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Calcite from
Camas Malag, Torrin, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Camas Malag, Torrin, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:436937
Long-form Identifier:1:3:436937:0
GUID (UUID V4):10637a4e-0b68-4348-8a2e-b93b9e974993
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Beinn an Dubhaich, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
5.6km (3.5 miles) Broadford Gabbro, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
7.4km (4.6 miles) Camasunary, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
8.9km (5.5 miles) Eas a Bradain, Luib, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
10.1km (6.3 miles) Marsco, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
10.1km (6.3 miles) Loch Coruisk, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
13.1km (8.1 miles) Glamaig, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
14.3km (8.9 miles) Sligachan quarry, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
22.6km (14.0 miles) Sgurr nam Boc, Glen Brittle, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
23.6km (14.7 miles) Allt Ease Mhor Chuil an Duin, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and .deformation of Tertiary minor sheet intrusions, west Suardal, Isle of Skye, Scotland R. Nicholson Depament...Depament of Geology, The University, Manchester M139Pl. England The muate Broadford antidine of soutk-cmtral...sequence of strata ranging in age kom late Precambrian to Jurassic. The ordavician carbonate r& of the core...core of the antidine uc strongty extended paraUel to bodding and deformation at m e localities readbes...arc post-kinematic. The effect of deformation on discordant sheets of the oldgt dass is obvious, as they
Report (issue)
rhombohedral individuals each ideally oriented k to one of the pseudocubic 3-fold axes. Physical Properties:...303 Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Broadford area, Isle of Skye, Scotland. 2.61 (vs), 5.22 (s), 2.13 (s)...0.07 14.99 100.46 100.00 (1) Camas Malag, Isle of Skye, Scotland. (2) Alban Hills, Italy; by electron...granite (Camas Malag, Scotland); in volcanic ejecta (Alban Hills, Italy). Association: Calcite, monticellite...phlogopite. Distribution: At Camas Malag, near Broadford, Isle of Skye, Scotland. On the Chersky Ridge, Tas-haiatah
Report (issue)
biotite, phlogopite, monticellite, wollastonite, calcite, spinel, magnetite, perovskite. Distribution: At...Ireland. At Broadford and Camas Malag, Isle of Skye, and Camas M¶or, Isle of Muck, Scotland. From the Bellerberg...Bellerberg volcano, two km north of Mayen, Eifel district, Germany. In the USA, at Franklin, Sussex Co...characteristic shape of the twinned crystals. References: (1) Dana, E.S. (1892) Dana's system of mineralogy,...(1947) Cuspidine from dolomite contact skarns, Broadford, Skye. Mineral. Mag., 28, 90{95. (3) Van Valkenberg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE AND J O U I ~ N A L OF T H E M I N E R A L O G I C A L SOCIETY No. 2 1 4...XXIX The zoned contact-skarns of the Broadford area, Skye: a study of boron-fluorine metasomatism in...TILLEY, Ph.D., F.R.S. Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge. [Read in p a r t J...] CONTENTS 1. Review of the progressive m e t a m o r p h i s m in the aureole of the Beinn an Dubhaich... . . . 632 4. Mineralogy of the skarn zones 634 1. 5. Paragenesis of the s ka rn zones 644 6.
Book (edition)
years, when he lived in Edinburgh under the shadow of Arthur’s Seat, an ancient volcano. After a good Scots...the University of Edinburgh, before undertaking research on the metamorphic rocks of the southwest Highlands...Highlands of Scotland. He then spent three years in the Middle East, teaching geology at universities...every summer to studying the rocks of the Highlands for a series of scientific papers, while teaching...structural geology and field-mapping at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He took early retirement in
Book (edition)
HIGHLAND GEOLOGY TRAIL The very best localities in the Highlands, described simply for the visitor,...the nature of the underlying geology. JOHN e INVERNESS ULLAPOOL e ASSYNT e FORT ISLE OF SKYE WRATH CAPE...OBAN WILLIAM HIGHLAND GEOLOGY TRAIL By JOHN L. ROBERTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Nae of tne Geological ReCONd...st'yaeWecntiy.OF LOCIIAISIS 66 “A EVENTS 1 Spe apne yal Soiace...4XR CODE Geologising like any in the outdoor OF CONDUCT field is not activity. The IN THE without
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MR. A. GEIKIE ON THE AGE OF T H E 7. On the Ass of the A_LTEREnLr~Es~ON~ of STRAZ~, SXrE. By ARCHIBALDGEIKIE...alteration of the Lias limestone of Skye into white marble by the intrusion of masses of eruptive rock...as one of the most interesting features of that attractive island. The first announcement of this metamorphism...read by him before this Society in the beginning of the year 1815. He there described the transition...semblance of stratification had been lost, and of which the general structure resembled that of the Assynt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cuspidine from dolomite contact slcarns, Broadford, Skye. By C. E. TILLEr, F.R.S. With chemical analyses...H. C. G. VXNCENT. Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge. [Read January 23,...described by Scacchi (1876) in the ejected blocks of metamorphosed limestone at Vesuvius, but a detailed...detailed and systematic morphological description of well-terminated crystals was given first by vom Rath...Cozzolino in Resina, Vesuvius. The monoclinic character of the spear-shaped crystals was then cstablished with
Report (edition)
Regional Geology The Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland FOURTH EDITION CH Emeleus BR Bell Contributor:...regional geology: the Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland (Fourth edition). (British Geological Survey...Printed in the UK b>f Hawthornes, Nottingham C/0 7105 Authors CH Emeleus Department of Earth Sciences...University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH I 3LE BR Bell Division of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Glasgow, Gregory Building, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G 12 BQQ Contributor D Stephenson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MARCH-APRIL, 1949 An Alkali Fades of Granite at Granite-Dolomite Contacts in Skye By C. E. TILLEY (PLATE I)... The development of an alkali pyroxene-bearing facies of granite at the contact of the Beinn an Dubhaich...Dubhaich granite of Skye with Durness dolomites is associated with a skarn formation involving magmatic transfer...transfer of alumina. The significance of the processes at work in this and related examples is discussed...discussed. T HE investigation of the skarns associated with the contact of the Durness dolomites and the
Book (chapter)
Province C. H. Emeleus Reader in Geology, University of Durham and M. C. Gyopari Senior Hydrogeologist,... References Agrell, S.O. (1965) Polythermal metamorphism of limestones at Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan. Mineralogical...structure and petrology of the Tertiary volcanic rocks of Eigg. Muck and Canna, N.W. Scotland. Unpublished M.Sc...University of Durham. Allwright, A.E. and Hudson, J.D. (1982) The Sgurr of Eigg. Journal of the Geological...Society of London, 139, p. 215 (abstract). Almond, D.C. ( 1960) The Tertiary igneous geology of Strathaird
Report (issue)
Occurrence: In manganese ores formed by metamorphism of manganese-bearing sediments with attendant metasomatism;...Association: grossular. Rhodonite, tephroite, calcite, glaucochroite, johannsenite, wollastonite, diopside...near Okehampton, Devon, England. At Camas Malag, Isle of Skye, Scotland. From B·ai»ta (R¶ezb¶anya), Romania...Prefecture, Japan. Name: In honor of General Anastasio Bustamente (1780{1853), of Mexico. References: (1) Larsen...Buerger (1962) Determination and re¯nement of the crystal structure of bustamite, CaMnSi2 O6 : Zeits. Krist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rocks from the Isle of Skye North-West Scotland by s. MOORBATH and j . D. BELL Department of Geology and...THE application of strontium isotope abundance variations to the problem of the origin of igneous rocks...earnest with the studies of Hurley and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Faure &...& Hurley (1963) measured the abundance of Sr87, conveniently expressed as the Sr8T/Sr86 ratio, in twenty-five...samples was found to be 0-7078 with limits of variations of +0-002 and —0-003, although this average value
Book (chapter)
Province C. H. Emeleus Reader in Geology, University of Durham and M. C. Gyopari Senior Hydrogeologist,... Chapter 2 The Isle of Skye Introduction INTRODUCTION Skye is one of the classic areas of Great Britain...Britain for the study of igneous geology. The sea cliffs and hills in the north of the island magnificently...succession of mainly basaltic lavas which overlie Mesozoic sediments intruded by a suite of dolerite sills...Basaltic dykes of the northwest-trending swarm cut all these rocks. The Cuillins and Red Hills of central Skye
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volume 80, pages39-45, 1995 Solid-stateMAS NMR study of pentamericaluminosilicategroups with 180" intertetrahedral...harkerite hrnn J. Drnxrx PhysicsLaboratory,university of Kent at canterbury,cT2 7NR Canterbury,Kent, u.K....Design, and Synthesis, HF-NMR Facility, University of Nijmegen' Toernooiveld, 6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands...H- J.l'Nsrx Department of Geochemistry, Institute of Earth Sciences,University of Utrecht, Budapestlaan4...becausetheir T-O-Si anglesare almost 180'. Chemical analysis of the zunyite sample shows that it has excessAl: the
AND B. BAGIŃSKI1 1 IGMiP Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089...4YQ, UK 3 U.S. Geological Survey, 956 National Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA 4 Camborne School of Mines...Mines, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn...Penryn TR10 9EZ, UK 2 [Received 17 March 2009; Accepted 27 August 2009] ABSTR ACT Electron microprobe...are presented of chevkinite-group minerals from Canada, USA, Guatemala, Norway, Scotland, Italy and India
Book
Barker Structured in the form of a dichotomous key, comparable to those widely used in botany, the mineral...in thin-section. This unique approach covers 150+ of the most commonly encountered rock-forming minerals...collection of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, it also provides a comprehensive atlas of rock-forming...introduction to mineral systems, and the properties of minerals in plane-polarised and cross-polarised light...the mineral key also includes line drawings, tables of mineral properties and an interference colour chart
Report (issue)
Economic minerals of Scotland – bedrock of Scotland's economic development. Information Management and...INTERNAL REPORT IR/04/001 Economic minerals of Scotland bedrock of Scotland's economic development. R.P. McIntosh...F. MacTaggart, T. Cullen, J. Rayner Key words Scotland, mineral resources Bibliographical reference R...Cullen, J. Rayner. 2004 Economic minerals of Scotland - bedrock of Scotland's economic development. Internal...Survey 2004 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The full range of Survey publications is available from the BGS Sales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and J. BARRIE RAYNOR 2 1 Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH (Great Britain)...types of dolomite in the complex metamorphic terrain of the Ballachullish area of NW Scotland. By measuring...measuring the ESR signals of Mn 2÷ from the two inequivalent sites in dolomite, the partition coefficient...highest grade of contact metamorphic skarn to supergene dolomites was found. The use of this partition...e o t h e r m o m e t r y of low-temperature dolomites and certain types of dolomitic marble can be extremely
Book
C J' -- .:t:.·: .. ;.• TITLES CLASSIC OF RELATED GEOLOGY INTEREST IN EUROPE SERIES l...Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George...Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf of Corinth Mike...Neill, Clive Portman, Peter Rowe OTHER TITLES OF RELATED I"t\TEREST Co,zfi·onting catastrophe: nell'perspecrh·es...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...PublishingLimited 2002 Text: © AlecLivingstone Nopart of t!risp11blicatio11 may be reproduced, storedin a...tirepublislrer. The right of AlecLivingstoneto be identifiedas the author of this bookhas been assertedby...Cataloguing in Publication Data A cataloguerecord of this book is availablefrom the British Library.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
当 多 量 に 産 出 し,各 ら,こ れ ら の 多 く の も の は,水 リ ー,ア of Magnesium‑Borate Contact 辺 ど の 硼 酸 塩 鉱 物 や,種 ...ト接 触 帯 に 於 い て,Mg硼 L.I. SJHABYNIN(1955)は Mg硼 英 国Skye島 の第 三 紀 花 崗岩 と ドロ マ 酸 塩 の 産 状 を 詳 細 に 研 究 し,ソ...FRoNDELのDANA's vol.IIに に ド ロマ のNa,K,Caの ど と 共 にOH基 of Mineralogy ッ ポ ウ 石 お よ びハ ン ベ ル 又 はハ ロ ゲ ン 基 を...帯 に あ た る 。 7)英 国Skye島(TILLEY,・1948,1951) a)Kilbride. b)Kilchrist. c)Camas Malag. 主 にKilbrideで 8)ソ...似 て 居 る の で,各 所 で 見 逃 さ れ てい る で あ ろ う。 2)West of Johnsburg,Warren County,New (ScHA:LLER and HILDEBRAND
Journal (issue)
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Report (issue)
ternish, north-eastern Skye. In the foreground is the Old Man of Storr, a stack of basalt lava tl1at l1as...escarpmemt of the Storr due to the instability of the underlying Jurassic Clays. Beyond is the Sound of Raasay...Raasay and the Lewisian gneiss of the island of Rona. On the far side of Rona lies the Inner Sound, beyond...mainland is dominated by the Torridon sandstone hills of Ben Alligin, Bet1 Eighe and Liathach. Beneath rhe...margi11 of the Sea of cl1e Hebrides-Little Minch Trough. Photo. D Evans. ' . ' The geology of the Malin-Hebrides
Book (volume)
00054083 NOT OUT TO OF BE THE ISSUED L BRARY. BOMBAY BRANCH OP THE S iROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY...2019 THE ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF GREAT BRITAIN THE ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF GREAT BRITAIN BY SIR ARCHIBALD...DIREOTOR-GENERAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ; CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE...FRANCE OF THE ACADEMIES OF BERLIN, VIENNA, MUNICH, TURIN, BELGIUM, STOCKHOLM, GOTTINGEN, NEW YORK J OF THE...THE IMPERIAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY. AND SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS ST. PETERSBURG ; NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
 
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