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As the climate cooled, soil formation slowed, and a flora and fauna that would millions of years later be familiar to the first human inhabitants began to emerge. The present landscape of Ireland had more or less formed. [14] Before the Quaternary glaciations the Irish landscape had a thick weathered regolith on the uplands and karst in the ...
The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir) [1] is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. [3] [4] It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
Benbulbin (Irish: Binn Ghulbain), [1] sometimes Benbulben or Ben Bulben, is a large flat-topped nunatak [2] rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland. It is part of the Dartry Mountains, in an area sometimes called "Yeats Country". [3] [4] [5] Benbulbin is a protected site, designated as a County Geological Site by Sligo County Council. [6] [7]
Rock formations of Northern Ireland (3 P) Pages in category "Rock formations of Ireland" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Burren (/ ˈ b ʌr ə n / BURR-ən; Irish: Boirinn, meaning 'rocky district') [1] is a karst/glaciokarst landscape centred in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland. [2] It measures around 530 square kilometres (200 sq mi), within the circle made by the villages of Lisdoonvarna, Corofin, Gort and Kinvara. [3]
The oldest known Irish rock is about 1.7 billion years old and is found on Inishtrahull Island off the north coast of Inishowen [4] [5] and on the mainland at Annagh Head on the Mullet Peninsula. [6] The newer formations are the drumlins and glacial valleys as a result of the last ice age, and the sinkholes and cave formations in the limestone ...
Irish home: Dublin The band's run: 2014-present What you'll hear: Crashing through 2020's "A Hero's Death," this is a slice of perfectly jittery, drum-and-bass-heavy power-pop that lives somewhere ...
Irish geologic formation stubs (49 P) C. ... Pages in category "Geologic formations of Ireland" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.