GALLERIES OF DEEPWATER SEDIMENTS & CLARE BASIN IN PARTICULAR

This page gives you access to both the many images and galleries of photographs and figures assembled to describe Deepwater Systems in gerneral and the rocks of Co Clare outcropping along the shores of the Shannon Estuary to Loop Head including the cliffs at Kilcredaun, Rehy, and Kilcloher, the foreshore exposures at Kilbaha and Dunmore Bays, the cliffs at Loop Head; the foreshore exposures at Ross Bay, and Bridges of Ross and the cliffs at Gull Island and Fisherman’s Point, Trusklieve, Foohagh Point, Diamonds Rocks and Spanish Point. The map at the base of the page should help you locate yourself.

Access to Deepwater Images and Photographic Galleries	Click to View
Deepwater Sedimentary Systems - Introductory Diagrams
Deepwater Sedimentary Structures - Fans & Channels
General Figures & Diagrams - the Clare Basin Namurian Deepwater System
Ballybumion and Leck Point - Clare Shales and Ross Formation
Kilcredaun Light - Ross Formation
Rehy Cliff- Ross Formation
Kilcloher Cliff - Ross Formation
Kilbaha - Ross Formation
Dunmore Bay - Ross Formation
Loop Head - Ross Formation
Ross Bay - Ross Formation
Bridges Ross - Ross Formation
Fisherman's Point - Upper Ross Formation
Gull Island - Gull Formation
Trusklieve - Upper Namurian Tullig Formation
Foohagh Point - Listic Fault in the Doonlicky Formation
Diamonds Rocks - Shale Diapir in the Tullig Formation
Spanish Point - Upper Namurian Doonlicky Formation