| Locality type: | Bay |
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| Species: | Celestine |
| Formula: | SrSO4 |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | Visually Identified |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Celestine data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Warren Bay, Watchet, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, England, UK |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 891390 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:891390:6 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 610fe7ad-786a-48e4-b158-e80058d0e691 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Celestine |
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| 2.4km (1.5 miles) | ⓘHelwell Bay, Watchet, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, England, UK |
| 8.6km (5.4 miles) | ⓘKilve Beach, Kilve, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, England, UK |
| 23.9km (14.9 miles) | ⓘWhitmore Bay, Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
| 24.3km (15.1 miles) | ⓘStorehouse Point, Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
| 24.3km (15.1 miles) | ⓘJackson's Bay, Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
| 24.3km (15.1 miles) | ⓘBarry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
| 25.1km (15.6 miles) | ⓘBarry Docks, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
| 30.9km (19.2 miles) | ⓘPenarth beach, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
| 36.5km (22.7 miles) | ⓘBanwell Hill, Banwell, North Somerset, England, UK |
| 51.0km (31.7 miles) | ⓘDulcote Quarry, St Cuthbert Out, Mendip, Somerset, England, UK |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 7 6 1 - 4 Analcime from the L. Lias on the W. Somerset coast C. J. ALABASTER Department of Geology, University...trapezohedral crystals and pale-brown slaggy masses, is reported growing into and replacing aragonitic...pyrite (some framboidal), celestine,aragonite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, and solidhydrocarbon.No other...found. Its modes of occurrence, crystal morphology, and relationships to these minerals are described. The...appears to be restricted in occurrence to the W. Somerset coast. Partial chemical analysis of one sample |  | | Book | | 1:�tttii���� •' . • , ,��-\ ·?�r BR/DG WATER BAY . ... ..... ...... . . . .... .. ''•:... .... ...... · . . ' . � Burnham-on-Sea ·1. · : .·�./ Watchet Li I stock Geology of the country around Weston-super-Mare...Middle Hope and Brean Down, the western end of the Mendip Hills, part of the Somerset Levels and the north...north Somerset coast between Hinkley and Watchet, as well as the islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm. Miles...interbedded volcanic rocks in the north, and of Triassic and Lower Lias rocks in the south. The Institute' |  | | Book | | DISTRICT. Qua.t.erna1-y Made ground, \•Vorked ground and rnade ground, Landslip, Scree, Debris cone, Head...Group* Sandstone, green-grey, clayey, fine grained; and siltstone Thickness m up to c.100 Callovian Bathonian...grey and grey silty shale and shale c.700 Jurassic Toarcian Pliensbachian Lias Group Lower and tvJiddle...Sine1nurian Hettangian Rhaetiax1 Grey mudstone and shale with regular thin interbeds of 1nicritic lin1estone...(1-1.5 m): pale grey and green-grey ca.k:areous mudst◊ne, limestone, siltstone and sandstone 12.5 to 16 |
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