2nd Gallery: Geology of southern tip of Hook Head and Templeton Bay - Paleozoic Section of Hook Head, South West Coast of Co Wexford, Eire

Second Page Introduction
This is the second page which links to a gallery of diagrams and photographs that illustrate the geology of the Paleozoic rocks that outcrop on Hook Head in South West County Wexford. The photographs were taken by Christopher Kendall on a field trip lead by Peter Haughton and Ian Somerville of the University College of Dublin of Ireland. If you wish to read an introduction to the Geology of Hook Head click on the highlighted words to left.

The photographs occur in same order the outcrops of Hook Head were visited on this trip and the stops immediately below are from Hook Head to Templeton Beach.

Hook Head Lower Carboniferous shelf slope carbonates
This f irst stop is located on the southwestern end of Hook Head adjacent to the lighthouse. The Lower Carboniferous shelf slope carbonates are largely formed of bioclastic packstones to wackestones. The rocks are highly bioturbated exhibiting a Cruziana Ichnofacies. Bedding planes appear to be current or wave driven erosion surfaces. Sediment surfaces are often coated by fenestral bryozoans. There abundant crinoidal remains and other echinoidea fossils. Corals and brachiopods are common too. Small monoclinal like Variscan folds are common.

Hook Head Lower Carboniferous dolomitized carbonate grainstones
This stop is located on the west side of Hook Head around half a mile from the lighthouse. The dolomites are largely grainstones. The rocks are highly crossed bedded with some bioturbation exhibiting a Scolithos Ichnofacies, suggesting a nearshore beach or barrier facies. Bedding planes are often draped by finer sediment.

Templetown Bay on west side of Hook Head
Late Cambrian contact with overthrust and/or unconformable Devonian. Late Cambrian Cambrian Booley Bay Formation is formed of thin bedded fine quartz sands, silts and shales that show small scale slumping and current ripples within sharply defined continuous beds. They show some evidence of Variscan structural deformation, including tight folding. The Devonian grades from low angle cross beds of conglomerate and coarse sands, to more steeply inclined cross bedded sands with gravels floating in this matrix.

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000 Geological Map Hook Head & Wexford	001 Hook Head Co Wexford Waves	002 Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Arrival	003 Hook Head Co Wexford Peter Haugthon	004 Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Carb Slope Lst
005 Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Carb Slope Lst	006 Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Carb Slope Lst	007 Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Carb Slope LstVariscan Folds	008 Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Carb Slope LstVariscan Folds	009 Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Carb Slope LstBryozoan & Crinoids
010 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope LstBryozoan	011 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst Bryozoan Crushed Echinoid	012 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst	013 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst Crinoids	014 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst
015 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst Zoophycus	016 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst Horn Coral	017 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst Thallasinoides Cruziana Ichno Facies	018 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst Cruziana Ichno Facies	019 Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Slope Lst Thallasinoides Cruziana Ichnofacies
020 Hook Head Co Wexford Quaternary	021 West Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Dolomotic Grainstones	022 West Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Dolomitic Grainstones	023 West Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Dolomitic Grainstones	024 West Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Dolomitic Grainstones Scolithos Ichnofacies
025 West Hook Head Co Wexford Lower Carb Dolomitic Grainstones Scolithos Ichnofacies	026 Knight Templars Church Templetown	027 Templetown Co Wexfprd Peter Haugton	028 Late Cambrian Templetown Bay Entrance	029 Late Cambrian Templetown Bay Entrance
030 Late Cambrian Templetown Bay	031 Late Cambrian Templetown Bay Entrance	032 Dimitri Grazhdankin Templetown Bay Entrance	033 Beach Gravel Templetown Bay	034 Stream Thru Beach Gravel Templetown Bay
035 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Slumps Templetown Bay	035a Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Templetown Bay	036 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Slumps Templetown Bay	037 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Slumps Templetown Bay	038 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Synclinal Fold Templetown Bay
039 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Folding Templetown Bay	040 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Folds Templetown Bay	041 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Slumps Templetown Bay	042 Late Cambrian Deepwater Slope Folds Templetown Bay	043 Late Cambrian contact with overthrust & or unconformable Devonian Templetown Bay
044 Late Cambrian ontact with overthrust & or unconformable Templetown Bay	045 Late Cambrian close to Devonian contact Templetown Bay	046 Late Cambrian close to Devonian contact Templetown Bay	047 Late Cambrian close to Devonian contact Templetown Bay	048 Late Cambrian close to Devonian contact Templetown Bay
049 Late Cambrian close to Devonian contact Templetown Bay	050 Late Cambrian close to Devonian contact Templetown Bay	051 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	052 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	053 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands
054 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	055 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	056 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	057 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	058 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands
059 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	060 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	061 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	062 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	063 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands
064 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	065 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	066 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	067 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	068 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands
069 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	070 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	071 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	072 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	073 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands
074 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	075 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	076 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	077 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands	078 Devonian Terrestrial Conglomerates & Sands
079 Polychaete Burrows Templeton Beach	080 Polychaete Burrows Templeton Beach	081 Polychaete Burrows Templeton Beach	082 Ian Somerville Templeton Beach	083 Ian Somerville Templeton Beach

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