The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . and importance as we proceed further west, and terminating,the southern one in Cape Clear Island, and the other in the MizenHead. Minor undulations also bring up the Bed Bocks on bothsides of Clonakilty Bay, forming the headlands called the SevenHeads and Galley Head, and also in Bearing Water Bay, continuallysub-dividing and narrowing the area of Carboniferous Slate. The Old Bed of the Mizen Head anticlinal makes its first appear-ance in the hill of Knockawadra, 5 miles south of Dunmanway *,stretching thence to the Mizen Head. It was
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . and importance as we proceed further west, and terminating,the southern one in Cape Clear Island, and the other in the MizenHead. Minor undulations also bring up the Bed Bocks on bothsides of Clonakilty Bay, forming the headlands called the SevenHeads and Galley Head, and also in Bearing Water Bay, continuallysub-dividing and narrowing the area of Carboniferous Slate. The Old Bed of the Mizen Head anticlinal makes its first appear-ance in the hill of Knockawadra, 5 miles south of Dunmanway *,stretching thence to the Mizen Head. It was on the south side of * In our published maps, this anticlinal is marked as showing Old Red Sand-stone several miles farther to the eastward; but I now believe that the stronggreen grits and slates which were at jSrst supposed to indicate the top of the OldEed Sandstone, belong in reality k) the Coomhola grits in the CarboniferousSlate. 1866.] JUKES—OLD RED SANDSTONE AND DEVONIAN. 841 -s y, be 7. >^ ^ <D fin P^ M J^ •S ff ej 2 3 bD ^. p^ S &. this anticlinal, 2 miles north-west of the town of Skibbe-reen, in a lane running by theE. C. Chapel of Abbeystrowry,in the townland of Mohanagh(just under the name Clashee-nagnaw, as engraved on theone-inch map), that Mr. Salterand the late James Elanaganand I met with the large castsof CucuUcea, and other fossilsmentioned in a paper by and myself, publishedin the Journal of the DublinGeological Society, vol. vii.,— rounded, sharply keeled, andtrilobated species of Bellero-phon were found here, as wellas a large Lingula, the largeCucuUcea, called afterwards byMr. Salter CucuUcea Griffithii,abundance of Avicula Damno-niensis and Rhynclionella pleu-roclon, and other shells. 10. The Bantry Bay Trough.—On the northern side of theMizen Head anticlinal lies thetrough of Carboniferous Slate,the western extension of whichruns down Dunmanus the northern side of thattrough we again come back tothe ridge of Old Red men
Size: 872px × 2865px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectgeology, bookyear1845
