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Sugar loaf extinct volcano ????

  • 24-03-2012 11:57pm
    #1
    jeni
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    am very new to this forum ( be patient ) but i liked this, and ive always wanted to contribute :)


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  • #2
    treecreeper
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    often wondered about the sugar loaf actually, like the image!
    think i read that it wasnt a volcano but cannot remember!


  • #3
    dazftw
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    Are you sure that's not smoke coming from a building?

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  • #4
    jeni
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    dazftw wrote: »
    Are you sure that's not smoke coming from a building?

    just a cloud i think was driving down the m11 n took the pic


  • #5
    dazftw
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    Never mind.. For some reason when I looked at that picture it didn't seem like Ireland and you said volcano.. Got me very confused :o

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  • #6
    jeni
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    clearly just a cloud at right time :)


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  • #7
    spooky donkey
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    nice one jen. I think it could blow any minute :)

    Ill try get that shot myself on my next trip to wex, assuming my family ever gets home :)


  • #8
    User Friendly
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    where is this?


  • #9
    Rainbowsend
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    Kilmacanoge Co Wicklow.


  • #10
    DaireQuinlan
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    Though it's no volcano :-) I used to imagine it was when I was growing up around Kilmacanogue, but, along with the little sugarloaf, it's quartzite IIRC, metamorphic, while most of the rest of the wicklow mountains are granite which is igneous. There is a sugarloaf in cork which is the remains of a volcano though I think.


  • #11
    User Friendly
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    Rainbowsend wrote: »
    Kilmacanoge Co Wicklow.
    cheers Rainbow,

    there is a better known sugarloaf mountain in Rio
    280px-PaodeAcucar.JPG


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  • #12
    Searchers
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    In fact I think that is a lesser known Sugarloaf!


  • #13
    User Friendly
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    Searchers wrote: »
    In fact I think that is a lesser known Sugarloaf!
    somehow i doubt it:) moonraker? james bond? cable car scene with jaws?


  • #14
    FueledByAisling
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    treecreeper wrote: »
    often wondered about the sugar loaf actually, like the image!
    think i read that it wasnt a volcano but cannot remember!

    I'm pretty sure it was! A lot of our mountains are results of the American/Eurasian plates colliding billions of years ago. It's mainly Quartzite rock I think so therefore it was a result of some form of volcanic/tectonic activity!

    Due to facing many more years of weathering and erosion though the mountain which was once the size of the Alps if not bigger has sadly reduced severely in height over the past few centuries. :(


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