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III.—On the Lower Silurian Felsites of the South-East of Ireland1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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The felsites of the south-east of Ireland are shown on the maps, of the Geological Survey to extend over considerable areas in counties Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford. Like the Welsh felsites they are contemporaneous with Lower Silurian (Ordovician) strata, and were probably erupted on an old sea-bottom. They are accompanied by abundant deposits of tuffs and breccias, the component fragments of which consist mainly of felsite.
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Read at the Newcastle Meeting of the British Association, Sept. 13th, 1889.
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page 545 note 2 Sheets 130, 139, 148, 149, 158, 167, 168, 169, 178, and 179.
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page 545 note 4 Should the soda be in but slight excess of the potash, the rock might be termed a soda-potash-felsite. The term keratophyre (originally suggested by Gümbel) has been applied by Lossen to a rather indefinite group which includes rocks similar in character to those in Group III. The term soda-felsite appears more applicable to these rocks.
page 546 note 1 The whole of the potash has been calculated as orthoclase from the formula K2O. Al2O3. (SiO2)6; and the soda as albite from the formula Na2O. Al2O3. (SiO2)6.
page 546 note 2 See also three analyses of felsites from the counties of Wicklow, Wexford, and Waterford by the RevHaughton, S. (Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. vol. xxiii. part ii. 1859, p. 615).Google Scholar
page 546 note 3 See also two analyses of soda-felsites from the Waterford coast by the late Phillips, J. A. (Phil. Mag. 1870, vol. xxxix. p. 12;Google Scholar Geol. Mag. 06, 1889, p. 288),Google Scholar and an analysis of a Wicklow soda-felsite by the author (Geol.Mag. 02. 1889, p. 70).Google Scholar
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page 549 note 4 Nothing of the nature of microfelsite (in Rosenbusch's sense) has been observed by me during the examination of these rocks.
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