Geology of Kerry-Cork - Sheet 21

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Area covered by the Map and Booklet


Booklet Contents

  • PREFACE
  • GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  • READING THE GEOLOGICAL MAP OF KERRY-CORK
  • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY AND ROCK TYPES OF KERRY-CORK
    • Upper Palaeozoic rocks
    • Variscan deformation
    • Mesozoic rocks
    • Quaternary geology
    • THE BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF KERRY-CORK
      • Old Red Sandstone magnafacies
      • Uppermost Devonian and Early Carboniferous clastic rocks
      • Carboniferous limestones
      • Namurian rocks
      • Westphalian rocks of the Kanturk coalfield
      • Cretaceous rocks
      • Tertiary rocks
      • Igneous rocks
      • Basin and shelf development in the Upper Palaeozoic
      • Structure
          • MINERAL RESOURCES
            • Metallic minerals
            • Industrial minerals and rocks
                • HYDROGEOLOGY
                  • Principal aquifers
                  • Locally important aquifers
                  • Poor aquifers
                  • Warm springs
                      • REFERENCES AND ADDITIONAL READING LIST
                      • APPENDIX 1. Key localities
                      • APPENDIX 2. Brief lithological description of all stratigraphic units shown on sheet 21
                      • APPENDIX 3. Glossary

                          • Two plates from the booklet:

                          Slaheny Valley: the type section for the Bird Hill and Slaheny Formations.

                          Photo by Markus Pracht
                          A clast of vesicular lava in the Subulter Volcanic Formation, from Woods Quarry.

                          Photo by J. Dooley