 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ari~ra/~gy of 8r Br PRO~SSoR H ~ v ~ . THE ORKNEY ISLANDS. PAnT II. POMONA OR MAnfLAND. localities of...in this large island have been T HEreferred to in the general description of the islands, and its miner-...noticed as forming the trough which runs through the islands. This cliffforms the north-west corner of the Bay...are finer than any avanturine I have seen from Scotland. They are of that variety of the mineral in which...and 0pal. T ~ . G~.o6~osY A ~ M n ~ o G Y oF SCOTLanD. 221 red tint ;--from this line downward these |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ari~ra/~gy of 8r Br PRO~SSoR H ~ v ~ . THE ORKNEY ISLANDS. PAnT II. POMONA OR MAnfLAND. localities of...in this large island have been T HEreferred to in the general description of the islands, and its miner-...noticed as forming the trough which runs through the islands. This cliffforms the north-west corner of the Bay...are finer than any avanturine I have seen from Scotland. They are of that variety of the mineral in which...and 0pal. T ~ . G~.o6~osY A ~ M n ~ o G Y oF SCOTLanD. 221 red tint ;--from this line downward these |  | | Report (issue) | | INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland , eo o t • By G. V. WILSON, B.Sc. AND WILFRID...the results of their work. As a rule they were in Orkney for only part of each summer ; the remainder of...Both of these experts had previously. visited the islands and were familiar with the subjects described in...of the survey by many gentlemen living in the islands, of whom special mention may be made of Dr. Marwick...lent me a series of micro-• scopic sections of Orkney trap dykes, among which were the first in which |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | qnosy and 3Tineralogy of Scotland. B Y PROFESSOR ]=[EDDLE. T H E ORKNEY ISLANDS. PART I. tells us that...that it took him six weeks to survey Orkney geologiJ AMESON cally, and that the journey was ~.he most uninteresting...been comparatively dormant if Jameson had visited Orkney after having left Shetland might not be surprising...made his survey of Caithness anteriorly to that of Orkney, his expressions of discontent and disappointment...connection to notice that, while the survey of Orkney occupies seventeen pages of his work, Caithness |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | qnosy and 3Tineralogy of Scotland. B Y PROFESSOR ]=[EDDLE. T H E ORKNEY ISLANDS. PART I. tells us that...that it took him six weeks to survey Orkney geologiJ AMESON cally, and that the journey was ~.he most uninteresting...been comparatively dormant if Jameson had visited Orkney after having left Shetland might not be surprising...made his survey of Caithness anteriorly to that of Orkney, his expressions of discontent and disappointment...connection to notice that, while the survey of Orkney occupies seventeen pages of his work, Caithness |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Dunmore 25 Bonnethill Road Pitlochry PH16 5 E D , Scotland I D E N T I F Y I N G M I N E R A L S N A M E...Robertson is director of the Resource Use Institute in Scotland. He is also the author of over 150 publications...Leadhill mines i n Lanarkshire Strontian, Morven Mull Scotland Strontian, Argyll Susanna mine, Leadhills Tobermory...Ellonite Fargite Inverarite Ledikite Rubislite Stromnite Totaigite Tuesite Tyreeite Uigite Vreckite (see...Aberdeenshire Rubislaw quarry, Aberdeen Stromness, on Pomona, Orkney Totaig, L o c h A l s h Tuesa = Tweed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | III. Account of a Mineral from Orkney. By THOMAS STEW- ART TRAILL, M. D. F. R. S. EDIN. (Read April...examining an abandoned lead-mine in the vicinity of Stromness, in the year 1803, I found a mineral which, from... i. L External 82 ACCOUNT OF A MINERAL FROM ORKNEY. External Characters of the Mineral. ITS colour... rocks which occur in no other part of the Orkney Islands constituting mountain masses. The mineral perhaps...Isles, vol. ii. p. 233. ACCOUNT OF A MINERAL FROM ORKNEY. 83 Chemical Characters. It is insoluble, or |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gamrie. Appendix: Old Red Sandstone of the Orkney Islands. Introduction.--The object ~ of the following...that t h e vast series of rocks in the l~orth of Scotland included u n d e r the n a m e of the Old Red...Caithness and the 0 r k n e y s , and in the South of Scotland and in England. The following" tabular statement...Great Conglomerate ;" consist- | a . ~ ; coas~.oi Scotland and . . oI. vast . . oe~ . oI a very coarse con-...glomerate withbands of red sandstone. J plans b. Orkney and Caithness ; bitu& Red Sandstones, shales with |  | Clark, A. M., Smith, D. A., Symes, R. F., Tandy, P. C., Hart, A. D. (1995) Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens in the Natural History Museum, London - With an appendix listing mineral species and varieties originally described from the British Isles. Natural History Museum, London. | Book | | 36445 Apex Ridge, Roe/call, Inverness-shire, Scotland J.R.Hawkes, R.J.Merriman, R.R.Harding & D.P.F...---------Dalyite (Holotype) BM 64685 Ascension Island, Atlantic Ocean R. van Tassel (1 952) Min. Mag...Dysclasite, syn. of okenite (Cotype) BM 27472 Faeroe Islands A. Connel (1 832) Edin. New Phil. J. 17, p. 198... Emeleusite (Cotype) BM 1978,00560 Igdlutalik Island, Julianehaab, South Greenland B.G.J. Upton, P...nsite (Cotype) BM 1982,00203 Two Mouthed cave, Island Magee, Co. Antrim. R. Nawaz & J.P. Malone (1982) |  | | Book (volume) | | Barlocco LIBRARY CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND Printed by Nfill and Company, Limited, Edinburgh...MACLEHOSE AND SONS. CO., LIM. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...specimens from almost every known mineral locality in Scotland, and made several hundred analyses. In addition...engaged in the preparation of The Mineralogy of Scotland for so many years that his friends had begun to...collecting was done before there were many railways in Scotland, and also before the Ordnance Survey maps appeared |  | | Book (edition) | | THOUSAND MILES OYEE THE FOSSILIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF SCOTLAND. BY HUGH MILLER, AUTHOR OF 'the OLD RED SANDSTONE...bitter feeling when a Established Churches of Scotland and its history possesses little the readers...the Oolitic deposits of the eastern coast of Scotland, to the Oolitic deposits of the Hebrides. away...veiy secm'e and the OE, Free Church yacht, his island charge, which, nights were dark and winds loud...undulating — bank of thin blue cloud ; "\Aath the island of Rachiin famous for the asylum it had afibrded |  | | Report (issue) | | Since the Second World \Var the industry in the UK has been controlled by one operator, the Bristol...but none is of econo1nic importance. 'Stromnite', found in Orkney, is not a distinct mineral but a mixture...have been noted in several areas in England and Scotland but have never been worked commer cially. For...Lead Mine, west of Stromness, and elsewhere in vein rnaterial on the Orkney Islands. Strontianite occurs...strontium compounds are derived. There are two major UK producers of strontium carbonate one of which, Albright |  | | Book (edition) | | Gold is of sometimes loyed also in Ireland, Scotland, Corn- found pure in its natural state. never...is also extract- wall, and has been found in Scotland. ed from lead. Native Silver occurs massive...bleaching, rarely It diversity present great and Scotland, often of iron. ores Manganese massive, crystallized...It is found in great abundance in the volcanic islands. Porphyritic contains Pumice is feldspar and...mas- it ad- in water. sive, and is found in the island of Cimolia. prized occurs in cells, in trap |  | | Book | | MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND |  | | Book | | Rev. W. Cumming, at Beary in the Isle of Man. Scotland . At Craigman coal -mine, near New Cumnock in...garnets, in gneiss . At Fetlar in the Shetlands. Island of Mull ; on the estate of Killimore, two miles...Rev. W. Cumming, at Beary in the Isle of Man . Scotland. At Craigman coal-mine, near New Cumnock in Ayrshire...garnets, in gneiss. At Fetlar in the Shetlands. Island of Mull ; on the estate of Killimore, two miles...ignites easily. At Bideford in Devon ; Ayrshire in Scotland ; in crystalline stalactites at Binney Craig |  | | Book | | Thordarson & Armann HosJ...-uldsson 4. Cana,)' Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north...Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...orkcd m er the past 150 years to establish these islands as a major centre of academic and economic minerJlogy...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University |  | | Book (volume) | | small quantities at Airthrie and other places in Scotland; in Cornwall, and in America. %. PRISMATOIDAL...in Hungary y in Transyl- vania, in France, in Scotland, and in many other countries. PHYSIOGRAPHY...in the Hartz, in Carinthia, and at Leadhills in Scotland. The localities of Blue Lead have been mentioned...in Westmoreland in England, at Loch Creran in Scotland, &c. It is frequent in the granite and gneiss...beautiful varieties are obtained. It occurs also in Scotland, in Cornwall, at Braunsdorf near Freiberg in |  | | Journal (volume) | | II7 - XXIII. Narrative of an Excursion upon the Island of Jan Mayen. By William Scoresby jwmor, F. R.... By Islands. 171 » &c., Proofs that the Beaver was formerly a native of XXXIII. Scotland, including...218 Rumford Medals. Medals in Scotland. Patents granted for Scotland in 181 9^ 219 CONTENTS OF No...Tho- respecting Barystrontianite, a found at Stromness in mas Stewart Traill, M. D. 380 XXVIII. Account... of Chromate of Lead. vege- 415- - Map of Scotland. Memnon. 20. Statue of North America. New |  | | Book (edition) | | Shropshire, Yorkshire, and of those of Carron in Scotland. It would be vain to attempt the enumeration of...observed frequent transitions. In Glen Fernat in Scotland, there are large beds of quartz rock including...distinct fibres of actynolite. It has been found in Scotland ing veins in gneiss. by Dr. Mac Culloch form-...and at Botallack mine near the Land’s Eud. In Scotland, in the traps of Fifeshire and the hill of Kin-...mines of Cornwall, and very fine at Cairngorm in Scotland. Vellore Quartz. hyalin enfume, B. The difference |  | | Journal (volume) | | ; of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; of the Antiquarian and Literary Society of Perth;...Laanphits Ttalica. By M. W. PETERs, 30 Vill. On Coral Islands and Heetiy as4 described by Mr Darwin. By Cuartes...felt in Great Bri- 74 tain, andespecially in Scotland, withinferences suggested by these notices as...Forming Harbours of Refuge on the East Coast of Scotland, between the Moray Firth and the Firth of Forth...Dr ALrEx- by Com- On the Introduction into Scotland of Granite, for Ornamental Purposes, by Messrs |  | | Book (edition) | | greenish or greyish-black. Massive. Frac. conchoid. STROMNITE, Traill. Sp. Gr. 3*7. C. yellowish-white. L. feeble...Ferry-town of Cree in Galloway Hurlet near Paisley in Scotland : ; in Dumfries-shire, and on bituminous...Analcime are found at the Seiser Dumbarton in Scotland, near Almas and Tokoro in Transylvania. Other...western isles of Scotland, Faroe 4. Alp in the Tyrol, at Islands and Iceland, Partridge Island in the Basin...(Haut Garonne.) in mica-slate in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, in the counties of Wicklow and Dublin in Ireland |  | | Book | | exist among the ores of lead from Leadhills in Scotland. Large cubes of what had once been galena are...Molybdate of 26. 15. Sulphate of lead. 27. Stromnite. 16. Sulphatd-tri-carbonate of 28. Phosphate...Solfatara near Naples, and particularly on the island of Volcano, occurs in its it natural state,...ammoniac is It has likewise been found in Bucharia. Scotland. in dyeing, medicine, employed in medicine...of the volcanos and solfataras, at Lipari, the island of Nevis, Trinidad, &c. in Its uses are various |  | | Book (edition) | | sublimate in the Solfatara near Naples, the Tiipari Islands, ^tna, Iceland, Guadaloupe, Java, Teueriffe, Bourbon...Yadkin and Katawa in Jsortli Carolina, and in the island of Aruba near Cuiaij-ao; in veiuH in slate in New...Chile in several places in Comwali i at Alva in Scotland* ; ; ; ; ; AMALGAM. —Native amals^am Phillips...minated. Is said to have been found in lava in tiie island of Madeira; vn carboniterous limestone at Bristol;...Zell, one of the Shetlands, in serpentine, and in Mainland in red sand-stone. Copper crystallixGS 60m fusion |  | | Book | | owdou ; Avith Quartz. in slate.— Welsh. —Scotch. Island of Arran, Buteshire. Irish. Slieve Corra, Moiirne...outline of a fortification. Agates are found in Scotland, Saxony, Arabia, India, Surinam, &c. in amygdaloid...Milo, Argentiera, in the Grecian Archipelago. The Island of Nevis. Pic de Sancy, in France. Elizabethpol...on the Sicilian coast, near Catania ; at Hasen Island in Greenland in claj^ at Auteuil, near Paris ;...Dublin at Craignashoke, in Ulster ; and at Eathlin Island, Antrim. Amber, to a considerable ; amount, is |  | | Book (edition) | | and near volcanoes ( Etna , Vesuvius the Lipari Islands ) . Section B. EFFLORESCENT . Sp. 1. CarB- AMMONITE...9-96, and water 45-66) at Hurlet and Campsie, Scotland, in the liasnear Whitby in Yorkshire, and in the...S. A., near the Solfatara at Naples and in the Island of Milo. Magnesia alum ( Pickeringite) in silky...alum ( feather-alum ) from various localities, Scotland, Iceland and Bavaria. Sp. 14. REUSSIN, Karsten...and peroxide of iron. ) Volcano in the Lipari Islands, the Andes, S. A .; and dissolved in the hot springs |
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