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Stratigraphy and Origin of the Cork Red Marble

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. E. Nevill
W. E. Nevill
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University College, Cork.
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Abstract

The Cork Red Marble is a coarse, graded but poorly sorted, re-sedimented lime-conglomerate, of Caninian age. It occupies a central position within 4,000 feet of Waulsortian limestones. The pebble content of “porcellanous” calcite mudstone—not in reef facies—is set in a matrix of red clay. Mixed biofacies are represented, because of reworking: fragmented large molluscs, indicative of a nourishing reef habitat, contrast forcibly with a mollusc spat-ostracod assemblage as found in the pebbles. The conglomerate was probably formed when back-reef sediments, which included red clay, were elevated and then redeposited, possibly by turbidity currents

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Geological Magazine , Volume 99 , Issue 6 , November 1962 , pp. 481 - 491
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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