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Looking westwards over Lough Nafooey towards the Mamturk mountains, Co. Galway.
Dr. Ronan Hennessey leading a GGA field trip at Lough Bunny,
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Kamenitza or solution pan in the limestone pavement.
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Visiting the fresh water springs in the bay at Dunguaire Castle, Kinvarra, Co. Galway.
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Prof. Feely highlighting a geological point to GGA members.
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Prof. Mike Williams. R.I.P.
The Great stalactite, Doolin Cave
Storm tossed boulders on Fanore beach
Augrim Quarry, Co. Louth, 2011-03-26. Heavily folded Silurian meta-sediments with a basalt dyke.
Glengowla zinc mine, Oughterard. November 2012.
Dr. Alex Constanzo leads a tour around NUI Galway museum, Heritage week, 2012
On the gemmology course
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Dr. Ronan Hennessey at Fanore, Co. Clare..
Doolin cave visit, 21 Oct. 2012
Rock polished by wind blown sand on the beach at Fanore.
Prof. Paul Ryan. October 2012
Glengowla mine. Going down.
Dr. Alex Constanza conducts the Gemmology course
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Andalucite crystals (pinkish) in pegmatite. Creggan Quarry. Field trip 13April 2013.
Visit to The Marble Arch Cave, Co. Fermannagh, May 11 2013.
The Cladagh River emerges in the Glen. A high energy environment!
Dr Ronan Hennessy giving the "Geology of Cheese" lecture.
Examining rock sections with a polarising microscope
Sample of Schist in thin section under the polarising microscope.
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Prof. Martin Feely explaining the geology of Connemarra to us in Creggan Quarry.
Ripple sculpted walls and water rolled pebbles in the Marble Arch cave.
The boundary between the Dartry Limestone (above) and the less resistant Glencar Limestone formations, Cladagh Glen, Co, Fermanagh.
GGA members enjoying the "Geology and Cheese" lecture given by Dr. Ronan Hennessy (5th from left).
Dr. Sadhbh Baxter, August 17, 2013
The microscopes were very popular!
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A good turnout for Dr. Baxter's workshop. 17 Aug. 2013.
This is the alga Rhabdospheara clavigera whose exoskeletons make up most of the chalk of the White Cliffs of Dover and the Ulster White Limestone. The tests (shells) of plankton like these are built from nanocrystals of calcium carbonate.
Karst limestone at Doolin, Co. Clare.
Pat & Damhnait Muldoon standing astride the diverging N. American & European plates on their 2013 visit to Iceland.
This is the Mullet Gneiss. It is a unit of the Annagh Gneiss Complex at Annagh Head, on the Belmullet Peninsula, Mayo. These are some of the oldest rocks in Ireland, dated to c.1780Ma.
This large block, weighing an estimated 2 tons, has been tossed up on the headland by the force of storm waves.
The sea stack, Dún Briste, at Downpatrick Head, Co. Mayo. A succession of sandstones, limestones and shales formed in a Carboniferous period marine delta.
Svanté Pääbo, keynote speaker, (left), with conference organiser John Murray at the Neanderthal 150 conference, at NUI Galway, May 2014.
Dr. Sadhbh Baxter talking about the Galway granites during the 2014 Heritage Week walk
along the beach at Salthill, Galway.
The Acid Test. Limestone will react with mild acid and fizzes as it gives off CO2.
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The Real Map of Ireland - Ireland's Marine Resource.
From the Marine Institute, Foras na Mara.
Dr. David Drew takes questions after his lecture on Karst and the Burren.
Pat & Damhnait on the forward slope of the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano. This is the volcano that erupted in 2010 and closed down nearly all the airports in Europe.
Foraminifera sand from Dogs Bay, Connemara
Dolerite dyke at Enniscrone, Co. Sligo showing evidence of glacio-tectonic thrusting of the limestone northward (to the left) along it's horizontal bedding planes. The upper part of the dyke has been shoved c.60m along the beach to the north. Note the crumpling and the brecciation of the top layers of the limestone under the till.
Cobbles of Lower Dalradian schist from the Inishkea Division rocks on the beach at Scotchport Bay, Belmullet, Mayo
5.3 million years of sea level change on one cliff face. Sediment layers in the cliffs at Punta di Maiata, Italy. Image: Rohling et al./Nature. See the article at -
http://tinyurl.com/muc48mw
Members relaxing in 'The Scholar's Rest' after Prof. Pete Coxon's (center, in blue sweater) lecture, January 2015.
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Dr. Sadhbh Baxters' Rock Identification workshop, March 14th 2015
Our guide, Davide Gallazzi, shows us the Gneisses at Glen, in the Ox Mountains nr. Ballysadare, Sligo April, 2015
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Using the rock ID key chart at Dr. Sadhbh Baxters' Rock ID workshop, 14th March 2015
Looking at the Mullaghmore Sandstone beds at low tide.
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Large solitary corals in the Glencar limestone at Ballyconnell, Sligo.
Dr. Sadhbh Baxter lead a very successful walk at Salthill for Heritage Week, 2015.
GGA members enjoying our film and social evening, April 28th, 2015. This was the last event before our summer break.
Conodonts lived during the Paleozoic era about 250 to 500 million years ago. They first appeared long before land animals, fish or other creatures with backbones.
Members gather for a photo after the visit to the Connemara Marble quarry at Streamstown, nr. Clifden, Co. Galway.
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The Serpent Rocks. A carpet of prostrated Rugose Corals exposed in the Carboniferous (360-286 Ma) Glencar limestones at Stredagh, Co. Sligo.
They may have been thrown down by a violent storm event in a shallow tropical sea. At this time Ireland was at about the latitude that the Azores are now.
Dr. John Murray, Conodont lecture, 29 Sept 2015
Prof. Martin Feely in the quarry workshop explaining the origin, 470 million years ago, of the Connemara Marble Formation.
A fine example of Connemara Marble.
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There is no need to roll out the red carpet at Daxia in China’s Gansu Province. The jaw-dropping rocky landscape is naturally red from a build-up of sandstone over many millions of years, while the rainbow effect comes from colourful mineral deposits. Sandstone and red mineral deposits were compressed into multi-coloured layers of rock. Movement of the giant plates that form Earth’s crust pushed, cut, and folded the layers. The name Danxia means “rosy clouds” in Chinese. http://www.geologypage.com/2016/02/zhangye-danxia-national-geological-park.html
Photograph: Imaginechina/Corbis
http://tinyurl.com/pntblpj
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The water sculpted rocks of Uluru, after heavy rains.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2016/jan/15/ulurus-magnificent-waterfalls-landmark-transformed-by-rain-in-pictures#img-7
People standing on the edge of the crater while watching the eruption of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo, Indonesia. http://www.independent.co.uk/#gallery
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Professor Patrick Wyse Jackson, TCD. February 02 2016. His lecture was entitled "Phanerotinus cristatus and other iconic fossils"
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Phanerotinus cristatus in all it's glory. One of the best specimens there is of this rare gastropod. Found by Keith Geoghegan near Oughterard, Co. Galway.
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Dr. Sadhbh Baxter's Rock ID course, Feb. 2017
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Buddhist devotees pray at a gold-covered rock topped by a small pagoda on Mount Kyaiktiyo in Mon state, Myanmar. Legend has it that the rock is perched on a strand of the Buddha’s hair.
Must be true because this appears to defy gravity. From the Guardian, UK. http://tinyurl.com/zkhh5n3 |
View of Manorhamilton Castle, Leitrim. Visited on our field trip with Davide Gallazzi.
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A fine Canarian dyke that GGA member Louis Carroll came across while trekking in the Canary Islands recently ( Feb 2017).
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The sequence of limestone facies of Ben Bulban in Sligo. Thanks to Don Cotton.
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Members of the GGA on the March 2017 field trip to Sligo and Leitrim,
led by Davide Gallazzi (North West Geology).
led by Davide Gallazzi (North West Geology).
Members of GGA visiting McGragh's Limestone Quarry on Saturday 17th Feb. 2018
Kevin O'Callaghan (in the blue knitted hat) leding a field trip up the Errif River, March 2019.
A 19th century lead and silver mine in the Sheeffry Hills, S. county Mayo that we visited in March 2019. This small mine, sometimes called Tawnycrower mine, was developed along a shear zone dipping at 60-70 degrees NE-SW in grey Ordovician grits and slates. Judging by the small scale of the workings it appears not to have been very profitable. Irish National Grid ref. L 913692.
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