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Basalt from
Railway tunnel, Fjordveien, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway


Locality type:Tunnel
Classification
Type:Basalt
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Basalt data
Locality Data:Click here to view Railway tunnel, Fjordveien, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1221176
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1221176:0
GUID (UUID V4):0dec4333-dcd8-4a76-8fcf-6c1629bca7b4
Nearest other occurrences of Basalt
0.1km (0.1 miles) Holmestrand railroad station area, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
0.4km (0.2 miles) Hvitsteinbakken, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
0.9km (0.5 miles) Hvitstein, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
1.4km (0.8 miles) Hvittingfossveien, Kleivbrottet, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
1.7km (1.1 miles) Grefsrud, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
1.9km (1.2 miles) Holmestrand tunnel, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
1.9km (1.2 miles) Tvillingbru, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
2.1km (1.3 miles) Ramberg terrasse, Botne, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
2.1km (1.3 miles) Fibo AS, Grefsrud, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
2.2km (1.4 miles) Kleivanveien, Botne, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TOPOGRAPHICAL EUROPE Norway (Norge) Barkevik, Langesundsfjord, astrophyllite, 97 Bratteggdalen, Vestspitsbergen...hornblende, 464 Srbn Bheag, Ardnamurchan, carbonated basalt dyke, titanian magnetite, rutile, titanaugite,...staurolite, 672 Bray Head, Wicklow, gypsum (in railway tunnel), 818 Bunnahowna, Renoyle Point, Connemara... zircon, 253 Rathdrum, Wicklow, gypsum (in railway tunnel), 818 France Bauzot uranium mine, Issy l't~v~que...Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, basalt, plagioclase, 867 Wilberforce, Ontario, fluorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the masses might have been excavated from the railway tunnel to the west of Kinghorn Station. This is probably...the material came torn the railway cutting about 400 yards west of the tunnel. The rock is generally referred...cliff just before entering the west end of the railway tunnel previously referred to, and the other occurring...much contorted. Above the shale there is a mass of basalt, but it is from the tuff below the shale that the...the Survey Memoir on Central and West Fife as a basalt, and a Lepidodendron is noted as having been obtained
Report (issue)
It also seems that the opening of the Channel Tunnel also had to be denigrated. Every hiccup has to...the most hilarious or disastrous tale. Yet the tunnel is a magnificent engineering feat by man which...programme running up to the opening of the Channel Tunnel? Specifying how many find solace underground is...by telling people, You won't want to go down the tunnel under the sea , it will frighten youl ' Well you...steel making plant in Europe, containing 100 miles railway track with its' associated ironstone pits have
Journal (issue)
11-1/2 x 16 X 4-J/2", $10.00 DATOLITE. N.J. Xled on basalt, somewhat discolored, 5 x 9", $3.50 DIABASE PORPHYRY...; 10 lbs. for $5.00 RUTILE, var. lLMENORUTILE. Norway. Small pieces, some with feldspor. $1.10 lb • 5...$1. 00 STJLBITE. N. J. Brown ebea! like xis on basalt. 5 x 5-1/2", $3. 00; 4 x ◄-1/2", $4.00 STILBITE...brown, 52. 00 per oz. THORrrE, var. ORANGIT E . Norway. Noar­ � 512 . 5 0 per oz. TYUYAMUNJTE. Utah. Yellow...ronllo, 5 x 8" , $20.00; 8 x 1 1 " , $35,00 ALVlTE . Norway. Powdered. $ 1 . 00 per ounce. ASTROPI I Y LLITE
Report (issue)
with slides of the search for the Anstey Castle Tunnel by the Hatfield Sub-aqua Club, the Bristol Exploration...whether ice-houses, wells, mines, or canal or railway tunnels, that certain of our native species of...led to the construction of Iceland's first road tunnel, in the north-west fiords, in 1948. This is at...allowed is some 35 km. long unlined, through Tertiary basalt lava flows. a road connection to be made between...winter weather some years ago. Only one further road tunnel has been made in Iceland, in 1967 at Str&kar, a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
228 Astrophyllite, Colorado, Greenland, Malawi, Norway, and Spain, anal., opt., isomorphous substitutions...Langesundsfjord, Norway, astrophyllite, 97 Baryte, Masson Hill, Derbyshire, paragenesis, 8I t Basalt, Lorne Plateau...M6ssbauer study, anal., 448; Galway, anal., 498; Norway, anal., zI6; Spitzbergen, anal., 857; Uganda, anal...crystal structure, formula 264 Bygland, Setesdal, Norway, granite, biotite, garnet, K-feldspar, 2t6 Calabona...chromepicotite, 326 Carbon-dioxide metasomatism of basalt, Scotland, II9 Carr Boyd Rock, Western Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
provided by excavations for the funicolare (cable railway), railways and sewers (Johnston-Lavis, 1888, 1889a...across was recorded in the Cumana tunnel. The new Circumflegrea railway tunnel exposes massive trachyte lava...Approximately 800 m further west, in the Cumana railway tunnel under the Villa Floridana park (Fig. 4a), Johnston-Lavis...In the roughly parallel, but lower, main sewer tunnel trachyte lava was traversed for 28 m (Johnston-Lavis...(Johnston-Lavis, 1888). Furthermore, within the Metropolitana tunnel beneath Parco Grifeo (Fig. 4 a) Guadagno (1926)
Journal (issue)
Study Weekend May 2019 __________ 23 The Otira Tunnel, New Zealand_________________ 39 Courtaulds Factory...Reopen____ 64 Nation Aircraft Factory (Croydon) - Tunnel Discovery_ 65 Lavant Caves, West Sussex_____________________...Standedge Tunnel. Visible above is the brick lining of the Dingle extension of the tunnel, one of four...Lakenheath, Williamson’s Tunnels and Queensway Tunnel, Grantham Reservoir and RAF North Witham and others...War Rooms private tour (22 May), Standedge Canal Tunnel transit (13 June), Sub Brit Autumn Meeting (19
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Examples are given of wood enclosed in Tertiary basalt lavas from twelve localities in Co. Antrim, most...there are, or were, until recently, exposed in the basalt a number of cylindrical "pipes" of some considerable...considerable length (over twelve feet) which traversed the basalt at several points ... generally about seven inches...however ... of fossil wood, highly altered, in the basalt of the same quarry, suggests what is probably the...3D Outcrop of Antrim Basalts • Plant remains in basalt I~vas .. Lignites and leaf beds GPLW.I'Jl.I Fig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
these are crossed by the Oregon and California Railway. This region is more strictly an arm of what is...The upper portion of the valley, near where the railway crosses the summit, is not far from the point where...the granite series (including the schists), the basalt series and the slate series. The point of junction...that and the line of the railway divides the granite on the west from the basalt on the east; toward the...the line between the slates on the west, and the basalt on the east, runs in a northerly direction. Each
Journal (issue)
lower entrance) and Reigate Sandmines (entrance in Tunnel Road). Tours from 10.00 to 1600. Entrance fee applies...being considered included northern France, Denmark, Norway, Italy and the Czech Republic. Various committee...apparently being trapped under a landslide at Beaminster Tunnel in Dorset for a week. A county council spokesman...earth outside the entrance of Beaminster Tunnel." The tunnel is expected to stay closed until September...Dorset, 17 July 2012. [Editor's note: Horn Hill Tunnel, on the A3066 two miles northwest Peak District
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grey-black, compact and uniformly fine-grained basalt, which in its less fresh modifications becomes...of the railway tunnel, and on Tort Hill. The beds exposed at the northern entrance of the tunnel are coarse...Hilton Junction, at the southern extremity of the tunnel, a red micaceous and felspathic sandstone, with...belong to such types. Only rarely may pebbles of basalt or Highland metamorphic rocks be recognized. Undoubtedly...Microporphyritic olivine-enstatite-basalt. (b) Olivine-enstatite-basalt with porphyritic felspars. There
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
who made use of it in building the double-tube tunnel of the New York Subway beneath the Harlem River...the Detroit River the trench is retained, but the tunnel is formed by sinking two lines of steel tubes and...in a recent issue of this The Detroit River tunnel will be built in a which will will be excavatetl...wide enough to accommodate two full­ sized railway tunnel tubes lying side by side. Piles will be driven...remained at a high figure. waterways, large tunnel exhaustion the the amount and the value of agricultural
Journal (issue)
13 Tunnels 14 Features Merseyside's Disused Railway Tunnels 20 Ceaucescu's Bunker, Bucharest 27...end of the Crown Street tunnel in Liverpool. The 291 yard single track tunnel was built in 1829 by George...and the terminus of his Liverpool & Manchester Railway at Crown Street. Photo Nick Catford Back page upper:...upper: The eastern bore of Victoria tunnel in 1970. A Mersey Docks and Harbour Board locomotive had just...just travelled through the tunnel on its way to Edge Hill Yard. The tunnel was still used by the occasional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
222 Barnwell ... Barton Clay 60 Barytes .. 35 16 Basalt, columns of Basingstoke ... 67 Basement bed of...by the line of railroad through the Sevenoaks 1 Tunnel Excursions, 1870 . 143 " 1871 . Excursion to...species ... 208, 270 250 '1 Lias ... 40 Mid and Railway Tunnel ... Miller, J., Hyoid plate of 318 Altereolepis...Pont dol Wernen ... 300 Pont y Meibion 300 Ponton Tunnel 292 Porambonites 92,114 Porcellanous Foraminifera... 78, 219, 223 Septar ia .. . 70, 264 Sevenoaks Tunnel, strata exposed by the railw ay 1 through , C.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
little further to the north, is well seen in the railway cutting, and a mass of it crops out by the roadside...Renard devote several pages. The exposure in the railway cutting is about ten paces wide. The junction with...that on the northern of about 50 degrees with the railway. Adjoining the porphyroid on either side come a...Porphyroid (t) in the promontory pierced by the railway-tunnel on the right bank below Laifour will also repay...AND SLATE -RIGHT BANK OF THE MEUSE, NEAR THE RAILWAY. TUNNEL AT LAIFOUR (t. 01' MAP p. 251). (BONNEY).
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present inclined position, and the Rowley Hills' basalt was also forced out above the thick coal. This...places where it has been exposed are the Dudley railway-tunnel, at the reservoir north of the Wren's Nest...section of this overlying shale is that at the railway station, Dudley. References to published descriptions...Hollier said collectors had generally regarded the tunnel shale as belonging to the Wenlock formation. Some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
St Leonard's House and the entrance to the railway-tunnel close to Samson's Eibs. The distance from the...the Piper's Eoad and the Summit is a brecciated basalt, which also forms the rock which is intrusive into...where it passed upward into flagstones. One of the basalt dykes recorded by John Henderson was re-exposed
Report (issue)
Isaac at home in a cosy little lair in an Amtrack tunnel. He lived like this for 11 years and now complains...is a photograph of cavers exploring an old water tunnel. This was hailed as a miracle of engineering when...supply tunnels; a new one under construction, City Tunnel No.3 is being dug almost 700 feet below the surface...machines are lowered down. The men working on this tunnel are known as sandhogs and some are following a...diameter of City Tunnel No. 3 but it looks from photo as being of larger than Channel Tunnel dimensions and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the railway-cutting on the southern side of the dale of the Wye, thence along the railway to Miller's-Dale...Cressbrook Mill, the section along the Midland Railway between Monsal Dale and Buxton ~ shows a rapid...the western end of Cressbrook Tunnel and at both ends of Litton Tunnel, thin eherty limestones are seer~...The massive limestones exposed on the railway at Litton Tunnel are the same bed~ as those that are seen...the upper lava, seen in a cutting west of Litton Tunnel, is obviously a faulted one. • fault with a downthrow
Journal (issue)
3 Grebe Swallet Revealed 33 36 Interesting Railway Tunnel at Haywards Heath 41 Preserving a Nuclear Storage...Cellars or 'Crypts' at Rochester Edinburgh's Lost Railway 61 63 School Air-Raid Shelters 67 Sub-Brit at NAMHO...January, 11 February, 11 March London Underground Railway Society talks lurs.org.uk/meetings.htm 19 February...in Monument Street and reported on a Roman era tunnel, of which some 13 metres survive and were accessible...hidden tunnel beneath Hadrian's Villa Italian archaeologists have discovered a hidden tunnel beneath
Book
Desmarest proved the Plutonists correct when he traced basalt lava flows across France to the original volcanic...surfaces. Forms by the very rapid cooling of magma. Basalt Very heavy, dark basic rock made of basic plagioclase...intrusive. Extrusive rocks such as obsidian and basalt cool on the surface of the earth while intrusive...in 1964. The photograph shows the buckling of railway lines. Above: The rapidly growing city of Tokyo...the earth The need for tunnels The earliest known tunnel was built by the Babylonians in about 2160 B.C
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bekkelaget, Oslo (Norway) [2], construction of a road tunnel in Sorkjosen (Norway) [3], and a high-speed...high-speed railway tunnel El Espiño (Spain) [3]; in quarry mining: excavation in a lime quarry El Aljibe (Spain)...(Sweden) [12], Epiroc (Sweden) [11], Bever Control (Norway) [17], Zyfra mining (Russia) [18], Blast maker...64 600 Unchanged drain: andesite, jaspilite, basalt, iron ore. Drain quartz. Microgranites Zharikov...construction sites in such countries as Spain [4], Norway [58] and Sweden [59]. An assessment of correlation
Journal (issue)
2016 Issue 43 Portsdown Hill Magazines Norwood Tunnel - Chesterfield Canal Westcott Rocket Propulsion...Hill Magazines________________________ 46 Foot Tunnel at Cliviger, near Burnley________________ 52 Reach...79 William Constable and England’s oldest road tunnel, Reigate_ 80 Front cover photo: The Operations...Cold War shelters. For me two highlights were the tunnel beneath the River Lagan Weir – a sort of mini Thames...atmospheric Crumlin Road Jail, complete with a tunnel to the Court House opposite. See Subterranea 42
Journal (issue)
first described in 1840, from its occurrence in a railway cutting at Bishopton, Renfrewshire; but specimens...Thomas Brown since 1810. I (see fig. 2.) of a tunnel and its approach cuttings for the :-.J che later...are turned out." (Heddle, Glasgow to Greenock railway, an unusual mineral was of che zeolice family...this rare and beautiful mineral in the Bishopton Tunnel in 1842 [sic]." The Society's proceedings for...specimens having been found during the cutting of the tunnel, and from its great raricy is much prized by mineralogists
 
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