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Pectolite from
Castle Rock, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Pectolite
Formula:NaCa2Si3O8(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pectolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Castle Rock, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:106256
Long-form Identifier:1:3:106256:4
GUID (UUID V4):39f0bc54-1671-4f39-b982-2aae5e10fd2b
Nearest other occurrences of Pectolite
4.8km (3.0 miles) Corstorphine Hill, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
12.5km (7.8 miles) Ratho Quarry, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
15.6km (9.7 miles) Orrock Quarry, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK
53.3km (33.1 miles) Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
97.6km (60.6 miles) Castle Hill, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
98.0km (60.9 miles) Hillhouse Quarry, Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
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GOODCHILD NATURAL HISTORY OF SCOTTISH ZEOLITES. 9 stands, there is the home of some of t h e very finest Zeolites...Zeolites, which are unrivalled for beauty of colour and variety of form. In t h e Touch Hills, Campsie...Campsie Fells, Kilpatrick Hills, and the long stretch of volcanic rocks which form the hills between Gourock...mineralogists all the world over as those from which some of t h e most highly-prized Zeolites have been obtained...the first section of the group of minerals under n o t i c e : — THE 330. PECTOLITE. PECTOLITOIDS.
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and. Vulcanicity as displayed by the Pocks of the Edinburgh District; suggested ty Mr Kinahan's paper...in misty shadow, of our local hills in an East wind, betokens the present phase of our petrological knowledge...knowledge. Additions of more Latin or Greek derivatives to our sorely over-burdened scientific nomenclature...on the general subjects of metamorphism and vulcanicity. The termination of the Wernerian and Huttonian...modern instances. Gases are formed in the crater of Vesuvius, from the surface vegetation as well as
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This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve...THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH DEVON ; being the substance of a Lecture delivered before the Members of the Exeter...form , to the chief objects of Geological interest in the neighbourhood of Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Bideford...contains notices of other portions of North Devon , which are less known to the majority of tourists. Barnstaple...PRINCIPAL MINERAL LOCALITIES IN THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. BY K TOWNSHEND M. HALL
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BIRKELBY NIVERSITY Of ICAUPORN.A EARTH SCIENCES y REESE LIBRARY "TOlVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE... THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited, Edinburgh FOR DAVID DOUGLAS...Pyrites. DRAWN! eV DR HCDDLE THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R...DAVID DOUGLAS, 10 CASTLE STKEET 1901 [All Eights Reserved] SCIENCES CONTENTS OF VOLUME DlSILICATES... CONTENTS. VI CLINTONITE GROUP. VOLUME LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO Coronetted Pyrites, drawn by Stellate
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次 的6物 (Wollastonite)及 ロー ゼ ンブツ も,化學 成 分,光學 Edinburgh附近 e島 のTaliver; な り。 其 の 外 観 珪 灰 石 シヤ イ ト(Rosenbuschite)に...有 名 な る 産 地 はScotlandの のRatho石 Kilsych, Castorphine 中 に豚状 を な し,又た 切場 及Castle Rock;同 Hill. Loch...來發 見せ ら れ た る母 岩 はBasalt Serpentine, Ainphibole‑rock, .,Diabase, Btisaltic tulf, Elaeolite‑Syenite及Nepheline...見 せ られ 其 形 態 よ りPectoliteと Breithaupt氏 方 のWolfsteinに 於 て發 見 せ しOsmelith が4)ScotlandのStirlingshireのKitsythに
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