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{"title":"Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies","authors":"P. Coxon, S. Mccarron, F. Mitchell","doi":"10.2991/978-94-6239-219-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-219-9","url":null,"abstract":"Investigation of Ireland’s Quaternary heritage has a long history that extends back prior to the setting up of the Geological Survey of Ireland in 1845. Ireland’s rich Quaternary deposits and land forms have ensured that it continues to be a key location for international research. The publication of The Quaternary History of Ireland in 1985 (Edwards and Warren 1985) has served the Quaternary community extremely well for three decades but it is now timely to review the substantial body of recent research into the Irish Quaternary. This chapter serves to provide a historical context to the syntheses of recent research that are reported in the subsequent chapters of this book. 1 The Background to the Irish Quaternary Investigation of Ireland’s Quaternary heritage has a long history that extends back prior to the setting up of the Geological Survey of Ireland in 1845. Quaternary sections had been extensively described and many were assigned to the classification of ‘drift’ explained at the time by the widely accepted Marine Submergence Theory. The Geological Society of Dublin, founded in 1831, included an address P. Coxon (&) F. Mitchell Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland e-mail: pcoxon@tcd.ie F. Mitchell e-mail: fraser.mitchell@tcd.ie S. McCarron Maynooth University, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland e-mail: stephen.mccarron@nuim.ie The history of the Geological Survey of Ireland and its early work is interestingly summarized in Herries-Davies’ (1995) book “North From The Hook”. Chapter 8 “Delving the Drift” may be of particular interest to the reader. © Atlantis Press and the author(s) 2017 P. Coxon et al. (eds.), Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies, Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science 1, DOI 10.2991/978-94-6239-219-9_1 1 on the marine origin of esker ridges but scientific knowledge was changing fast in the early 19th century and, although not immediately accepted, the theory of the ‘Ice-Age’ was being formulated, analysed and applied elsewhere in Europe. Agassiz visited Dublin in 1835 to attend the British Association and again in 1840 —the second time to deliberately seek evidence for former glaciation. His trip to Ireland saw him identifying moraines in the Wicklow Mountains amongst other features some time before geologists in general accepted the glacial theory. Interestingly it was the existence of widespread ‘shelly boulder clays’ that forced retention of the Marine Submergence Theory and ironically it is the fossiliferous character of many Irish glacial sediments that still promotes debate today. The middle 19th century saw a plethora of Quaternary information published by natural historians, academic geologists and the officers of the Ordnance and Geological Surveys. This work is published in many outlets and the publications are far too numerous to cite here but examples include the maps of Sollas (1896) and Kilroe (1888). Indeed, by 1867 Close had prepared a map of the glaciation of Ireland (Fig. 1) that clearly outlines ice moveme","PeriodicalId":123188,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121336287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}