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Grossular from
Wasdale Head, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


Locality type:Headland
Classification
Species:Grossular
Formula:Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Grossular data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wasdale Head, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:16290
Long-form Identifier:1:3:16290:2
GUID (UUID V4):bff74526-ae27-481e-bf97-3c3444df4246
Nearest other occurrences of Grossular
34.4km (21.4 miles) Cowgreen Mine, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK
References
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Braithwaite (MNS 4491) Back cover-'Daisy' gypsum, Birks Head Mine, Long Marton (MNS 4487) (top left) Mimetite...west Cumbrian coal and iron ore fields, the Vale of Eden and the Carlisle plain (Figure I). It is defined...batholith , of which the granites of Eskdale, Ennerdale, Shap and Skiddaw form part. Sediments of Lower Carboniferous...ore bodies of west and south Cumbria and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden. A detailed review of metallogenesis...extensive hematite deposits of west and south Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carrock Fell (e.g. Hollingworth, 1937), and in the Shap Granite aureole (e.g. Harker and Marr, 1893). The...Walker, 1904; Green, 1915), known also as the Sty Head Garnetiferous Group (Marr, 1916). These rocks outcrop..."streaky" texture, characteristic of much of the Sty Head Garnetiferous Group (though he notes the presence...presumably related to the intrusion of the Eskdale-Wasdale Head granite, cuts hornfelsed andesite in Gable Beck...the garnets in the proximity of the Eskdale-Wasdale Head granite is suggested, for example, in a contactaltered
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...for obscure references, and for support from my head of department and secretary. In all cases, help...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious...Emb'eton quany,nrCockermouth. Cumbria; Gra:nsgill. Ca'.dbeck Fells,Cumbria (kentrolite) HigherPittsmine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
John's Mocrogranite ; Ca : Carrock Fell Complex; SH : Shap Granite ; UA : Ullswater Anticline; SS: Seafell...visited the Carrock Fell Complex, Skiddaw Granite and Shap Granite occupy classical positions in geological...metamorphism produced in the Skiddaw Slates. The Shap Granite is equally well known, with the most recent...(Excursion 1a) The Shap Area Director: R. J. FIRMAN The party assembled in the Wasdale Granite Quarries...Quarries to examine the classic exposures of the Shap Granite. The Director commented that very little research
Book
N_Jf'ORTEY Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 38 (England and Wales) (;C)NTRIBlJTIN(; ,\UTf1C)RS S'tratigraphy...GeoloUK fo1· Tl1e Statio11e1-yOffice J:J000848 C6 3/00 ...\i11blcside<>f. the 1:50 000 scale geological map of~ England and v\lales, available as separate solid and solid...Devoke \Vater Ivle111ber Birkbv Fell Ivlcmber 76 Dale Head .\fe111ber 76 Cocklev, Beck T11ff 77 , Concealed...mineralisation 187 Chalcopyrite-pyrite-arsenopyrite 187 Wasdale and Eskdale 190 Ulpl1a area 191 Coniston and Levers
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pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...District, the north Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such...bibliography concludes the work. Minerals of Northern England will rate as one of the classic works on British...R. F.Symes and B. Young MINERALS OF NORTHERN ENGLAND v Aboutthe Authors vi Dr R.F.(Bob)Symes,OBE
 
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