Lahinch and the Cliffs of Moher

Hello all,  Hope everyone is having a good day.  I have been meaning to get these picture up for a while now but haven't gotten to it.  Rob and I went to Lahinch in Co Clare a couple weeks ago on a geology society field trip.  We had awesome weather and got to see some really cool rocks.  Meanwhile my other roommate Zach was off in Gallway winning the all Ireland volleyball tournament on the UCC team.  So all in all everyone had a good weekend.

The Cliffs

Professor Ed and Batiste

Massive waves slamming into sea cliffs

Look at that wave

Ed and his rad hat

Ed and a cow

Rob and I

Then we moved to the limestone that underlies

most of Ireland

Small colony of coral

Solitary coral

The lads and I are going to Rome on friday, and we are stoked.  It should be good times.  I hope everyone is having a good day!

Carrauntoohil

Hello.  On friday we went to the Cork city 'water works', which is where they treat the drinking water for the entire city.  They get the water directly from the river Lee, which does not seem like the cleanest.  Thei facilities are also from the 1950's, with uncovered settlement tanks.  I am kind of baffled.  Anyways, here are a couple pictures from our afternoon field trip.

I made eggs benedict for the fellas on saturday

and it was awesome

America hat that I am giving to my new friend

Robbie who is from North Carolina

We were woken up on Sunday morning by out friend Joanne.  Here and Laura (another IFG student from Montana) had hatched a plan to climb Ireland's tallest mountain.  I had planned on doing nothing all day, so it seemed like a good alternative.  The weather was awesome, except at the top which was severely windy and cold.  There wasn't as much trail as I had expected.  We worked our way up a gully (we later learned that it is called the devil's ladder).  And then raged up the loose rock to the top.  It was an awesome hike.  We quickly enjoyed a Newcastle at the top and retreated from the cold.

There is the beast, hidden in the clouds

Beginning of the gully

Near the top of the gully, probably half way up

Rob on the saddle

Looking back down at the saddle

The top

The summit

Quick break at the top (Zach's photo)

Down the Devil's Ladder

County Clare

Hello.  I just got back from a 3 day geology field trip up to County Clare.  It was awesome.  We were on the atlantic the whole time with good weather for the mot part.  We were looking at huge turbadite (massive underwater sand avalanches) deposits as well as an ancient mississippi-esk delta system.  It was really neat.  These deposits are the analog for a bunch of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico (maybe not so cool), but the rocks were superb. 

Turbidites in the distance and the wing of a

monocline in the foreground

Turbidites

The class

One of our Lecturers standing next to a huge

flute scarp

Fold

Bridge of Ross

View from our rented house

Excellent ripples

Rob sketching zie rocks

Rob with New York in the distance

Gnarly growth faults

Delta with awesome channels

cross beds

Long night

It was an awesome 3 days.  We got to know a bunch of people and look at awesome rocks.  Hope everyone is well.