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Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

Subject Areas: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Publisher: The Royal Irish Academy - Royal Irish Academy
ISSN: 0790-1763
SJR: 12

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EMPLACEMENT CONDITIONS OF A PORPHYRITIC FELSITE DYKE AND TIMING OF MOTION ALONG THE COOLIN FAULT AT BEN LEVY, CO. GALWAY

Johnson, A.. Elizabeth

2011 Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

doi:10.3318/IJES.2011.29.1

A NNE-trending porphyritic felsite dyke located on Ben Levy in Co. Galway cross-cuts the E—W trending Coolin Fault. The porphyritic felsite is an altered rhyolite containing ocellar feldspar with rare apatite inclusions, quartz phenocrysts as well as minor ilmenite, rutile and zircon, all within...
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REDISCOVERYOFA TYPE SPECIMEN OF RETEPORA PLUMA PHILLIPS, 1836, THE TYPE SPECIES OF PENNIRETEPORA D'ORBIGNY, 1849 (FENESTRATA, BRYOZOA), AND REPLACEMENT OF ITS NEOTYPE

Wyse Jackson, N.. Patrick

2011 Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

doi:10.3318/IJES.2011.29.15

Penniretepora d'Orbigny , 1849, is a widespread and distinctive Upper Palaeozoic acanthocladiid bryozoan. A syntype of the type species Retepora pluma Phillips, 1836, has been located, illustrated and designated lectotype, and the neotype designated in 1974 is set-aside.
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A LETTER FROM WILLIAM BOOKEY BROWNRIGG TO THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, DATED 29 NOVEMBER 1865, AUTHORISING HIM TO DESCRIBE HIS FOSSIL VERTEBRATES FROM JARROW COLLIERY, CO. KILKENNY AND GIVING DETAILS OF HIS FIND

Wyse Jackson, N.. Patrick

2011 Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

doi:10.3318/IJES.2011.29.19

William Bookey Brownrigg, who discovered the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) vertebrate fossils at Jarrow Colliery, Co. Kilkenny in 1864, published a short paper on the material. Shortly afterwards E.P. Wright, a zoologist from Trinity College Dublin, contacted Thomas Henry Huxley with a view...
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DISCUSSION OF MEGACLAST TRANSPORT AND EROSION OF ROCKY SHORELINES: A COMMENT ON WILLIAMS (2010)

Knight, Jasper

2011 Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

doi:10.3318/IJES.2011.29.23
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THE CHALK OUTLIER AT BALLYDEENLEA, CO. KERRY; A STORY OF DISCOVERY

Herries Davies, L.. Gordon

2011 Irish Journal of Earth Sciences

doi:10.3318/IJES.2011.29.27

In 1960 P.T. Walsh discovered a small outlier of Upper Cretaceous chalk at Ballydeenlea to the north of Killarney, Co. Kerry. The background to the discovery is explained, and evidence is presented suggesting that M.F. O'Meara of the Geological Survey of Ireland may have visited the site in July...

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