Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The geology of the Lleyn peninsula has from time to time attracted the attention of geologists, and several workers have added much to our knowledge of this district; but their researches have been mainly confined to (1) the strip of ancient rocks (usually assigned to the pre-Cambrian) in the west between Porth Dinlleyn and Bardsey Island, and (2) the igneous rocks lying in the Ordovician ground which occupies the eastern and larger portion of the peninsula. Thus the Ordovician sedimentary rocks have largely escaped attention, a result probably also due to their monotony, to the rarity of fossiliferous localities, and to the great extent to which the beds are concealed beneath accumulations of drift.
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