The Mweelrea Formation is a
geologic formation in
Ireland in the
Mweelrea Mountains
Mweelrea (; ) at , is the 26th-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, and the 34th-highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale.Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", C ...
. It preserves
fossils
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...
dating back to the
Ordovician period.
See also
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ireland
References
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Geologic formations of Ireland
Ordovician System of Europe
Ordovician Ireland
Ordovician southern paleotemperate deposits
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