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Bitumen from
Chapel Quarry, Raith, Fife, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Petroleum var: Bitumen
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bitumen data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chapel Quarry, Raith, Fife, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:673787
Long-form Identifier:1:3:673787:0
GUID (UUID V4):51358268-2ce2-446c-81a0-89b27a80aaf8
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hydrocarbon minerals in the Midland Valley of Scotland with particular reference to the Oil-Shale Group...Hydrocarbon minerals in the Midland Valley of Scotland , with particular reference to the Oil Shale Group...of the Oil-Shale Group in the Lothi an Region and Fife. The product s of local diagenesis are common in...hydrocarbon mineral s in the Lothi ans and southern Fife were made by Cadell (1901, 1925) and Conacher (1923...oil shales have been worked much further east in Fife (Geikie, 1902). Their extent at depth has been discussed
Report (issue)
Economic minerals of Scotland – bedrock of Scotland's economic development. Information Management and...INTERNAL REPORT IR/04/001 Economic minerals of Scotland bedrock of Scotland's economic development. R...F. MacTaggart, T. Cullen, J. Rayner Key words Scotland, mineral resources Bibliographical reference R... Cullen, J. Rayner. 2004 Economic minerals of Scotland - bedrock of Scotland's economic development....Opportunities Fund RLS (Resources for Learning in Scotland). This report contains 600 images and text descriptions
Report (issue)
rock 1895-197 S 12 Major granite outcrops in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England 27 Fig...Quartz-dolerite Sill in central Scotland 31 31 Distribution of lavas in central Scotland Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 Fig...map showing the major metamorphic 33 rocks of Scotland and Northern Ireland Fig 8 South West England:...Warwick) 42 Fig 11 Northern England and Southern Scotland: distribution of quarries and igneous intrusives...the United Kingdom such rocks outcrop mainly in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the South West and
Report (volume)
OF GREAT BRITAIN VOL. XXXVII The Limestones of Scotland Chemical Analyses and Petrography CHEMICAL ANALYSES...AN investigation of the limestone resources of Scotland was undertaken in 1939 by the Geological Survey;...published in 1949 as a memoir 'The Limestones of Scotland', forming volwne XXXV of the series of Special...stratigraphical range of limestones and dolomites in Scotland, and their general chemical characteristics in...Mr. T. H. Whitehead when Assistant Director in Scotland; later, Dr. J. Phemister has acted as editor.
Book
GRIFFITH . ( Six sheets.) 1854. Stanford's Map of Scotland. ( Six sheets.) Reynolds's Geological Atlas of..." WIGHT, ISLE OF 78 77 MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND ABERDEENSHIRE 81 81 . ARGYLESHIRE . ISLANDS...OF 85 85 CONTENTS . MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND— (continued ). PAGR CAITHNESS CLACKMANNANSHIRE...counties, like the Malvern Hills, or Cairn Gorm in Scotland, are referred to the several counties in which...Water 38.39 36.66 0 . 24.95 .. ASPHALTUM. See Bitumen . AUGITE I ) { 55.62 25.72 Silica Lime Magnesia
Journal (issue)
TRI T MI E HISTORIC L SOCIETY 3-----------BL The UK Jouma/ of 1Jfi11es a11dMinerals publishes articles...Downing and Gray, 1986; Lovell, 1977; Strank 1987). UK Journal of Mines& 1\lineralsNo. 13 fiull. P.D.111...Figure5 CALCITE, â—„cm scalenohedron from FallHill Quarry, Ashover. Specimen: G. Batey. Photo: David Green...minor amounts of other sulphides (mostly iron) and bitumen; 2. approximately 20 million tonnes of fluorite...OREFIELD ~~!ii:~~ r:11:j:iirn~i11 arr~~%a%~~~~ ~ UK Journal or Mines & M incrJls No. 1.3 Bull. P.D.M
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at £21 796...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...minerals. The value of minerals production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect their ultimate value
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was downloaded by: [University North Carolina - Chapel Hill] On: 20 January 2015, At: 10:35 Publisher:...Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 8...opinions Downloaded by [University North Carolina - Chapel Hill] at 10:35 20 January 2015 and views of the...L S Downloaded by [University North Carolina - Chapel Hill] at 10:35 20 January 2015 AND tdAGAZ[NE...Cainozo[c Marine Mollusca and Fish-remalns from the Bitumen-bearin9 Deposits of Southern Nigeria. (P1.Vl. figs
Report (issue)
Distribution of Durness limestone in north-west Scotland 53 Figure 7 Distribution of Silurian limestone...limestones in north-east England and adjacent parts of Scotland 75 Figure 1 8 Limestone and limestone bearing...Carboniferous of north-east England and southern Scotland 76 Figure19 Carboniferous limestone bearing...bearing formations in the Midland Valley of Scotland 78 Vl Figure20 Distribution of Carboniferous limestone...Britain in 1979 11 6 Location and capacity of UK cement works grouped by geological age of local raw
Book (volume)
Inverness-shire. Northumberland. Islands of Scotland. Nottinghamshire. Rutlandshire. Hebrides or...Montgomeryshire. Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire. SCOTLAND. Aberdeenshire or Mar. Isles. Lewis. Staffa... Heights of Mountains in England, Wales, and Scotland. Area, Fertility, and Population, of England and...and Wales. V. Area and Population of Scotland. VI. Population of the Principal Towns in Great Britain...III. Heights of Mountains in England, Wales, and Scotland. No. IV. Area, Fertility, Population, &c. of England
Book (volume)
filamentous net-work is here brown. of Ayrshire. At Lagg Quarry, Fisherton, Ayr. structure is yellow or brown,... : Liulithgowshire in an opening near the old quarry of Kirkton, masses in limestone of Yoredale age...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
Journal (issue)
I t . NUMBER 17 • AUTUMN 1996 () F s s UK journal of mines & minerals CONTENTS number...described in the next issue of this journal. The UK Joumal of Mines and Ali11erals publishes articles...CLASSIFIED ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 UK journal TYPESETTING AND PRINTING BY Ryton Typing...Institutional Sponsor: THE BRITISH MICROl\lOUNT UK Journal of Mines & l\lincrals No. 17 -1- SOCIETY...Figure 4. Synchysite rosettes to 1.5 mm from Manod Quarry, Blaenau Ffestlniog, Wales. Figure 5. Figure
Book (edition)
(England and Wales) and A. G. MacGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland) LONDON: HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1951...OF R OADSTONES England and Wales (Fig. 1) 2 Scotland (Fig. 2) .. 4 PART I. CRUSHED STONE QUARRIES...be of late Silurian to early Devonian age. One quarry each in Cornwall and Devon work the Hercynian granite...granite for roadstone. In Anglesey one quarry works syenitic gneiss. HORNFELS TRADE GROUP (Hl This group...in Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire. SCOTLAND (Fig. 2) Scotland is well supplied with igneous, sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorite associated with the Windy Knoll bitumen deposit, UK* M. R. MOSER,‘.2 A. H. RANKIN,“+ and H. J...London SW7 2BP, UK *Department of Geological Sciences, University College, London WClE 6BT, UK (Received September...inclusions in fluorite, associated with an outcropping bitumen deposit at Windy Knoll, Derbyshire, have been analysed...INTRODUCTION Windy Knoll is the location of an abandoned quarry with exposures of hydrothermal fluorite and galena...galena mineralization and, unusually, a large bitumen deposit containing solid and liquid hydrocarbons
Journal (issue)
at which the magazine will go to press. meetings (UK only). If you have to cancel on t However, because...of meetings both at Burlington and throughout the UK. Council agreed that the GA that year. should be...Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK. Friday, June 3rd 2005 Geological Society, Burlington...accurate level by a single dedicat field season. A UK-led proposal ex to survey a 10 km long lake in Wes...Museum of Zoology, Downing St., Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK Ichthyostega from the Late Devonian of East Greenland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterises all the Pre-Devonian rocks in the south of Scotland. In the quarries and the natural sections to be...to recognise these. A good example is seen in a quarry between Scald Law and Carnethy. After the volcano...labradorite. Agates occur in this, as does also mineral bitumen, together with small crystals of cairngorm. The...Survey Memoir by Sir Archibald Geikie on Sheet 34, Scotland. It can easily be shown that the disturbances...party will spend about one hour at Old Cam bus Quarry, where typical examples of the fossils characteristic
Report (edition)
Libraries JAMES HALL COLLECTION Geol 32. - SCOTLAND . MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ов GREAT... Geological 1)Gt . Britain . Survey 32. - SCOTLAND . MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT... 1038716 chia NOTICE. The first published in Scotland, that' which sheet of the Geological Survey...in surveying part of the Eastern Counties of Scotland , that many of the Maps on a scale of six inches...extending the Geological Survey of Great Britain into Scotland . We also con sidered it desirable to commence
Journal (issue)
UK TS 2 EDITORIAL 2 BUXTON COVER:A superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate...Piddcollection. MUSEUM Ros Westwood 6 MINERAL NEWS 11 The UK ]011mal ef Mines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Fisher 29 ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe MINERALS OF FIFE Stephen Moreton 36 CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE...UKJounul of Mines & Mincr:ils No '7 -l- EDITORIAL he UK]oumal efMi11es& Mi11eralsis now in its twenty second...which at least eight have makers or retailers marks. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -2- Frontispiece
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Java . 151 Anderson, Rev. Dr., On the Geology of Scotland . . . .500 Andes, Geological Age of . .116 Ansted...ficoides . . . 260 Bitumen, On Seeds as a source of . 209 Bituminous Shales of Scotland . 357 Brachiopoda...Cyclopteris Hibernica, notice of, in Waterford Quarry, . .156 C. Caernarvonshire, Prof. Ramsay on Physical...Fifeshire C o a s t . . . . 258 „ on the Geology of Scotland 497 ,, Succession of Rocks of Northern Highlands...Stratheden, Fifeshire . . 538 „ On Tilestones of Scotland . . .538 Palseontographical Society, notioe of
Report (volume)
Bitumen-Bearing Deposits of the United States ' U.S. GEOLOGICAL StJRVEY BULLETIN 1784 ' Bitumen-Bearing...locations, resources, and petrophysical properties of bitumen-bearing rocks in the United States U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Cataloging in Publication Data Crysdale, Bonnie L. Bitumen-bearing deposits of the United States. (U.S. Geological...bulletin; 1784) Bibliography: p. 1. Bitumen-United States. 2. Bitumen-Testing. J. II. Title. Ill. Series...of bitumen-bearing deposits in the conterminous Umted States 2. Map showing locations of bitumen-bearing
Journal (issue)
mind when attending any field trip to a working quarry and bring all these items with you to ensure you...and any additional requirements set out by the quarry owners. MONTHLY MEETINGS REPORT (by Mike Milward...geology of Bardon Hill Quarry - Eddie Bailey Eddie described the geology of the quarry and set his audience...conducted prior to the planned extension of the quarry. He brought with him rock samples, drill cores...that go into a geological survey of this type. The quarry exploits an environment of late neoproterozoic
Book
History Museum Reading Museum _ National Museum of Scotland Post Office Heritage " Firepower" ~ The Royal...Museum Towner Reading Museum National Museum of Scotland Hereford Resource & Learning Centre Consultancy...Glasgow. This innovative new course is unique in the UK in offering a Master's Qualification entirely in...museum profession in the North West, throughout the UK and overseas. University of Newcastle upon Tyne...investigated: performance indicators Unique to the UK, these programmes were created to meet the growing
Book
Retinite . 8. Schleretinite . 9. Burytite . 10. Bitumen. 19. Arragonite. 20. Calcite, &c. 21. Strontianite...Cornwall ; near Tuckingmill, Cam borse, and is a gre quarry on Kergiliack estate near Pen a. Coberard ; at...Rev. W. Cumming, at Beary in the Isle of Man. Scotland . At Craigman coal -mine, near New Cumnock in... Lesmahagow in Lanark shire, and West Wemyss in Fife. 5 COAL . Analyses of Cannel Coal, by Dr. Heddle...oxide of iron . 6. Flint Coal contains much less bitumen, and resembles anthracite ; the flew coal of Wedgebury
Report (volume)
quartz rock. 18. Hydrocarbon deposits of Windy Knoll quarry. 19. Hydrocarbon deposit impregnation. 20. Development...Mine. 47. View along reef belt. 48. Windy Knoll quarry and cave. 49. Geological section of Treak Cliff...on British Geological Survey 1:50000 sheet 99 (Chapel-en-le Frith) and on 1:25000 Geological Sheet SK18...Stevenson and Gaunts’ Geological Survey Memoir for the Chapel-en-le-Frith area (1971). A succinct account of...species are given by Parkinson (1947) and in the Chapel-en-le-Frith Memoir (Stevenson and Gaunt, 1971)
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exceeds their value at the production site (e.g. a quarry). Such comn1odities are said to have a high place...date - 2000 rediscovery of cement, UK asphalt road surfaces, UK recipe for gunpowder, China - 1000-...(sulphur compounds) , Sumer (Iraq) • Stonehenge, UK .~ - 3000glass beads, Egypt frescoes on gypsum plaster...Gyantija Temple , Malta Skara Brae (sandstone), Orkney, UK - 4000- Ur, Eridu - cities of Mesopotamia 1st...tower, Jericho ·« .. ~ ~ - ziggurats of brick and bitumen mortar, Mesopotamia 1st known rectangular house
 
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