Water-worn, soft, and stripey Silurian sedimentary rocks make sporadic appearances through the sandy beach at Ferriters Cove and sometimes they can have a strangely sculptural appearance, or even of a landscape in miniature, depending on the perspective from which they are photographed. I also particularly like the pale blue-green colour contrasting with the muted yellow that contributes to the natural abstract striped designs.
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Wonderful shapes and colours Jessica, brilliantly captured. I’ve seen this type of rock In Co. Donegal too.
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I am sure that this rock type occurs across Ireland. I have discovered the titles of a few booklets and maps that describe the geology of Co. Donegal, and will try to get hold of them so that I can understand some of the wonderful geology found in your part of the world, and so brilliantly illustrated in the photographs on your site.
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Thanks for the compliment Jessica. I have my eye on a book on the geology of Ireland myself, and hope to get it shortly. It will probably raise more questions than it answers!
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Incredible colors, shapes and lines! These are real artworks, I don’t think handmade things would be more impressive than these nature creations!
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That’s always the way if you have no professional training in a subject (and geology is complicated). You take what you can on the first reading and on subsequent visits to the text you get to understand more and more. Some parts, however, never become clear. We could compare notes.
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Thank you. That’s how I feel, too. Nature produces some fantastic creations, artwork in its own right, which artists in turn use as inspiration and material. I’m actually going to a symposium next week in which the ‘Aesthetics of Geology’ will be the main subject.
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I think I’ll be getting the better deal in that bargain 🙂
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All beautiful! Rock are such works of art!
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Thank you, Jo. Yes, some rocks can be pretty fantastic and worthy of gracing any art exhibition, either as natural sculptures or as abstract art.
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