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Augite from
Walla Crag, Derwentwater, Keswick, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK


Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Walla Crag, Derwentwater, Keswick, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:213176
Long-form Identifier:1:3:213176:4
GUID (UUID V4):ba4abbde-c1d4-4cb5-9109-cf4a49904666
Nearest other occurrences of Augite
1.6km (1.0 miles) Castle Head, Keswick, Keswick, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
9.8km (6.1 miles) Wad Mine (Plumbago Mine; Graphite Mine; Black Lead Mine), Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
17.5km (10.9 miles) Bowness Knott, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
24.4km (15.2 miles) Mecklin Wood, Wasdale, Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
30.2km (18.7 miles) Wasdale Head, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
30.5km (19.0 miles) Shap Blue Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
31.0km (19.3 miles) Packhorse Hill, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
99.4km (61.8 miles) Bail Hill, Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
References
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Book
illustrations Front cover-Sphalerite and siderite, Force Crag Mine, Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy'...District , the hematite ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation....only economic tungsten deposits outside of the SW England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is...clay iron-stones within the Coal Measures of west Cumbria at one time provided a source of lower grade iron
Book
Fell . Eycott Hill 30 3 FACETS OF BORROWDALE Derwentwater basin . the Watendlath valley . upper Borrowdale...scenically it is one of the most complex regions of England and within the space of this volume rigorous selection...exposures north of a line from Ennerdale Water, past Derwentwater to Troutbeck and include the hill masses of...extensively north of a line from Egremont and Derwentwater (Figure 2). Despite the contortion and pressures...have been positively identified, eg Castle Head, Keswick. The principal outlets are believed to be away
Book
to the Mines in Newlands, and Smelting Works at Keswick ; copied from the Calendar of State Papers, published...pages, in an abridged form , was read before the Keswick Literary and Scientific Society, on the 19th January...will rank amongst the best Mines in the North of England . Since 1565 no less than seven smelt mills and...the Lake District . The former were erected at Keswick, Dale Head , Stoneycroft Gill, Braithwaite, Thornthwaite...our earliest historical records. THE AUTHOR . KESWICK, June, 1877. THE PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
Report (chapter)
usually occur at a high level in the complex, e.g. Walla Crag (495 151). Banded dolerites and fine-grained...exposed on the lakeside below Walla Crag whilst banded gabbro is present on the crag itself. The banding is...generally parallel to the northwest elongation of Walla Crag. It is formed by the segregation of mafic and...further dolerite. A large area of microdiorite (augite porphyrite) occurs to the northwest of Haweswater...complex. They are particularly common around Walla Crag and Sandhill Knotts (486 154). Some veins are
Book (edition)
Gillercoomb and Honister 57 4. Keswick, Castlehead and Friar's Crag 5. The Volcanics of Cat Ghyll 6...~logical Map of the Lake District __ .iar's Crag, Derwentwater ~-~Jthe Geological Column 1Exposures in Cat...Ghyll ((}reen's Flow Breccia $ection through Falcon Crag and Blaeberry Fell 1Low angled fault behind Hollows...Hollows Farm, Borrowdale :River Derwent above Derwentwater :Rosthwaite and Borrowdale from Frith Wood 'The...Sanderson and Dixon, of Ambleside FRIAR'S CRAG, DERWENTWATER (photo: J. Tyson) 1. An Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be restricted to places readily accessible from Keswick. While the glacial geology, physiography and minerals...of this sequence was repeated ten times between Keswick and Coniston, so that the maximum thickness of...DERWEXTWATER AXD FALCON CRAG. THE party walked to Castle Head, overlooking Derwentwater. From the top the...the drumlins; and the division of the former Derwentwater-Bassenthwaite Lake by the Greta delta. Castle...great. Proceeding by the lake to the base of Falcon Crag, an andesite lying below the" great purple breccia"
Catalog/List
is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria Dyfed.Wales Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Leadhills,Scotl. Caldbeck,Cumbria Derbyshire Moorshaft...Moorshaft Lode Scordale,Cumbria Ecton.Staffs. Derbyshire Dyfed.Wales Trefelrig,Wales SlOay,Comwall Derbyshire...Staffs. Breage,Comwall Dorset Caldbeck,Cumbria Caldbeck,Cumbria Porthleven,Comw. Comwall Strathclyde Skye...Comwall Gwennap,Comwall Talybont,Wales Scordale,Cumbria SLDay,Comwall Start
Book (edition)
Building of the Lake District 4. Keswick, Castlehead and Friar's Crag 5. The Volcanics of Cat Ghyll 6...Geological Column Friar's Crag. Castlehead Exposures in Cat Ghyll Section through Falcon Crag and Blacberry Fell...Seathwaite Valley The Origin of Coombs Friar's Crag, Derwentwater (). Tyson) Green ·s Flow Breccia River Derwent...been in the vicinity of Keswick, and another, per haps more definite, at Capel Crag in the valley of the...movements which raised mountain c hains across Europe, England, Ireland and America. The central core of th..:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIII. IX. X. Page The Intrusive Complex of Blea Crag, Langstrath .................. 70 Intrusions in............. 85 Garnetiferous Rocks in the Falcon-Crag Andesite-Group ......... 86 The ' Streaky' Rocks...continue the work, for he had hoped, on his return to England, to prosecute his researches among these rocks...Langstrath Valley (75 ~ N . W . ) a t and around Blea Crag. Clifton Ward mapped this as a small laccolite :...seen in a small exposure north-north-west of Blea Crag, and separated from it by two small streams. This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gives a section (p. 127) from Ullswater to Wasdale Crag, ·showing the Skiddaw Slate brought up by anticlines...the base of the volcanics between Ullswater and Keswick, and throughout the district now under consideration...Ullswater basic lava group = Eycott group. Falcon Crag and Bleaberry Fell Andesites. A group of garnetiferous...with, and it is considered possible that the Falcon Crag group may be found near Shap. This view of the volcanic...District have been described as augite-andesites, hypersthene-augite-andesites, or hypersthene-basalts
Report (volume)
is Registered Charity 210161. The Society is the UK national learned and professional society for geology...fifth of the Society's fellowship resides outside the UK. To find out more about the Society, log on to www...uk. The Geological Society Publishing House (Bath, UK) produces the Society's international journals and...Brassmill Enterprise Centre Brassmill Lane Bath BA1 3JN, UK (Orders: Tel. +44 (0)1225 445046 Fax +44 (0)1225...Typeset by Type Study, Scarborough, UK Printed by Alden Press, Oxford, UK iv Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious...Emb'eton quany,nrCockermouth. Cumbria; Gra:nsgill. Ca'.dbeck Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine...Fells,Cumbria; OldGunnls!ake m:ne.Calslock. Cornwall lindgrenite' BrandyGill,Caldbeck Fells,Cumbria WestTurtPitsmine
Report (issue)
OLD SERIES. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. ENGLAND .A.ND WALES. GEOLOGY • OF �BE COUNTRY BETWEEN...areas among the Skiddaw Slates, at Hagg Wood, Birk Crag, and The Knott. These areas staud up as rather craggy...Lake are obtainetl from them, especially from Birk Crag, 1,045 feet in • height. Verv ., few undoubted lava-be...the beRt marked being a s111all outlier on Birk Crag, capped by · breccia and cle:tve(l a.sh (s_ee Hor...e vV oodhouse and about Priest's Crag. ['fhe · rock of. Prie�t's Crag (E. 1 68) is a liypersthene-augitc­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lehrbuch dcr Petrographie,' 2nd ed. 1893, p. 781. England and Wales, 101 N.E. (New Series, 23). This map...As one climbs up the cliff, e. g. at Snailshell Crag, sometimes gabbro, sometimes lava is seen, or the...what is seeu in the cliff near Snailshell Crag and :Black Crag shows that the lavas must pass right into...mineral is rich in alumina, I shall speak of it as augite. The most usual secondary alteration of the augitc...of a crystal, and spreads to the interior, the augite and hornblende always having the usual crystallographic
Book
collector'sguide 1 28 A list of 111i11eral localities in England, f;f/ ales and Scotland 13 1 Bibliography and further... 99 33. Garnet from the Blue Quarry at Shapin Cumbria, 102 34. Ornamentsandjcwclkry madeL1fl.1kL·l.111dSlarc...Agate pebbles from the easr coast bc.:achesof England. 116 .io. A beach on the Lleyn Peninsula, North...most active in what is 110w thl.'.British Isles. England also has its interesting areas. Cornwall with its...the presence of the Borrowdale Volcanics, near Keswick. R O C K S ,\ N I) M I N E H ,\ l S F II O
Book
for (7 Fig. represented. 1. The colour of the augite XVI. Fig. represented. 2. The fresh olivine... 2. Picrite (Palseopicrite), Menheniot. 1. Augite-picrite, Shiant Isles. 9 * IV., V., VI., u ...VII., 1. Hornblende-picrite, Pen-y-cnwc. 2. Augite-picrite, Inchcolm. 1. Picrite, Halival. 2. ...VIII., IX., j> j> X., XL, Croes. 3 & 4. Augite-picrite, Inchcolm. Hornblende-picrite, Penarfynydd...XVII., * XVIII., }> 1. 1. Plagioclase-olivine-augite-mica rock, Ballachulish. 2. Olivine-gabbro, Mull
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and gemstones are traced by their geographical England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland occurrence. detail...AND PORTENTS 7 ROUND THE BRITISH ISLES PART I, ENGLAND AND WALES ROUND THE BRITISH ISLES PART 2, SCOTLAND...Balquhidder 4 Round the British Isles Part 1, England and Wales It is a frequent practice among those...paper travel. 4.1 SOUTHERN ENGLAND We are in the south-west of England, and a very useful part of Great...minerals are mainly sought and occasionally ENGLAND AND WALES 17 found. Although they may also
Book
1 THE SOUTH WEST 2 WALES 3 IRELAND 4 NORTHERN ENGLAND 6 8 10 5 FROM TWEED TO THAMES II 14 6 MINERALS...pebble beaches of the south and east coasts of England are well known, as are the many around the coast...coastline. THE 1 SOUTH WEST The south-west of England certainly offers the widest variety of mineral...bb 4 ENGLAND There are three distinct mining re­ gions in the northernmost counties of England. On the...calcite, Cumberland 7 f minerals, felspar, augite and pectolite are present along with micropegmatite
Book
SOPER,N. J. Deformation in the Caledonides of England, Ireland and Scotland 165 COWARD, M. P. • SIDDANS...C-Sil ors S.U.F ;arboniferaus Carboniferous England 2 ~ ~ ~ Limit of Caledonian / Deformation ...The Cambrian of Wales and 18 R. Nicholson England. In HOLLAND, C. H. (ed.) Cambrian o f the British...partly because of younger cover rocks in central England and partly because it is buried beneath the Atlantic...undeformed. Granitic rocks of Variscan age occur in SW England, in S New Brunswick and possibly in the southern
 
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