Notes of a Geologist in Ireland during August and September, 1857

The Geologist ◽  
1858 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 292-296
Author(s):  
W. S. Symonds
Keyword(s):  
British Association ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The South

As the summer approaches, many of the readers of the Geologist will be preparing for their vacation-rambles; and should any think of visiting our Sister Isle—“Old Erin”—the following notes may be of service.We started on a bright August morning of last year for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Dublin, and with the intention of travelling over as much country, breaking as many stones, gathering as many plants, and catching as many salmon as time and circumstances would permit. We were fortunate in our combination of naturalist and sportsman, but as these notes are intended solely for the naturalist, we leave our “salmon struggles” unrecorded—at least in the pages of the Geologist.We travelled by Conway and Bangor to Holyhead, and as it was blowing a gale of wind when we arrived, we determined to wait until the sea was calmer, and, in the meanwhile, to visit the Cambrian rocks of Anglesea.We never saw a more instructive example of contortion and twisting of rocks than is displayed at the South Stack Lighthouse, of which a good sketch is given in Sir R. Murchison's “Siluria.” It is indeed a rugged coast; and the terrible Bay of Caernarvon to the south has been the locale of more shipwrecks than any other in the British Isles. We visited the grand quarries of quartzite, worked on a gigantic scale for the great breakwater. Here, as the geologist approaches the quarry from Holyhead, is a greenstone-dyke traversing the quartzite with a singular vein of pink decomposing felspathic rock.

scholarly journals Mineral and biological ice-nucleating particles above the South East of the British Isles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Sanchez-Marroquin ◽  
Jonathan S. West ◽  
Ian Burke ◽  
James B McQuaid ◽  
Benjamin John Murray
Keyword(s):  
Aerosol Particles ◽  
Ice Formation ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The South ◽  
Cloud Droplets ◽  
Homogeneous Freezing

A small fraction of aerosol particles known as Ice-Nucleating Particles (INPs) have the potential to trigger ice formation in cloud droplets at higher temperatures than homogeneous freezing. INPs can strongly...

IV.—On the South-Eastern Coalfield

1899 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 501-505
Author(s):  
W. Boyd Dawkins
Keyword(s):  
British Association ◽  
Total Thickness ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Rich

The discovery of a coalfield in 1890 at Dover, in a boring at the foot of Shakespeare Cliff, has been already brought before the British Association by the author at Cardiff in 1892, and is so well known that it is unnecessary to enter into details other than the following. The Carboniferous shales and sandstones contain twelve seams of coal, amounting to a total thickness of 23 feet 5 inches. These occur at a depth of 1,100 feet 6 inches below Ordnance datum, and have been penetrated to a depth of 1,064 feet 6 inches, or 2,177 feet 6 inches from the surface. They are identical, as I have shown elsewhere, with the rich and valuable coalfields of Somersetshire on the west, and of France and Belgium on the east

The meteoric stone seen to fall near Crumlin, Co. Antrim, on September 13, 1902

1921 ◽  
Vol 19 (93) ◽  
pp. 149-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazarus Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
British Association ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Lough Neagh ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Village

On Saturday, September 18, 1902, at 10.30 a.m. (Irish time), a stone coming from the sky struck the earth (let. 54° 88' 20" N., long. 6° 12' 10" W. of Greenwich) at a farm, belonging to Mr. Andrew Walker, situated in the district termed Crossbill, a mile to the north of the village of Crumlin, in which there is a station of the same name on the line of railway between Lisburn and Antrim. The place of fall is 3½ miles east of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, and I2 miles almost due west of Belfast, in which city nearly two thousand members of the British Association were then assembled for the annual meeting (September 10-17).

IV.—Further Notes on the Trias of Devonshire, with Special Reference to the Divisional Line between the Bunter and the Keuper in that Region

1904 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-172
Author(s):  
Alexander Ievixg
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Quarterly Journal ◽  
British Association ◽  
The South ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Especial Reference ◽  
Geological Magazine

Mr. Alexander Somervail has been so good as to send me lately a paper read by him before Section C of the British Association at Southport, September, 1903, and printed in the Geological Magazine, Dec. IV, Vol. X, No. 472, October, 1903. The paper contains certain criticisms on the published work of Professor Hull, F.R.S., and myself among the Bed Rocks of the South Devon coast, with especial reference to “ the Base of the Keuper iu South Devon.” I desire to reply here to Mr. Somervail, and in so doing shall have to refer frequently to the three papers of my own published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society in the years 1888, 1892, 1893, and to the paper by Professor Hull in the same Journal in the year 1892. For the sake of convenience and brevity I will refer to these papers by certain letters, as below.

scholarly journals On the occurrence and behaviour of two little-known barnacles, Hexelasma hirsutum and Verruca recta, from the continental slope

1958 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. ◽  
Eve C. Southward ◽  
L. H. N. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The South ◽  
South West

The fauna of the continental shelf and slope between Ireland and Spain has been described by Le Danois (1948), but very little faunistic work has been carried out in the area recently. Since R.V. ‘Sarsia’ was brought into service at Plymouth there have been several opportunities of investigating that part of the slope lying to the south-west of the British Isles. It has been found that, in addition to beds of coral, quite extensive exposures of rocks, stones and gravel occur between 200 and 1000 fathoms. There is a rich epifauna in this area and barnacles are one of the dominant groups.

The sex forms of species in the flora of the south-west of Western Australia

1966 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 303 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Mccomb
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Evolutionary Significance ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Significant Difference

The sex form of each species in the flora of the south-west of Western Australia was determined, and the proportions of the different forms compared with data available for South Australia. Although the western flora has been substantially isolated since at least the mid Tertiary, no significant difference in the proportion of hermaphrodite species from that of South Australia was found. A re-analysis of the sex forms of the flora of the British Isles was also made, and it was found that this flora has a higher proportion of non-hermaphrodite species than has either Western Australia or South Australia. The possible evolutionary significance of these observations is discussed.

The Transepted Gallery Graves of Western France

1939 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Present Writer ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The South ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
South West ◽  
West Midlands

In a recent number of these Proceedings, the present writer defined a type of megalithic burial chamber which was there called the transepted gallery grave, and discussed the distribution of this type in southern Britain. The transepted gallery grave (sometimes called the cruciform gallery grave, or the cruciform allée couverte) consists, as was pointed out, of a central gallery grave or allée couverte with one or two pairs of small rectangular side-chambers: in plan this type of monument resembles either a Latin or a Lorraine cross. Sometimes the gallery extends beyond the last pair of side-chambers, at others it stops flush with them. It will be remembered that we listed eight tombs of this type in England and Wales: Pare le Breos Cwm and Penmaen Burrows in Glamorgan, Nempnett Thrubwell and Stoney Littleton in Somerset, Wayland's Smithy in Berkshire, and three Gloucestershire sites—Uley, Nympsfield, and Notgrove. From the distribution of these chambers it was suggested that some of them formed the primary settlement on the shores of the Bristol Channel of a culture which subsequently spread over south-east Wales, the south-west Midlands, Wiltshire and Somerset, and which we called the Severn-Cotswold culture.It was, moreover, suggested that the origin of the transepted gallery grave in Britain, and therefore of the Cotswold-Severn culture, must be sought for outside the British Isles, and we agreed with Fleure, Forde, and Le Rouzic in deriving these early settlers on the shores of the Bristol Channel from Brittany. In 1936, when the article was written, I knew of only about half-a-dozen transepted gallery graves in France: but in the following year I discovered among the Lukis MSS. at St. Peter Port a number of plans of other transepted gallery graves in western France.

Root Anatomy of 17 Genera Growing in the British Isles

IAWA Journal ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. E. Gasson ◽  
D. F. Cutler
Keyword(s):  
Woody Species ◽  
Root Anatomy ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
The South ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Trees And Shrubs ◽  
Identification Manual

Roots of 23 woody species are described anatomically. They are mostly from species uncommonly planted in the British Isles, and were unavailable at the time the Root Identification Manual of Trees and Shrubs (Cutler et al. 1987) was being written. They were collected from trees blown down in the stonn of October 1987, which uprooted over 15 million trees in the south and east of England. All but one (Tetracentron sinensis) are from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, or Wakehurst Place.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document