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Flint from
Cap Blanc-Nez, Escalles, Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France


Locality type:Cape
Classification
Type:Flint
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz2 photos of Flint associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Flint data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cap Blanc-Nez, Escalles, Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:600525
Long-form Identifier:1:3:600525:2
GUID (UUID V4):e45c1ecc-28c4-44ba-8ee4-5c85c467b200
Nearest other occurrences of Flint
36.0km (22.4 miles) Shakespeare Cliff (Samphire Hoe), Dover, Kent, England, UK
41.4km (25.7 miles) Folkestone and Hythe District, Kent, England, UK
62.1km (38.6 miles) Saint-André-au-Bois, Gouy-Saint-André, Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France
62.3km (38.7 miles) Herne Bay, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
77.9km (48.4 miles) Warden Point, Warden, Swale, Kent, England, UK
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Cretaceous of the Boulonnais (France) and a comparison with the Cretaceous of Kent (United Kingdom)...AMEDRO. 1986. The Cretaceous of the Boulonnais (France) and a comparison with the Cretaceous of Kent (United...Polytechnique de Mons, 9 rue de Houdain, 7000 Mons, Belgium F. A., 26 rue de Nottingham, 62100 Calais, France...Haut-Boulonnais forms a semi-circular cuesta from the Mont de Couple at the north to Dannes in the south, following...Structure The Boulonnais is a rare area in northern France where the Palaeozoic basement and the Mesozoic
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Easter Field Meeting in the Boulonnais, France 7-13 April 1966 Report by the Directors: D. V. AGER and...spent in the Boulonnais region of northern France, between Calais and Boulogne, studying the very varied...but at a much lower level. After their arrival at Calais (much delayed by fog in the Channel) the party...directly to Wimereux for a visit to the Institut de Biologie Maritime et Regionale, The directors had...route for the view of the Bas Boulonnais from Cap Blanc Nez, but the lateness of the arrival and the poor
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Henri-Poincard; BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lks-Nancy cedex, France (e-mail: christian.hibsch @g2r.uhp-nancy.fr) 2Dept...Gdosciences, Universitd de Franche-Comtd, 16 route de Gray 25030 Besanfon cedex France 4IRSN / DPRE / SERGD...Fontenay-aux-roses, France 5Universitg du Littoral COte d'Opale, L.LS.E, 32 avenue Foch, 62 930 Wimereux., France 6Lab...6Lab. Ggologie de Normandie occidentale, Universitd de Caen; 14032 Caen cedex, France 7Lab. hydrologie;...Mdry-sur-Seine, France SENSG- INPL, BP 40; 54501 Vandeeuvre-lks-Nancy cedex, France Abstract: This paper
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385 The Environmental History of the Boulonnais, France by D. V. AGER and PEIGI WALLACE Received 28 May...416 ABSTRACT: The Boulonnais region of northern France contains surface exposures of rocks ranging in...Sables de Wissant 'Wealden' Jurassic: {:o~~~:~~::~' Calcaire des Oies! Gres des Oies! Assises de Croi...Argiles de Wimereux! Kimmeridgian Argiles de la Creche! Gres de la Creche Argiles de Chatillon Gres de Chatillon...du Moulin Wibert Argiles du Moulin Wibert Calcaire de Brecquerecque Clays passing up Oxfordian into limestones
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INFO JAARGANG 40 NUMMER 7 MAART 2016 WOORDJE VAN DE VOORZITTER Beste lezer, lezeres en lezertje(s) 2016...ingezet en we zijn bijna reeds twee maanden verder… De beurskoorts is binnen het bestuur behoorlijk gestegen...voor is slaat de portie gezonde stress toch toe. Op 20 maart is het weer zover en zullen de ogen van liefhebbend...of ernstige sneeuwbui kan roet in het eten gooien. De Brit Ralph Jolyon heeft ons mondeling toegezegd dat...hebben verricht in de Noordzee, het Nederlandse Deltagebied, het Scheldeestuarium en aan de Keniaanse kust
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mei lezing door Eric Groessens Belgische marmers De Belgische ondergrond heeft in het verleden een ruime...variëteit aan siermarmers voortgebracht. In België wordt de term ‘marmer’ in zijn meest brede betekenis gebruikt...hebben en kunnen worden aangewend als sierelement in de bouw worden marmer genoemd. Deze definitie omvat...algemene toepassingen heeft. Het traditionele palet van de Waalse marmers kent drie hoofdtinten: rood, zwart...er valt veel meer te vertellen over de Belgische marmer, dan de kleurvariaties. Prof. Eric GROESSENS
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mei lezing door Eric Groessens Belgische marmers De Belgische ondergrond heeft in het verleden een ruime...variëteit aan siermarmers voortgebracht. In België wordt de term ‘marmer’ in zijn meest brede betekenis gebruikt...hebben en kunnen worden aangewend als sierelement in de bouw worden marmer genoemd. Deze definitie omvat...algemene toepassingen heeft. Het traditionele palet van de Waalse marmers kent drie hoofdtinten: rood, zwart...er valt veel meer te vertellen over de Belgische marmer, dan de kleurvariaties. Prof. Eric GROESSENS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vicinity of Sangatte,.a village about five.miles from Calais. In the second of these papers, the author mentions...Submerged Forest. round the headland called Cap Blanc-nez, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any...having first noticed the raised beach north of Cap Blanc-nez, I met with what appeared to me to be a second...group is, in character, an excellent example of what De la Beche,2 in his description of raised beaches,...be examining the coast between Wissant and Cap Blanc-nez, when I was much struck by the peculiar appearance
Report (chapter)
3001 Heverlee, Belgium 3 ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels, Belgium...microcrystalline calcite (Lambert et al. 2006; Deville de Periere et al. 2011; Kaczmarek et al. 2015). However...investigated from several outcrops in Belgium, France and the UK (Fig. 1). The Belgian samples were from... Boulonnais (France); 3, Yorkshire (UK); 4, Sussex (UK); and 5, Upper Normandy (France). Downloaded...Vandycke 2002). In France, outcrops were studied in the Boulonnais region (Cap Blanc Nez site) and in Upper
Journal (issue)
busy school year, organising a SMLS field trip to France for the next three days, leading a group expedition...37 members of the Millau Geological Society from France. Their chairman, Alain Marchal, is an honorary...Journal 167 SepUOct 2000 • VISIT TO CAP BLANC NEZ, NEAR CALAIS or HAPPY BIRTHDAY TED Saturday July...included both. A GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION TO THE CAPE BLANC NEZ AREA After a fairly early start our party of 11...to Dover and embarked on the 0915 P & 0 ferry to Calais. The forecast for the weekend was not too promising
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(v) tectonically induced slumps and slides with flint ana chalk shatter beds (palaeoseismic horizons)...Anticlinal du Bray a.t Precy and Dieppe, the Anticlinal de Margny-les-Compiegne at Nourard le-Franc and Le Treport...Laboratoire de Geologie, Uniuersite Paris Val de Marne. U.E.R. de Sciences, Avenue du Gtntral de Gaulle,... 94010 Crtteil, France. (transgression-regression) could be found in the thicker basin sediments. The...Belgium and beds, members and formations applies; France (Amedro & Robaszynski, 1978), and Kent and (iii)
Journal (issue)
is er de Nautilusbeurs, de Internationale Mineralen en Fossielenbeurs, onze topactiviteit. Voor de 31ste...van de natuur. Voor de verzamelaars is het dé kans om enkele mooie exemplaren te verwerven voor de eigen...voor onze club is het ook een belangrijke dag, omdat de opbrengst dient om al onze activiteiten te financieren...continentale waterscheiding. Niet de Himalaya -keten bepaalt waar de rivieren naartoe vloeien maar wel...wonder dat sommige rivieren het moeilijk hebben om de zee te bereiken en dat één zelfs een deel van het
Journal (issue)
agate and jasper cabochons and a number of polished flint pebbles. Peter Wates Class 2. One Mineral or Rock... 'Calcites' from South Wales, Somerset, India, France, China, Peru, Bulgaria, Namibia, and Slovakia Wall...class, a variety of marcasites in chalk from Cap Blanc Nez with good lustre and crystal form entered by...based on the theme of Quartz, Agate, Chalcedony, Flint.. There were five entries in this group .The wining...circular patterns and colours. Notable was a large flint with quartz crystals in the cavities, also a wonderful
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of brilliance is there to b~ho!d Through Sussvc flint and selenite and even Scottish gold Of ,course the...of the workers kindly gave me some examples of flint fossils they had found. Photo 3. Chalcanthite (7cm)...some distinctive samples of the ore. Photo 17. Flint (10cm in length) Osmington Mills. I have spent many...grandchildren. Many of these beaches consist of flint pebbles and when idly picking them up to throw in...sphalerite Photo 15. Chromite Photo 17. Fossil in flint Photo 14. Beryl and corundum Photo 16 Realgar
Journal (issue)
haai aan de Cap Blanc Nez Meer dan 20 jaar geleden vond Luc De Coninck, op de kleiplaat van de Cap Blanc...vochtig bewaren tegen het uitdrogen en krimpen van de klei, is het eindelijk geprepareerd en gedetermineerd...van ontdekking, de minutieuze preparatie, beschrijving van de bewaarde resten en de moeilijke determinatie...determinatie zal door Dirk Hovestadt en Luc uit de doeken gedaan worden. K.A.Voskenslaan, deuren 19 uur, lezing...Fossielvondst Cap Blanc Nez. Er is een tombola voorzien.K.A.Voskenslaan deuren 19 uur, lezing 20 uur. De lezing
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Dover'. Ori clear clays their cour1ter1)arts ,lt Cap Blan<:. -N ez are clear!,, visil)lt· across the 33...mainland. On clear days, the chalk cliffs of C ap Blanc-Nez are easily visible across the 33 km of the Strait...recognised that the Boulonnais anticline in Northern France is the eastern end of the major Wealden anticlinorium...drilled to prove and develop the Kent Coalfield, have de m onstrated that beneath Cretaceous rocks, a wedge...debris with manv lavers of nodular and tabular flint. The 'White C halk ' is lithologically very variable
Report (issue)
20 Flint- lim estone -quartz ite Sandstone -limestone -porphyry 22 Porphyry -g ranite-flint 22 ... Quart zite -flint-granit e 22 22 R EFEREN CES I LLUS TRATIONS F ig. 1 Th ickness of Caenozoic sedim...sediments au fond de la Mer du Nord sont discute's. Ils sont pour la plupart m oins de 1 0 m et consistent...mm) et grav ier ( > 2 mm ). Des ttudes ant� rieures de mintraux lourds sugg� rent que la plupart du . '... mais que, pres de la c8te du sud- ouest de la Hollande et au nord du Pas de Calais, le sable a et e
Journal (issue)
geonreuws maandblad van de mineralogische kring antwerpen v.z.w. 24(91, november 1999 in dit nummer...ook zondeÍ voorafgaênde schrflelike loestemm ng van de ulgeveÍ Betalinoen EglsÈ: kontribut.e: : bankrekening... Bestuurder mineíaalvan de máand, jeugdwerking. excursies. DILLEN H.. DooÍnslraat...03/311 73 47. Uitleendienst, WêíkgÍoep FotograÍ€ ' OP DE BEECK É-. ChuÍchillláan 38 B 2900 Schoten. Tel 03/658...vercadeÍingen. contacten mel spíekeÍs. ' REYNDERS H., Van de Revdllaan 5 8-2960 Brechl Tel 03/636 06 06 Akliviteilen
Journal (issue)
even after a six hour slog along the cliffs at Risco de Famara, where we collected some superb micro phillipsites...there is a porphyry copper deposit with a brown cap of insoluble iron oxide minerals overlying intensely...oxide/hydroxide dendrites from Drigas quarry, Millau, France was the mineral example. Secondly, an interesting...collectors in action in Cumbria, Africa, India, France and Spain and mineral specimens from Cornwall,...baked hill at the Duranus mine tip in Southern France. Head down, hammer in hand, the picture captured
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paar behulpzame handboeken uit de bibliotheek zullen op de tafels liggen. De winnaar krijgt een mooie prijs...aan spotprijzen aangeboden worden. Verrassing uit de keuken van Mieke Goeteyn om het werkjaar af te sluiten...opstarten. Hoe houden we overzicht in de collectie? Wat is de waarde van de verzameling? Wat houden en wat verwijderen...parkeren in de Corbiestraat) SHOPNIEUWS Tijdens deze laatste vergadering van dit werkjaar zal de “Nautilusshop”...begin september starten we opnieuw. Dit betekent dat de lidgelden dienen te worden hernieuwd. We vragen onze
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Antwerpen . Tel . 031238 62 62 . Bestuurder, mineraal van de maand . jeugdwerkin g * DILLEN H ., Doornstraat 15...werkgroep informatika, vindplaatsenkartoteek . * OP DE BEECK E . . L Weytensstraat 127, B-2900 Schoten ...Bestuurder . public relation s * SCHUYBROECK E ., Karel de Vle straat 11, B-2030 Antwerpen . Tel . 031542 40...mededeling hieromtrent verder in dit numme r onder de rubriek MKA-nieuws), in het Kultuurcentrum Reinaert... Eigen vondsten in de Mine de 1 1Et0e, Shaba, Zaire 2. Uraniumminerale n door de heer P. Van he e Vrijdaq
Report (volume)
sediments VAN RENSBERGEN, P., POORT, J., KIPFER, R., DE BATIST, M., VANNESTE, M., KLERKX, J., GRANIN, N....spectacular outcrops in the Vocontian Basin (SE France). Complex networks of clastic sills (up to 10 m...investigated by Hibsch et al. for various outcrops in France and in the United Kingdom. Hibsch et al. suggest...Hydraulic fracturing and sediment injection weakens the cap rock and may facilitate diapiric rise. Mixed sand-bitumen...sediment may flow. Hydraulic fractures weaken the cap rock of diapirs and are pathways for sediment injection
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John Dabney (2015–2023) Marcus Budil (2023) Noel De Dora (2021–2023) Jeff Kremer (2015–2023) Mineral...Figure 2. Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796– 1858) patented a de-silvering process for lead in 1833, went into the...liquid lead that would be the basis of his famous de-silvering process. In 1831, with help from the prominent...lead per year. It was here that he developed his de-silvering process, taking out a patent on it in 1833...giving high transparency [see below] to the best flint or crystal, which appeared to be produced by the
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seminars, other overseas trips to Northern Spain , France and India; SMLS Stella, our inflatable dinghy used...many years. The photo shows a group getting Robert de Vliet's clinker boat into the water in Glen Eynort...Crakow, Poland Paris, France Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia Millau, Central Massif, France Munich, Germany Cote...Cote d'Azure, Southern France St. Maire-aux-Mines, North East France Budapest, Hungary Northern Spain India...India Cap Blanc Nez, France Namibia Lanzarote, Canary Islands Return Visit to St. Maire-aux-Mines, North
Report (issue)
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