726 



ME. r. E. C. EEED ON THE LOWEE PALEOZOIC [NoV. 1 899, 



{b) Tramore Bay. 



Along tlie west side of this bay the strike of the beds and trend 

 of the coast nearly correspond. Prom Tramore village to Great 

 IS'ewtown Head the impure limestones, slates, etc., are almost 

 continuously exposed.^ Dark grey, more or less calcareous slates 

 conformably underlie the limestones, which dip at angles from 30° 

 to 75°, and contain an abundant fauna. A thick sheet of diabase 

 [59 w] is a conspicuous object in the cliffs, resting for the most 

 part on the top of the limestones, but occasionally cutting across 

 them. 



At the north-western corner of the bay the dark grey slates are 



Fig. 3. — Section in the cliff-face hetween Tramore and 

 Doneraile Cove. 



A = Drift and surface-soil. 



!B = Diabase. 



C=Zone of crushed and baked 



slates. 



D== Black slates, crushed along fault- 

 planes. 



E = Sandy limestones (Tramore Lime- 

 stone Series). FE=: Faults. 



much crumpled and crushed, and their relations are obscure. Small 

 intrusive veins of felsitic glass [33] [110 w] penetrate the slates and 

 limestones, but not the diabase. Tongues of black slate run into 

 the limestones like intrusions, and several faults add to the con- 

 fusion (figs. 2 & 3). But this zone of disturbance exists only near 

 the junction of the slates with the limestones, as in the cliffs behind 

 we find the latter undisturbed and generally in an almost vertical 



Geol. Mag. 1897, p. 502. 



