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Calcite from
Great Cumbrae, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Cumbrae, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1379192
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1379192:6
GUID (UUID V4):36db08bc-203f-4f77-b620-954ae932e328
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
14.5km (9.0 miles) Muirshiel Mine, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
16.2km (10.0 miles) Inverclip, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
19.8km (12.3 miles) Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
20.9km (13.0 miles) Trearne Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
22.3km (13.8 miles) Craigmuschat quarry, Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK
25.5km (15.8 miles) Hartfield Moss, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
26.9km (16.7 miles) Clyde river, Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
30.6km (19.0 miles) Borrow Pit, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
32.7km (20.3 miles) Boyleston Quarry, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
36.0km (22.3 miles) Dippin Sill, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Early Carboniferous volcanic outliers of Little Cumbrae and south Bute: implications for westward attenuation...Early Carboniferous volcanic outliers of Little Cumbrae and south Bute: implications for westward attenuation...Early Carboniferous volcanic outliers of Little Cumbrae and south Bute: implications for westward attenuation...gcaldwel@uwo.ca; gyoung@uwo.ca ABSTRACT: Little Cumbrae and south Bute are the closest outliers of Early...between the Fairlie Roads and Sound of Bute, Little Cumbrae island and the promontory of south Bute (Fig. 1)
Report (issue)
'Clyde Sheet'). · It covers the northern part of the North Channel and the Firth of Clyde including the narrow...physiography of the sea floor. To the south, between tl1e North Channel and a line from Turnberry to Campbeltown...Department and a revised chart published (1969). To the north of the Plateau there is a greater relief. The mountainous...southwards reaching over 1 80 m locally, in the North Channel. This deepening is interrupted by a narrow... The latter shoal causes the axial zone of the North Channel to bifurcate, the easterly channel maintaining
Report (issue)
View from top of Goatfell loolNorth. The so-called North top of Goatfell forms the prominent peak...THE GEOLOGY OF NORTH ARRAN, SOUTH BUTE, AND THE OUMB R.A ES, WITH PARTS OF AYRSHIRE AND KINTYRE. (SHEET...(SHEET 21, SCOTLAND.) THE DESCRIPTION OF NORTH ARRAN, SOUTH BUTE, AND THE CUMBRAES BY w. GUNN, F.G.S...S. ; PART OF AYRSHIRE BY SIR A. GEIKIE, D.C.L.,F.R.S.; PART OF KINTYRE BY B. N. PEACH,F.R.S.; ,vITH CHAPTER...TERTIARY IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ARRAN, SOUTH BUTE, AND THE CUMBRAE ISLANDS BY A. HARKER, M.A., F.R.S. PUBLISHED BY
Report (edition)
BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY THE MIDLAND VALLEY OF SCOTLAND EDINBURGH HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE price...BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY The Midland Valley of Scotland SECOND EDITION, REVISED By M. MACGREGOR, M.A...by the incorporation of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology with...across north-eastern end of Pentland Hills, Midlothian B.—Section across Pentland Hills at North Esk Reservoir...Fig. 6. Map of Darvel-Galston-Sorn district, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire .. 27 Fig. 7. Section across
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1929. Vol. XXII. The tholeiite dilces of the north of England. 1 (With Plates I and II.) By ARTHUR...Cleveland-Cockfield-Armathwaite dike, and on the north by the nearly parallel and more continuous Acklington...across the southern margin of the Cheviots into Scotland. Between these b o u n d a r y dikes lie several...several sets of shorter dikes all trending north of west. The distribution of the suite is shown in fig....showing the relation of the ~holeiite dikes of the north of England to the Mull swarm of dikes. [The Arran
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks. Faulting of rock masses was shown to be of great value to us industrially, as it had made available...classification of the Old Red Sandstone Rocks of Scotland. He pointed out that, about two years ago, a reversion... Mr. MAONAIR, Joint Hon. Sec., referred to the great discrepancy between the flora of the Orcadian and...described two selachian spines found in the West of Scotland, and both new to science, to which he had given...be given to the study of Geology in the West of Scotland, and thus materially advance the interests of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
n o t previously recorded from-the W e s t of Scotland. Mr. JAMES NEILSON, V.P., read some additional...entitled " N o t e s on some D r y River Channels in Ayrshire and Lanarkshire." The author said that since his...follows :— 1. On t h e S. side of Gogo Burn, Largs, Ayrshire, and about 1 5 0 feet above sea-level. This m...3 . B e t w e e n Carcow Burn, N e w Cumnock, Ayrshire, and Penclose House there is a deep dry gutter...Afton glacier. 4 . Near South Garphar, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, and N . of t h e farm steading, an old channel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Plateau Lavas in south Bute, Midland Valley of Scotland G . M . YO U N G ∗ & W. G . E . C A L DW E L L...end of the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. These rocks form part of the Clyde Plateau Volcanic...Members, and the upper Strathgryfe Member of the North Ayrshire section. Lavas of the lower division are feldspar-macrophyric...Carboniferous, volcanic stratigraphy, geochemistry, Scotland. 1. Introduction The rugged topography of south...structure that separates the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. The nature of this structure is still being debated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pseudomorphous after analcime, 245; adularia, analcime, calcite, natrolite, quartz, prehnite, stilbite, 5o9 and...Porthoustock, The Lizard, analcime, natrolite, prehnite, calcite, 5o9 and M49 Redruth, uranospathite, II7 St. Just...Land's End, garnet, calcite, 427 Traboe, The Lizard, analcime, natrolite, prehnite, calcite, 5o9 and M49 Wheal...pumpellyite, 8I Y Garn, Pembrokeshire, pumpellyite, 8~ SCOTLAND An Gearna, Ben More, Isle of Mull, corundophilite...of Rogie, Ross and Cromarty, djurleite, 172 Great Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde, tholeiite, 4~7 Halkirk, Caithness
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are similar to those of the Lower Group of North Ayrshire 3 and the Kilpatrick 4 and Campsie Hills.5...J. E. Richey and others in " The Geology of North Ayrshire " : Mem. Geol. Surv., 1930, 69. 4 G. W. Tyrrell...is of common occurrence throughout the West of Scotland and implies a close community of origin, a fact...Kip Valley (Sketch-map, p. 168) some two miles north-east of Inverkip. The two uppermost flows which...Glen immediately adjacent to the aqueduct. Further north the trap featuring has been obliterated and in its
Book
Namurian Clackmannan Group Passage Formati,,n Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member Troon Vc)lcanic Member basal...Measures Middle Coal Measures Lower Coal Measures Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member (! Clyde Plateau Volcanic...000 Geological Sheet 22W and part of Sheet 21E (Scotland) Hydrogenlog;y N S R()bins �u;neotts -rocks D...��u-n,ey, Sheet 22\V and pa1·t of Sheet 2 1 E (Scotland) i\11,thar S K l\.1onro, BSc, Pl1D, CGeol B,ritisli...British (;eologi,cal �S·11,n1ey Pri11ted in the UK for The Stationeryl Office J7421 2 C6 2/99 R B
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
roadside north-east of Dippin, near the twelfth milestone from Brodick. This dyke runs from north-west to...to south-east, and is intrusive into the great teschenite (or crinanite) sill of Dippin. I t is probably...referred to in the Geological Survey Memoir on North Arran, South Bute, and the Cumbraes (1903), p. 119...belongs to a distinctive group of the Tertiary north-west dykes, which appears to be abundantly distributed...glass. From their abundance in the island of Great Cumbrae, situated in the Fii'th of Clyde, it is proposed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Aberdeen, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland ‡School of Geology and Geophysics, University...extensively in the Dalradian rocks of Argyll, Scotland and adjacent areas. The veins represent brittle...northwest Arran, and are recorded east to Loch Lomond, north to the heads of Loch Fyne and Loch Long, west to...(Fig. 5c) testify to a replacive origin. On the north and east faces of an islet (National Grid Reference...trend. The 170° veins occur particularly in the north of the region. Where the two vein orientations occur
Book
Devon1a11 U PP�R D1•:VONIAN Stratheden Grot1p North of the G'lyde South of the Clyde Lar;l{s area ...-J oltr1�tone area N u111erous basalt dyke� of north-11ortl1 west lo nortl1-\.ve::,t trencl at c taker1...flanks the estuary of the River Clyde, and extends north to include part of Loch Lo­ mond and south to Largs...Sheet 30W and part of29E of the geological map of Scotland. The introductory chapter briefly describes the...000 geological sheet 30W and part of sheet 29E (Scotland) Palaeontology P J Brand DK Graham LONDON: HMSO
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Natural...British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION By I. B Cameron, BSc, and D. Stephenson...STATIONARY OFFICE 1985 1835 Geological Survey of Great Britain 150 Years of Service to the Nation 1985...continues to cany out the geological survey of Great Britain a:ncl Northern lrela:ncl (the latter as...the area around Distinkhorn and Tincorn Hill, Ayrshire 45 16 Palaeolatitudes for the British Isles during
Report (Issue volume)
INDUSTRIAL I GEOLOGlCAL SURVEY. OF GREAT BRITAIN: OOPY RESEARCH SCOTLAND • • • - \. .- Wartime Pamphlet...• r LIMESTONES OF SCOTLAND • • I • • AREA ·11 • WEST - CENTRAL SCOTLAND ' - • I \ - •...COUINTY BOUNDARIES vm I AREAS 127 ,:, OF SCOTLAND, MAP 130 129 128 V1II OF - 126 125 •...For the convenient description of its limestones Scotland has been divided into 8 areas, covered by blocks...Buteshire, all Renfrewshire, the greater part of Ayrshire, most of Lanarkshire, the southern part of Dumbartonshire
Book (volume)
"TOlVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited...Pyrites. DRAWN! eV DR HCDDLE THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...Stereograms of Gypsum, & and c Projections, Map of Scotland, Index to the one- inch Ordnance Survey . . ... Orthoclase. J . G. GOODCHILD. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND, VOL. II. OXYGEN II. SILICATES. ANHYDKOUS... bartonshire; Greenock and at Berry Glen, in Ayrshire. [Some have been placed by Dr Heddle with Albite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Laubmann and Steinmetz is probably strunzite, 3o9 Calcite, Cornwall, in paragenetic sequence, 5o9 and M49...of hydroxyapatite, dolomite, and rutile, 48I Great Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde, tholeiite, 417 Greenbushes...Mount Perry, Queensland, rutile, 255 Mull, Isle of Scotland, tholeiite, I Murrurundi, New South Wales, analcime...('penwithite'), z79 and M26 Nordite, zincian, Greenland, 31 North Pole deposit, Pilbara, W. Australia, baryte with...stratopeite ( = neotocite), 279 and M26 Palermo mine, North Groton, New Hampshire, xanthoxenite, 3o9 Palladium
Report (volume)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN SYNOPSIS OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF SCOTLAND H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE...(Raasay). Lim.e,.st;,n,e, Bui.lclinfJ-stone (Ayrshire, Durnfriessh ire, Arran, Moray.) . PERMOTRIASSIC.... 1.-Diagram to show Geotogicat Formations in Scotland, with the principal econom-ic minerals DEPARTMENT...MINERAL RESOURCES OF GREAT BRITAIN VOL. XXXIII SYNOPSIS OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF SCOTLAND By M. M 11.CC;REC;OR...distribution and uses of the various economic minerals of Scotland, together with references to the somewhat scattered
Report (issue)
Front cover: The view east-north-eastwards from the Storr in Trot­ ternish, north-eastern Skye. In the foreground...post-Carboniferous sedimentary basins 14 North Lewis and North Minch basins 14 Sea of the Hebrides-Little...basins 15 Loch lndaal Basin and Rachlin Trough 16 North Channel Basin and the Firth of Clyde region 16 3...Palaeozoic 18 Lewisian 18 Basement gneisses south of the Great Glen Fault 21 Torridonian 21 Moine 23 Dalradian...Devonian (Old Red Sandstone) 26 Firth of Lorne and the Great Glen fault zone 26 The Firth of Clyde to Northern
Book
GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN The aim of this book is to provide...comprehensive introduction to the geology of south-west Scotland. The wideness of the area covered enables the... GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN JUDITH A. LAWSON and JAMES D...LAWSON DA YID & CHARLES NEWTON ABBOT LONDON NORTH POMFRET ( VT) VANCOUVER MID LO Tl·-i IAN DISTRICT...Limited Set in 11 on 13pt Times Roman and printed in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Limited Trowbridge & Esher
Book
GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN The aim of this book is to provide...comprehensive introduction to the geology of south-west Scotland. The wideness of the area covered enables the... GEOLOGY EXPLAINED AROUND GLASGOW AND SOUTH WEST SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ARRAN JUDITH A. LAWSON and JAMES D...LAWSON DA YID & CHARLES NEWTON ABBOT LONDON NORTH POMFRET ( VT) VANCOUVER MID LO Tl·-i IAN DISTRICT...Limited Set in 11 on 13pt Times Roman and printed in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Limited Trowbridge & Esher
Journal (issue)
Grigg 81 Epistilbite from the Isle of Skye. Scotland D.l. Green and M. Wood 85 Zeolite occurrences...occurrences in basaltic dykes on the Western Isles of Scotland A. Dyer. O. Wilson, C.D. Williams and J. Smethurst...meetings. The Society speaks for Mineralogy in Great Britain, linking with British science in general...Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London SEI 8HN. UK. Tel. (0171) 865 0066. Discounts are available to...Examples of applications Quartz Fluorite Halite Calcite Baryte Garnet Pyroxene Gold mineralisation, sedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition of the Whin Sill and the related dikes of the north of .England) (With Plate X.) :By ARTHUR HOL~ES...fermations of the north of England, familiar to geologists throughout the world as the Great Whin Sill, has...intrusion. Teall's great paper closely followed on one devoted to some of the dikes of the north of England (3)...simultaneous intrusions. The post-Westphalian dikes of the north of England may be classified by their orientations...already referred to. The dikes run east and west or north of east, and many of them fall naturally into well-marked
Book
Geology and Scenery in Scotland J.B. Whittow The scenery of Scotland is, in its range and scale, as...variety lies a geology of enormous complexity and great age, which has been thrust, faulted and eroded over...Dr Whittow explains a complicated subject with great clarity, passing with ease from the hard facts of...Studies Editor: Peter Hall Geology and Scenery in Scotland After graduating in Geography at Reading University...1952, John Whittow studied landform evolution in North Wales, for which he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1957
 
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