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| Loop Head Cliff Section, Co Clare, Ireland / 003 South side of Loop Head photographed by David Pyles
Kendall, Haugthon and Pyles Click Galleries for USC Sequence Stratigraphy photo galleries or on Strata for USC Sequence Stratigraphy kendall@sc.edu |
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003 The Ross Formation on the south side of Loop Head photographed by David Pyles from the Shannon Estuary. The rocks are represented by turbidite sheet sands that accumulated as deepwater fan lobes that were dissected by sparse shallowly incised channels. As Elliot (2000) records these are the thicker bedded, high net-to-gross, sheet turbidites of the lower part of the Ross Sandstone Formation turbidite system. The height of these cliffs is between 45-50 m.