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Albite from
Scotland, UK


Locality type:Country
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pumpellyite Subgroup1 photo of Albite associated with Pumpellyite Subgroup at this locality.
Prehnite1 photo of Albite associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Tin1 photo of Albite associated with Tin at this locality.
Almandine1 photo of Albite associated with Almandine at this locality.
Phlogopite1 photo of Albite associated with Phlogopite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Albite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Diopside1 photo of Albite associated with Diopside at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:684601
Long-form Identifier:1:3:684601:5
GUID (UUID V4):5123a75d-599a-454c-addb-6791713c2ed9
Localities for Albite in this Region
Peatfold, Glenbuchat, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
An Gearna, Ben More, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Beinn Fhada, Ben More, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Maol nan Damh, Ben More, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Carsaig Bay, Carsaig, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Gribun dike, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Fidra, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Boyleston Quarry, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
Foyers occurrrence, Aird and Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland, UK
Glen Cannich occurrences, Aird and Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland, UK
Moniack Burn, South Clunes, Aird and Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland, UK
Coire an Lochain, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
Marble quarries, Kilchrist, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Bruach Nam Bo, Luib, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Meall a'Mhaoil, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Rudha Stac granite, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Glamaig, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Marsco, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Sligachan quarry, Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Raasay, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Ósgaig Sill, Raasay, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Loch Hourn Complex, Highland, Scotland, UK
Loch Borralan Complex, Assynt, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
Allt a'Mhuillin Quarry, Loch Borralan Complex, Assynt, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
Loch Ailsh Complex, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
Beinn Laoghal, Loch Loyal Complex, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
Benn Stumanadh occurrence, Loch Loyal Complex, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Clauchlands Point, Lamlash, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Chiapaval, Harris, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Loch a' Sgurr, Finsbay, Harris, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Loch Vallarip pegmatite, Harris, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Sletteval quarry, Harris, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Rockall Island, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Apex Ridge, Rockall Island, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Killiecrankie Pass, Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
Ailsa Craig, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Knockormal Hill, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Gargunnock Screes, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Tomnadashan mine, Killin, Stirling, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyroxenite and surrounding ophiolite, southern Scotland, UK: Diapiric exhumation of a Caledonian serpentinite... The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK Received 25 July 2007; accepted 29 January 2008 Available...Abstract The Ballantrae ophiolite in southern Scotland includes a NEE–SWW-trending serpentinite mélange...diapiric exhumation in the Caledonian orogen of SW Scotland. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords:...background Fig. 1 shows a simplified geological map of Scotland and Ireland and a cross-section based on the NEC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3UE, UK Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, GlasgowG75 0QF, UK a r t...July 2020 Keywords: Graphite Carbon Cumulates Scotland a b s t r a c t Graphite in Ordovician ultramafic...Neoproterozoic country rocks in West Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland attests to the mobility of carbon into subduction-related...2010). The next most graphitic deposit is in NE Scotland, where graphite-bearing Ordovician intrusions...Geological setting The Grampian Highlands terrane of NE Scotland consists of three main units: Proterozoic basement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK 2 Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, National...Staurolite-kyanite schists from the Dalradian of Scotland and Ireland show two types o f retrograde alteration...arkosic source. In contrast, if growth of retrograde albite is actually accompanied by Na-metasomatism then...in text Sample Grid ref. Stonehaven Coast, Scotland St 2I/A NO 893892 Introduction M a n y studies...staurolite schists from the Dalradian Sugergroup of Scotland and Ireland, and attempt to show how the resulting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1525-1314.2004.00539.x Microstructural features of albite porphyroblasts as indicators of sequential Barrovian...Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK ABSTRACT Inclusion – porphyroblast and porphyroblast...porphyroblast relationships show that abundant albite in mica schists in the Caledonides of the SW Scottish...almandine. Two sets of inclusion trails in the albite correspond to the regionally expressed S1 and S2...during the major grain coarsening that followed both albite and almandine porphyroblast growth. Essentially
Book
Edition Andrew J. Barker University of Southampton, UK HANDBOOK OF Clinical Applications EDITED BY George...informa business © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK Typeset by diacriTech Limited, Chennai, India Printed...section / Andrew J. Barker, University of Southampton, UK.   pages cm Includes bibliographical references and...(1999), which are widely used by botanists in the UK. It involves a stepped sequence defining characteristic...Muscovite Hornblende Actinolite Lawsonite Plagioclase (albite) K-feldspar Pyrite Dolomite Mineral cleavage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ross-shire, Scotland J. Parnell School ’ of Geosciences, Queen’s Unioersiry ojBe&sr, Beljast B77 INN, UK Received...Moinian (Proterozoic) gneisses in Easter Ross-shire, Scotland, exhibit pronounced alteration where they have...include bitumen, authigenic quartz, orthoclase, albite, monazite and titanium oxides, attesting to redistribution...gneiss. Evidence for bitumen being coeval with albite/quartz, and an association of high porosity with...Moinian gneiss in Easter Ross-shire, northern Scotland. The Moinian represents an assemblage of middle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolerite dyke complex in the Ballantrae ophiolite, Scotland G. J. H. OLIVER* & R. R. M C ALPINE† Crustal Geodynamics...St Andrews University, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9ST, UK (Received 13 November 1997; accepted 2...Ordovician Ballantrae Complex of Ayrshire, southwest Scotland. Asymmetric chilled margins, parallel to sub-parallel...Complex is situated on the southwest coast of Scotland (Fig. 1) and crops out over approximately 75 km2...Kirkhill Industrial Estate, Dyce, Aberdeen, Scotland AB21 OGN, UK Ballantrae Complex is unconformably overlain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the classical Barrovian metamorphic zones in Scotland M. ZENK AND B. SCHULZ* Institut für Geologie...metamorphism, geothermobarometry, Barrovian, Dalradian, Scotland. Introduction IN the mainly psammopelitic successions...successions of the Dalradian Supergroup of Scotland, basic rocks occur as volcanic and volcanoclastic intercalations...syndeformative (D1 or pre-D2) assemblage is actinolite + albite (An0 10) + chlorite + epidote + quartz + sphene...The pre-D2 metamorphic assemblage is actinolite + albite (An0 10) + chlorite + epidote + quartz : sphene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
identified from intrusions such as the Rum Intrusion (Scotland) INTRODUCTION and the Bushveld Igneous Complex...[anorthite (An), CaAl2 Si2O8 ] to the pure Na limit [albite Liquid 1500 (Ab), NaAlSi3O8 ] and all points in...Earth Sciences University of Durham Durham DH1 3LE, UK 3 College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences...Percent 100 An Isobaric phase diagram for the albite–anorthite (Ab– An) plagioclase feldspar system...closed system of crystals that become zoned toward albite by fractional crystallization. The amount of zoning
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Cambro-Ordovician Skarns on Isle of Skye, Scotland Brian Jackson Location Skye is the largest of...Hebridean islands. Its location in the north-west of Scotland is both remote and isolated. The coastline is...below for minerals found at this locality. Albite 'Albite-Anorthite Series' Allanite-(Ce) Anatase Andradite...the Palaeocene Hebridean Volcanic Province of NW Scotland. It is exposed over much of northern Skye and...and related minerals. The National Museums of Scotland have been amongst those collecting extensively
Catalog/List
£24. 4. BARITE. Trcpach Head, Portlmockie, Scotland. Tabular barite xls up to 8mm showing a nice colour...- sawn base. 60x30x201131. £40. 7. BERYL AND ALBITE. Mungo, Baltistan, Pakistan. Nice undamaged very...CHRYSOCOLLA. Blairelogie Mine, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Joint plane in veinstone showing lovely blue/green...intergrown with whitish quartz roughly in the shape of the UK without Ireland. 90x70x30mm. max. £14. 18. NATIVE...£22. 25. GREENOCKITE, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Cavities in trap rock lined with greenish prehnite
Report (chapter)
Durham (e-mail: r.e. holdsworth@durham, ac. uk) DH1 3LE, UK 2Crustal Dynamics Group, School of Geography... University of St Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9ST, UK 3School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University...of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK Abstract: The Moine Thrust Zone and overlying Moine...form the N W margin of the Caledonian orogen in Scotland (Fig. 1). Its most northerly exposed part, around...2003). Silurian orogenic activity in Northern Scotland is attributed to the 'Scandian' collision of Laurentia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distribution across the Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland P. Stone, N. Breward, R. J Merriman and J. A....Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, UK; N. Breward, R. J Merriman and J. A. Plant are at...Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK. © 2004 IoM Communications Ltd. Published by Maney...on Environmental Geochemistry, held in Edinburgh, UK on 7–11 September 2003; accepted 16 September 2003...Cryptic geology, Trace elements, Southern Uplands of Scotland lithostratigraphy, coupled with an assessment
Journal (issue)
5673331 124 hours, 7 days a week) ог fax 0870 6060447. UK& REPUBLICOF IRELAND - (Payment in £ Sterling) Subscriptions...gemstones. Simply order by telephone orwrite to the UK address above. Please state which tray you require...stratigraphy and the Pre-Cambrian geology of northern Scotland. Graphic granite, Löllingite, Nosean, Tellurium...The variety that contains most sodium is known as albite; the calcium-rich end member is anorthite. Between...oligoclase, the last of which lies closest t o the albite (calcium-rich) end. DISTINGUISHING FEATURE \i'hat
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)... 48 58 Amazonite from Ben Loyal, Sutherland, Scotland Roy E. Starkey and Chris Finch 59 76 The Smale...British occurrence. There are now two dozen in Scotland alone and probably more than a hundred in the...green amazonite from Ben Loyal in the far north of Scotland, which rivals the best collected in the nineteenth... 10 History, 11(1), 153 158. Colman, T. (2019). UK mineral exploration during the past 60 years. British
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stream sediments from a former lead mining area in Scotland S. Hillier a,*, K. Suzuki b, J. Cotter-Howells...Aberdeen, Scotland AB15 8QH, UK b Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Aberdeen, Scotland AB24...AB24 3UU, UK Received 30 July 1999; accepted 1 June 2000 Editorial handling by R. Fuge Abstract Most current...sediment samples from Leadhills/Wanlockhead, SW Scotland, an historic Pb mining area. Comparison of the...the villages of Leadhills and Wanlockhead, SW Scotland (Fig. 1). Leadhills is located in the Lowther
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK. School of Geography and Geosciences, University...Andrews, Irvine Building, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, UK 3 Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological...1. Map showing the five structural terranes in Scotland and xenolith-megacryst localities. LR, Loch Roag:...Ness: CYD, Coalyard Hill. concentration is in Scotland (Upton et al., 1983). The majority are of late...the five principal tectonic terranes composing Scotland namely, the Southern Uplands terrane (at Earnscleugh
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblages from the Dalradian at Fraserburgh, northeast Scotland and their bearing on the emplacement of garnetiferous...1GB, UK Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK ABSTR...EY WORDS : wollastonite, Dalradian, granitoid, Scotland. Introduction THE occurrence of wollastonite...(XAn = 0.24+0.01). Alkali feldspars are orthoclase–albite mixes dominated by the orthoclase component (XOr...are rich in the albite component. A weak, normal zonation from oligoclase cores to albite rims is characteristic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK YAN-HE L1 Institute of Mineral Deposits, Beijing...micas are characterized by high Ba levels in banded albite-carbonate rocks that host the deposits. The biotite...associated hydrothermal sediments (siliceous and albite-rich rocks, iron carbonate and baryte rocks). The...Yindongzi deposit. Scapolite-biotite rocks and albite rocks are abundant in the Tongmugou deposit, but...brecciated ores also exist. The breccias include albite, scapolite, and wallrock fragments within a sphalerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microfabrics in the Southern Uplands thrust terrane, Scotland R . 1. M E R R I M A N , ' B . ROBERTS,' D. R...Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK (email: k-rjm@ua.mkw.ac.uk) Birkbeck College, University...University of London, Malet Street, London WClE 7HX, UK University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, M I 48 109- 1063...Lower Palaeozoic strata of the Southern Uplands of Scotland where they comprise an imbricate thrust terrane...amounts of kaolinite, mixed-layer illite/smectite, albite, quartz and hematite. Illite shows broad, generally
Journal (issue)
LA9 6AD Tel:(01539) 724988 Fax: (01539) 734761 UK journal of mtnes & minerals CONTENTS number...show, p. I 0. Photo David Green. 3-----------The UK Joumal of Mines and Minerals publishes articles of...Tel (01909) 476906 46 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -1- EDITORIAL...of a mineral. MineralogicalMagazi11e59, 767-768. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -Z- "" (' ...recent addition to the Manchester Museum Collection. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 16 -3- MINERAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 2 Isotope Geosciences Unit, Scottish Universities...and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 0QF, UK A Lower Ordovician age for the Oughterard Granite...granites, such as the 470 Ma Aberdeen Granite in NE Scotland, the Oughterard Granite is thought to have been...of the Dalradian outcrop in Connemara and in NE Scotland in the early Ordovician. Members of the Oughterard...Geology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK CCC 0072±1050/97/030247±17$17.50 # 1997 John Wiley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGNETIZATION (CRM): AN EXAMPLE FROM THE ISLE OF SKYE, SCOTLAND W . C R AW F O R D E L L IO T T 1 , * , A N KA...magmatism. Key Words ÐIllite, Isle of Skye, K-Ar, Scotland, Paleomagnetism. Abstract INTRODUCTION Determining...Mesozoic sedimentary rocks in the Isle of Skye, Scotland (Woods et al ., 2002). In southern Skye, diagenetic...trend from northwestern Scotland and the north of Ireland into southern Scotland, northern England, Wales...quantify the percentage of the 2 M1 polytypes. Albite was observed in the two coarser clay fractions
Journal (issue)
UK j I o mi minerals TS C nlm~ 2 EDITORIAL COVER: Vanadinite from the LeadhillsWanlockheadminingdistrict... 5 PEGMATITE MINERALS FROM CI-IYWOON QUARRY The UK Joumal efMines a11dMinerals publishes articles of...Worbop, Nott~. S80 2EE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 26 -1- EDITORIAL...these mark the event out as one of the best in the UK This year the society instigated a mineral competition...This locality will be further described in the next UK]MM. Ian Jones' case was judged the best by Alan Hart
 
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