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Quartz from
Maidens, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maidens, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1234720
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1234720:5
GUID (UUID V4):13e44db9-42f3-4f5d-916a-4eb329cce9db
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.7km (1.7 miles) Turnberry, Girvan, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
3.6km (2.2 miles) Culzean, Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
9.2km (5.7 miles) Dunure coast, Dunure, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
9.4km (5.9 miles) Dunure, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
10.1km (6.3 miles) Carrick Hills, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
13.5km (8.4 miles) Heads of Ayr, Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
21.6km (13.4 miles) Kildonan, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
29.0km (18.0 miles) Clauchlands Point, Lamlash, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
35.3km (21.9 miles) Woodhead Mine, Carsphairn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
36.2km (22.5 miles) Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shore of the Firth of Clyde about 6 miles to the south-west of the town of Ayr. They consist of a series...Tumberry is another fine coastal section from Maidens to Turnberry Lighthouse, a distance of 1 | miles...by a cliff of Old Red Sandstone. About 2 miles south of Dalrymple there are two small inter­ calations...the Carnegie Trustees for t h e Universities of Scotland. Downloaded from http://trngl.lyellcollection...14, 2015 TYRRELL—SKETCH OF THE CARRICK HILLS, AYRSHIRE. 65 Intrusive rocks covering a considerable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recognised the close affinities which exist between the Ayrshire rocks and the serpentine, gabbro, and other basic...exist ence of a land ridge across the sout h of Scotland during Ordovician tim es was of importance t o...took place. This sudden inrush of species from the south undoubtedly indicates the removal of a barrier;... with the spilites and albite-dolerites of South Ayrshire, belonged to the same general period of igneous...(op. cit. supra, Fig. 9, p. 573). A fault on the south side of the quarry brings down the Benan Conglomerate
Book
Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Bucks HPI7 9AJ, UK. Set in 9 point Times roman and printed in Great... 24, 25, 26, 27; RIZ Services Limited, page 1; South Australian Bureau of Mines and Energy, pages 10...inches); (centre row, from left) bournonite in quartz, Cornwall, grey, 80 by 60 mm (31 by 21/4 inches);...right) massive; (bottom left) crystalline, with quartz; (bottom right) disseminated. Major Copper Mining...Canadian mines and those in the south-western USA date from the 1880s. In South America the great excavation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
appropriate. About three-quarters of a mile to the south of the lowest Doon Bridge, is the old quarry of...with numerous small cavities bristling with minute quartz crystals; but neither in it, nor in t h e underlying...k e " and " Long Kae." About five hundred yards south of the castle is a dyke, in the centre of which...traps and a few North Highland schists. At the south end of this slope the calciferous sandstone suddenly...towards the base, the contained pebbles being mostly quartz and quartzite—none of very large size—with smaller
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Province, Yilgarn Craton Brett K. Davis a,∗ , Ellen Maidens b b a AurionGold, P.O. Box 862, Kalgoorlie, WA...davis@rsgglobal.com (B.K. Davis), ellen maidens@placerdome.com (E. Maidens). 0301-9268/$ – see front matter...NNW–SSE trending dislocation. 230 B.K. Davis, E. Maidens / Precambrian Research 127 (2003) 229–248 Fig...by Swager and Nelson (1997). B.K. Davis, E. Maidens / Precambrian Research 127 (2003) 229–248 Most...(Ojala, 1995) comprises the approximately north–south trending, structurally complex tract of dominantly
Journal (issue)
Christopher Pamplin ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS: £5.00 (UK) 7.00 US$15.00 (Overseas by Airmail, inc Rep. of...of Ireland) Payable by cheque or postal order (UK) Bankers draft in pounds sterling or US$ cheque (Overseas)...Museum of Scotland. Photograph published with kind permission of the National Museums of Scotland. SIi�...Part One Microvertebrates 117 The Agates of the Ayrshire Coast 119 Silicified Fossil Wood from East Anglia...staff of the Geology department at the Polytechnic South West arc excited at a new find, discovered by a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Bateman et al., 2001; Bucci et al., 2004; Davis and Maidens, 2003; Witt, 2001) that might have lasted the duration...contemporaneous with thrusting D1 structures in the south. Witt (1994) inferred the opposite sequence of events...intrusion and thermal crustal weakening (Davis and Maidens, 2003). D3 was a transpressive event which overprinted...also found a 3 km D1e excision of stratigraphy south of Leonora suggesting that isograds and stratigraphic...6811700 mN, WGS84). (a) View of the open pit looking south. The deepest part on the right-hand-side defines
Journal (issue)
correlate with the Maidens gneiss and Sabot amphibolite of Poland (1976) (Marr, 1985). The Maidens gneiss is heterogeneous...lithology and fabric. The dominant rock types of the Maidens are biotite gneiss, augen gneiss, and migrnatite...quartzo-feldspathic lenses occur locally. The Maidens lithologies can be interpreted as polymetamorphosed...rock method (Glover and others, 1978). Both the Maidens gneiss and Sabot amphibolite are correlative with...provide maximum and minimum age constraints for the Maidens and Sabot. Unconformably overlying the crystalline
Report (issue)
manned submersible in the Irish Sea and off western Scotland 1971 REPORT No. 73/2 HMSO The Institute of...manned submersible in the Irish Sea and off western Scotland 1971 R. A. Eden,BSc, FRSE, C. E. Deegan, PhD...manned submersible in the Irish Sea and off western Scotland 1971. Rep. No. 73/2, Inst. geol. Sci. 27 pp. ...Institute of Geological Sciences Exhibition Road South Kensington London SW7 2DE 1 July, 1972 ••• 111...THE OUTER HEBRIDES 16 17 Lewisian escarpments south of Barra Island (P71/ 5A) 17 Deeply trenched topography
Report (issue)
compact quartz, of twenty-five and thirty feet in elevation, running nearly North and South with its...���������11 Figure 9. Photograph of the Three Maidens at sunset, Pipestone National Monument ������...importance, archeological resources, and the Three Maidens petroglyphs, Pipestone National Monument was listed...National Monument include the following: Lacking quartz, catlinite can be easily carved into pipes and...Examples of glacial erratics include the Three Maidens, a group of boulders near the entrance to the monument
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
width. It extends from Roxburgh and Melrose in a south-easterly direction as far as Langholm and Canonbie...Geological Survey's one-inch to a mile map of Scotland. It culminates in the elevated moorland watershed...Cementstone Series. Windburgh Hill. Scaw Law and Maidens' Paps. IL L Near Base of Cement­ stone Series...Hermitage Hill, reappearing again in a small cliff south-east of Windburgh Hill. They are faulted against...microporphyritic olivine basalts. The main outcrop, stretching south-west from Dinley, is much obscured by the thick
Book (edition)
History !Vluseum (Earth Galleries), Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DE 'B' 020-7589 4090 Fax...resources and workings in tJ1e UK, 2008 3 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2008 4 Limestone resotu-ces...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.mmodity in the UK, including Noriliem Ireland, Channel Islands and...industries, which represents their contribution to the UK econo1ny. The GVA of the nunerals extractive industries...tot1l value of 1ninerals produced in 2005 in the UK, expressed as sales on an ex-works (quarry) basis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK International Geology Review Publication details...either end of the Appalachian foreland. To the south of the transect along the Findlay arch, subsurface...system that had generated a spreading center to the south across the transform (Thomas, 1991). The system...wedge were a turbiditic sequence derived from the south (Shanmugam, 1980; Stevens and Wright, 1981) that...deposition of a thin blanket (commonly <100 m) of quartz arenite across the basin (Whisonant, 1977; Cotter
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
, 2002; Champion and Cassidy, 2002; Davis and Maidens, 2003; Blewett et al., 2004). Broadly, the deformation...high-grade subvertical shear zones with abundant quartz-carbonate veins and breccias. The veins and breccias...strike-slip kinematics are suggested by stepping quartz-carbonate slickenfibers plus foliation curvature...phyllonites with very small displacement (Davis and Maidens, 2003). The structures formed by the embrittlement...(Wallaby underground). C. Photograph of stepped quartz-carbonate slickenfibers (qz-carb) from a steep
Book
with collectors, especially in recent decades. Scotland is one of several countries rich in agates, so...called 'Scotch pebbles'. The National Museums of Scotland house the national collection of Scottish agates... was not illustrated. The National Museums of Scotland welcome the opportunity to copublish Agates with...I. Rolfe Keeper of Geology National Museums of Scotland Edinburgh Outside and inside of halved agate...agates from the British Isles, especially from Scotland which is rich in agates of unsurpassed beauty
Book (edition)
qutm-y in South Yorkshire (Rotherham Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd, Scrooby Top Quany, Doncas1e1; South Yorkshirej...0115-936 3200 e-mail : sales@bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac. uk Shop online at.: www.thebgs.co.u.k !Vlurchison House...History Museum (Earth Galleries), Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DE 'B' 020-7589 4090 Fax...resources and workings in the UK, 2005 4 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2005 5 Lin1estone resources...and workings in the UK, 2005 6 Sand and gravel resources and workings in the UK, 2005 Tables l Production
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zircon; and measurement of O isotopes in multi-grain quartz separates. Eruption of the Sabot Amphibolite protolith...this article can be accessed here. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group KEYWORDS...concentration exceeds the strontium concentration, and (3) quartz is common (Owens and Dymek 2016). A suite of granitic...widely exposed unit in the Goochland Terrane is the Maidens Gneiss, which consists of intercalated sedimentary...igneous crystallization age of at least some of the Maidens Gneiss igneous rocks is ca. 400 Ma (Owens et al
Journal (issue)
Ordovician (440 – 505 Ma*). 2. Tightly-folded, Biotite-Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss Chesterfield County Donated By:...Company, Dale Quarry Isoclinally folded, biotite, quartz, and feldspar gneiss interpreted as sedimentary...regional metamorphism (approx. 900 – 1200 Ma). Maidens gneiss; original rock Middle Proterozoic (900 –...coarse-grained, aggregate of biotite, hornblende, quartz and monocrystalline feldspar, with little or no...crystalline rock, with pink potassium feldspar, gray quartz, biotite and muscovite. Result of very slow cooling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
no basis in my writings. He supposes that his maidens, tie chlorites, are in one part of the rock regarded...possibility have been the case. The soldiers and the maidens were living in the same house, only waiting till...higher than that of felspar, and that, in granite, quartz usually consolidates after felspar. It would, therefore...rash to assume that a temperature which would fuse quartz and felspar,2 which form the bulk of the rock,...basalts. This variolite occurs on Dunmore Head, just south-east of the summit of Dunmore Hill, and a little
Report (volume)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SPOKANE, Washington-U.S. Post Office...metamorphic rocks (including amphibolites within the Maidens Gneiss)..........................................present west of the Hylas shear zone (fig. 1). The Maidens Gneiss, which constitutes most of the mapped gneiss...debris and is composed of hornblende, plagioclase, quartz, K-feldspar, pyroxene, sphene, apatite, and secondary...taken from wells in an unnamed amphibolite in the Maidens Gneiss. The remaining 18 ground-water samples from
Book
M9W 3A6 110 Northpark Centre, 2193 Johannesburg, South Africa CML Centre. Queen & Wyndham, Auckland I,...map Radnor (Powys) Monmouth (Gwent) Glamorgan (South Glamorgan) Pembroke (Dyfed) Merioneth (Gwynedd)...Denbigh (Gwynedd) Flint (Clwyd) CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SCOTLAND IJI I32 134 I35 136 137 143 Key map Kirkcudbright...(Strathclyde Region) Angus (Tayside Region) NORTHERN SCOTLAND 147 148 153 158 I59 160 163 165 172 Key map...broch. almost unigue to the north and west of Scotland: where over 400 are known (e.g. Dun Carloway.
Report (issue)
for the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks of Scotland south of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen Research...for the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks of Scotland south of a line from Fort William to Aberdeen Michael...the Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) rocks ofScotland south ofa liJ1e from Fort Willian1 to Aberdeen. British...go115-9363241 e-mail: sales@bgs.ac.uk \V\Yw.bgs.ac. uk Shop online at:\\'WW.thebgs.co.uk ,Murchison House...History Museum (Earth Galleries), Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW72DE Fax: 0 2 0 -7584 8270
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mudstone of the upper Black Flag Group and mineralised quartz veins and breccia zones are distributed throughout...mineralised zones, bedding is sub-vertical and large quartz breccia veins develop along the bedding above moderately...Laverton district (Ojala et al., 1993; Davis and Maidens, 2003, Salier et al., 2004); and Victory-Defiance...Waroonga, Jones et al., 2019; Sunrise Dam, Davis and Maidens, 2003; Miller and Nugus, 2006; and New Celebration...geology The Invincible deposit is located about 15 km south of Kambalda, in the St Ives gold camp (Figures 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Broodkop shear zone, southeast Vredefort dome (South Africa): a Dominion-related extensional feature...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa Impacts and Astromaterials Research Centre...Imperial College London, Royal School of Mines, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom, SW7 2AZ e-mail:...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa e-mail: gibsonr@geosciences.wits.ac.za; ...Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have a fairly simple distribution (Fig. I). In the south they consist of the worn-down stumps of the Caledonian...great structural units which strike south-westwards from Scotland. These are the Dalradian rocks of the...of Lough Neagh. The Highland Boundary Fault runs south of Cushendun and the Sperrins, the Southern Uplands...regional dip. South of Torr Head the bedding-foliation flattens out somewhat, and south of Crockan Point...country to Murlough Bay. Below them, on the coast south of Ruebane Point and in inland exposures, the beds
 
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