A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . licateLeda were found still in juxtaposition. Foraminifera and S. A. Stkwart, —The Mollusca of the Boulder Clay of theNorth-east of Ireland. Appendix to j^nv. H. , 1879-80. JosiKH Wright, —Post-Tertiary Foraminifera of the North-eastof Ireland. Appendix to/-/ft. , 1879-90. Miss S. M. THOMi>sf)N. — Report of the Geological Committee. , 1893-94. I/yid. 1894-95, 1895-96, etc. R. Ll. Praegek.—Bibliography of Irish Glacial and Post-GlacialGeology. Appendix to//tit:. , 1895-96. 90 Guide to Belf
A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . licateLeda were found still in juxtaposition. Foraminifera and S. A. Stkwart, —The Mollusca of the Boulder Clay of theNorth-east of Ireland. Appendix to j^nv. H. , 1879-80. JosiKH Wright, —Post-Tertiary Foraminifera of the North-eastof Ireland. Appendix to/-/ft. , 1879-90. Miss S. M. THOMi>sf)N. — Report of the Geological Committee. , 1893-94. I/yid. 1894-95, 1895-96, etc. R. Ll. Praegek.—Bibliography of Irish Glacial and Post-GlacialGeology. Appendix to//tit:. , 1895-96. 90 Guide to Belfast. other marine microzoa have been found in clays at consider-able altitudes above sea-level; at 450 feet on CarnmoneyHill and the Knockagh; 800 feet at Wolfhill; and intwo interesting little patches of stony clay at heights of1,100 feet on the Cave Hill, and 1,300 and 1,400 on DivisMountain. It is noticeable that these two last beds appar-ently contained no far-travelled erratics, basalt, chalk, andflint fragments only being found in 1)U The close of the Glacial period leaves its records in manyeskers and in the local moraines of the Mourne mountains,where these moraines have blocked up the ends of thevalleys, producing lakes, which in time may have got filledup, giving us such flats as are found in the Happy the foot of many valleys of the Mournes the glacialdrift has been spread out as a fan talus, as in the valleyabove the Bloody Bridge. Raised Beaches are common features along our coastat varying heights. Occasionally the old sea-cliffs and sea-stacks may be distinguished. Mr. Praeger considers that Stratigraphical Geol(\i^y. 91 the raised beaches and the upjier estuarine clay are con-temporaneous.^ /Raised , Upper estuarine estuarine and clay. are found under much of the low-lying area of the city of Belfast. The various works doneby the Harbour Commissione
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