Cenozoic tectonics of western Ireland

The Cenozoic tectonic history of Ireland is advancing into a new phase of d ata and understanding, built upon the work of eminent Irish geologists, suc h as Frank Mitchell and Gordon Herries-Davies, From topographic and fluvial studies, it is now clear that the Irish landscape is young and dynamic, ce rtainly post-Mesozoic and that it was developed principally by very slow Me sozoic-Cenozoic denudation and Cenozoic fragmented uplift by Eocene-Oligoce ne extensional normal faulting and Miocene to present-day compression. A hu ge amount of new data acquisition is needed to test and develop new hypothe ses of Irish landscape evolution.