Aghnadarragh ASSI
Topics:
Protected area type:
Areas of Special Scientific Interest
Feature type:
- Habitat,
- Species
County:
Antrim
Council:
Antrim and Newtownabbey
Guidance and literature:
Aghnadarragh ASSI
The site provides the only profile of any length which contains evidence for large scale resolution of climatic cycles and ice sheet reconstruction from this sector of north-west Europe. A major result has been the recognition of ice sheet growth early in the last Cold Stage and extension of the growing idea of rapid environmental change within this period. Finally, the anticlinal structure in the lignite provides the only known evidence in Northern Ireland for bedrock deformation by intense glaciotectonic action.