The Physical Geology Geography of Ireland With Two Coloured Maps And Twenty N
The Physical Geology Geography of Ireland With Two Coloured Maps And Twenty N
Edward Hull
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The district is generally an elevated plateau, sloping downwards towards the valley of the Lower Bann, and along the north-western and southern borders, overlooking Lough Foyle and Belfast Lough respectively. It is bounded by noble escarpments with precipitous flanks, rising to elevations of 1, 000 to 1, 560 feet, as repre- sented in the adjoining section taken from one of Gen. Portlock's illustrations (fig. 12). Along the north coast the scenery is often bold and striking ; sometimes, as in th...e neighbourhood of the Giant's Causeway, the cliffs rise from the sea in a series of terraces of dark columnar basalt, with vertical walls, and separated from each other by bands of reddish bole, or volcanic ash. These great beds or terraces represent successive lava flows, and they differ from one another not only in thickness but'in the size and arrangement of the columns. At G 2 84 Geological Formations of Ireland other times, as at Fair Head directly opposite the Mull of Kintyre (fig. 13), huge columns of basalt descend from the top of the cliff in one or two sheer vertical falls of several hundred feet, while at the base of the cliff the shore is strewn with broken columns of trap heaped up in wild confusion ; a Titanic breakwater which the waves of the sea have FIG.
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