| Loop Head Cliff Section, Co Clare, Ireland / 011 Ross Formation of Loop Head Kendall, Haugthon and Pyles Click Galleries for USC Sequence Stratigraphy photo galleries or on Strata for USC Sequence Stratigraphy kendall@sc.edu |

011 The Ross Formation of Loop Head is here expressed as stacked 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. Note the shaley partings that may compartmentalize these sands and seperate them in terms of their reservoir quality from those above. Channeling may enhance vertical reservoir continuity between the stacked sheets.