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Field Trip: Kiltorcan Quarry, Co. Kilkenny with Geologist, Dr Ed Jarvis; Botanist, Howard Fox; Quarry owner, Bee O’Neill and IGA President, Maria Cullen – SATURDAY 11TH AUGUST 2018
11 August, 2018 @ 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM IST
The arrangements are as follows:
Date: 11th August
Meet 10:30hrs until 16:00hrs
Golf Club, Kiltorcan
Teas, coffees, scones will be available for purchase at the golf club house. We will park there and walk to and fro from the quarry.
Leaders: Geologist Dr Ed Jarvis, Botanist, Howard Fox, Quarry owner Bee O’Neill, and IGA President, Maria Cullen
We will need hard hats. Please keep in touch with <howardfox41@gmail.com> about this, as I need to know how many spare hard hats we need to russle up for the party.
Kiltorcan East Quarry is a classic site for Early Devonian Plant fossils including Archaeopteris hibernica. Dr. Jarvis has published on the palaeoenvironment of the plant fossil beds in the quarry.