Structural Geography of Ireland As Part of the Region of Nw Europe
Structural Geography of Ireland As Part of the Region of Nw Europe
Elenor Butler
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Cave, in Staffa Island, the basalt in cooling formed regular hexagonal prisms like those of the Giants' Causeway. But let us return to the outflows of basalt over Antrim. It is natural to expect that all this molten and immensely heated matter, pushing its way out with such enormous force, would alter the rocks with 62 STRUCTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF IRELAND which it came in contact, just as we have seen that granite altered the rocks through which it sought to force itself upwards. So in reality the b...asalt has altered the rocks through which it rent itself fissures, and over which it lies. It has hardened and compressed the soft chalk rock until, in places, it is almost as hard and as compact as the basalt itself. Sometimes, too, it has transformed whole masses of the chalk PLATE XV. DIAGRAM TO ILLUSTRATE THE OCCURENCE OF WHITE MARBLE AT RATHLIN ISLAND, Co. ANTRIM. A, A, Layers of chalk altered to White Marble. B 5 Basalt which flowed out as molten rock through the dykes D, D, sometimes intruding itself horizontally in veins V, V, through planes of weakness in the chalk.
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