Upper Visean and Lower Namurian miospore assemblages from County Cork, Ireland

Miospore assemblages are described from the Lispatrick and White Strand Formations in the South Munster Basin, South County Cork, Ireland. The assemblages are considered to represent a distal source microflora. This interpretation equates well with the marine starved basin and turbidite environments of the two formations. Stratigraphically, the miospores from the Lispatrick Formation are of limited value but confirm the previously assigned Visean age for this formation. However, miospores from the White Strand Formation are more diagnostic and indicate that this formation is exclusively Namurian (E₁ to H) in age. -from Author