Caledonian and Tertiary magmatism in Northeast Ireland: Newry, Mourne Mountains and Carlingford.

Saturday 14th- Sunday 15th April 2012.

Leader: Dr Ian Meighan (Queens University Belfast)

   

Itinerary

Meeting place: Castlewellan Village Square, 11am Saturday On Saturday we will explore the North Eastern end of the Newry complex including biotite pyroxenite and marginal granidorite as well as a visit to a quarry in NE Newry showing the granodiorite pluton. We will then explore the contact between the G4 & G5 granite plutons, which represent successive granite intrusons, in western Mourne granites. Sunday On Sunday we will explore the Slieve Gullion forest drive, witnessing the new roadside exposures on Dublin Road above Newry, displaying the Slieve Gullion ring-dyke as well as the Newry granodiorite of SW pluton of the Mounrne Granite system. The weekend will end with a visit to the beach at Rathcor on Carlingford Peninsula to see a miscellany of Newry. The Slieve gullion and Carlingford beach rounded cobbles will also be of interest, as this was one of the Neolithic collection points for Newgrange material.   Suggested accommodation: Belmont Hill Guest House (18 Downshire Raod) + 44 28 3026 2163 Canal Court Hotel, Newry +44 28 3025 1234

For registration please contact excursions secretary Dan O’Shea by email, excursions@geology.ie