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THE visit of the Geologists' Association to the counties of Dublin and Wicklow, under the direction of Profs. Sollas and Cole, extended officially from July 24 to July 29; but a number of members arrived in Dublin for Sunday, July 23, and visited the cathedrals and places of historic interest in the city, under the guidance of Rev. Denis Murphy, S. J. On Monday the full party examined the grits and Oldhamia-slates of Bray Head. The Rev. Dr. Haughton, F.R.S., delivered a speech of welcome, standing on the rocks of the headland, and Prof. O'Reilly and Prof. Sollas, F.R.S., explained the structure of the mass, showing how the more resisting grits have caused a wrinkled flow of the shales and slates between them. The excursion was continued to the fine intrusive junction of the Leinster granite and the Ordovician rocks at Killiney, the latter being metamorphosed into mica-schists with abundant anda-lusites and some garnets.
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The Geologists' Association in Ireland. Nature 48, 329–330 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048329a0
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