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Flint from
Limestone quarries, Plassay, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France


Locality type:Quarry
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Type:Flint
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Flint data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limestone quarries, Plassay, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1108256
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1108256:9
GUID (UUID V4):7fcf5977-222f-45f1-bfee-f0f3c601e8cf
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Book
Age tools had left scatters of flint waste. Dumps of heatcracked flint betrayed the cooking and eating...quantities of artefacts. These included items such as flint tools, pottery, bone and metalwork which are also...Both groups included exotic pottery from Holland, France, Spain and the Orient. Late medieval records of...places. As early as the Iron Age, pottery from France and Germany had found its way to the Island's north-east...the surface. Nine scatters of flint implements and 17 spreads of burnt flint, indicating prehistoric cooking
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Marie-Françoise André Editors Landscapes and Landforms of France World Geomorphological Landscapes Series Editor:...Marie-Françoise André Editors Landscapes and Landforms of France Editors Monique Fort Geography Department, UFR...University Paris Diderot-Sorbonne-Paris-Cité Paris, France Marie-Françoise André Laboratory of Physical and...CNRS – Blaise Pascal University Clermont-Ferrand, France Every effort has been made to contact the copyright...damage or even casualties. With this book focused on France, we launch a new book series World Geomorphological
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elles. M^moire du Service de la Carte G6ologique de France (Orleans, B. R. G. M. and Paris, Dunod), 1965....Ph. DIFFRE (Paris, Masson), 1979. — Geology of France with (Paris, Masson), 1980. twelve itineraries...Micro-organisms.40 Palaeogeography.54 3 THE PALAEOGENE IN FRANCE I II III IV Channel Coast - North Sea: Paris...cycle (Oligocene).26 The Atlantic Coast: the Aquitaine basin and the Armorican basins ... .89 1) The...The IN FRANCE gulfs of the Western Channel, the middle Loire and the Vendee . 153 Aquitaine Basin.160
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new construction covers up old sites, or because quarries or mines have changed hands. Large construction...regulation and insurance costs make it difficult for quarries to allow visitors. And, of course, many once productive...glaciated, and all have great rivers and valleys. Limestone built up from ancient seas is the common surface...are a must. Safety shoes are required in some quarries and are sensible formine dumps too. Safety goggles...for fossils which must be worked out of thick limestone layers, heavy mauls, crowbars, or mattocks should
Book (volume)
are all undisturbed sedimentaries: sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation lying...Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...gravel pitsagate (banded, moss), chalcedony, chert, flint, moss opal, agatized and opalized wood. OMAHA, W...Blue Springs):  all regional gravel pits and quarriesCalcite, Quartz crystals;  SE 3 mi., quarry on...SW of Holmesville, quarry on the Blue R.geodes, flint, fossils. JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIRBURY, regional gravel
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the grass, searching for pieces of gray and white flint. The woman smiles. Already the boy has his father's...been a master at crafting the finest, sharpest flint points. No one in living memory had fashioned them...bones were hundreds of fossil sea urchins-balls of flint engraved with a five-pointed star. All appeared...time. Then into this mix rolled a flint ball. This was no simple flint ball but one engraved with a five-pointed...years ago who fashioned a tool from a piece of flint emblazoned with exactly the same symbol? And could
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
385 The Environmental History of the Boulonnais, France by D. V. AGER and PEIGI WALLACE Received 28 May...416 ABSTRACT: The Boulonnais region of northern France contains surface exposures of rocks ranging in...Rhaetian Clays and sands HISTORY OF THE BOULONNAIS, FRANCE TABLE 387 I. Geological Succession-continued...Carbonifere' represents only part ofthe Carboniferous Limestone in the English sense. (a) Silurian The numerous...Brabant land-mass. HISTORY OF THE BOULONNAIS, FRANCE 389 Like the Silurian, the Gres de Caffiers is
Book (volume)
ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...gemstone, an exceptionally high quality, colorful flint that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony...Arizona agatized wood. This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint Ridge, between Newark (Licking Co...true flint (characterized by ease of working) include the highly colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge...Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton counties. Early American settlers
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ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...gemstone, an exceptionally high quality, colorful flint that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony...Arizona agatized wood. This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint Ridge, between Newark (Licking Co...true flint (characterized by ease of working) include the highly colored Vanport flint of the Flint Ridge...Ridge and the Upper Mercer flint exposed in Hocking, Perry, and Coshocton counties. Early American settlers
Report (issue)
Godstone The Secondary Use of Subterranean Limestone Quarries around Maastricht Subterranean Prague The...with Societe Francaise d'Etude des Souterrains of France, Arbeitskreis far Erdstallforschung of Germany...re-uses of underground space in France, especially in stone quarries and mines, underground farming is...examples of underground cultivation taking place in France; mostly of mushrooms, and also of other less usual...quelques unes des cultures souterraines pratiquees en France: la plus repandue, celle du champignon de Paris
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolomite while the lighter portions are almost pure limestone. This condition has inspired some university students...gathered most anywhere in the quarry. The limestone quarries in this region frequently blast into old...Creek State Park, near Spencer, Ind., are found: flint concretions, fossil coral (horn and straight types)...there and saw beauty revealed In the fragments of flint, of fantastic design, Salmon feldspar with satiny...have been found in coarse xline limestone at the Campbell limestone quarry, Texas, Baltimore Co., Md
Journal (issue)
this formation, in contrast with the more usual limestone found in the Maidstone area; (3) the possible...Lewarde, France ea 2 Subterranea News This coal-mining museum, close to Douai in northern France, presents...www.chm.lewarde.com Les dessous (boves) d'Arras, France A small part of the extensive network of 'boves'...learn of the original purpose of the excavations (quarries for building stone, cellars, and perhaps also...Seven Sisters limestone mine at Wren's Nest, Dudley, West Midlands The large limestone mine at the Wren's
Report (issue)
to the underground hard - chalk (for building) quarries at Beer. This last site was well worth seeing...organisation hard to match. SD has plans for a Stone Quarries conference, of international standard, based in...completed a new tourist attraction in the former limestone quarries beneath: Castle Hill, Dudley, West Midlands...audio-visual presentation and models, the story of the limestone formation and the mines is told to visitors brought...refereed: There is in fact no article on GoJstone Quarries in British Mining 20, although comas tell us that
Report (issue)
includes:, underground trips in Wensleydale stone quarries, and Chert and lead workings in the Fremington...BAITANNICA 8 3 April 1986 UNDERGROUND in 1086? THE QUARRIES in DOMESDAY BOOK ... The Domesday survey is noteworthy...Hist. Sci. Soc. 7, 161=74, 1171741 as 'two stone quarries' although the parish of Limpsfield hardly contains...Willey estate indicates that the Chaldon stone quarries were a part of it and, therefore, belonged .to...two Domesday quarries, therefore, may well form a part of the Chaldon - Merstham quarries complex which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michigan summer season of member of Flint,s Zonta Interthe Flint Science Fair. She was an outstanding...o Bull 663, 225 p. (1919) Labor saving at limestone quarries. U. S. Bur. Mines Tech..Pap.2O3,26 p. (1920)...L32p. (1922) Use of the churn dri1l in lime-plant quarries. U. S. Bur. Mines Rep. Iwest.2424,7 p. (1923)'I'ransportation...at lime-plant quarries. U. S. Bur. Mines Rep. Iwest.2454, 6p. (1925) Sources of limestone, glpsum, and...Rep. Invest.297lr 25 p. (1929) Metallurgical limestone, problems in production and utilization, U. S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
described from siliceous, coral-rich boulders along the Flint River near Bainbridge, Georgia. Mansfield later...group, similar to the Georgia specimens, in limestone quarries near Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida...assigned to the Suwannee Limestone and the Bridgeboro Limestone (formerly Flint River Formation). They...Gainesville, FL 32611 age (i.e., Glendon Limestone, Marianna Limestone, Byram Formation). The specimens represent...been recovered from late Paleocene freshwater limestone of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming, USA. One specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
described from siliceous, coral-rich boulders along the Flint River near Bainbridge, Georgia. Mansfield later...group, similar to the Georgia specimens, in limestone quarries near Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida...assigned to the Suwannee Limestone and the Bridgeboro Limestone (formerly Flint River Formation). They...Gainesville, FL 32611 age (i.e., Glendon Limestone, Marianna Limestone, Byram Formation). The specimens represent...been recovered from late Paleocene freshwater limestone of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming, USA. One specimen
Book
species ofAdularia. Murchisonite . Orthoclase. " >> FLINT. See Quartz. Fluorine. FLUELLITE { . * No analysis...species of - Agate. Amethyst. Chalcedony. Chert, Flint. Haytorite. " Heliotrope. Hornstone. " 92 ...Erythrine. Jasper. Opal. Constantine. (Granite quarries.) Beryl. Schorl. Topaz. Crowan . (Huel Abraham...Rutile. Crystal. Rock Pyrolusite. (Delabole Slate quarries.) Devonian. Adularia. Albite. Anatase. Calcite...CUMBERLAND . Alston Moor. Millstone Grit and Mountain Limestone. Aragonite. Baryte. Calamine. Chessylite. Calcite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was spent examining the old Carboniferous Limestone quarries and fossils were collected from the tips...presence of basalt below the limestone in the woods west of the quarries. The basal Coal Measures sandstone...provided a section of measures, including the Big Flint, Yard and Double Coals. From Coalmoor the party...clay, they continued to Horsehay. At the Doseley Quarries of Basalts Ltd. the party was met by the manager...at 9.30, taking the road to the Ercall. The old quarries in the pink Ercall granophyre provided good specimens
Book (volume)
sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite
Book (volume)
sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite
Book (edition)
PETROGRAPHICAL CLAssIFICATION 1 Crushed stone quarries 1 Gravel pits 3 Slag works 4 GEOLOGICAL...alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks are listed separately...classification of rock (quarries only) Colour or any other information (quarries and pits) Where any of... PETROGRAPHI CAL CLASSIFICATION CRUSHED STONE QUARRIES The Petrographical Department of the Institute...812, as follows: Artificial group Basalt group Flint group Slag Andesite Basalt Basic porphyrite Diabase
Book (volume)
Stone Mt.), areaQuartz crystals. LITHONIA:  area quarriesCalcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline...Feldspar, Quartz. STONE MOUNTAIN:  two area granite quarriesBeryl, Feldspar, Hyalite opal;  area granite...(translucent, bottle green). DOUGHERTY COUNTY ALBANY, in Flint R.red jasper. ELBERT COUNTY AREA:  Rock Branch...Chattahoochee R. and its tributarieschalcedony, chert, flint, jasper, common opal, opalized wood, etc. COLUMBUS:...halfway to Refuge ChurchKyanite. TATE:  area quarries in the Tate-Marble Hill dist.Almandite garnet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lunch. The quarries on Selsley Hill were next visited, the first one being in the Lower Limestone and Pea...Witchell the "Dapple-bed," which occurs in the Lower Limestone. The gaping joints and tumbled state of the rocks...was seen to consist mainly of yellowish oolitic limestone with subordinate marly layers and to be very much...the quarry on Frocester Hill, where the Lower Limestone and Lower Freestone were seen but not closely...earth movements in the Aalenian period. The Lower Limestone shewed conspicuous false-bedding. The members
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
physical form of Britain's countryside since the flint-digging of early man but the scale and geographical...CENTRBS Chalk and limestone quarries Many abandoned chalk and limestone quarries have acquired considerable...rare grass Nardurus maritimus occurs in several quarries in south-east EnglandL T h e Chiltern gentian...England and two of its principal locations are chalk quarries. Other members of the gentian family, felwort...Blackstonia perfoliata are widespread in chalk and limestone quarries as are a wide range of the Orchidaceae family
 
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