The Kilmore Coastline in Ireland
by David Tanner, Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover, Germany
The Kilmore coast is on the southern side of the Cashen River, County Kerry, Ireland. THe rock exposed are the Devonian Kilmore Formation, a fine, siliclastic red sandstone sequence. Outcropping above them are approx. 5m of glacial sediments, which consist of badly-sorted sands and gravels.
Taken on 17
August
2010
Submitted on 07 July 2014
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- Europe (2727)
- Northern Europe (613)
- Ireland (28)
- Exact location (-9.7038 W, 52.4800 N)
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sandstone, ireland, kerry, devonian
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