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The Carboniferous Rocks of Foynes Island, County Limerick

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Frank Hodson
Frank Hodson
Affiliation:
Geology Department, The University, Reading.
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Abstract

The lithological and faunal successions of some 1,150 feet of Carboniferous beds exposed on Foynes Island, County Limerick, are described and shown to be of Namurian Age. The stratigraphical position of Reticuloceras subreticulatum (Foord) and Homoceratoides divaricatus (Hind) has been ascertained by collecting from the type localities on the island. The palaeogeographical implications of the succession are discussed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , April 1954 , pp. 153 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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