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Calcite from
Kynance Cove, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Cove
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kynance Cove, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:541528
Long-form Identifier:1:3:541528:1
GUID (UUID V4):35191326-306c-4190-a4d2-93e30cd897a2
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
1.4km (0.9 miles) Caerthillian Cove, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK
2.4km (1.5 miles) Lizard Point, Landewednack, Cornwall, England, UK
3.8km (2.4 miles) Cadgwith, Ruan Minor, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Enys Head, Ruan Minor, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK
5.6km (3.5 miles) Thorny Cliff, Kennack Cove (Kennack Sands), Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK
6.1km (3.8 miles) Eastern Cliff, Kennack Cove (Kennack Sands), Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK
6.1km (3.8 miles) Kennack, Grade-Ruan, Cornwall, England, UK
8.7km (5.4 miles) Wheal Downas, St Keverne, Cornwall, England, UK
9.1km (5.7 miles) Williams Stone Quarry (Trevassack Quarry), Goonhilly Downs, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall, England, UK
12.2km (7.6 miles) Wheal Rose (Wheal Lomax), Porthleven, Cornwall, England, UK
References
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Report (edition)
meetings in London and, via Local Groups, throughout England and Wales. It conducts field meetings and publishes...Europe and has led many field trips to the coast of Cornwall. Front Cover: Old engine house, Botallack Mine...Alderton). Geologists Association Guide No. 31 WEST CORNWALL by A . Hall Third Edition Guide Series Editor;... List of Figures 1. O u t l i n e map of West Cornwall 2. Map of Land's End peninsula 5 3. Map of...homfelses at Botallack 10 5. Exposures in Porthmeor Cove 11 6. Roof of the Land's End granite overlain
Report (edition)
| Geologists’ Association Guide No. 19 West Cornwall by A. Hall BIRKBECK COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON...meetings in London and, via Local Groups, throughout England and Wales, conducts field meetings and publishes... Geologists’ Association Guide No. 19 West Cornwall by A. Hall Second Edition Edited by J. T. Greensmith...REFERENCES ISBN 0-900717-57-2 West Cornwall INTRODUCTION Cornwall has long been one of the classic areas...is shown in Figure 1. The largest area in west Cornwall is occupied by Devonian sedimentary rocks which
Report (edition)
GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION GUIDES Noo 19 West Cornwall by A. HALL ITINERARY Introduction I. Land's End...incorporation in any furtl,er edition. West Cornwall by A. HALL INTRODUCTION has long been one of...distribution of the major rock units is shown in Fig. 1. CORNWALL I••+·j Granite 3 D Devonian sediments filffm...10 20 kilometres Fig. I. Outline map of West Cornwall, showing the areas covered by the five itineraries...sedimentary rocks occupy the largest part of west Cornwall. The Devonian rocks are shales and sandstones
Book
Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although
Book
Igneous Rocks of South-West England THE GEOLOGICAL CONSERVATION REVIEW SERIES The comparatively small...M. C. Gyopari S. Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd, C. S. Exley and M. T. Styles 6. ...D. R. Bridgland Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd Department of Geology, University of...study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALISATION WITHIN THE LIZARD COMPLEX, SOUTH CORNWALL: CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF SERPENTINISATION...mineralisation within the Lizard complex, south Cornwall: constraints on the timing of serpentinisation...Exeter, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3SE. INTRODUCTION The Lizard complex of south Cornwall (Figure 1) comprises...occurs at a number of other localities (e.g. Kynance Cove [SW 685 133], north Pentreath [SW 692 129])...mineralisation in rocks of basic composition (gabbro, Landewednack Schist, Traboe Schist, basalt) exposed of the
Report (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Lizard and Meneage (Explanation...1 1912 1946 1954 1 973 I • ••• I{ YNANCF COVE l·R0'\1 "fl-IE NORfll-WEST (A 570) • •• 111...32, and 1n his cl�ss1c Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West So-merset. The district has now...Hornblende-schists . .. . .. Distribution, 45; Landewednack, 45 ; Cadgwith, 46 ; inland districts ,. 47...type, 51 ; Ogo Dour, 51 ; special characters of Landewednack and Traboe schists, 5 2 ; possible break in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Electron Microscopy Centre, School of Chemistry,...University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Natural History Department, Royal Ontario Museum...Lizardite-1T crystals from Gew-graze at the Lizard, Cornwall, of an apparent composition (Mg2.94Fe0.03Al0.03)(Si1...analytical electron microscopy, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England. Introduction LIZARDITE is the most abundant...discovered in one such vein at Kennack Cove, Lizard, Cornwall, UK, by Midgley (1951). The nanostructure
Report (edition)
clistauce. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. ENGLAND AND WALES. EXPLANATION OF SHEET 359. THE GEOLOGY...32, and in his classic Report on the Geology of Cornwall ., Devon and West Somerset. The district has now...supplied at the cost of drawing and colouring. CORNWALL. 75 NE., SE., by J. B. HILL; lodes by D. A. Mac...LIZARD HORNBLENDE ScHISrrs ••• • •• ••• The Landewednack Hornblende Schists The Traboe Hornblende Schists...ILLUSTRATION S. PLATES. . . . Frontispiece. PLATE I.-Kynance Cove, with Old Lizard Head and the Man of War Rocks
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Lizard and Meneage (Explanation...32, and 1n his classic Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset. The ?istrict has now... Hornblende-schists . .. Distribution, 45 ; Landewednack, 45 ; Cadgwith, 46 ; inland districts, 47 ;...type, 51 ; Ogo Dour, 51 ; special characters of Landewednack and Traboe schists, 52 ; possible break in the...XVIII. Pliocene Deposits ... Pliocene deposits of Cornwall, St. Erth, St. Agnes, 165 ; Crousa Down gravels
Report (edition)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Lizard and Meneage (Explanation...32, and 1n his classic Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset. The ?istrict has now... Hornblende-schists . .. Distribution, 45 ; Landewednack, 45 ; Cadgwith, 46 ; inland districts, 47 ;...type, 51 ; Ogo Dour, 51 ; special characters of Landewednack and Traboe schists, 52 ; possible break in the...XVIII. Pliocene Deposits ... Pliocene deposits of Cornwall, St. Erth, St. Agnes, 165 ; Crousa Down gravels
Book
Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action...are older rocks on the Lizard peninsula, most of Cornwall consists of Devonian rocks, known locally as “killas’
Book
BIRD, Fs, Ce. The coasts of Cornwall c/551 .457094237 1899526013 | \ CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL LIBRARY SERVICES...SERVICES of Cornwall a Sconecy and Geology 1 anf on — -Fré . ide We < “~et The Coasts...Coasts of Cornwall Scenery and Geology with an Excursion Guide Eric Bird First Published by ey Alexander...Alexander Associates 1998 4 South Street, Fowey, Cornwall PL23 1AR e-mail: alex@nder.com www.nder.com ©...South Coast of Cornwall........ Chapter Four - Excursion - The North Coast of Cornwall....... th eS"
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gardens. REPORT OF AN EXCURSION TO THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. MARCH 20TH TO 2~TH, EASTER, 1913. Bv ]. S. ...the forenoon we descended by the path to Perprean Cove, where a small boss of dark -coloured troctolite...oxidation of the iron in the rock . The sections in this cove are most instructive, for they show four kinds of...seen in the rocky beach near the west corner of the cove, where the serpentine is cut by a broad vein of...omnibuses had been secured for the journey. The cove was reached by I I o'clock, and to take advantage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intensity, somewhere between that of zircon and calcite. It turned out that the refractive indices of sphene...the values of 7—a for the three minerals being: calcite, 0-172 (Rosenbusch) ; sphene, 0-121 (M. Levy) ;...about a quarter of a mile to the south-east of Kynance Cove. The dyke forms a portion of the " granulitic...these rocks forming the islands and coast of Kynance Cove, and of many other localities. In the latter...about a quarter of a mile to the south-east of Kynance Cove.The dyke forms a portion of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wolfsberg, Harz, gersdorffite, 38. British Isles :ENGLAND Barwell, Leicestershire, meteorite, 101, 855. Bigrigg...serpierite, 882. Mells quarry, Frome, Somerset, calcite, 70. Roughten Gill, Cumberland, carbonatian plumbogummite...meteorite, 101,855. Cornwall St. Minver, minverite, kaersutite, 874. The Rill, Kynance Cove, The Lizard, mackinawite...Morvah ; Mouselmle ; Pedn men Du, Sennen Cove; Porthmeor Cove; Blackpool. Hendra, Melador, Restrowrack... 651. La Porte, Indiana, meteorite, 607. Magnet Cove, Arkansas, schorlomite, 775. Mammoth mine, Tiger
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Varieties of Gabbro. u Manacle Point and Porthoustock Cove ............ V1. Other Intrusive Rocks ...........of the Lizard peninsula as far north as ]~[ullion Cove on the west and the Nare ]:lead on the east t ....and in one instance (at the Rill, W. of Kynanee Cove)the presence of a fair proportion of felspar has...in Serpentine,' H. Fox, Trans. Royal Geol. Soe. Cornwall, vol. xi. pt. 5 (1891) p. 336. :~ Quoted by Mr...semi-crystMline base of the serpentine porphyry of Kynance Cove." Analysis by S. ]~aughton. Phil. Mag. 1855
Catalog/List
of the staff detailed for this work, viz., in England Mr. T. C. Hall and Mr. John Rhodes, in Scotland...814. B 815. } B 817-23. Towan Head, Newquay, Cornwall. False-bedded blown • sand. Do. Consolidated blown...cylindrical pipes. Penhale Sands, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. Sand-dune scenery. Do. Blown sand overwhelntlng... St. l\1artins, Scilly. Do. Sennen Cove, Whitesand Bay, Cornwall. Coast scenery, blown sand. Cassock...Cassock Hill, near Rock, St. Minver, Cornwall. Blown sand b urying landscape. Brownslade Burrows, Castlemartin
Book
- .. CORNWALL COUNTY L IBRARY 11 I3 111 111 II 11 11 I 8009 02579 1911 -, , l./tPv ~ 6 JUN 2003...BIRD, E. C. F. The coasts of Cornwall c/551 .457094237 1899526013 CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL LIBRARY SERVICES...SERVICES The Coasts of Cornwall Scenery and Geology with an Excursion Guide Eric Bird 1 First Published...Alexander Associates 1998 4 South Screer, Fowey, Cornwall PL23 lAR e-mail: a1ex@nder.com www.nder.com ©... 6 Chapter One - Introduction The coasts of Cornwall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (edition)
AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND (SECOND EDITION) by HENRY DEWEY LONDON HER ...SURVEY AND REGIONAL MUSEUM GEOLOGY SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND (SECOND EDITION) by HENRY DEWEY YRIGHT RESERVED...DEVONIAN ROCKS -----(1) Lower Devonian -----(a) Cornwall and South Devon (b) North Devon ------ - 17...17 17 17 19 (2) Middle Devonian -----(a) Cornwall and South Devon _ _ _ lb) North Devon ------- - 22...22 22 22 (3) Upper Devonian -----(a) Cornwall and South Devon lb) North Devon ------(c) Pillow lavas
Journal (issue)
ornamental stone found at the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. This is the material called serpentinite by the...; a n d the polyphant stone from Launceston in Cornwall is also classed as a serpentine. T o this list...quantities of dark and light green bowenite with calcite are found in the Aravalli rocks near Baman Vada...serpentine spotted with green crystals. 159 Lizard, Cornwall. Gouveneur in New York State which is of a peculiar...serpentine rock found at the Lizard peninsula of Cornwall. T h e Lizard serpentine forms a mass of rock
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GEOLOGY OF ,,, ,,. F .. THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL Cornwall is renowned for its spectacular rocky coastline...seventeenth century. This book reviews the importance of Cornwall in the development of geological thought in Britain...of notable scientific interest. The Geology of· Cornwall is a companion volume to The Geology of Devon...org/details/geologyofcornwal0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY Edited by E.B. Selwood...Liskeard High: E.B. Se/wood The Structure of East Cornwall: K. P Isaac Culn1 Basin: JR. Andrews The Boscastle-Tintagel-
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Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has...Cleavage and Fracture 8 8 9 10 11 GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS...Mount’s Bay - The Lizard .. North and Central Cornwall East Cornwall Devon 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 MAPS
Report (issue)
y1;:11;s and is :irchaeology , recorder for the Cornwall Arc:1a.,o!og;c;ii Sodety for our area and has...of fu:i:,en, M01;1;meats for the� Newquay Old Cornwall Society .:,l,:; hcv.: j1_;s, 1.om1cd a group�"-of...- I gave one to the Newquay Old ::_: 5,i:J � _ Cornwall Society in November which wcm ...Chichester Guest House 14 Bay View Terrace - Newquay -Cornwall - TR7 2LR Tel: 01637 874216 Email: sheila.harper@virgin...midden watched by a pair of ravens. We went to Kynance on the Lizard and Trelowarren to see the fogou
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tile coast south of Coverack Cove. (b) The Igneous l~cks of Gorerack Cove. 4. Some inland sections. 5...Transactions of the Royal Geolo~cal Society of Cornwall : ' ~ "Sketch of the Geology of the Lizard District...the Geology of Cornwall," by Sir H. Davy, i. p. 3S. "On the Serpentine District of Cornwall," by the Rev..."Contributions towards a Knowledge of the Geology of Cornwall," by H. S. Boase, iv. p. 160. The subject is also...Soc. i. p. 291). " R e p o ~ on the Geology of Cornwall and Devon," by H. T. De la Beehe (published 1839)
 
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