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Stratigraphical and structural relationships of the Dingle Group (Silurian), County Kerry, Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. H. Holland
C. H. Holland
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Abstract

Previous views on the relationship between the thick continental deposits of the Dingle Group and the older fossiliferous Silurian rocks of the Dunquin Group are briefly reviewed. Detailed field evidence is presented showing that in the coastal sections of Coosgorrib, Coosglass, and Coosshaun there is faulting between the two groups. The same situation obtains at the northern end of the Great Blasket island. Fortunately inland exposures are sufficient to show that there is stratigraphical continuity from the lower Ludfordian (Ludlow) beds of the Croaghmarhin Formation, at the top of the Dunquin Group, into the purple siltstones of the Dingle Group. The Dingle Group is followed uncomformably by Upper Old Red Sandstone (essentially Upper Devonian).

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Geological Magazine , Volume 124 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 33 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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