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Sulphur from
Whitby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK


Locality type:Civil Parish
Classification
Species:Sulphur
Formula:S8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sulphur data
Locality Data:Click here to view Whitby, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:937024
Long-form Identifier:1:3:937024:1
GUID (UUID V4):12b62b9f-4d9e-40d6-935a-5dc74dffae3c
Nearest other occurrences of Sulphur
44.0km (27.4 miles) Billingham anhydrite mine, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
90.4km (56.2 miles) Castleside Smelting Mill slag locality, Healeyfield, County Durham, England, UK
91.8km (57.0 miles) Bollihope Smelt Mill slag locality, Stanhope, County Durham, England, UK
References
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Book
of Sale of Net Books and may not be resold in the UK below the net price given by the Publishers in their...workers and their families in the UK and abroad. The important Whitby jet industry has never been documented... Jose Filgueira Valverde and to many others in Whitby, Germany and Spain. Photographic credits Grateful...Antiquities of Scotland for Figures 3.1 and 6.17; the Yorkshire Museum for Figure 3.3; Bergen University Historical...Historical Museum for Figure 3.6; Rotunda Museum, Scarborough Borough Council, Department of Tourism and Amenities
Book
Aylesbury, Bucks HP17 9AJ, UK. CONTENTS Introduction 3 The history of jet 9 The Whitby jet industry 13 ...mineral oil and traces of aluminium, silica and sulphur. When jet is worked a brown powder is produced...subjected to heat. The nineteenth-century workers of Whitby · were convinced that jet, like amber, was a solidified...best hard jet of all comes from around Whitby. In North Yorkshire jet is found in the Jet Rock Series,...Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and North America as well as in England. 5 Inside an old jel mine. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
552 George Barrow—On a Marine Bed in the Yorkshire Oolite. IV.—ON A NEW MAKINE BED IN THE LOWER OOLITES...BARROW, F.G.S.; of H. M. Geological Survey of England and Wales. [By permission of the Director-General...Wyke and Cloughton Wyke, and five miles North of Scarborough, a scar of hard sandstone, remarkable for...immediately on the North of Maw Wyke, from which point it continues to High Whitby, and after turning...Nab. From this point it continues to the mouth of Whitby Harbour, where it is the capping rock of the East
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SECTIONS IN THE LIASSIC AND OOLITIC ROCKS OF YORKSHIRE. BY JAMES W. DAVIS, F.G.S., F.S.A., ETC., HONORARY...Anticlinal separating Lancashire and Yorkshire in a direction north and south; and the dislocation of the...influenced the physical features of the West Riding of Yorkshire, but have also been instrumental in moulding the...assumes a lofty character; the Liassic series of the North Riding, surmounted by the sandstones of the Inferior...undulating moorlands reaching from Saltburn, in the north, to Emsley, Pickering, and Goathland Moors, in the
Book (volume)
Flates of the Organic Sections, in the N. W. of Yorkshire, with numerous Maps, Series, Remains, is in...17 AUG. 1970 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GEOLOGY OF YORKSHIRE; OR, A DESCRIPTION OF THE STRATA AND ORGANIC...THE FOSSIL PLANTS AND ANIMALS. PART I. THE YORKSHIRE COAST. By JOHN PHILLIPS, F. R. S., F. G. S...TO THE BRITISH association; secretary to the Yorkshire philosophical society; honorary member OP THE... THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTIONS OF YORKSHIRE, LEEDS, HULL, WHITBY, SHEFFIELD, HALIFAX, AND NEWCASTI.E-ON-TYNE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the United Kingdom. The iron industry of early England was influenced largely by wood and by water power...Works, Middlesbrough. This plant is located on the north bank of the River Tees. Stock piles of foreign ore...this in general is true, but in the Northeast of England there is no great iron industry centering on the...has less than 6 per cent of ash and 0.6 per cent sulphur, both of which are easily reduced further by washing;...ironstone gathered in Robin Hood Bay (just south of Whitby). This iron ore was conveyed by water to a point
Report (issue)
5 Tungsten No 6 Celestite No 7 Salt No8 Sulphur No 9 Tjn Noto Talc No11 Ball Clay No l2...acknowledge�: British Gas Corporation British Sulphur Corporation Limited Charter Consolidated Limited...Limited Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration Limited Yorkshire Potash Limited Metric units are employed throughout...Subdivisions of the Permian sequence in Cleveland and North Yorkshire 6 Fig 2 Approximate extent of Permian potash...Cleveland and Yorkshire 8 Fig 3 Potash planning permission areas, Cleveland and North Yorkshire 11 Fig
Book
Bathonian u ~-_,. ____ _____ )-,,4 ';) ! • Scarborough Formatio11 ~ ~ ~ ~ Q Q ),oo,j RAVENSCAR...PENARTII GROUP - SHERWOOD SANDSTONE GROUP § ~ Whitby Mudstone Formation Alum Shales Jet Rock Member... 1rs Memoir for 1:50000 geological sheet 52 (England and Wales) CONTRIBUTORS Palaeontolop;y B MCox...the Mid-North Sea High, resulted in progradation of deltaic and paralic deposits from the north-west and...31 Cleveland Ironstone Formation 31 Details 33 Whitby Mudstone Formation 34 Details 34 Middle Jurassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
probability were peculiar to the south, and others to the north. The presence of Hippopotamus major in the pliocene...of the pliocene land, which, extending bctween England and the Continent, must have afforded a great system...some southern freshwater shells, now extinct in England. After some remarks on the negative evidence afforded...communications were read : - - and IRONSTONE SERIES of YORKSHIRE. By JOHN PHILLIPS, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S...versed in the Oolitic groups of the South of England or the North-west of France finds himself perplexed by
Report (chapter)
University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK Abstract: One of the earliest chemical industries...at Carlton Bank, North Yorkshire. For the first time it can be said that the sulphur content of the alum...alum production process. Wide variability in the sulphur content of unworked shale implies variable yields...production gave rise to the first chemical industry. In England from c. 1600 the alum industry developed based...shales of North Yorkshire. There are thus a large number of former alum works in North Yorkshire and Cleveland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy and early diagenetic history of the Whitby Mudstone Formation (Toarcian), Cleveland Basin...of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK t Department of Geology, Arizona State University...November 1985) Abstract- The Whitby Mudstone Formation in northeast England contains three shale facies...shale specimens from the Whitby Mudstone Formation (Toarcian) in northeast England have been examined by...diffraction (XRD) and X-rayfluorescence(XRF) data. The Whitby Mudstone Formation was chosen because it has previously
Journal (issue)
Branch: C. L. Hundy, F.G.A. North- West Branch: M. P. Gayton, F.G.A. South Yorkshire & District Branch: M....dramatically with the type of lighting. Under simulated north light (G.I.A. Diamondlite) the colour was a fairly...Samples of English, Turkish, Spanish, Russian and North American jet were subjected to x-ray emission spectroscopy...appear that the ratio of aluminium to silicon to sulphur is an indication of the provenance of the sample...jet is obtained from the area around Whitby in North Yorkshire, where it is found in the Upper Liassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Earth Sciences, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. IP T *Corresponding author. E-mail j.mcarthur@ucl...organic-rich, black shales of the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire UK, are the type US sediments for the supposed...in coastal sections along the coast of North Yorkshire, England (Fig. 1). Detailed lithological logs of...nomenclatural priority, for the Falciferum Zone in North Yorkshire should be the Serpentinum Chronozone. For continuity...in the Tenuicostatum Zone, the lowest being the Sulphur Band of Chowns T (1968) and numbered as Bed 26
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jurassic Toarcian oceanic anoxic event in Yorkshire coastal outcrops, UK Nicolas Thibaulta,* , Micha Ruhlb ...University of Oxford,South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK University of Exeter, Camborne School of Mines &...Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK d School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, UK e Department...Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK b c A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...intensively studied in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK, whose sedimentary deposits have been litho-
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. ENGLAND AND W AJ�ES. THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH CLEVEI�AND. (EXPLANATION OF QUARTER-SHEETS...geology of the coast of Yorkshire from the mouth of the Tees to beyond Whitby, and of the Cleveland Hills...Hills and Moors. In no part of England is the relation of the surface topography to the nature of the...examined than along the admirable coast-sections of Yorkshire. Of much interest also are the glacial deposits...additional impetus to the growth of this part of Yorkshire. This district also furnishes alum-shale and jet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(dry coal). ~ Carbon ... Hydrogen Nitrogen., , Sulphur (total) ... Difference (oxygen and errors) 2.5%...resulted in some loss of carbon, hydrogen and sulphur, and some increase of oxygen [23, p. 40], but it... 4 L. . HAWKES, sulphur and low oxygen. Ignoring the moisture, ash and sulphur, the analysis is that...following table shows :Ultimate (dry, ash, and sulphur free) Proximate (dry) _ I V oIales til , Carbon... Middle Lias, Whitby 61.8 I~ - - -,- - -- - -- -- - - - 76.2 I • 3. Jet. Whitby 37.4 23.3 ~I
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool...Nicholson Building, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article...study provides new evidence, from the Yorkshire coast sections, UK, that the event was associated with... 2004). Cyclostratigraphical analysis of the Yorkshire sections (Kemp et al., 2005, 2011) * Corresponding...Nicholson Building, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK. Tel.: +44 1517 954390; fax: +44 1517 945196. E-mail
Book
* , - North Wales -- - Shropshire . - * South Staffordshire. Warwickshire North Staffordshire...Staffordshire - - Yorkshire Derbyshire. & Northern Counties - - - - • 40 40 41 43 47 - - - --- -...- * - - Sulphur - - - - - - … . . - - Native Sulphur - " " " Prepared Sulphur - " - -... -. . .. - - - . . -, -, - - Case C. Sulphur-producing Minerals " - " SELENIUM - - - - , ,-...scale in limestone are at Llandudno in North Wales and Ecton in North Staffordshire. They are commonly associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
petrological investigation of the Dogger in North-East Yorkshire. The study of the Dogger from any point...References at end of article. In Tate and Blake's Yorkshire Lias there is, on p. 19, a footnote, " Blea Wyke...also undergoes considerable changes towards the north-west where the beds are cut off by the Peak Fault...much pyrite, indicating a quiet sea with abundant sulphur compounds, gradually gave place to a regular and...rocks composing this formation to the west and north-west. From the petrography of the Blea Wyke Series
Report (edition)
SURVEY. ENGLAND THE AND WALES. GEOLOGY OF THEOOLITIC ANDCRETACEOUS ROCKS SOUTH OF SCARBOROUGH. (EXPLANATION... AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL-I' . SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY• . ...Man)· 5 (LakeD1stnct); 6 (E. Yorkshire) t 7 (North Wales); 8 (Central England); 9 (Eastern Counties); 10...additional information as to the geology of the Scarborough district has been acquired. The Speeton Clay...completed the survey of the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire, and he has thus been able to add some information
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Regional geochemistry of north-east England Keyworth, Nottingham 1996 This volume...Keyworth (addresses on this page). South-Gasl England � GEOCHEMICAL ATLASES In the first seven volumes...Southern Scotland 1993 (0 85272 229 X) 11 North-east England 1996 (0 85272 255 9) Photograph credits...of copper in stream sediment and soil in north-east England Maps in this volume use topography based...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1996. Regional geochemistry of north-east England. (Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the middle of the Semicelatum Subzone of the Yorkshire coast sections. However, these losses are part...of marine anoxia (represented by the Sulphur Band in Yorkshire sections) that may also be implicated...Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9fT. UK (e-mail: p. wigna/l@see.leeds.ac.uk) 1. INTRODUCTION...with a fairly uniform development across most of England (Hallam 1960). The best-exposed and best-known... The most complete successions are seen in SW England and Warwickshire (e.g. Radley 2002); however, a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...similarity of the sulfur isotope records from the North European epicontinental (or epeiric) sea and Tethyan...the sulfur cycle and that pyrite burial in the North European Epeiric Seaway alone cannot account for...isotope data from across the Toarcian OAE, from North European epeiric and marginal Tethyan carbonate-platform...stratigraphic successions on the Yorkshire coast, northeast England (Cleveland Basin), and a quarry located
Book (volume)
LIS kJI CONTENTS v. % OF THE SECOND VOLUME. ENGLAND. Northern Counties. Cheshire. Berwickshire. Buteshire...Staffordshire. Isle cf Sky. Mull. Westmoreland. Yorkshire. WALES, North and Anglesey Lothian. Fifeshire. Lancashire...No. No. No. No. No. II. Gull's Conned by the North Gulfs formed by the Atlantic. Sea. Lakes. Rivers...Mountains in England, Wales, and Scotland. Area, Fertility, and Population, of England and Wales. V....Gulfs formed by the Atlantic. Gulfs formed by the North Lakes. Rivers. Sea. Streights. .No. II. Canals,
Journal (issue)
OSTRACODA FROM THE /rTl^ '^ GREY LIMESTONE SERIES, YORKSHIRE BY R. H. BATE \^i Pp. 73-133 ; 21 Plates...JURASSIC OSTRACODA FROM THE GREY LIMESTONE SERIES, YORKSHIRE By RAYMOND HOLMES BATE CONTENTS page I II ...Jurassic (Bajocian) Grey Limestone Series of Yorkshire is shown to have been deposited in a broad embayment... INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In north-eastern England, the uppermost marine horizon of Bajocian...limestones known as the Grey Limestone Series or Scarborough Beds. The maximum thickness of this sequence
 
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