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025-West-Hook-Head-Co-Wexford-Lwr-Carb-Dolimitic-Grainstones-Scolithos-Ichnofacies

025 Scolithos Ichnofacies in Lower Carboniferous dolomitic grainstones (often ooids) from a shallow water high energy depositional setting (barrier islands or tidal shoals?) outcropping on the western coast of Hook Head Co Wexford. Note fine grained partings, cross-bedded character cut by the Scolithos-Ichnofacies

Photos of Paleozoic Geology of Hook Head, Co. Wexford, Ireland / 025 West Hook Head Co Wexford Lwr Carb Dolimitic Grainstones Scolithos Ichnofacies
Photographs by Christopher Kendall
2/27/2006
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