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Aragonite from
Ringstead Bay, Osmington, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK


Locality type:Bay
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ringstead Bay, Osmington, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:825365
Long-form Identifier:1:3:825365:1
GUID (UUID V4):c04653f0-a888-427c-9733-abee4f059955
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
2.9km (1.8 miles) Osmington Mills, Osmington, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
11.4km (7.1 miles) Inmosthay Mine & Quarry, Isle of Portland, Weymouth and Portland, Dorset, England, UK
12.8km (8.0 miles) Brandy Bay, Steeple with Tyneham, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
19.2km (11.9 miles) Houns Tout, Corfe Castle, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
63.9km (39.7 miles) Torr Works Quarry, Cranmore, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
64.1km (39.9 miles) Colemans Quarry, Nunney, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
71.6km (44.5 miles) Higher Pitts Mine, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK
72.1km (44.8 miles) Littleham Bay, Budleigh Salterton, East Devon, Devon, England, UK
76.4km (47.5 miles) Holwell cavern, Broomfield, Sedgemoor, Somerset, England, UK
84.7km (52.6 miles) Petit Tor Point (Babbacombe), Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recorded 'A poorly preserved coral found on the west side of Garbh Rudha , three quarters of a mile northeast...(Duncan) and Thecosmilia rugosa Laube at Lyme Regis, Dorset. Heterastraea eveshami (Duncan) , H. sticklandi...Charmouth , Dorset and Oppelismilia sp. from the margaritatus Zone in Ridge Cliff near Seatown, Dorset. Tricycloseris...Tomes, the holotype, was recorded from Charmouth, Dorset. There are a few records of colonial corals from...Titintinnabulum (Goldfuss) came from Gretton Hill, west of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. There is a specimen
Report (chapter)
University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK Present address: Department of Earth Sciences, Open...6AA, UK Abstract: At outcrop, the Portlandian Stage of the western Wessex Basin, southern England comprises...sea-level fall; these are denoted P1 to P4. The south Dorset exposures are each in slightly different tectonic...two significant stratal gaps. The sections at Ringstead Bay and Dungy Head are thin, condensed and in part...Portlandian outcrop from near the basin centre in Dorset, to the basin margin in Buckinghamshire (Figs 1-4)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
73 THE PETROGRAPHY OF THE PORTLAND SAND OF DORSET. By}l. P. LAITER, B.A ., F .G.S . [R ead May lSI, '...the Upper Kimmeridge Clay and Portland Sand of England generally. The primary basis of the location of...central area round Sutton Poyntz and Osmington, and in the ext reme west , adequate sections were exposed...the outcrop was wholly concealed, e.g., above Osmington Mills and near the White Borse, recourse had to...H . SaHeld, Certain Upper Jurassic St ra ta of England, Q.].G.S., Ixix. ('9'3), pp, 423- 432. t G. W.
Report (edition)
I PAGE I. Section along the clifTs from Pinhay Bay past Lyme Regis and Charmouth to near Scatown .....along cliffs of Kimmeridge Clay near Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset .... 10. Fossils from the Corallian and the Kimmeridge...Beds 17. Sections of the Wcalden Beds, in Compton Bay, at Barnes High, and at Cowleazc Chine ............Upper Cretaceous Unconformity near Holworth House, Dorset 21. Fossils from the Gault and the Upper Greensand.... 22. Section from Mclcombe Park to near Wool, Dorset .... 23. Sketch of the Upper Greensand escarpment
Report (chapter)
Tany Court, St. Albans, Hertfordshire A L l 1 TU, UK (e-mail: Nigel R Ainsworth@compuserve.com) 211 Corner...Hertfordshire HP3 9HN, UK 332 Inkerman Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire A L l 3BB, UK 4StratLab Ltd, 299 Deeside...Cults, Aberdeen AB15 9PA, UK 5 41 Montem Road, Newmalden, Surrey KT3 3QU, UK Abstract: The stratigraphy.......... -i " T ~ ~ J 61"N /,/ - ~!son DORSET BASIN afn Farm - ~)8/ 79 -8 Wytch ~5 f ...association with three north-south- and one east-west-trending lines of correlation. There are numerous
Book
Geological Highlights of the West Country 1 Geological Highlights of the West Country A Nature Conservancy...A. W. G. Kingsbury LONDON BUTTERWORTHS ■ ENGLAND Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Ltd London: S8 Kingsway...Conservancy, 1970 ISBN 0 40S 70002 5 Printed in England at the Pitman Press, Bath ) I 281495 Contents... 7 11 Descriptions: Cornwall 17 Devon 39 Dorset 89 Gloucestershire 197 Somerset 217 A Provisional...Index 292 » Preface To a geologist England’s West Country is classic ground. Not only are its rocks
Report (volume)
Oxford, UK AND D. N. P A R K I N S O N Western Atlas Logging Services London Geoscience Centre, UK 1996...Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0JU, UK. The Society is a Registered Charity, No. 210161...Brassmill Enterprise Centre Brassmill Lane Bath BAI 3JN UK (Orders: Tel. 01225 445046 Fax 01225 442836) Distributors...379-0444 Fax (08) 379-4634) India Affiliated East-West Press PVT Ltd G-l/16 Ansari Road New Delhi 110 002...Study, Scarborough, UK Printed in Great Britain by The Alden Press, Osney Mead, Oxford, UK Kanda Book Trading
Book
- - - - - - Nova Scotia, New BRUNswick, &c. west Isoles - - - BRITISH Columbia - CANADA, continued...129 Australia, continued (Pedestal Case, No. 11, West Side: Gold, &c.) - . 133 - 134 - , 135 - - 135...of LIME, continued Marbles, &c. * -- - • Aragonite - 156 to 158 * - ‘’’ - - 156 • 157 - ...copper-producing districts are Cornwall, Devonshire (West of Dartmoor), Cumberland, Anglesey, and the counties...CoPPER-GLANCE, well crystallized, on quartz. lized. West Cornwall. 126 & 127. OLIVENITE (amian thiform)
Journal (issue)
the then Nature Conservancy Council (now Natural England) as part of the team conducting the Geological...Antiquior" is the famous water colour of Ancient Dorset painted by Henry de la Beche in 1830. The grant...one of the few areas of Palaeozoic limestones in England that lie well south of the limits of glaciation...fresh aspects of geology e.g. a recent visit by the Dorset Group to Ham Hill in Somerset introduced the party...Seale chalk quarry, Lyme Regis, Isle of Wight, Ringstead Bay, Portland Island, Church Stretton. One Crater
Book
ZigZag Chalk (10- 30): firm white chalk 40-70 West Melbury Marl y ChaJk (3- 55): soft ma rl y chal...clayey sand 15- 24 Kimmeridge Clay: (including Ringstead "Waxy Clay and 'Ampthill Clay') shelly rn udstone...scenery reflects the underlying geology. Successive west-facing escaq)Inents are formed by the Inferior Oolite...CONTRIBUTORS Memoir for I :50 000 Geological Sheet 297 (England and \,\Tales) BiostratigrajJh)' and sedimentolog;y...vlemoir ofthe British Geological Survey, Sheet 297 (England and vVales). Authors C R Bristow, BSc, PhD C wl
Book
Southampton Show consisting of a 10foot-square covered bay, including electricity supply. Exhibitors would be...Charmouth – “The cliffs and beach at Charmouth in Dorset are a good hunting ground for several species of...on his caving experiences in various parts of England and illustrated it with a splendid set of colour...of diamonds from ancient beach deposits in South West Africa, where vast quantities of sand and gravel...by Phil Bampton on a club field trip to Durlston Bay in 1975. It was passed on to Steve Etches in 1996
Journal (issue)
Kimmeridge Clay shows resemblances in detail with the Dorset outcrop. It is faulted against the Corallian Beds...facies. The only previous borehole in southeast England providing as comprehensive a set of cores of Mesozoic...at outcrop. They may indicate a connection to the west of London with marine Barremian sediments known...comparable even in details with the formation in Dorset. The thick Corallian Beds limestone indicates,...which extends through Cudham and Biggin Hill with a west-south-westerly trend (Holmes in Dines and others
Book
Conserving our most ‘fragile’ fossil sites in England: Ea MR RONDO aca ccs Se the use of OLD25....err Gon ons aT 45 8. Fossil collecting on the West Dorset Coast: a new voluntary Code of Conduct. [BYR...sustainability of a threatened fossil resource: Bay, sOnierset. Lower Jurassic Caloceras Beds of Donitord...the coverage of these ‘fragile’ fossil sites in England and describes the rationale behind their management...make up the British Isles, perched on the north-west corner of Europe has, for its size, some of the
Book
554. kearning an |Accession no The Geology of England and Wales Books are to be returned on or before...Pankhurst (UK) Society Books Editors John Gregory (UK) Jim Griffiths (UK) John Howe (UK) Phil Leat (UK) Nick...Nick Robins (UK) Jonathan Turner (UK) Society Books Advisors Mike Brown (USA) Eric Buffetaut (France) Reto...Reto Gieré (Germany) Jon Gluyas (UK) Doug Stead (Canada) Randell Stephenson (Netherlands) Geological...BRENCHLEY, Woopcock, England London, P.J. & Rawson, P.F. (eds) 2006. The Geology of England and Wales. The
Book
Limited The Gresham Press, Old Woking, Surrey, England A member of the Staples Printing Group Preface...English Midlands The Silurian rocks of northern England The Silurian rocks of the south of Scotland The...Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Ireland Cornwall and north-west Europe Silurian fossils 113 122 123 125 127 128... The Devonian System 159 The south-west Peninsula of England The rocks (‘slates’ = Killas) of south...The Variscan fold belt in Britain 244 The South-West Batholith 247 Structures of Malvernian trend 248
Book
Forest, worms centra l England. 17 Precambrian stromatolites at Shark Bay, Western Australia. Stromatolites...been recorded in Siberia, Europe, Canada, and south west Africa . It is possible that the Ediacara fauna...scorpions) developed. Mountains formed in north west Europe and Green land. Wenlock Limestone has many...flowering plants appear. The chalk rocks of north west Europe were deposited during the Upper Cretaceous...sapiens neanderthalensis), existed in Europe and west Asia c.130,000-30,000 years ago. Fully modern humans
 
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