- Material:
- Quartzite
- Category:
- Metasedimentary, Metamorphic
- Alternative name(s):
- Colour:
- Pale Yellow to Brown
- Colour variation:
- Place of origin:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Rock Unit Name:
- Elsinore Formation
- Geological Age:
- Cambrian
- GSI Rock Unit Code:
- EL
Notes:
A fine grained quartzite that forms crags on the northeast side of the Howth Peninsula. These comprise large slabs (called olistostromes) that detatched and slid downslope during Cambrian and pos-Cambrian tectonic activity and now this unit lies alongside a slaty, schistose succession. A series of quarrys were opened, and the scars of these can still be seen.References
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