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Calcite from
Charmouth Beach, Charmouth, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Baryte7 photos of Calcite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Pyrite6 photos of Calcite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Charmouth Beach, Charmouth, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2706
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2706:9
GUID (UUID V4):97fc40ae-4449-4d94-942c-e521228450eb
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
1.6km (1.0 miles) Black Ven and The Spittles, Lyme Regis, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
3.6km (2.2 miles) Lyme Regis Beach, Lyme Regis, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
5.4km (3.3 miles) Pinhay Bay, Pinhay, Combpyne Rousdon, East Devon, Devon, England, UK
6.8km (4.2 miles) East Ebb Cove (incl. Thorncombe Beacon), Seatown, Chideock, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
7.8km (4.8 miles) Eype Beach, Eype, Symondsbury, West Dorset, Dorset, England, UK
11.6km (7.2 miles) Haven Cliff, Axmouth, East Devon, Devon, England, UK
21.0km (13.1 miles) Weston Mouth, Sidmouth, East Devon, Devon, England, UK
23.7km (14.8 miles) Salcombe Hill Cliff, Sidmouth, East Devon, Devon, England, UK
26.4km (16.4 miles) Ham Hill Country Park, Stoke sub Hamdon, South Somerset, Somerset, England, UK
26.5km (16.4 miles) Peak Hill, Sidmouth, East Devon, Devon, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
293 THE GEOLOGY OF THE CHARMOUTH CLIFFS, BEACH AND FORE-SHORE. By W. D. LANG, M.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S. CONTENTS...DEPOSITS. II I. THE CHAR VALLEY DEPOSITS I V. THE BEACH 35° 35 r 352 353 BIBLIOGRAPHYA LIST OF TITLES...picked up loose on the cli ff-slopes and on the beach. It is true that a large amount of time and labo...others. Thirdly , help ha s been received from the Charmouth and Lyme residents, who, during frequent visits...advi ce. T o the late Miss Harriot Templer, of Charmouth, I am ind ebted f or sketches that show" differences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which could be seen three miles away to the west-south-west across the mouth of the Char. After a search...(PI. 32, A). It was pointed out that, since to the west the Upper Greensand contains numerous thin beds...plateau country and coast beyond Lyme Regis to the west. Below, to the north, lay the Vale of Marshwood...Ammonit e Beds were also indic ated. On reaching the beach at St. Gabriel' s Mouth , th e party first exa mined...the Red Band (1 2 6) a t about 2 5 ft. from the beach . In following the cliff-foot eastwards, the lowest
Book
_DISCOVER DORSET FOSSILS RICHARD EDMONDS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with funding from...interest in fossils began at the age of eight on Charmouth Beach and led him to study geology at the University...Isle of Arran and, in 1986, as warden of the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre. During the next eleven...numbers of people onto the local beaches of West Dorset in search of fossils. In 1997 Richard took up...Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. Following page Monmouth Beach, west of Lyme Regis is an excellent place to discover
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Summer Field Meeting in South Devon and Dorset 20-27 August 1955 Directors: W. E. SMITH, D. V. AGER....bed termed 136 fIELD MEETING IN SOUTH DEVON AND DORSET 137 Division C of the Cenomanian Limestone by...basal part of the Middle Chalk exposed between Beer Beach and Beer Head. This is rather surprising since Division...the equivalent horizon in the cliffs around Beer Beach. In the large working quarries on the opposite (north)...can be seen in the new shelter overlooking Beer Beach. Sunday, 21 August (Director, D. J. Shearman) The
Book
included visits to the Natural History Museum, Charmouth, Shelford Sandpit, Malden quarry, Alton quarry...April: Field Trip to Charmouth – “The cliffs and beach at Charmouth in Dorset are a good hunting ground...on his caving experiences in various parts of England and illustrated it with a splendid set of colour...clusters of almost clear, perfect rhombohedral calcite crystals, orange dripstone, fossil wood, ammonites...the recovery of diamonds from ancient beach deposits in South West Africa, where vast quantities of sand
Journal (issue)
FIELDCRAFT TIPSStaying safe with good practice Dorset Coast To conserve and protect geological sites...Group’s activities include Newsletter for members of West Midlands OUGS Staffs Geotrails Rock & Fossil Festival...org.uk/rockand fossil Printed and published by West Midlands branch of the Open |University Geological...non-calcareous geology with the Arden of the north and west largely representing the latter. Look at the distributions...go amiss. The Open University Geological Society West Midlands Branch General Safety Advice Site Safety
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
18 feet of Shales-with-Beef, on the west side of Charmouth beach. They are paper-shales, with numerous...not been laid upon it in previous accounts of the Dorset succession. Also, a collection made by the late...hence the difficulty of naming the badly-preserved Dorset specimens here dealt with. Another crushed form...the common museum-specimens of Arnioceras, from Dorset to Yorkshire, is due to differences in their dates...kridion (renamed 2t. hartmanni by Oppel), like the Dorset form here described, shows not a bipartite, but
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The Red Lady 99 paey 106 110 56 (| Southwest England 112 5? 60 CY 68 113 116 120 Wz Mary Anning...Carboniferous Swamp AURA elle 71 Southeast England 74 ~—sThe Chalk 4: Me (A Pra 126 a4 130 ar Baryonyx...‘Claws’ pT) oT St 88 + Aa 96 re Amber LA TCL The West Runton Elephant aa eLoes 140 eal 144 148 152 How...parts of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage site in Dorset and east Devon. This is where many important first...terrestrial aragonite form, rather than the more stable calcite soils. Even if the shells have been broken by
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Conserving our most ‘fragile’ fossil sites in England: Ea MR RONDO aca ccs Se the use of OLD25....err Gon ons aT 45 8. Fossil collecting on the West Dorset Coast: a new voluntary Code of Conduct. [BYR...the coverage of these ‘fragile’ fossil sites in England and describes the rationale behind their management...make up the British Isles, perched on the north-west corner of Europe has, for its size, some of the...peculiar to itself. Smith’s Geological Map of England and Wales of 1815, and his book of 1817 entitled
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around Bridport...Shales-with-Beef .. • • • • Sketch-map of Charmouth Beach showing outcrops of the .. Shales-with-Beef...section of the coastal area between Seatown and .. West Bay .. . .. .. .. .. .. Comparative sections in...after Jackson) Sketch-map of the geology around West Bay • • •• • • Sketch-map of the geology between...Sketch-map of the geology around Burton Bradstock between West Bay and Burton Cliff End .. .. .. .. Sketch of the
Catalog/List
1600 hours each day at 7, Condor Way, Burgess Hill, West Sussex Tel: 01444 233958 (Pre-view on Saturday March...Arsenopyrite Sphalerite& Hydrozincite Sphalerite, Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena & Dolomite Chalcopyrite on... £1 A3 A3 £1 £3 A3 A3 A3 A3 £1 £1 £1 £1.50 West Caradon Cornwall Wheal Jane, Cornwall Greystones...Gun Heath Carthew Cornwall Ladywash, Derbyshire Calcite on Sphalerite Fallqate Qy, Derbyshire Sphalerite...Sohalerite Stibnite Pvrite on slate Millerite Pvrite on Calcite Millerite on siderite Realqar Pvrite Pvrite Sohalerite
Journal (issue)
as a drug clerk and chemist for a drug company in West Medford from the late 1880s to the 1900s. He also... Send for price list to W. S. Beekman, Box 108, West Medford, Mass. William S. Beekman’s collection...Robert Seeber, 1879–1957] of native copper, silver, calcite with copper inclusions, datolite, analcite and... my earliest specimens were mostly just rocks, beach agates and chunks of quartz, but they still fascinated...main focus is on fluorite, calcite and quartz. I collect fluorite and calcite because of the variety of
 
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