ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The Cork Harbour area of SW Ireland consists of E-W trending Variscan anticlines and synclines, the former cored by Upper Devonian Old Red Sandstone (ORS), and the latter by karstified Lower Carboniferous limestones. The area is cut by vertical, N-S trending Variscan compartmental faults. Overburden, mostly glacial till of variable thickness overlies bedrock, but sand and gravel deposits also occur. Aquifers exist in both the bedrock and overburden.
