Smerwick Group | |
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Stratigraphic range: Emsian | |
Type | Group |
Unit of | Old Red Sandstone |
Sub-units | Sauce Creek, Ballydavid and Farran Sandstone formations |
Underlies | Pointagare Group ( unconformity) |
Overlies | Dingle Group ( unconformity) |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Other | conglomerate |
Location | |
Region | Munster |
Country | Ireland |
Extent | Southwest Ireland |
Type section | |
Named for | Smerwick |
The Smerwick Group is a Devonian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in the Dingle peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. The name is derived from the village of Smerwick (Irish: Ard na Caithne) where the strata are exposed in coastal sections on either side of Smerwick Harbour, a deep bay on the peninsula's northwest coast. [1]
The Group comprises the Sauce Creek, Ballydavid and Farran Sandstone formations of Devonian age including strata of fluvial and aeolian origin and conglomerates.