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Hypersthene from
Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Fell
Classification
Species:'Hypersthene' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hypersthene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1253997
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1253997:6
GUID (UUID V4):8664f2e9-c90c-44a6-b51e-7effcc5610ea
References
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Book
4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale (MNS 4488) (bottom left) Hematite...District , the hematite ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation....deposits outside of the SW England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is at present ( 1986)...clay iron-stones within the Coal Measures of west Cumbria at one time provided a source of lower grade iron
Book (chapter)
Survey Chapter 4 Lake District and northern England Introduction INTRODUCTION D. Miliward In Ordovician...Ordovician times the Lake District and northern England formed part of the microcontinent of Eastern Avalonia...were emplaced in the Lake District and northern England subsequent to the closure of the Iapetus. The volcanoes...Figure 4.1 Lower Palaeozoic inliers of northern England and locations of the major, buried batholiths....Threlkeld; D Dufton. 137 Lake District and northern England 90 NX00NY 10 20 :::............ 30::::::::
Book (chapter)
Caledonian intrusive activity in eastern and northern England from geophysics, radiometric dating and basement...petrochemistry of the Eskdale and adjacent intrusions (Cumbria) with special reference to mineralization. Unpublished...Nottingham, UK. No. 2. ignimbrite emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe...emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe (Scotland), United Kingdom (eds B...III Igneous rocks of the Northern Lake District, England. Journal of Geophysical Research, 34, 27-46. Briden
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
210 Dr. C. 0. Trechmann—" Hypersthenite " of Carrock Fell. claw. This digit is well shown in the right...O T E ON THE SO-CALLED " HYPERSTHENITE " OF CARROCK FELL, CUMBERLAND. By CHAS. 0. TKECHMANN, Ph.D. mHROUGH...between the village of Mosedale and the summit of Carrock Fell. In general appearance it coincides with the...7 Dr. C. 0. Trechmann—" Hypersthenite" of Carrock Fell. 211 Mr. J. C. Ward,1 and which is described...crystalline compound of plagioclase felspar and hypersthene, with scattered grains of titaniferous iron oxide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20 to 30 feet, but when the east and south of England was at a somewhat higher level than at present...all the ice connected with either glaciation in England, and on the existence of an open north sea throughout...P. LESLEY. THE SO-CALLED HYPERSTHENITE OF CARROCK FELL. SIR,—I can fully confirm Dr. Trechmann's statement...statement as to the absence of hypersthene from the Carrock Fell rock. Some few years since, feeling...suspected that he had identified the Carrock Fell mineral with hypersthene by its general appearance (which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arthur Holmes—The Granophyres of Carrock Fell. 403 TABLE II. Boring. Chilham Brabourne . Stodmarsh....—ALBITE-GRANOPHYRE AND QUARTZ-POEPHYBY FEOM BKANDY GILL, CARROCK FELL. By ARTHUR HOLMES, A.R.C.S., D.Sc, F.G.S. With...occurs near the head of Brandy Gill, west of Carrock Fell. These specimens, though from practically the...1017/S0016756800198887 404 Arthur Holmes—The Granophyres of Carrock Fell. therefore more accurately described as albite...rock is penetrated by the tungsten veins pf the Carrock mines, which carry scheelite and wulfenite.1 PETROGRAPHY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
P. LESLEY. THE SO-CALLED HYPERSTHENITE OF CARROCK FELL. SIR,—I can fully confirm Dr. Trechmann's statement...statement as to the absence of hypersthene from the Carrock Fell rock. Some few years since, feeling...suspected that he had identified the Carrock Fell mineral with hypersthene by its general appearance (which...shows the improbability of the mineral being hypersthene. Indeed, I doubt whether the mineral has yet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R.S.3~., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. (Read December 1, 1875.) [PL*TES I....surrounding rocks. 4. Carrock-Fell Rocks. a. Spherulitic Felsite of Carrock Fell and Great Lingy Hill...8yenitio Granite, and altered 8kiddaw S~te. 4. Carrock-Fel/Rocks. a. Spherulitic Felsite. b. Diorite ... John's Vale and of Buttermers. 2. Rocks of Carrock Fell. 8~n~m~ryo Appendix : Notioesof papers on these...(fig. 3) that the various igneous masses of Carroek Fell and its Fig. 3.--Sketc, h ~tlap showin9 the Dist~'bution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................... :534 Section across Carroek Fell ............................................. 314...some attention to the igneous rocks of Carroc~: Fell and the hills west of t h a t well-known summit...to him. The earliest connected account of the Carrock Fell rocks was given by the late Mr. Clifton Ward...the district : - (a) Spherulitic felsite of Carrock Fell and Great L i n g y ; (b) Diorite (?) of Miton...pyroxene in the so-called hypersthenite is not hypersthene, but diallage, and the rock would therefore be
Report (issue)
OF OF THE RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL GEOLOGICAL ENGLAND SURVEY AND OF COUNCIL SCIENCES GREAT BRITAIN...BtT2 8ay or through any bookseller Printed in England for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Hull Printers...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet coloured has replaced...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description of...Petrographic DRYGILL Structural relations, 76. Fauna CARROCK Introduction, VOLCANIC Classification, SERIES
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL COUNCIL SCIENCES SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Cockermouthand...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet has replaced the Old Series...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description of...age, 76. References, 77. CHAPTER VI. THE IX CARROCK FELL COMPLEX 20 46 75 78 Introduction, 78. Field...intrusions associated with the major intrusions of Carrock and Skiddaw, 130. Minor intrusions into Skiddaw
Book
glaciation. £6.50 Jacket photograph Pillar Rock © Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District...' Frontispiece Landsat imagery of north-west England taken from a height of 900 km. Photograph: National...Geological Society 1978 ISBN 0 9501656 2 X PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY W. S. MANEY AND SON LIMITED LEEDS CONTENTS...Geology 15 Epigenetic Mineralization 16 Offshore Cumbria 17 Hydrogeology C. K. Patrick 18 Environmental...DtNANT/AN LLANVIRN DEVONIAN ARENIG Plate 1. Carrock Fell Gabbro Borrowdale Volcanic Group Skiddaw Group
Report (chapter)
brown, or of bleached appearance - just NW of Carrock Fell, in northeastern Lakeland. The shales - which...called Drygill, near the top of a col between Carrock Fell and another hill, Great Lingy, to the west (see...somewhat similar to the Dufton Shales in the Cross Fell Inlier. A 'Llandeilo-Bala' age was proposed, and...Eycott-type rocks were all over the place: in the Cross Fell Inlier; at Shap Wells; in Longsleddale; and even... and over at Knock (Swindale Beck) in the Cross Fell Inlier; also down south in the Palaeozoic inliers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
slices show under the microscope sometimes hypersthene (converted to bastite), sometimes augite, sometimes... like the andesites, often contain altered hypersthene; they are sometimes rather rich in magnetite... rocks are amygdaloidal augite-andesites, hypersthene being apparently absent. (...that they belong to the same period. (d) The Carrock Fell intrusions.—The principal rocks here are two...important for this purpose : the porphyritic hypersthene-basalts (Eycott type), the amygdaloidal andesites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
seasons I have had the pleasure of working in Cumbria with my colleague, Mr. Alfred Harker. Many of the...separated from the main mass by the conglomerate of Mell Fell, to be referred to subsequently; beneath this it...Shap. In the Lower Paleeozoic inlier of the Cross Fell range, east of Eden, is a continuous patch of these...neighbourhood of Shap, and also in those of the Cross Fell inlier. 45 2 ]. E. M ARR ON THE With our present...lava group=Eycott group. Falcon Crag and Bleaberry Fell Andesites. This division does not differ very notably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l . 5z.] oxx~oI,,~Yx~s oF s ~ (sx~). 323 Carrock Fell granophyre near its contact with a highly basic...to this conclusion in the gabbros of Skye, of Carrock Fell, of St. David's, etc., and its occurrence in...magma, and biotite has not been observed. At Carrock Fell the derived augite-crystals have been completely...the occurrence of xenoerysts of enstatite and hypersthene. There is a partial conversion to hornblende...crystallization from the modified granophyre-magma. At Carrock Fell the iron ore from the gabbro has been mostly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
similar * "Petrological Notes on some North-of-England Dykes," 'Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' Vol. xl, 1884...rocks, with a rhombic pyroxene (enstatite-, or hypersthene-dolerite), occur at Ratho, Kilsyth, and in Arran...occur so largely in the Triassic strata of the New England States, near the eastern coast of North America...pitchstoneporphyrite, now termed hypersthene-andesite, or more properly hypersthene-augite-andesite. This is...'I'he porphyritic elements are labradorite, hypersthene and augite. The ground-mass is composed of minute
Report (edition)
AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY NORTHERN ENGLAND (THIRD EDITION) I 5 54.27 jj i EAS §1 HER...AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY NORTHERN ENGLAND (THIRD EDITION) T. EASTWOOD, A.R.C.S. With some...Lake District—Shap Granite—Skiddaw Granite-—Carrock Fell Complex—Ennerdale Granophyre— Eskdale Granite—Other...FIG1. Map showing the area included in Northern England. 2. Diagrammatic sections to illustrate the building.... .. .. .. .. .. 26 12. Sketch-map of the Carrock Fell Complex and the Skiddaw Granite with its metamorphic
Report (volume)
is Registered Charity 210161. The Society is the UK national learned and professional society for geology...fifth of the Society's fellowship resides outside the UK. To find out more about the Society, log on to www...uk. The Geological Society Publishing House (Bath, UK) produces the Society's international journals and...Brassmill Enterprise Centre Brassmill Lane Bath BA1 3JN, UK (Orders: Tel. +44 (0)1225 445046 Fax +44 (0)1225...Typeset by Type Study, Scarborough, UK Printed by Alden Press, Oxford, UK iv Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore
Report (issue)
Red Sandstone. Quarry 620 yd due S. of Muncaster Fell, Murthwaite Bridge, Miterdale, Cumberland. 1-in...p. 86. See also No. 644, 615. Granophyre. Carrock Fell Complex, Dixon). post-Borrowdale Purple... vician), probably Old Red Sandstone. 2174, vee Fell, Cumberland. 1-in. materials are distributed. ...n.d. W. 34°S. | = — = 10018 Felsite. Carrock Fell Complex, probably Old Red Sandstone. 550 yd...637,645. 650. Granophyric quartz-diorite. Carrock Fell Complex, Series (Ordovician), probably Old Red
Report (issue)
mineralisation Shetland Mineral investigations at Carrock Fell, Cumbria. Part 1-Geophysical survey 34 5 Preliminary...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria Geophysical investigation of chromite-bearing...Mineral exploration in the area around Culvennan Fell, Kirkcowan, south-western Scotland 14 Mineral...investigations at Woodhall and Longlands in north Cumbria 43 Disseminated copper-molybdenum mineralisation...Geol. Sci., No. 46 Typeset and phototcopied in England for the Institute of Geological Sciences by lmediacopy
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...189 Lake D istri et l 89 Haematite deposits of Cumbria 196 Isle of Nian 199 N orthern Pennine Orefield...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fairly well characterized groups of the augite-, hypersthene-, and rnica-andesites. It is interesting to note...typical examples. The rock from the summit of Carrock Fell, Cumberland, which was well described by Ward'...Staindrop Eigg. Comb Fell.—I collected several specimens from the western side of Comb Fell. They are all varieties... characterized respectively by the minerals hypersthene (bronzite), augite, and mica. Most of them are...been shown that the district about Hedgehope, Comb Fell, Staindrop and Linhope Spout is occupied by holocrystalline
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FOURTH EDITION BJ Taylor, BSc, I C Burgess, BSc...936 3100 Fax 0115 936 3200 e-mail: sales@bgs.ac. uk www.bgs.ac.uk Online shop: www.geologyshop.com Murchison...Development and other ag·encies. e-mail: bgslondon@bgs.ac. uk The British Geolog·ical Suroey is a component body...British Geological Survey, Keyworth, e-mail ipr@bgs.ac. uk You may qttote extracts of a rea­ sonable lengtl1...Fourth Edition The mineral resources of northern England began to be exploited soon after the Roman Conquest
Report (chapter)
Earth Sciences, Leeds University, Leeds L S 2 9JT, UK Abstract: During the past 150 years, a wide range...crystallization within a high-level intrusion (Carrock Fell in the English Lake District), published in...profoundly influenced by his studies of the Carrock Fell gabbroic intrusion in the English Lake District...the liquid state As part of his studies of the Carrock Fell intrusion, Harker (1894) discussed the possibility...hot ends. Harker (1894), in his study of the Carrock Fell intrusion, gave careful consideration to the
 
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