4th Gallery: Geology of Paleozoic sections of Lumsdin's Bay, Booley Bay, Duncannon Point and Strand on west side of Hook Head, SW Coast Co Wexford, Eire

Introduction
This is the fourth 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 Lumsdin's Bay to Duncannon Beach.

Lumsdin's Bay on west side of Hook Head
Carboniferous Porter's Gate Formation sandstones of the near shore beach to barrier setting that grades coarse to finer cross bedded sands and shales into carbonates. Some the carbonates are fossiliferous mudstones that are inter bedded locally with shale to siltstone of an offshore shelf setting. These sediments were subjected to wave sorting and rippling! This section shows evidence of faulting which causes the section to be repeated!

Booley Bay near Duncannon on west side of Hook Head
Late Cambrian Booley Bay Formation is composed of fine grained sands and shales. These thin bedded fine quartz sands, silts and shales show small scale slumping and locally current ripples. The thickness of the beds varies randomly around one centimenter to around ten centimeters, locally reaching no more than twenty centimeters. Beds have sharply defined continuous surfaces and these beds are thought to have collected below wave base. Bedding planes show evidence of Ediacaran like Ichno Fossils occur as does elephant skin mottling which is thought related to microbial mat development. They show some evidence of Variscan structural deformation, including tight folding.

Duncannon Point and Strand on west side of Hook Head beneath the town of Duncannon
Ordovician Caradocian Caradocian rocks that include andesitic lavas, pillow lavas, ash and graptolitic shales and silts.

 

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181 Olivellites Cruziana Ichnofacies South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	182 Olivellites Cruziana Ichnofacies South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	183 Olivellites Cruziana Ichnofacies South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	184 South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	185 South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous
186 Thallasinoides Cruziana Ichnofacies South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	187 Thallasinoides Cruziana Ichnofacies South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	188 Thallasinoides Cruziana Ichnofacies South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	189 South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	190 South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous
191 Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	192 South Lumsdin's Bay Hook Head Porter's Gate Fm Carboniferous	193 Booley Bay Nr Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian	194 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	195 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
196 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Slumps Below Wave Base	197 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Slumps Below Wave Base	198 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Zircon Sample Location Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	199 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Zircon Sample Location Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	200 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Zircon Sample Location Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
201 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	202 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	203 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	204 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Ediacaran Like Trace Fossils Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	205 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Ediacaran Like Trace Fossils Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
206 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Elephant Skin Microbial Mats Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	207 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Ediacaran Like Trace Fossils Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	208 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	209 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	210 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Slump Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
211 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	212 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	213 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	214 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	215 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
216 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Slump Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	217 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Slump Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	218 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Slump Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	219 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	220 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
221 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	222 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	223 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	224 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	225 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
226 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	227 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	228 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Current Rippled Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	229 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Trace Fossils & Microbial Mat Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	230 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Trace Fossils & Microbial Mat Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base
231 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Trace Fossils & Microbial Mat Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	232 Booley Bay Near Duncannon Hook Head Late Cambrian Booley Bay Fm Slope Sands & Shales Below Wave Base	233 Duncannon Harbour Ordvician Caradocian Andesitic Volcanics & Pillow Lavas	234 Duncannon Harbour Ordvician Caradocian Andesitic Volcanics & Pillow Lavas	235 Duncannon Harbour Ordvician Caradocian Andesitic Volcanics & Pillow Lavas
236 Duncannon Harbour Ordvician Caradocian Andesitic Volcanics & Pillow Lavas	237 Duncannon Harbour Field Trip Climax or End	238 Duncannon Harbour Field Trip Climax or End	239 Duncannon Harbour Field Trip Climax or End	240 Geological Map Hook Head & Wexford

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