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Selenite from
Brill, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, UK


Locality type:Civil Parish
Classification
Species:Gypsum var: Selenite
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Selenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brill, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:786046
Long-form Identifier:1:3:786046:1
GUID (UUID V4):3c44e73b-0049-4b15-825e-4a523a50b01e
Nearest other occurrences of Selenite
13.2km (8.2 miles) Shotover Hill, Forest Hill with Shotover, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England, UK
22.9km (14.2 miles) Cassington Sewage works, Cassington, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, England, UK
24.1km (15.0 miles) Coombs Quarry, Thornborough, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
58.1km (36.1 miles) Bishops Itchington Landfill Site, Southam, Warwickshire, England, UK
64.6km (40.2 miles) Draycote Reservoir site, Thurlaston, Warwickshire, England, UK
69.8km (43.4 miles) Burton Farm, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
84.9km (52.8 miles) Weldon Quarry, Weldon, Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK
85.0km (52.8 miles) Rudgewick Clay Pit, Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK
85.6km (53.2 miles) Wainlode Cliff, Bishops Norton, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHAPTER VI. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. By A. MORLEY DAVIES, D.Se., F.G.S. is a long and narrow county, set B...is a very black stiff clay, generally free from selenite, but occasionally with aggregations of small crystals...Western cutting north of the Rushbeds Wood tunnel, Brill, in 19°7. t On the latter occasion a more fossiliferous...calcareous reef-facies of Oxford and the South-West of England. No zonal classification is possible at present...uTheJurassic Rocks of Britain," vol, v, p. 168. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 181 (3) Olcostephanus pallasianus (Am. biplex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jurassic sequence at Rid's Hill, Brill, Buckinghamshire, and the age of the Brill Serpulite Bed B. M. Cox and...'s Hill, Buckinghamsh ire , and the age of the Brill Serpul ite Bed . Proc. Geol. Ass., 100(3), 353-62...ing in the Th ame district (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) has led to a reassessment of the stratigraphy...brickpit at Rid 's Hill near Brill, best known for the elusive presence of the Brill Serpulite Bed. The brickpit...formation s is now believed to be faulted . The Brill Serpulite Bed is in the Regulare Zon e (Upper Oxford
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suburbs of Oxford to the western outskirts of Aylesbury, with the ancient market town of Thame lying midway...Cretaceous rocks. Broad vales, such as the Vale of Aylesbury and the valley of the River Thame, are developed...which is published separately. Cover photograph Brill Windmill [6519 1415], a famous local landmark, is...MDA Samuel for 1:50 of the country Sheet (England and Wales) DATE DUE FOR RETURN CJ Wood M A Woods... of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 237 (England and Wales). Authors M G Sumbler, MA, CGeol, FGS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upper Kimmeridgian stratigraphy of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Michael J. Oates OATES, M. J. 1981. Upper...Upper Kimmeridgian stratigraphy of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Proc. Geol. Ass., 102(3), 185-99. Field...Field work carried out in Aylesbury in 1987 demonstrated that the Upper Kimmeridge Clay attains 31 m thickness...the Oxford to Swindon area are represented at Aylesbury only by silty distal intercalations in an otherwise...summer of 1987, on the northern outskirts of Aylesbury, in an area where the stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge
Report (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL ENGLAND EXPLANATION OF SPECIAL SURVEY OXFORD SHEET The Geology of...tdoor. By T. I. Pocock, 1905. (Oxford 29 S.\iV.). Brill. By H. B. Woodward and G. VI. Lamplugh, 1904-05...the town of Abingdon, and oi Buckinghamshire ,vith the large village of Brill. The district lies entirely...in the hills that form the eastern borders of the Vale of :\Ioreton. After crossing a considerable tract...(4) The Thame, which has its source in the Vale of Aylesbury, drains the eastern portion of the district
Report (issue)
Ha.rtwell, through tho Oolites and Lias of Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire (nea.1·Buckingha.m and...known as the Vale nf Aylesbury. This has been spoken of as the most fertile tract in England, and it is...&c. In other spots in tl1e ncighbo11rhooil of Aylesbury, lower beds have been traced beneath the sands...Beds (Portland Sands). ln the neighbourhood of .Aylesbury the conglomcr:~te rests directly on clays Lhat...replaced by cla.y as we proceed northwards. At Brill, beneath thelydite-bed, there is three feet of brown
Report (Issue volume)
unvM ,,...-a,..,,,,c1 J;vl!u Oounc ROCKS OF ENGLAND -�l/1 d't.he.H,,11nT� l,y-11... 1J Jf.;.rth1ru·d...that and other localities in the south­ we.,t of England, The Geologic!ll Survey has not hitherto published...further special information on the Jurassic Rocks of England and Wales. It is intended thn,t a concluding volume...of Fossils from the Oorallian Rocks of Weymouth • Vale of Blackmore List of Fossils from Sturminater Nowton...and Cnlham Shoto,er Hiil • • • and Aylesbm-y • Brill Stewkley to Cambridge Isle of Ely Fenland and Norfolk
Report (edition)
counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire, and parts of Wiltshire...suburbs, also Oxford and parts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and Wiltshire have...through Wiltshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and then in and out of Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire...tributaries. Exceptions are the northern half of Buckinghamshire, which is drained by the 4 LONDON AND THAMES...slightly en echelon. The most westerly ridge, the Vale of Pewsey anticline, borders the area from south
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suburbs of Oxford to the western outskirts of Aylesbury, with the ancient market town ofThame lying midway...Cretaceous rocks. Broad vales, such as the Vale of Aylesbury and the valley of the River Thame, are developed...which is published separately. Cover photograph Brill Windmill [6519 1415], a famous local landmark, is...allle Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 237 (England and Wales) Basem.ent structure and geopli_ysics...Solid, 1971 Abingdon (Sheet 253) l)rift, 1 971 Aylesbury (Sheet 238) Solid with Drift, 1990 (Repri11t of
suburbs of Oxford to the western outskirts of Aylesbury, with the ancient market town ofThame lying midway...Cretaceous rocks. Broad vales, such as the Vale of Aylesbury and the valley of the River Thame, are developed...which is published separately. Cover photograph Brill Windmill [6519 1415], a famous local landmark, is...allle Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 237 (England and Wales) Basem.ent structure and geopli_ysics...Solid, 1971 Abingdon (Sheet 253) l)rift, 1 971 Aylesbury (Sheet 238) Solid with Drift, 1990 (Repri11t of
Report (edition)
town of .A.bingdon, and of Buckinghamshire with the large village of Brill. Rive11s. The di trict is...Oolitic hills that form the eastern borders of the Vale of l\iloreton ; and this river, after crossing a...further south ; and (4) The Thame, which rises in the Vale of Aylesbu ry, drains the eastern portion of the...Clay at Bagley Woocl, south of Oxfol'd, a11d at Brill, and i n the Oxford Cla3of EJTnsharn Heath, �·ere...anBrill a11c1 Ml1. well Hill . Noticeable lan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by Mr. E. Hollis of the Bucks. County Museum, Aylesbury, in washing a sample of clay from Hartwell. Other...of the Foraminifera has been deposited in the Aylesbury Museum. Previously the Foraminifera of this interesting...typical Hartwell Clay is exposed at Hartwell, Aylesbury, and Bierton, and contains ammonites usually identified...consistency. The clay at Whitchurch (5 miles north of Aylesbury) is probably on the same horizon as that at Hartwell...it differs from the latter in the presence of selenite, fragments of ammonites occur 456 E. Neaverson—Foraminifera
Journal (volume)
Chalk and the Oxford Oolite in the South-east of England. By M.D. William Henry Fitton, P.G.S. F.R.S...displayed in the vertical An the south coast of England. Wight and the Isle of the Isle of Purbeck,...importance in the geological history of 1. Prom the England : : it a tract of no is — position near...interior divide ments, which we shall call the Vale of Bredy is rising gradually from Bur- they attain...600 feet summit of the Golden Cap The cliffs Vale of it bounded on the north and two into Weymouth
Report (edition)
illustrating the generalised palaeogeography of southern England through the Palaeozoic Era Mesozoic structural...Portland Formation in the Swindon, and Oxford-Aylesbury areas 5 7 9 10 11 13 17 18 32 34 45 46 51 55...Anglian glaciation in the region, the blockage of the Vale of St Albans by Anglian ice, and the diversion of...in this guide covers a large part of southern England, with Greater London at its heart (Figure 1). From...the boundaries of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedford¬ shire, Hertfordshire and Essex, to
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Faringdon xx1v Oxford, Shotover Hill and.Wheatley xxv Aylesbury, Hartwell~and Stone xxv1 Leighton Buzzard INDLX...Suffolk Sudbury, Suffolk XIII EXCIJRSIONS OP ENGLAND 133 137 143 148 153 SECTIONS AND MAPS PIG....19 20 PAGE Deep borings in the south-east of. England . Section across the London Basin ... Section across...Shotover Hill Sketch map of the country west of Aylesbury ... Diagrammatic section through Leighton Buzzard... STRATIGRAPHICAL THE SOUTH-EAST GEOLOGY OF OF ENGLAND THE City of London stands on "made ground," debris
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Geological Survey. 1:50000 Sheet 21 9 Buck ingham (England and Wa les). Keyworth, N ottingham: British Geological...'uplands'. The south-central part of the area is a 'clay vale' of low relief, excavated into 1nudstones such as...(tufaceous calciun1 carbonate) and strings of tiny selenite crysta ls are particu larJy abttndant in the subsoi...Protocardia and Pleuromya, corresponds with the Aylesbury (or Rub bly) Limestone of areas to the south (Horton...the north of \Vhitchurch [802 218 area], the Aylesbury Li1nestone (and, by i1nplication, the Crendon
Report (issue)
-(ti) �Iain mass.-(b) Outliers at l\:Ius,vell Hill, Brill, Cl1iltu11 a11d I�ong Crendon, (�hearsley and T...-Ot1tliers at 1�,orest Hill, l\f tlSlvell Hill., Brill, Quainton, a.nd Chea1·sley . Gault. -�1ineral cl1aracter...·l1erc 111ark tl1e ()olitic distrie ts: of: central England. The ·clays and limesto11es of· ,vhicl1 tlie Oolite...Lo,ver Gree11sand, SJ)ecially those of Quainton, Brill, and Muswell I-Iills, and tl1c Coralline Oolite...Oxford. '' The Evenlode '' has its sources in the Vale of Moreton, and it is remarkable that i ts ,,..
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JURASSIC ROCKS, AND THE PARTITION OF JURASSIC TIME ‘England, by reason of the simple stratigraphical relations...would be so different from anything we know in England as to render the term quite unsuitable and indefinite...the names by which the Jurassic formations in England have been known for so long are worthy to be preserved...remained unnoticed in dictionaries and unuttered in England, and usage had scarcely settled whether the word...Phillips uphold the priority in their Geology of England and Wales (1822, p. xlv). Mr. T. Sheppard remarks
Report (edition)
Research • • Geologiual Survey of Great Britain • England and Vvales • • "'v1lartime Prunphle:t; No.4...the greater portions of Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, and Bedfordshire, much of northern and eastern...Ampthill and Oxford. This vale is broken here and there by isolated hills, as at Brill and Oving, formed by...belong to one or other of the three driest areas in England and Wales, viz. the , ough Harb�r ket Mar th, wor...Bedford. In June 19�5 no rain was recorded at Aylesbury (Bucks), Brackley, Hazelborough and 'Little Houghton
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FORTNER RIDER / * OUTLINES OF THE GEOLOGY OF ENGLAND AND WALES This is a volume in the Arno Press...Daniel, 1787-1857. Outlines of the geology of England and Wales. (History of geology) Reprint of the... published by W. Phillips, London. 1. Geology—England. 2. Geology—Wales. I. Phillips, William, 1775-1828...detailed view of the several Coal-formations of England and Wales, forming the conclusion of the first...only as an account of the physical structure of England but also as a general manual of Geology. With this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gypsum concretion (May 2007) Gypsum (prismatic selenite) (May 2007) Gypsum—fine grained (May 2007) H2S...Sulphur Springs Selenite 8.0 0.0 54.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 Sulphur Springs Selenite 11 40.0 54.0...acids extracted from elemental S, gypsum, and selenite samples collected from the active fumaroles of...S vent sample (Fig. 2B). Reaction rates in the selenite and gypsum samples (Fig. 2E), taken from alteration...decarboxylation of glycine and alanine (Li and Brill, 2003) yields the expected half-lives at current
Journal (issue)
titanium) FINE GEM STONES AMETHYST heart dark 60.00 brill, cut 39 ct ANDALUSITE exceptional coloring 1.55...|T| CARNET emerald cut, clean good color NEW ENGLAND DJAMOND COEIP. CUTTERS Cr POLISHERS ■ CAMEOS... GLASSY XLS), CHABAZITE (PINK RHOMBOHEDRONS), SELENITE (ABUNDANT), INYOITE (DISC. HERE 1914), MEYERHOFFERITE...Diego 4, Cal. (selenite roses) Edwin K. Kraul, 5934 Pauline Rd., Albuquerque, N.M. (selenite roses) H. T... Charles, Oklahoma City 7, Okla. (pink, WHITE SELENITE ROSES, LOC TEXAS) William J. Foster, 3100 Lee
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PYRITES. 294, quartz. Ballymurtagh Copper Mine, Vale CoPPER PYRITEs. Pary's Mine, North Lode, An glesey...incrusted with quartz. Near Liskeard, Cornwall. in England, but an important ore in Saxony, Hungary, Bohemia...argillaceous Ironstone called “Elled balls.” Ebbw Vale Ironworks, South Wales. Presented by W. Adams, F...geographically, beginning with the South-western part of England. 30 ,ORES OF LEAD. EASTERN SIDE. Wall Case...was known in the time of the Romans to exist in England we learn from various evidence. The presence of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
postar-. Cabinet specimens of blue cubes of fluorite selenite Desert rose, dinosaur gizzard'stones, variety... Saranac· Lake, New York. 12983 BOSTON - NEW ENGLAND 125 NEW OIUGINAL MOUNnNGS - send $1.00 for Catalogue...Canada 420 1766 HOUSE - JOE & L1L STACHURA New England folks planning to buy lapida,ry equipment? We are...Ho les Rocks & Gems Ho rn 's Minerals House of Brill iance .42 1 414 41 5 Inl ernat ional Imparl Ilaldo
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117 .123 .132 8 THE BURIED FLOOR OF EASTERN ENGLAND by P. E. Kent.138 9 PERMIAN AND TRIASSIC FORMATIONS...Section across the Rhaetic and Lower Lias of the Vale of Belvoir . 190 Correlation of the Marlstone Rock...Nottingham-Grantham-Lincoln area . . 343 Profiles of the Vale of Belvoir and the Nottinghamshire Wolds . 345 The... INTRODUCTION by P. C. Sylvester-Bradley The Midlands of England form a region with no very natural boundaries;...Jurassic time were represented in the south of England by a sea which retreated southwards towards the
 
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