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Gypsum from
Aust Cliff, Aust, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK


Locality type:Cliff
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Aust Cliff, Aust, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:139390
Long-form Identifier:1:3:139390:3
GUID (UUID V4):0b9e27dc-b31f-4218-9dff-40a8856bde91
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
16.5km (10.3 miles) Yate Quarry, Yate, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
16.8km (10.5 miles) Chipping Sodbury Quarry (Hampstead Farm Quarry), Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England, UK
35.5km (22.1 miles) Banwell Hill, Banwell, North Somerset, England, UK
41.8km (26.0 miles) Penarth beach, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
44.2km (27.5 miles) A350 road cutting, Semington, Wiltshire, England, UK
45.9km (28.5 miles) Wainlode Cliff, Bishops Norton, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK
49.9km (31.0 miles) Jackson's Bay, Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
50.5km (31.4 miles) Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
59.0km (36.7 miles) Lilstock Beach, Shurton, Stogursey, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
61.7km (38.3 miles) Kilve Beach, Kilve, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhaetian Bone Bed (latest Triassic) at Aust Cliff, S.W. England Samuel R.R. Crossa , Nikola Ivanovskia...Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK 146 Church Hill Road, Sutton, Surrey SM3 8NF, UK Earth Sciences Department...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...C T The famous Aust Cliff section, on the east bank of the River Severn, S.W. England, includes one of...widely reported, but the microvertebrates from the Aust Cliff Rhaetian basal bone bed have been barely noted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK 146 Church Hill Road, Cheam, Sutton, Surrey, SM3 8NF, UK Thinksee3D, 10 Swan Street...Street, Eynsham, OX29 4HU, UK d The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK e School of Biological and...Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK b c A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article...Isles, found at Aust Cliff on the south bank of the Severn Estuary near Bristol in SW England. This locality...tetrapod tracks of Rhaetian age preserved, at least at Aust, and further searching will hopefully lead to the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rhaetian bone beds of Manor Farm Quarry, near Aust (Bristol, UK) Harry Allard a, Simon C. Carpenter b, Christopher...of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK 25 Innox Hill, Frome, Somerset BA11 2LW, UK c 146 Church Hill Road, Sutton...8NF, UK d Earth Science Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK b A...the entire Rhaetian section typical of southwest England. It has yielded a standard Rhaetian marine fauna...Triassic-Jurassic boundary exposed at Aust Cliff, near Bristol, SW England (Fig. 1), is one of the most evocative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology of the Aust-Beachley District 365 Geology of the Aust-Beachley District, Gloucestershire By W. F...and many of the faults in the Keuper Marls of the Aust-Beachley District are claimed to be compaction phenomena...Railway Tunnel, the Sharpness Railway Bridge, and the Aust-Beachley Ferry. 1 The ferry plies where the river...to travel between South Wales and the southern and south-western counties of England. A road-crossing...convenient position, namely between Beachley and Aust, is claimed by many to be a national need. The first
Book
Q. Bowen 3. Caledonian Structures in Britain South of the Midland Valley Edited by J.E. Treagus 4...Emeleus and M.C. Gyopari 5. Igneous Rocks of South-West England PA. Floyd, C.S. Exley and M.T. Styles 6...Quaternary of the Thames 8. Marine Permian of England Edited by J.E. Gordon and D.G. Sutherland D.R...Edited by KJ. Gregory 14. Quaternary of South-West England S. Campbell, C.O. Hunt, J.D. Scourse, D.H...Palmer and N.H. Woodcock 20. Precambrian Rocks of England and Wales J.N. Carney, J.M. Horak, T.C. Pharaoh
Book
Starting with a general account of the geology of Gloucestershire and the reasons for its special attractions...often the loveliest-sites in the area. Wainlode Cliff, Bredon Hill, Leckhampton Hill, Oeeve Hill and Birdlip...COTSWOLDS IN TH E SAME SERIES Geolo9y Ex plained in South and East Devon and Geolo9y Ex plained: Dartmoor...Valley by W illiam Dreghorn Geology Ex plained in South W ales by T. R. Owen Geology Ex plained in North...Explained in the Lake District Geology Explained in South Shropshire GEOLOGY EXPLAINED IN THE SEVERN VALE
Report (edition)
PRODUCTS : Iron ; Lead ; Zinc ; Barytes ; Celestine ; Gypsum XI . XII . XIII . 35 RHÆTIC 40 LIAS 45 INFERIOR...Tortworth 2 3 15 15 4. Section from north to south across the Silurian Inlier of Tortworth 5. The...vertical sections of the Rhætic Series in Gloucestershire 43 and Somerset 44 16. Comparative vertical...vertical sections of the Lower and Middle Lias in Gloucestershire and Somerset 47 50 17. Sections across the...Point, Watchet : Gypsum veins in folded and 24 - faulted Keuper Marls 34 B. Aust Cliff : General view
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
probably as a talus or outwash fan at the foot of a cliff of Carboniferous Limestone which formed part of...The party then travelled by coach via Avonmouth to Aust (566898). From Avonmouth the road follows the Bristol...Channel and is mainly on the twenty-foot terrace. Aust Cliff was approached from the southern end by the road...trending anticline cut by the Severn estuary forming a cliff about one hundred feet high. The face is subject...accessible at the southern and northern ends of the cliff, but for the most part it is necessary to rely on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southeast Devon coast northwards into Somerset and South Wales and thence northeastwards to Nottinghamshire...still awaited (e.g. Hallam, 1990). In Somerset and South Wales the Langport Member also includes overlying...'White Lias' outcrops chiefly in southern England and South Wales but extends in a narrow belt in a northwesterly...northwesterly direction to Wigston, south of Leicester (Hains & Horton, 1969). In the Midlands it has...demonstrated at representative localities from south to north. Minor shale beds are omitted. Modified
Book
COUNCIL Items should be returned to any Gloucestershire County Library on.or before the date stamped...College, Cheltenham, now the University of Gloucestershire, he published Geology Explained in the Severn...Antiquities of Kyrenia and Antiquities of Nicosia. Gloucestershire County Council 992620105 9 Askews 18-Dec-2007...INTRODUCTION 1 1 6 THE JURASSIC SYSTEM OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE Clays, sands and limestones » the Lower Lias...Lias clay « age ofthe Ichthyosaurus 2 WAINLODE CLIFF 12 The Red Cliffs at Wainlode « the Tea Green
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AvICVLA C0NTO~TA, a n d the LoweR LIns o f the SOUTH OF E.n6nX.nD. By TIIOMAS WIuG~% M.D., F . R . S...Section at Waiulodc Cliff. Section at Coombe IIill. Section at Bushlcy. Section at Aust Cliff. Section at Penarth...Penarth Cliff. Section at Uphill. Section at Watcher. Section at I~ecr-Crocomb. w The Lower Lias. 1....Street, &c. Sect ion s in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire,and Warwickshire, at Brockeridge, Strensham...zone. 5. The Zone of Am~wni&,s oa:~~otus ; in Gloucestershire, Dorsetshire, and Yorkshire. Fossils of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sedimentology, The University, Reading, RG6 2AB, UK (Received October 21, 1991; revised version accepted...Sedimentology, The University, Reading, RG6 2AB, UK. as preserved in the rock record. High tidal mudfiats...wide, but those in the middle (Awre to Aust) and outer (Aust to Cardiff) parts of the system are extensive...of the fields here has caused the formation of gypsum locally in the soils. H/// The extensive Romano-British...Romano-British reclamation lying between Berkeley and Aust (Alien and Fulford, 1988) in the middle Estuary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
horizon as the main Bone Bed of Aust and Garden Cliffs in Gloucestershire.* From the foreshore section the...the Members walked past the gypsum workings, where that mineral is being dug for use in the manufacture...direction-across the Channel-the Glamorgan coast; westwards, south-westwards and in a southerly direction the rolling...cultivated moorland of Exmoor ; while beyond, in the south-west, was the dark outline of the higher ground...slopes of North Hill and Braggist HilI, west and south of Minehead. He attributed them to frost action
Report (edition)
Lead ; Zinc ; Manganese ; Barytes ; Celestine ; Gypsum ; Brick, tile and pottery clays ; Water supply...sections of the Urwer Carboniferous of Somerset Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire .. somerset, 7. ShOW:ng...41 Section of railway cutting south of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire .. 59 ^“Ces^"ionth.e UPP“...Radstock, Somerset. VII. Aust Cliff 29 .61 VIII. Stinchcombe Hill, Gloucestershire. A view of the Cotswold...near Limpley Stoke X. .. .. 76 .. 77 The south face of the Mendips seen across the alluvial flats
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CHAPTER XV. THE NEOZOIC ROCKS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND SOMERSET. Bv L. RICHARDSON, F .R.S.E ., F .L.S...is unrepresented, as far as can be seen, in Gloucestershire, but is present in many of the Somerset sections...inclined Carboniferous Limestone, is seen in a cliff section between Portishead and Clevedon. § The accumulation... Wainlode.] Garden,' Beachley or Sedbury/'* and Aust Cliffs,tt Milton Lane, near Wells,tt the railway-cutting...ramifying veins of gypsum-some of a beautiful pink colour-traverse portions of the cliffs of Aust and West Somerset;
Report (issue)
formation of ·· · the Rocks of South Wales and South Western England'. The primary 6-in. survey of the...Petrographer. Geological Survey Office, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, S.W.7. 25th July, 1960. W....PLEISTOCENE AND RECENT 27 • • • • • • 140 • 143 Gypsum, 142. .. .. 138 • • • • • • • • • 1.54... 67 S.E. 68 N.W. 68 N.E. 68 s.w. 68 S.E. GLOUCESTERSHIRE Hope Mansel .. Mitcheldean • • Englisl1 Bicknor...Severn • • Rockhampton • • • • Mathern Beachley-Aust • • Sudbrook-English Stones • ♦ • • • • • •
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extracted from a single cave in the Gower peninsula of South Wales, a vast quantity of the antlers of a reindeer...Avicula contorta bed, and Lower Lias in the South of England." Joseph Prestwich.—" On some new Facts in...in relation to the Section of tie Cliff at Mundsley, Norfolk." Dr. Gcinitz.—" On Snow Crystals observed...Features of the Voloanio Island of St. Paul, in the South Indian Ocean, Illustrated by a Model in Relief of...Thame, with Oxford about the centre (sheets 13, 45 south-west, 45 north-west}. This district had been surveyed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Valley. On the south it may be regarded as including the Mendip Hills and on the south-east as bounded...whole area and threw the rocks into the great north-south and east-west folds which still form the dominant...less elongated periclines ranged en echelon from south-east to north-west. The core of each uplift is worn...conseq uen t st rea m to Malmesb ury : then it turns south wards and ta kes a subsequent cours e nearly parallel...he outs ide by t wo t ribu taries of th e Gloucestershire Frome , and from the inside by a t ributary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK 146 Church Hill Road, Sutton,Surrey SM3 8NF, UK Earth Sciences Department...Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK d Department of Natural Sciences, National Museums...Ireland, Cultra, Holywood, Northern Ireland BT18 0 EU, UK b c A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...Triassic Rhaetian stage is perhaps best known in south-west Britain for the bone beds of the Westbury Formation...the Penarth Group, which outcrops throughout SW England, and is especially well exposed in the Severn estuary
Report (issue)
21, OF THE (ONE INCH) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP OF ENGLAND. • BY HORACE B. WOODWARD, F.G.S., ;. .. ....Geology, Mineralogy, and Palreontology of Gloucestershire and • Somersetshire, containing references...classification of the Triassic rocks ... in the S.W. of England) .. .Penarth beds (Rhretic) .. List of British...Congresbury-Yeo,.and the ·North Marsh · ... .. 1 54 South or Brent Marsh and the Valley of the Brue .. 1 5...some Eruptive Rocks from Somersetshire and Gloucestershire. By F. RUTLEY • A.l'PENDIX IL-List of Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
worked out, and drawn especial attention to, this south-easterly thinning-out of the Triassic and overlying...perhaps of all the richly fossiliferous tracts of England, our friend Mr. C. Moore is finding a multitude...Survey has decided to give to these strata in England and Wales a distinct colour on his map and a definite...of Reindeer and Man to fill the caverns of the South of France,—these and many more questions of equal...archaeological and partly geological, both in England and France, have been held to prove the contemporaneity
Journal (volume)
Strangways, M.G.S. Remarks on the Geology of the South Coast of England, from Bridport Harbour, Dorset, to Babbacombe...p. 73 On a Fresh-water Formation in Hordwell Cliff, Hampshire; and on the subjacent Beds, from Hordwell...by a Succes sion of Valleys which intersect the South Coast of Dorset and Devon. By the Rev. William Buckland... - - . p. 168 By Samuel - p. 168 9. On the Gypsum of Monte Seano. By M. Scipio Breislak, &c. &c....p. 176 XV. Observations on the South-western Coal District of England. By the Rev. W. Buckland, B.D.
Catalog/List
scenery of Scotland, and a similar collection for England and Wales was started in 1904. Two catalogues of...to that year 800 photographs had been taken in England and Wales and nearly 2 000 in Scotland. By 1926...Rhodes, Jr., D. Thomas and J. M. Pulsford, in England ; Messrs. Robert Lunn, David Tait, W. Manson and...Geological Survey and Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, S.W.7. J7th January 1963. JU...113 Peat Barytes .. .' Page 115 •• 115 Gypsum Metalliferous Mining: Tin Wolfram .. Ironstone:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
159 E XC U RS ION TO AVO N GORGE AND AUST CLIFF. F RIDAY, MAY 31ST. Unde r the Di rection of P rof....Sandston e uplands of Monmouthshire and South Wales. In the valley south of Observator y Hill lie the Coal...th e Jurassic outlier of Dundry Hill. F urthe r south rises the hroad summit of th e anticlinal arch of...Limestone Shales Feet. 400 1,000 650 320 AUST CLIFF. (RepOl'f by H. H. WINWOOD.) The members having...Mills Station, and at 12.45 began their drive to Aust Cliff. Leaving the now ruined tidal dock, during the
Report (chapter)
University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, UK Present address: Centre for Social and Economic Research...University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK (e-maiDs. crooks @uea. ac. uk) Abstract: The stratigraphic sequence...such areas are the coastal plain of southeast England, covering the estuaries of Essex and north Kent...overconsolidated horizons in the southwest of England has led some to question their validity and further...practice on landclaimed marshland in southeast England and the Severn has been dominantly towards grazing
 
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