Author: Grenville Arthur James Cole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: P. A. Meere
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848891661
Category : Field guides
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A beautifully illustrated field guide to Ireland's geology, which is both varied and spectacular.

Author: William F. Jenks
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813710650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Paul D. Ryan
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030974790
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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This book contains a comprehensive field guide, including detailed itineraries and supporting data, to the Geology of Western Ireland, a classic site for world geology. It facilitates study into the rock record of the Neoproterozoic ‘birth’ to the Devonian ‘death’ of the Iapetus Ocean along the Laurentian (North American) margin. The enormous variety of lithologies and processes available for study in this spectacularly exposed region include: fluviatile to deep-sea sediments; layered ultramafic intrusions to reverse zoned granite batholiths; zeolite to eclogite facies metamorphic assemblages; continental rifting; subduction processes; island arc evolution; arc-continent collision; Andean margin development; and continent-continent collision. An introduction to the geology, that includes information relevant to the planning and execution of field trips in the region, is followed by nine chapters each providing the necessary background, field itineraries, exercises and points for debate, covering: the Laurentian basement and Neoproterozoic cover of North Mayo, Sligo, the Ox Mountains and Connemara; the metamorphic nappes and syn-orogenic intrusions of the Ordovician Grampian Orogeny; the Cambro-Ordovician subduction-accretion complex of Clew Bay; the obducted Ordovician fore-arc basin of South Mayo; the post-subduction flip late-Ordovician of South Connemara; the Silurian successor basins deformed during the final closure of the Iapetus Ocean; the late to post-orogenic Devonian sediments; the Devonian Granite batholiths ; and the post-orogenic Carboniferous cratonic sediments. Two final chapters summarise: the current tectonic interpretation of this region; areas for future research; and the extensive sources of geochemical and geophysical data.

Author: Andrew Sleeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899702503
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Fran Halsall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711233485
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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From the White Cliffs of Dover to The Old Man of Hoy, from the Giant's Causeway to the peaks of Snowdonia, some of the world's most striking and varied landforms are found in Britain and Ireland. Award winning landscape photographer Fran Halsall has chosen one hundred places which tell the story of how these Isles were made. Arranged in order of their formation, from the three billion year old summits of Scotland's far north west, to Chesil Beach's shingle shore, astounding images and accessible text tell of volcanic eruptions, the collision of continents and aeons of deposits, erosions and upheavals, as well as the ways in which the landscapes of the British Isles have defined and been defined by countless generations.

Author: Diana Morton-Thompson
Publisher: AAPG
ISBN: 0891816607
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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Author: Alfred John Jukes-Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Mike Young (Geophysicist)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908996879
Category : Geochemical surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'Unearthed: impacts of the Tellus surveys of the north of Ireland details how this unprecedented land and air survey of hidden Ireland rewards us with a more complete understanding of the natural history of this region. It tells an epic story of how Ireland's geological past will sustain its future'. Professor Iain Stewart MBEBetween 2004 and 2013, e15 million of government and EU funding was spent on high-resolution, airborne geophysical and geochemical sampling surveys of Northern Ireland and the six northern counties of the Republic of Ireland. This book presents some of the findings of the first two stages of Tellus, the largest collaborative cross-border programme of geoscience surveys ever undertaken on the island of Ireland. Tellus is a concerted cross-border investment in the terrestrial geosciences, intended both to stimulate exploration for natural resources and to generate essential data for environmental management. A huge volume of geoscientific data has already been produced and analysed by researchers in Ireland, the UK and beyond. In this book, scientists who have worked with the Tellus data reflect on the outputs and impacts in terms of the economy, the environment, energy, agriculture and ecology.

Author: Francis Birch
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813720362
Category : Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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