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Chert from
Meldon Aplite Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Chert
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chert data
Locality Data:Click here to view Meldon Aplite Quarry, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1076757
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1076757:5
GUID (UUID V4):98f16091-fb14-4d53-a5b7-e4b57a9adedc
Nearest other occurrences of Chert
0.2km (0.1 miles) Meldon Mine, Okehampton Hamlets, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
8.3km (5.2 miles) Ramsley Mine (Fursdon Mine), South Tawton, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
16.0km (9.9 miles) Week Mine, Milton Abbot, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
29.6km (18.4 miles) Furzehill Mine (East Tamar Mine; incl. Whitsam Down Mine), East Tamar Consols, Bere Alston Mines, Bere Ferrers, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
33.3km (20.7 miles) Lidcott Mine, Laneast, Launceston, Cornwall, England, UK
44.3km (27.5 miles) Corbyn's Head, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England, UK
85.7km (53.2 miles) Pendower Beach, Veryan, Cornwall, England, UK
91.8km (57.0 miles) Yorke Rock, Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
94.0km (58.4 miles) Bendrick Rock, Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around OKEHAMPTON ( Explanation of One-inch...Beche. His 'Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset' (1839) was the first memoir of the...other early Geological Survey maps of south-west England, are undated, but it is believed that they were...(1956), 'The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England'. The district formed part of the area in which...geophysical methods. In 1962 the newly formed South-West England field unit, successively under Dr. F. B. A.
Journal (issue)
Some aspects of Engineering Geology in South West England Chairman's Introduction ... ... ... 356...Engineering geology in reservoir construction in South West England. By J. L. Knill. ... ... ... 359 The influence...weathering on the layout of quarries in South West England. By W. R. Dearman and P. G. Fookes. ... ...... 372 Some examples of cliff failure in S.W. England. By H. M. de Freitas. ... ... ... ... 388 Geological...problems in the china clay industry of South West England. By M. J. Ripley. ... ... 405 The geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T h e Meldon Aplite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Geology of (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Cornwall, Devon, & W e s t S o m e r s e t ' p. 501. 1888. S m J...1895. R. N. WO~T~, ' Notes on the Geology of Okehampton ' Trans. Devonshire Assoc. vol. xxvii, p. 306...notes comprises as much o[ the watershed of the West Okement and the Redaven as lies between the London...Railway-line on the noldh and, on the south, the 'Roof of Devon,' the Yes Tor-High Wilhays ridge; practically it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND DEVON: C.J. MOON Moon, C.J. 2018. Geochemistry of Caesium and Fluoride in Cornwall and Devon: Evidence...Evidence from TellusSW. Geoscience in South-West England, 14, 150–160. The TellusSW geochemical survey...soils and water as well as fluoride in waters. Devon and Cornwall are one of the most enriched areas...reflects Cs concentration in fine-grained granite of west Dartmoor, late stage Li-F rich granites in St Austell...mineralisation as well as forming a broad high in mid-Devon, spatially related to the occurrence of lamprophyres
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(a) Previous Work THE Lower New Red Sandstone of Devon outcrops in a north-south band near Torquay to Exmoor...Devonian and Culm. Westwards of Tiverton and again west of Exeter the outcrop extends into the Culm synclinorium...Ussher (1906) divided the Lower New Red Sandstone of Devon into: 3. Lower Sandstones 2. Breccio-conglomerates...distinguished from the porphyritic granite of the West of England ". A granitic origin has been attributed to... The sediments were laid down in a shallow east-west basin, the later beds overlapping the earlier on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RYBACK 42 Bell Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 4EB, England AND PETER C . T A N D Y Department of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History), London SW7 5BD, England T n E supplementary lists of British Isles minerals...recently. The classic minerals of Cornwall and Devon are splendidly described by Embrey and Symes (1987)...known from the British Isles, and 580 or so from England. Of these latter, about 116 are listed here as...gibbsite, etc. in fissure-fill in limestone, Woodleaze quarry, Tytherington, Avon (Alabaster, 1989a). Andersonite
Journal (issue)
regional geochemical reconnaissance of South-west England. By P. L. Lowenstein and R. J. Howarth. ...... 478 Muscovite (‘Gilbertite’) from the Meldon aplite. By M. Nawaz Chaudhry and R. A. Howie. ... ....Geophysical surveys over two ore-bodies near Tavistock, Devon. By E. M. Durrance. ... ... ... 495 The sequence...... 521 Correlation of fold phases in S.W. England. By David J. Sanderson. ... ... ... ... 525 ...Pleistocene section west of Tregunna House. By B. B. Clarke. ... ... ... 551 Loess in Devon. By T. R. Harrod
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology I * South-West England r * FOURTH EDITION e ■ - O ” ..y 1835 Geological...British Geological Survey Front cover: Bull Point, Devon (For full explanation see p. ix) NATURAL ENVIRONMENT...and Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologist, South-West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the...advances in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carboniferous...as oil companies turn their attention to the seas west of Britain, so attention is increasingly focused
Catalog/List
Spinel crystals from madgascar.Mottramite from England .Cut and polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite...ingots on a ship wreck in 1885 St Ives. Cornwall. England Rich fine grained black crystalline mass Mount...501 A x A ins rock Fluorescent green Al SiO Devon England FLUORESCENT Large brown well formed dodecahedral..._______ Ba Ca 00/3__________ Newhaven Sussex, England lxlins50p 1x2 £1 Pure hard white sphere shaped...Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2£l 11 felspar group____________
Book
^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers A Collector’s...MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON Truro LTD... MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has Hine. fnaxt*...Lizard .. North and Central Cornwall East Cornwall Devon 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 MAPS 36 39 APPENDIX...experienced collector who is unfamiliar with Cornwall and Devon should find helpful. There has been no attempt to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upper Culm Measures THE IGNEOUS ROCKS (a) The Meldon District (b) The Petertavy District 4. THE STRUCTURE...Unit The Petertavy Unit The Lydford Unit . The Meldon Unit . Structural Interpretation (f) The Breccia-Fault...established within the country rocks bordering the north-west corner of the Dartmoor granite mass. Upper Devonian...two to three miles wide, which borders the north-west comer of the Dartmoor granite mass in Devonshire...from South Tawton on the north to Tavistock on the west of the granite (Fig. 1). Sedgwick & Murchison (1840)
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES British Regional Geology South-West England (TH [RD EDITION) By E. A. Edmonds, M.Sc. M...world war, interest in the geology of south-west England has further inten ified. Much valuable work...done, and in 1962 the newly l"ormcd outh-we t England field unit of the Geological Survey began ix-inch...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologi t. South-We t England, editor). Private workers whose publications have...the countryside and natural history of south-west England. An EXHIBIT illustrating the geology and scenery
Report (edition)
British Geological Survey Front cover: Bull Point, Devon (For full explanation see p. ix) •• ll On 1...Mr. G .. Bisson (District Geologist, South--West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the...advances in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carbonif�rous...as oil companies turn their attention to the seas west of Britain, so attention is increasingly focused...age-determinations of rocks of south-west . . . . . . . Facing England 1 112 List of Geological Survey
Book
Igneous Rocks of South-West England THE GEOLOGICAL CONSERVATION REVIEW SERIES The comparatively small...and M. C. Gyopari S. Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd, C. S. Exley and M. T. Styles 6...Thames D. R. Bridgland Igneous Rocks of South-West England P. A. Floyd Department of Geology, University...study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued
Journal (issue)
Hosking: “The recent search for ore deposits in S.W. England.” 129. *Dr. W. R. Dearman : “Tectonic fluting structure...S.W. England.” 136. *Dr. E. C. Freshney and Mr. P. J. Fleming : “The Petrockstow Basin, N. Devon.” 137...Westphalian of North Devon.” 140. *Dr. R. L. Austin: “New conodont horizons in S.W. England.” 141. *Mr. J....in South Devon.” 148. *Mr. M. Williams : “The New Red Sandstone outlier of Hollacombe, W. Devon.” 149....Braithwaite : “Possible Permian sediments in South West Devon.” OBITUARY Dr. Frederick James Winsor Holwill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was read : - ' The Geology of the Meldon Valleys, near Okehampton, on the Northern Verge of Dartmoor...main railway-line, from a point a little east of Meldon Viaduct to near Sourton, and the ridge of Dartmoor...slight local deviations, strike north-east and south-west and dip north-westwards, the mean angle of dip being...Consists mainly of poreellanites with beds of black chert-like rock. The characteristic mineral of the porcellanites...is wollastonite, but at contacts ~ with the Meldon Aplite garnet, idocrase, seapolite, axinite, and lepidolite
Journal (issue)
Science, Plymouth Polytechnic, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, Devon. PROCEEDINGS OF THE USSHER SOCIETY VOLUME FOUR...Co., Kyrtonia Press, 115 High Street, Crediton, Devon CONTENTS CHAIRMAN'S REPORT......................formation of small-scale tectonic structures in south Devon (Abstract). By D.M. Hobson........................of the late Triassic - early Jurassic sequence in west Somerset. By G. Warrington.......................... 157 The Variscan granites of south-west England: a progress report. By J. R. Hawkes and J. Dangerfield
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...proudly displaying a copy of Minerals of Northern England. Roy Starkey photograph. Journal of the Russell...Herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals from Chywoon Quarry, Cornwall Tom F. Cotterell, Neil Hubbard and David...herderite-hydroxylherderite series minerals, from Chywoon Quarry, in Cornwall. There are, however, four other Cornish...cross the Irish Sea and travel to the far south-west of the Emerald Isle, to Ballybunnion, in County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
communication was read :— " The Geology of the Meldon Valleys, near Okehampton, on the Northern Verge of Dartmoor...main railway line, from a point a litte east of Meldon Viaduct to near Sourton, and the ridge of Dartmoor...occupied by Black Tor, High Wilhays, Tes Tor, and West Mill Tor, being the greater part of the valley of...of the Redaven and a portion of the valley of the West Okement. The southern extreme of this area is occupied...slight local deviations, strike north-east and south-west and dip north-westwards, the mean angle of dip being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations Jens... Shail, Robin K., Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations,...Ore Geology Reviews Indium mineralisation in SW England: host parageneses AC CE P TE D and mineralogical...Cornubian batholith, SW England 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT The SW England ore region contains significant...Interestingly, we have no reason to believe that SW England is different to other regions with granite-related
Journal (issue)
Copenhagen Field Trip January Lecture Riddlesdown Quarry Field Trip Review of London Guide ANNUAL DINNER...goes to church Rockwatch News Newhaven Field Trip Meldon Field Trip Letters, Geology Terrace at Bournemouth...Copenhagen Field Trip 8. January Lecture 9. Riddlesdown Quarry Field Trip 10. Review of London Guide ANNUAL DINNER...19. Rockwatch News 20. Newhaven Field Trip 21. Meldon Field Trip 22. Letters, Geology Terrace at Bournemouth...4119 SSSIs (covering 8.1% of the land surface of England) are in 'favourable or recovering condition'. This
Book
PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin and copp...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his...Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)' Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon PottsGillmine...St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth
Report (edition)
AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND (SECOND EDITION) by HENRY DEWEY LONDON HER...SURVEY AND REGIONAL MUSEUM GEOLOGY SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND (SECOND EDITION) by HENRY DEWEY YRIGHT RESERVED...Lower Devonian -----(a) Cornwall and South Devon (b) North Devon ------ - 17 17 17 19 (2) Middle Devonian...Devonian -----(a) Cornwall and South Devon _ _ _ lb) North Devon ------- - 22 22 22 (3) Upper Devonian...Devonian -----(a) Cornwall and South Devon lb) North Devon ------(c) Pillow lavas, sills and altered rocks -
Journal (issue)
Research into the geology and geomorphology of S. W. England Volume 5 Part 4 1983 Edited by G.M Power The...into the geology and geomorphology of South West England and the surrounding marine areas; to hold Annual...Annual Conferences at various places in South West England where those engaged in this research can meet...University of Exeter, North Park Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QE Proceedings of the Ussher Society Volume...The Kyrtonia Press, 115 High Street, Crediton, Devon EXl73LG Set in Monophoto Times and Printed by Photolithography
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrence of palygorskite given as Shetland Isles (England), but, of course, this is a very small error when...FENNING (P. J.). Geology of the country around Okehampton (Explanation of one-inch geological sheet 324...area of intensely folded and faulted Carboniferous chert, shale, and sandstone to produce a metamorphic aureole...albite-rich aplites, the largest of these being the Meldon Aplite, which crystallized outside the granite with...much to illustrate the nature of the area. The Okehampton district was described by De la Beche in the
 
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