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Labradorite from
Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Fell
Classification
Species:Anorthite var: Labradorite
Formula:(Ca,Na)[Al(Al,Si)Si2O8]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Labradorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1254006
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1254006:0
GUID (UUID V4):1fddb0c4-61aa-46d7-929f-cdfc000aa986
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
4492) (top right) Quartz, variety rock crystal, Carrock Fell Mine, Mosedale (MNS 4488) (bottom left) Hematite...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....deposits outside of the SW England province, though mining at Carrock Fell Mine is at present ( 1986)...clay iron-stones within the Coal Measures of west Cumbria at one time provided a source of lower grade iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hydrothermal Alteration in the Carrock Fell Area, Cumberland, England By A. EWART ABSTRACT Within this...granite, part of the southern margin of the Carrock Fell gabbro to the north, and an intervening area...part of a study of the mineralization of the Carrock Fell area (Ewart, 1957), and was accompanied by a...period of six months of laboratory study. The Carrock Fell area is situated in the north-eastern corner...area, and was followed by Harker's study of the Carrock Fell gabbro (1894) and granophyre and greisen (1895)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
210 Dr. C. 0. Trechmann—" Hypersthenite " of Carrock Fell. claw. This digit is well shown in the right...O T E ON THE SO-CALLED " HYPERSTHENITE " OF CARROCK FELL, CUMBERLAND. By CHAS. 0. TKECHMANN, Ph.D. mHROUGH...between the village of Mosedale and the summit of Carrock Fell. In general appearance it coincides with the...7 Dr. C. 0. Trechmann—" Hypersthenite" of Carrock Fell. 211 Mr. J. C. Ward,1 and which is described...following result:— 1. Plagioclase, probably labradorite, in large crystals, which were highly altered
Book
Minerals of the English Lake District Caldbeck Fells Cumbria. Caldbeck. Mineral deposts 1. Title 11. Stanley...Caldbeck and the Caldbeck Fells Are worth all England else (Hutchinson. 1794) is supposed to have originated...Lancashire to form the new administrative county of Cumbria, It is an area of high ground, once described as...enclosed agrieultur al land. The distance from Carrock nd to Red Gil is at out 6km (3.7 miles) Potts...but the southern slopes of Carrock Fell including Brandy Gill and the Carrock tungsten mine, are part of
Report (issue)
OF OF THE RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL GEOLOGICAL ENGLAND SURVEY AND OF COUNCIL SCIENCES GREAT BRITAIN...BtT2 8ay or through any bookseller Printed in England for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Hull Printers...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet coloured has replaced...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description of...Petrographic DRYGILL Structural relations, 76. Fauna CARROCK Introduction, VOLCANIC Classification, SERIES
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL COUNCIL SCIENCES SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Cockermouthand...the New Series One-inch Geological Survey Map of England and Wales. This sheet has replaced the Old Series...elements in a Geological Survey sample of the Carrock Fell Granophyre. The petrographic description of...age, 76. References, 77. CHAPTER VI. THE IX CARROCK FELL COMPLEX 20 46 75 78 Introduction, 78. Field...intrusions associated with the major intrusions of Carrock and Skiddaw, 130. Minor intrusions into Skiddaw
Book
pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...District, the north Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British...R. F.Symes and B. Young MINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND v Aboutthe Authors vi Dr R.F.(Bob)Symes,OBE
Report (issue)
Publishing Cen­ tre, Sheffield Printed and bound in England for the British Geological Survey by Linney's Colour...and from the iron ore fields of west and south Cumbria. The presence of mineralisation and mine spoil...commonly around the industrial centres of west Cumbria. However, industrial contamination is often restricted...District View ofYewbarrow, Great Gable and the Sea Fell range, rising above Wastwater lV FORE ORD The...Group (Ordovician to Silurian) 10 Devonian 10 Mell Fell Conglomerate 10 Carboniferous 10 Basement Beds 10
Book
glaciation. £6.50 Jacket photograph Pillar Rock © Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District...' Frontispiece Landsat imagery of north-west England taken from a height of 900 km. Photograph: National...Geological Society 1978 ISBN 0 9501656 2 X PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY W. S. MANEY AND SON LIMITED LEEDS CONTENTS...Geology 15 Epigenetic Mineralization 16 Offshore Cumbria 17 Hydrogeology C. K. Patrick 18 Environmental...DtNANT/AN LLANVIRN DEVONIAN ARENIG Plate 1. Carrock Fell Gabbro Borrowdale Volcanic Group Skiddaw Group
Book (chapter)
Survey Chapter 4 Lake District and northern England Introduction INTRODUCTION D. Miliward In Ordovician...Ordovician times the Lake District and northern England formed part of the microcontinent of Eastern Avalonia...were emplaced in the Lake District and northern England subsequent to the closure of the Iapetus. The volcanoes...Figure 4.1 Lower Palaeozoic inliers of northern England and locations of the major, buried batholiths....Threlkeld; D Dufton. 137 Lake District and northern England 90 NX00NY 10 20 :::............ 30::::::::
Report (issue)
Red Sandstone. Quarry 620 yd due S. of Muncaster Fell, Murthwaite Bridge, Miterdale, Cumberland. 1-in...p. 86. See also No. 644, 615. Granophyre. Carrock Fell Complex, Dixon). post-Borrowdale Purple... vician), probably Old Red Sandstone. 2174, vee Fell, Cumberland. 1-in. materials are distributed. ...n.d. W. 34°S. | = — = 10018 Felsite. Carrock Fell Complex, probably Old Red Sandstone. 550 yd...637,645. 650. Granophyric quartz-diorite. Carrock Fell Complex, Series (Ordovician), probably Old Red
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l . 5z.] oxx~oI,,~Yx~s oF s ~ (sx~). 323 Carrock Fell granophyre near its contact with a highly basic...felspar and augite. The felspar is usually a labradorite, often in idiomorphic crystals showing some zonary...to this conclusion in the gabbros of Skye, of Carrock Fell, of St. David's, etc., and its occurrence in...magma, and biotite has not been observed. At Carrock Fell the derived augite-crystals have been completely...crystallization from the modified granophyre-magma. At Carrock Fell the iron ore from the gabbro has been mostly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calcic plagioclase, andesine, and especially labradorite, while the pyroxene is diopsidic: biotite, hornblende...abundant type is an olivine-free basalt with labradorite, followed by andesine-basalt and then by oligoclase-andesite;...date, of all known occurrences in the West of England, with two useful maps. An interesting account is...tungsten lodes of Carrock Fell: the bearing of these lodes on the age of the Carrock intrusions has not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
east of Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lakes. 4. Carrock- and Caldbeck-feUs. 5. The Skiddaw Slates of the...on the older Palaeozoic rocks of the north of England, published in the ' Transactions' and 'Quarterly...base of the sedimentary series in the north of England, is a mass of strata designated the Skiddaw ,Slates...very definite bedding occur. On approaching Wythop-fell from the south, the flaggy beds, having S.S.E. dips...flaggy rocks. On the northern escarpment of Wythop-fell, a short distance west'of the Pheasant Inn, the
Book
DEVONIAN SILURIAN BROTHA eoors eee x MELL FELL CONGLOMERATE —+—_———. LATER BAMMISDALE SLATES...time of their formation. The volcanic rocks of Bow Fell are particularly rich in particles of magnetite...has also been found at the Brandy Gill Mine on Carrock Fell. Although silver has been extracted from lead...the origin of the hematite deposits of West Cumbria. Most of these hematite deposits filled space previously...in association with the hematite ores of West Cumbria, and with fluorite in the lead-bearing veins of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
................... :534 Section across Carroek Fell ............................................. 314...some attention to the igneous rocks of Carroc~: Fell and the hills west of t h a t well-known summit...to him. The earliest connected account of the Carrock Fell rocks was given by the late Mr. Clifton Ward...the district : - (a) Spherulitic felsite of Carrock Fell and Great L i n g y ; (b) Diorite (?) of Miton...briefly noticed the spherulitic felsite of Carroek Fell as a typical example of a granophyre in the sense
Catalog/List
quartz and fluorite. Florence mine, Egremont, W. Cumbria. Bright lustrous quartz crystals with pale blue...matrix. Aragonite. Kirkland Quarry, nr. Rowah, W. Cumbria. Many translucent aragonite crystals to 30mm on...Fluorite and hematite. Florence mine, Egremont, W. Cumbria. Blue cubic fluorite on specularite crystals lining...quartz and hematite. Florence mine, Egremont, W . Cumbria. Highly lustrous quartz crystals on specularite...Grove House Gallery label. 86/265 Hematite. W. Cumbria. A specimen of botryoidal hematite var. Kidney
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
conspicuous crystals of felspar (bytownite or labradorite) which on Eycott Hill reach a diameter of an...that they belong to the same period. (d) The Carrock Fell intrusions.—The principal rocks here are two...granite, and the different varieties of the Carrock Fell gabbro. The quartz-gabbro, it may be mentioned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
s the Whin Sill, 3 the Cheviot district, 4 Carrock Fell, 5 Carlingford, 6 and Skye." If. I)ETROLOO~CALC~aACT~RS...the extinction-angles of varieties approaching labradorite in composition. But as the margins of the crystal...Penmaenmawr and with the gabbro, (augite-diorite) of Carrock Fell. For want of evidence, however, concerning the...instances as the Stanner Rock, at Penmaenmawr, Carrock Fell, Carlingford, and the Western Isles of Scotland...examination of the gabbro and granophyre of Carroek Fell, Harker approaches a similar conclusion in stating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
similar * "Petrological Notes on some North-of-England Dykes," 'Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' Vol. xl, 1884...optical characters, between that mineral and labradorite. Dr. Schuster and Prof. Tschermack apply the...occur so largely in the Triassic strata of the New England States, near the eastern coast of North America...resinous lustre. 'I'he porphyritic elements are labradorite, hypersthene and augite. The ground-mass is composed...which I have observed a similar association are Carrock Fell, in Cumberland, Groby and some other places
Report (edition)
AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY NORTHERN ENGLAND (THIRD EDITION) I 5 54.27 jj i EAS §1 HER...AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY NORTHERN ENGLAND (THIRD EDITION) T. EASTWOOD, A.R.C.S. With some...Lake District—Shap Granite—Skiddaw Granite-—Carrock Fell Complex—Ennerdale Granophyre— Eskdale Granite—Other...FIG1. Map showing the area included in Northern England. 2. Diagrammatic sections to illustrate the building.... .. .. .. .. .. 26 12. Sketch-map of the Carrock Fell Complex and the Skiddaw Granite with its metamorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association nearly paralleled in a basic gabbro of Carrock Fell (Harker, 1894) where pyroxene has been uralitized...plagioclase has an approximate composition of andesine-labradorite and occurs in long laths with a tendency to stellate...aggregates. They approximate in composition to a labradorite somewhat close to andesine, and show the usual...same features on a reduced scale. However, the labradorite laths are absent, and the only felspars are bytownitic...Geol. Soc, lxxxi, 325-343. HARKER, A., 1894. Carrock Fell : A Study in the Variation of Igneous Rock Masses
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY British Regional Geology Northern England FIFTH EDITION P Stone D lv\illw ard B Young J...DJ D. 2010. British Regional Geology: Northern England (Fifth edition) (Key,vorth, Nottingham: British...189 Lake D istri et l 89 Haematite deposits of Cumbria 196 Isle of Nian 199 N orthern Pennine Orefield...for northern England Index 277 275 ILLUSTRATIONS Figures l Topography of north ern England 2 2 Outline...Outline geology of northern England 3 3 Palaeogeographical reconstructions from the Ordovician to the Palaeogene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hedenbergite) and a plagioclase-felspar (near labradorite), between which we find masses of micropegmatitic...district, by the lastnamed author and Harker at Carrock Fell, by Sollas at Carlingford, and by Harker in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gustav Rose' separated the rocks composed of labradorite and hypersthene, with accessory olivine, mica...term gabbro be confined to rocks containing labradorite and diallage. Many rocks were described as hypersthenites...gabbros as characterized by the possession of labradorite or saussurite and platy augite, and divided them...into two varieties-the gabbros, consisting of labradorite or saussurite, diallage and smaragdite, and the...former consisting of labradorite, augite, hornblende, and the latter of labradorite and diallage. 'VON
 
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