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Notes on the Geology of Killary Harbour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. J. McLaren  and
T. G. Miller
D. J. McLaren
Affiliation:
(Sedgwick Museum)
T. G. Miller
Affiliation:
(Sedgwick Museum)
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The Rosroe Peninsula, on the south side of Killary Harbour, Co. Galway, is formed of the Rosroe Grits, mapped by the Geological Survey of Ireland (1875) as “Lower Silurian”. Kilroe (1907) in a rapid revisionary survey of Galway and Mayo, described the succession on Rosroe as inverted (op. cit. p. 154, n. 3):—

“ Mr. McHenry informs me that the fossils (graptolites) on the south side are indicative of Upper Llandeilo, while those on the north side are Lower. This being the case, the order of the beds is inverted, as they dip northerly.”

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Geological Magazine , Volume 85 , Issue 4 , August 1948 , pp. 217 - 221
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1948

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