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Basalt from
Isle of Staffa, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Island
Classification
Type:Basalt
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Basalt data
Locality Data:Click here to view Isle of Staffa, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1328160
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1328160:5
GUID (UUID V4):3355ff1e-e662-4a83-90b2-a0cadc070dac
Nearest other occurrences of Basalt
21.5km (13.3 miles) Beinn Fhada, Ben More, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
23.6km (14.7 miles) 'S Airde Beinn, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
25.2km (15.7 miles) Carsaig Bay, Carsaig, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
90.7km (56.4 miles) Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
97.8km (60.8 miles) Meall a'Mhaoil, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
100.0km (62.1 miles) Cranslagomry Quarry, Isle of Bute, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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Argyll and the Islands Argyll and the Islands: A landscape fashioned by geology Encompassing much of...Scots’ kingdom of Dalriada, the area described in this book is dominated by long peninsulas and islands, narrow...narrow lochs and some of the roughest, rocky terrain in Scotland. The dominant grain of the landscape...north-easterly orientated, boulderstrewn ridges and boggy valleys, results directly from the great ‘Caledonian’...some 470 million years ago. The rugged splendour of the area is largely a much more recent inheritance
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М., 2007. Volume 42 129 A MONOGRAM ON BASALT. A HISTORY OF ONE MUSEUM SPECIMEN Marianna B. Chistyakova...Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, mineral@ fmm.ru The article describes a legendary place of formation...formation of one specimen from the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, a history of its appearance in Russia and...a history of how they were initially received. These are monograms, other inscriptions, and personal labels...more than one owner before it came to the museum, and the monogram will not tell who the first owner was
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Regional Geology The Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland FOURTH EDITION CH Emeleus BR Bell Contributor:...C H. and BELL, BR. 2005. British regional geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland (Fourth...Printed in the UK b>f Hawthornes, Nottingham C/0 7105 Authors CH Emeleus Department of Earth Sciences...University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH I 3LE BR Bell Division of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Glasgow, Gregory Building, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G 12 BQQ Contributor D Stephenson
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about ancient rocks arising out of the mist. This is Uig on the West Coast of North Harris in the Outer Hebrides...where the land meets the Atlantic Ocean. It’s one of the finest places around to see 3 billion year old...that’s different to that seen in the Northwest of Scotland, we now learn. (Image: Chris Darmon) From the... On a recent trip to the Forest of Dean we were reminded of some of the issues that were with us before...state of many of our so-called rock exposures. Along a former railway line in the Soudley Valley of Gloucestershire
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suggest you visit them and. within this order. by author preference. Eating and Sleeping reviews are ordered...midrange. top end) and. within these ranges. by author preference. These symbols and abbreviations give...SLOPE COMMUNITY LIBRARY ~ (503) 292-6416 ly MEMBER OF INGTON COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SERVICES co an...Southern Highlands& Islands p42 THIS EDITION WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY Neil Wilson Andy Symington , •............ 58 South Argyll .......... 59 Cowal .................. 59 Isle of Bute ............. 60 lnveraray
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2022 programme of residential trips This is the amazing Fingal’s Cave on the Isle of Staffa, off the west...west coast of the Isle of Mull. It is composed of continental basalt that originated in Greenland. (Image:...remaining places on our Autumn trips with Outer Hebrides and Arran fully booked. For early 2022 we have decided...trips to Fuerteventura and Norway to 2023 and have now booked a fully UK and Ireland programme in the...Cornwall and The Isle of Mull to the first half of the year and Minehead, Berwick on Tweed and the Yorkshire
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University of California-San Diego on April 22, 2017 ~20 J . W . JUDD ON THE SECONDARY ROCKS OF SCOTLAND...CONDArY R0CXS of SCOTLAND. Second P a p e r * . On the ANCIENT VOLCAZCOESof the HIGHLANDS and the RELATIOZCS...RELATIOZCS of their PRODVCXS to the MEsozoxc ST~XXx. B y Jo~N W . JuDD, Esq., F . G . S . ( R e a d J a n u...Introduction. 1. History of Previous Opinion on the subject. 2. Volcanic Origin of the rocks constituting...the great plateaux of the Hebrides and the North of Ireland. 3, Subaerial Origin of these old Volcanic
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