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Fossil content and age of the greywacke formations west of the Leinster Granite in Counties Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow, Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

P. M. Brück
P. M. Brück
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Geological Survey of IrelandHume Street, Dublin, 2
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Summary

The Lower Palaeozoic strata west of the Leinster Granite in eastern Ireland, normally referred to as Ordovician, are mainly a greywacke sequence which lithologically resembles undoubted Silurian rocks elsewhere to the north and west. A scanty fauna occurs which could be either Ordovician or Silurian.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 108 , Issue 4 , July 1971 , pp. 303 - 310
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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