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Pub. Id: A106 (1969)

First Page: 298

Last Page: 308

Book Title: M 12: North Atlantic: Geology and Continental Drift

Article/Chapter: Irish Counterpart of Silurian of Newfoundland: Chapter 23: Central Orogenic Belt

Subject Group: Geologic History and Areal Geology

Spec. Pub. Type: Memoir

Pub. Year: 1969

Author(s): C. H. Holland (2)

Abstract:

Studies of the Irish Silurian contribute to the growing knowledge of regional paleogeography from Britain to Newfoundland. The modified lithostratigraphic nomenclature for the Silurian succession in the western part of the Dingle Peninsula in southwesternmost Ireland includes the Dunquin Group and most or all of the Dingle Group. The Dunquin Group of fossiliferous sedimentary and associated volcanic rocks is divided into five formations. They range in age from earliest Wenlockian to the Leintwardinian Stage of the Ludlovian and are overlain directly by the Dingle Group of coarse, purple, "continental" sedimentary rocks. The Dingle Group includes the rest of the Ludlovian, probably all of the Downtonian, and possibly some of the Devonian. It is overlain uncomformably by yo nger Old Red Sandstone strata, which are folded with the succeeding Carboniferous rocks.

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