The winners of the 2024 Du Noyer Irish Geological Association/Geological Survey Ireland Photographic Competition were announced in Tom Johnson House, Beggars Bush on Friday, 13 December 2024.
Irish Section:
1st – Denis Ryan, Hags Head, Co Clare.
2nd – Ken Higgs, Reenadrolaun Point, Valentia Island, Co Kerry.
3rd – Rory Selby-Smith, Carrownrush, Co Sligo.
Overseas section:
Winner – Denis Ryan, Tre Cime di Lavaredo, The Dolomites, Italy.
1st Place Denis Ryan
Hags Head, Co Clare. Horizontal to sub-horizontal beds of Carboniferous mudstone, siltstone, and sandstone of the Central Clare Group.
2nd Place Ken Higgs
Reenadrolaun Point, Valentia Isalnd, Co Kerry. Deformed quartz veins in Middle Devonian sandstones (385 million years) of the Valentia Slate Formation.
3rd Place Rory Selby-Smith
Carrownrush, Co Sligo. Vertical Palaeogene Period dolerite dyke approximately 60 million years in age, cutting through horizontal Carboniferous Period beds of limestone which are over 300 millions years old.
International Winner Denis Ryan
Tre Cime di Lavaredo, The Dolomites, Italy
The peaks are composed of well-layered dolomites of the Dolomia Principale formation, Upper Triassic in age (237 to 201 million years ago).
A story map of all the past winning images of the Du Noyer Photographic competition are available to view on the Du Noyer Winner Story Map
here. This year's images will soon be added to this map.
Details of this annual competition can be found
here.