With St. Patrick's Day is approaching and with it all celebrated with the Emerald Isle will be, we think of a geological puzzle that may confuse the uninitiated. Can the United Kingdom and Ireland are geographically close to each other, show that for the vertebrate paleontologists in search of dinosaur fossils in southern England, a rich hunting ground for dinosaur remains. However, the nearby British - Italy, is virtually free of any Dinosauria, there is no dinosaurFossils in all respects. Ironically, if you are looking for monstrous reptiles, are parts of the south coast of England, a good place to look, but on the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland is the land mass north of that particular visit if you must do to go hunting Mesozoic vertebrates.
Many people are celebrated with a history of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, whose life and work on March 17 of each year. FromAll Saints' Day in the United Kingdom is that St. Patrick's tends to get more famous, at least in our experience. We suspect that this devotion is perhaps to do with it, its marketing agencies to help find an acute event to sell goods and services is well between Valentine and Mother's Day of each particular reference to the first.
But like all things Irish are celebrated, it gives us the opportunity to discuss one of the frequently asked questionsof our customers in Ireland because they are dinosaur fossils found in the United Kingdom, while there is no one to be excavated in Ireland across the Irish Sea?
Has St Patrick drive all the fossils of dinosaurs and snakes?
One of the stories associated with St. Patrick, he was responsible for the expulsion of all the snakes from Ireland. The snake (serpent) is considered an evil creature has taken its role in the genesis of this particular member of the Squamatacast as the villain in many Western civilization. Despite the apocryphal nature of this story is true there are no native species of snakes with the "Emerald Isle" is associated. However, it provides an understanding of climate change and the effects of icing a more likely explanation, for which no native snake species. Snakes, of which there are relatively few types of return in northern Europe, not only in Ireland, after a glacial event, but because there are no dinosaursFossils? Bizarre, as the absence of snakes in Ireland, some with only three native species in Britain, but many species of dinosaurs in the United Kingdom, were discovered explains - Iguanodon, Hylaeosaurus, Lexovisaurus, Hypsilophodon, Scelidosaurus only a handful. To the best of our knowledge, no genus or species of dinosaur ever found in Ireland.
Why are there no fossils of dinosaurs in Ireland?
The answer to the question below:Your feet, has everything to do with geology. It is to understand the nature of the strata exposed and their age, which is in Ireland and found the comparison of these characteristics with those of the United Kingdom.
Ireland and the United Kingdom have found side by side for a considerable part of geological time. But in reality, the geology of Ireland much more closely associated with the far north of England and Scotland, indicating that these massesto share an affinity for the geological processes that shaped their foundation.
There is another factor to consider when it comes to search for dinosaur fossils. Dinosaurs, as regards the known fossil record shows, were fully terrestrial animals - were adapted to a life on earth. For most of the Mesozoic was immersed (at the age of reptiles) over land mass that Ireland today, covered with sea water so that dinosaurs lived.
Take for example the LateChalk. The sea level was much of the Cretaceous period, and while in the western part of the United States has increased famous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops walked on, about 98% in Ireland was covered by a shallow sea. Only a small part of the land mass we know as Ireland was now above the water surface, a small remote island, and finally to the eastern part of County Wicklow will be removed. The British Isles during this period was largely under water,thus the formation of such well-known geological features, such as the white cliffs of Dover. These are called coccoliths deposits of tiny marine organisms, especially phytoplankton and the small plates made of limestone.
Ireland, Northern Ireland and Ireland have their share of fossil key locations. Most of the geological map of Ireland is dominated by sedimentary rocks. Seams limestone, shale, mudstone and coal, which were during the Carboniferous, a geological period in Septemberoccurred long before the dinosaurs. There are a number of important places in Ireland where you can invertebrates and primitive plants and fossil fish are found. However, other types of vertebrate fossils are very, very rare.
Compare this central and southern England, where it is exposed to light from the Mesozoic sediments scientists the opportunity to explore and discover the dinosaur fossils exposed in these Jurassic and earlyrocks of the Cretaceous.
Irish geology is much more closely related to geology in northern England and Scotland, where they are exposed to very few outcrops of rocks which set the age of reptiles found on the surface. In the far north of the land mass from which Ireland and Northern Ireland, there are many clues metaphorphic rocks and igneous rocks such as basalt established as a result of violent volcanic eruptions. This testifies to the immense power that thisLearned only part of the earth's crust volcanoes 65 million years ago, when the area was dominated by the sea, mountains and other areas. A visit to the famous geological feature of the 'Giants Causeway in County Antrim is known to be proof enough of this part of Ireland's recent violent geological past.
Under these conditions it was, although some dinosaurs and other Mesozoic vertebrates still remains that they would receive as a result of geological processes have been destroyed. However, there arefossils of dinosaurs and marine reptiles associated with Ireland. One of our staff is sure that she once read about a dinosaur track found on a site on the north coast of the island. Some fragmentary dinosaur fossils have been found in Lower Jurassic strata in County Antrim.
With regard to marine reptiles, Leviathans age of reptiles such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs part of the fossil material was found, again with the appropriate placesCosta County Antrim, but these fossils are very fragmentary and very rare.
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