 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I.—JANUARY, 1934. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. The Mountsorrel Granodiorite and Associated Igneous Rocks. By...I.) INTRODUCTION. rpHE igneous rocks of the Mountsorrel area, by reason of their -*- accessibility and...Association to Charnwood Forest in 1928, including a structural study of the Mountsorrel " granite " by...map of the complex in Fig. 1. FIG. 1.—Map of Mountsorrel district (with index figures) Scale about 2 in...(close to the Waterworks Dam and in the grounds of Quorn House) the granodiorite is clearly richer in coloured |  | | Journal (volume) | | Frank Ince 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3SQ EDITORIAL BOARD R.E. Bevins, Cardiff...Hubbard, 30 Thirlmere Road, Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, LE12 8QQ. Printed by: Flexpress Ltd, 8 Coal...Bridges 6-12 Unusual fluorite from Old Towns Quarry, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges...occurrences of hydrocarbon-containing materials in Leicestershire Francis Ince 25-38 A new assemblage of manganese...appropriate that this volume includes a paper on Leicestershire mineralogy: in this case, occurrences of h |  | | | | TRIASSICDESERT LANDSCAPES IN CHARNWOOD FOREST Fig. 1. Rugged-Broombriggs; H¥rison. Fig. 2. Hornstones...Grits. Photo by W. J. Wiod-worn-Mouotsorrel Quarry. Terraced, Grooved, Smoothed and Polished Surfaces...ROCKS OF CHARNWOOD FOREST LEICESTERSHIRE With which is included the area about Mountsorrel Parts of the...author was Petrologist to the Geological Survey of England and Wales, and when Mr. C. Fox Strangways was engaged...engaged on the survey of the Leicestershire Coalfield and its environs. When Mr. Strangways had defined |  | | Book | | TRIASSICDESERT LANDSCAPES IN CHARNWOOD FOREST Fig. 1. Rugged-Broombriggs; H¥rison. Fig. 2. Hornstones...Grits. Photo by W. J. Wiod-worn-Mouotsorrel Quarry. Terraced, Grooved, Smoothed and Polished Surfaces...ROCKS OF CHARNWOOD FOREST LEICESTERSHIRE With which is included the area about Mountsorrel Parts of the...author was Petrologist to the Geological Survey of England and Wales, and when Mr. C. Fox Strangways was engaged...engaged on the survey of the Leicestershire Coalfield and its environs. When Mr. Strangways had defined |  | | Book | | TRIASSICDESERT LANDSCAPES IN CHARNWOOD FOREST Fig. 1. Rugged-Broombriggs; H¥rison. Fig. 2. Hornstones...Grits. Photo by W. J. Wiod-worn-Mouotsorrel Quarry. Terraced, Grooved, Smoothed and Polished Surfaces...ROCKS OF CHARNWOOD FOREST LEICESTERSHIRE With which is included the area about Mountsorrel Parts of the...author was Petrologist to the Geological Survey of England and Wales, and when Mr. C. Fox Strangways was engaged...engaged on the survey of the Leicestershire Coalfield and its environs. When Mr. Strangways had defined |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | situate on the eastern edge of the central plain of England, and the greater part of it is within from 150...Rising sharply in this plMn are the hills of Charnwood, formed of pre-Cambrian rocks, peeping up through...~eot above O.D.), which is the highest point in Charnwood. As has been shown by Prof. W . W . W a t t s...buried hills; and as usually the extension of a quarry on each occasion is carried on in the direction...overburden is at the time least, the outline of a quarry tends to be almost..exactly a contour of the buried |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE GEOLOGY OF CHARNWOOD FOREST . .By F. W. BE:\NETT, M.D., B.Se. ; E. E. LOWE, Ph.D., B.Sc.; H...S. I. INTRODUCTION. Association has visited Charnwood Forest on many occasions. but there has been no...members will also recall the dramatic scene at Mountsorrel. Professor Watts demonstrated the discoverv he...the ·surface of the granite in many parts of the quarry. He proved his case by showing that polished surfaces...for twenty years he had brought visitors to this quarry to show them the effect of glacial action in smoothing |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the South Leicestershire Diorite: evidence from an Ordovician pluton at Croft Quarry 166 Tim Colman...503617 Front cover: Croft Quarry, Charnwood Forest, seen from the air. The quarry produces strong aggregate...aggregate stone from a pluton of the South Leicestershire Diorite, and also exposes sections through two Triassic...designs. It is difficult to identify the car at the quarry because any distinctive radiator is obscured, and...‘Alum Shales’ (the Whitby Mudstone Formation in the UK) are considered prospective. They could be the new |  | | Journal (volume) | | Frank Ince 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3SQ. EDITORIAL BOARD R.E. Bevins, Cardiff...non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...Hubbard, 30 Thirlmere Road, Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, LE12 8QQ. Printed by: Flexpress Ltd, 8 Coal...12, p. 43 for details). Penryn Granite Company’s quarry at Halvosso, Longdowns, Cornwall. Jim Knight Collection;...LUV (middle) and SUV (bottom). East Face, Croft Quarry, Croft, Leics. Frank Ince specimen and photo (FI-1485; |  | | Book | | L. Allen.1 A. Charnwood Forest ........ 1 B. The Precambrian palaeontology of Charnwood Forest . .12 C...of South Leicestershire . . . .41 Camptonite Sills of Warwickshire . . . . .47 The Mountsorrel District...in the Oilfields . . . . .97 Details of the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfields . 98 Possible...with a contribution from T. D. Ford . .'.112 A. Charnwood Forest . . . . . . .112 B. Cambrian Mineralization...of Southwest Leicestershire 114 V 149252 CONTENTS vi D. E. F. G. The Mountsorrel Area . Epigenetic |  | | Journal (volume) | | Frank Ince 78 Leconfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3SQ EDITORIAL BOARD R.E. Bevins, Cardiff... Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, LE12 8QQ. Printed by: Acorn Print Media, Quorn House, North Road,... Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 1LE. Published by: The Russell Society. Registered Charity No. 803308...23-25 PAPERS Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S. Rumsey, George...the mineralogy of the area around Markfield, Leicestershire Francis Ince 32-44 A review of the mineralogy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ovington, UK NJ Elton, St Austell, U.K. N.J. Fortey, Keyworth, U.K. RA. Howie, Matlock, UK RJ. King...Media, (A division of St. Ives Group), Leeds, England. Published by The Russell Society. Registered Charity...Proustite (1.0mm) with barite and tennantite. Dolyhir quarry, Old Radnor, Powys, Wales, October 2004. Collection:...PAPERS The mineralogy of Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire Frank Ince The occurrence and formation...including koninckite and planerite from Grouse Lodge quarry, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick Stephen Moreton and |  | | Book | | deposits-a m'llltldtseiplinary study in eastem England ,.. ·-- " , 1 Report of a BOS-Open University...the Commission of the European Communities and the UK Department of Trade and Industry This page is blank...ore deposits-a multidisciplinary study in eastem England ContJ"ibutors T. B. Colman, J. D. Cornwell...ore deposits-a multidisciplinary study in eastem England D. G. Jones, N. d'A. LaffoleY"', A. S. D. Walker...University, Walton Hall, Milto;~ Keynes MK7 6AA, UK T. D. Ford Department of Geology, UnivE·rsity of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Granodiorite, main Mountsorrel Quarry. Granodiorite, South of Cocklow Wood. Granodiorite, Cocklow Quarry. Granodiorite... Basic granodiorite, Quorn House grounds. Granodiorite, main Mountsorrel Quarry. Gabbro. Granodiorite...Granodiorite, Rubbish Tip Quarry. Granodiorite, main Mountsorrel Quarry. Granodiorite, Cemetery Pit. Petrographical...1934. f• IRCON AND APATITE GRAINS FROM THE MOUNTSORREL IGNEOUS ROCKS. [To face p. 16. Rocks from...with the production of magnetite grains along the cleavage planes. A little magnetite and sphene may also |  | | Report (issue) | | zircon, leucoxene, titanium oxide polymorphs, magnetite and carbonate. It has been extensively K-feldspathised...leucoxene d'oxides polymorphes de titane, de magnetite, et de carbonate. Elle a ete largement K feldspathisee...11ew roadwa)' recently dri,en into a prosp,ective quarry site [233 336] about 500 m north-west of tl1is...Cushendun Quarry [236 334] Granodiorite, slightly contaminated with schist xenoliths, Cushendun Quarry [236...[236 334]. Granodiorite, Cushendun Quarry (236 334]. Granodiorite, contaminated with schist xenoliths; Dyke |  | | Journal (volume) | | Printed by: Q3 DigitaljLitho, Loughborough, Leicestershire LEll lLE Published by: The Russell Society...thomsonite (spiky and botryoidal varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected...18-26 The mineralogy of Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire Francis Ince 27-39 Edingtonite,...benefactors: Peter and Greg Tom at Bardon Hill Quarry (1 :4-3 : 1); Redland Aggregates (2: 1); Ralph...and parasymplesite from Cumbria and Cornwall, England. lournal of the Russell Society, 8( 1), 16-17. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pilotaxitic, with a varying amount of augite and magnetite among the felspar laths. According to the character...1017/S0016756800125506 A. R. Horwood—Upper Trias of Leicestershire. 21 spilites may be mentioned. About a mile... CAMBRIDGE. V I I . — T H E UPPEK TRIAS OK LEICESTERSHIRE. By A. R. HORWOOD.2 PART I. 1. General Description...DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT. rPHE Upper Trias of Leicestershire as a whole occupies the western L half of the...and Leicester in the south, and of granite at Mountsorrel, Buddon Wood, etc., north-west of Leicester, |  | Stephenson, D., Bevins, R. E., Millward, D., Highton, A. J., Parsons, I., Stone, P., Wadsworth, W. J. (1999) References, Glossary & Index. In Caledonian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain (Geological Conservation Review Series - Geological Conservation Review No. 17. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. p.575-648. | Book (chapter) | | Caledonian intrusive activity in eastern and northern England from geophysics, radiometric dating and basement...J. (1983) A possible extension of the South Leicestershire Diorite complex. Report of the Institute of...Bosworth, T. O. (1912) The Keuper Marls Around Charnwood Forest. 'l'hornley and Son for Leicester Literary...Nottingham, UK. No. 2. ignimbrite emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe...emplacements in Snowdonia (Wales), the Lake District (England) and Glencoe (Scotland), United Kingdom (eds B |  | | Journal (issue) | | unusual occurrence of mottramite from Peldar Tor, Leicestershire John W. Faithful! and Francis [nce 59 NOTES...hornfels facies . The production of skarns rich in magnetite and garnet occurred early in the mineralizing...The supergene leaching of copper in south-west England has been recorded in numerous studies, although...post-Armorican early Mesozoic period when south-west England was approximately 200300 miles from the equator...Re-discovery of stokesite crystals in Cornwall, England. Mineralogical Record, 8, 294-297. Couper, A.G |  | | Report (issue) | | 158. lIEMOIRS OF , THE- · GE.OLOGIC!L SURVEY. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY NEAR...Series one-inch Map of England, and embraces parts of central and eastern Leicestershire, and of the adjoining...Triassic and Permian Rocks of the Midland Counties of England '' by Prof. Hull published in 1869. A comparison...and other old rocks in the neighbourhood of Mountsorrel has been shown with more exactness than was possible...obtained at a cost of 3s. A bibliography of Leicestershire was p11bljshed in the l\ticmoir on the geology |  | | Journal (issue) | | America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................updates (still lots of activity in various parts of the UK) and an addition to the list of “creative things...minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local museum...countless field trips to sites of interest around England and Wales and although membership numbers have...Anatase from Cligga Head, Perrazabuloe, Cornwall, England. David Green photo. Reproduced with permission |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | B S T R A C T The surface geology of central England and Belgium obscures a large ‘basement’ massif...a long-lived component of the crust of central England and Belgium (Fig. 1). This paper reviews the evolution...south-central Midland and East Anglian regions of England, extending eastward beneath the southern North...as the middle of the 19th C (Dumont, 1847). In the UK, the palaeogeographical maps of Leonard Wills (1948...concealed Caledonides of northern and eastern England. In Plate IV (Caledonides), Wills (1951) recognised |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Petrogenesis. 31 6.'—Glaciated surface of Mountsorrel granite exposed on removal of boulder clay, still...Keuper and later-Pleistocene surfaces. Mountsorrel, main quarry, above the south side. PLATE III. 1.—Boulder...—Boulder of sand-blasted Mountsorrel granite resting on Chalky Boulder Clay. The hammer marks the directions...slightly shifted as a result of blasting. Mountsorrel, main quarry, above the west side. 2.—The northern...sand-blasted and fluted surfaces on Castle Hill above Mountsorrel village. Theflutingsfan out, but on the crest |  | | Journal (issue) | | and one member suggested that this could be in the UK or EU. COST A location with on-site accommodation...were identified: geological/mining walks, museums (UK or EU) and member's collections. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS...Earl Ferrers' mine in Dimminsdale in North Leicestershire. I was disappointed and surprised . A further...explain what the minerals in the north-east of England (the Northern Pennine Orefield) have been used...at other minerals that have been important in the UK and then the important minerals we have to import |  | | Journal (issue) | | Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................a loss; especially to members in the north of England. On a more up-beat theme, there is positive news...to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry... Mike was co-author of an article about Hendre Quarry which was published in the British Micromount Society |
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