite |
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| Kilauea Tholeiites 1840pb picritic basalt (1840 flow), 1840B basalt of 1840 (Muir and Tilley, 1963, 1964)...1928). Average analyses of the calc alkali series, basalt to rhyolite B-R (Nockolds, 1954). locality prevented...the lavas of the Middle Series of The Giant's Causeway, Antrim (Table 1, analyses 6 and 5) is clearly...quality, and we have already noted that the Staffa basalt quoted as an olivine tholeiite is in fact a representative...the Middle Lava Series of the Antrim Plateau, e.g. at the Giant's Causeway (cf. analysis 5 of Table 1) |
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| linotolrirgt THE CHANGEFUL EAETH MACMILLAN AND LONDON . CO., LIMITED BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN...BOSTON CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO ATLANTA THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, TORONTO LTD. THE CHANGEFUL EAETH...IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE FOR IRELAND MACMILLAN AND ST. CO., LIMITED MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON...STORY OF THE A Visit to the Causeway 117 VIII GIANT'S CAUSEWAY The Volcanic Lands of Central...Central The Rival Ideas about the Giant's Causeway Volcanic Lands of Ireland and tho Hebrides France 94 |
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| The Geology of North-East Ireland account of the geology of North-East Ireland, which lies within the region...quarter-inch Sheets 2 and 5 of the Geological Survey of Ireland, contributions have been made by C. H. Emeleus...Charlesworth has written the remaining sections and co-ordinated the whole. TO THIS COMPOSITE 1. INTRODUCTION...rocks of the Highland Border Ridge of north-east Antrim (and their western continuation in the Sperrin...and Castlereagh Hills. 2. DALRADIAN ROCKS OF CO. ANTRIM Schistose rocks underlie about seventy square |
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| XIV.—The Tertiary Dolerite Plugs of North-East Ireland—A Survey of their Geology and Geochemistry.* By...associated with the Tertiary lava plateau of north-east Ireland. All but two of the plugs are composed of olivinedolerite...olivine-dolerites and the average Tertiary olivine-basalt lava of the area. The petrogenetic relationships...INTRODUCTION igneous activity in the north-east of Ireland was both widespread and varied in nature. An extensive...in north Antrim these are of olivine-free or olivine-poor tholeiitic basalt, and in mid-Antrim of rhyolite |
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| igneous formations cropping out in Ulster (Northern Ireland), part of the Thulean Province, leads to the...(b) Location of Antrim basaltic plateau and Mourne granitic intrusions in northern Ireland (after Upton...in western Scotland, the Faeroe Islands and Northern Ireland (Dickin 1988; Figure Ib). In this paper, we...reconstruction on new data collected in Northcrn Ireland with consideration of results previously obtained...interpret the Ccnozoic palaeostress fields in Northern Ireland, with special reference to magnetic anomaly |
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| Geochemistry of the Tertiary volcanism of Northern Ireland J.A. Barrat *, R.W. Nesbitt Unicersity of...S017 IBJ, UK Received 1 July 1994; accepted 22 August 1995 Abstract The Antrim Plateau (Northern Ireland)...Formation having a basaltic member known as the Causeway Member. New chemical and Sr-Nd isotopic data covering...Upper Formation basalts and the majority of the Causeway Member basalts are LREE-enriched with no convex...shape in their REE pattern; and (3) some of the Causeway Member basalts are LREE-depleted and similar to |
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| Some Observations on the Antrim Basalts and Associated Dolerite Intrusions by G. P. L. WALKER Received...characters of the Tertiary basalt lavas and minor intrusions of north-eastern Ireland. Individual lava flows...six miles. Basalt pegmatites are described which bear sodalite, a mineral new to Ireland. Composite lava...lava flows are recorded for the first time in Ireland. Several examples have been located, and in each...but unchilled contact, are of olivine-basalt and picrite-basalt respectively. The lavas are associated |
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| basalts of Mull and the tholeiitic basalts of Northern Ireland are explained along similar lines. THE chilled...2). The counts for the other plateau magma-type basalt, also from Morven (Bailey et al., 1924, Table I...the two examples of tholeiitic basalts from Northern Ireland here considered, the relative numbers of the...quite different : thus in the tholeiitic basalt of the Giant's http://journals.cambridge.orgDownloaded:... Ophitic Texture in Chilled Gabbro, Skaergaard 361 Causeway (Plate XVII, C) the number of pyroxene crystals |
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| projects to involve GCG and other European partners. A co-ordinating committee is developing a proposal for...Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland tel 010 3531 702 1477, fax 010 3531 671 1199, e-mail...Corresponding members reporting to Committee: Monica Price (Co-editor, Copmlite), Oxford University Museum of Natural...Survey of Ireland by M A Parkes and A G Sleeman, 1997. Dublin: Gmlogical Survey of Ireland, X + 124pp...Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. 1998 subscriptions and |
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| Basalt Lavas in Antrim. 501 Differentiation in Basalt Lava, Island Magee, Co. Antrim. By S. I. TOMKEIEFF...TOMKEIEFF, F.G.S. INTRODUCTION. rPHE plateau-lavas of Antrim cover an area of approximately -L 1,550 square...olivine-basalt lava has never been analysed. Generally speaking the plateau-lavas of Antrim are divided...The lower lavas all over Antrim belong to the same type, namely olivine-basalt (dolerite), a typical representative...two contrasted types :— (a) Tholeiitic type (Giant's Causeway type)—a representative of the Tholeiitic Magma-type |
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| Contraction Crack Networks in Basalt Flows By I. J. SMALLEY ABSTRACT The traditional concept of contraction...configuration very close to that observed in real basalt flows. I. INTRODUCTION lavaflowscontract on cooling...The conditions under which the basalt cools and the nature of the basalt result in the formation of columnar...considerable attention, in particular the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland (Tomkeieff 1940) and the Devil's...columns occur most frequently. His results for basalt flows are summarised in Table 1. BASALTIC TABLE |
