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Dolomite from
Venn Quarry, Landkey, North Devon, Devon, England, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Venn Quarry, Landkey, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:744527
Long-form Identifier:1:3:744527:9
GUID (UUID V4):e7b90992-f816-4d51-9906-e7f6af35ee57
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
16.2km (10.0 miles) ā“˜Knap Down Mine, Combe Martin, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
18.6km (11.6 miles) ā“˜Portledge Mine (incl. Cockington Head), Alwington, Torridge, Devon, England, UK
20.7km (12.9 miles) ā“˜West Woody Bay, Woody Bay, Martinhoe, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
20.7km (12.9 miles) ā“˜Woody Bay, Martinhoe, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
22.5km (14.0 miles) ā“˜Wringcliff Bay, Lynton, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
26.6km (16.5 miles) ā“˜Countisbury Beach, Countisbury, Lynton, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
26.7km (16.6 miles) ā“˜Foreland Cliffs (incl. Foreland Point), Countisbury, Lynton, North Devon, Devon, England, UK
27.0km (16.8 miles) ā“˜Gallant Cliff, Clovelly, Torridge, Devon, England, UK
29.3km (18.2 miles) ā“˜Glenthorne Beach, Culbone, Oare, Somerset West and Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
36.3km (22.6 miles) ā“˜St Catherines Tor, Hartland Quay, Hartland, Torridge, Devon, England, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
DISTRIBUTION OF ROADSTONES IN GREAT BRITArN 4 England and Wales 4 Scotland 6 Channel Islands 9 ...under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...rocks of all kinds except marble Limestone group Dolomite Limestone Marble Porphyry group Aplite Dacite...Brick C Chert Cl1lorite or chloritic Chl Gabbro D Dolomite Dm Dt Dolerite rDt Rotten Dolerite F Felsite Flint
Book (edition)
DISTRIBUTION OF ROADSTONBS IN GREAT BRITAIN 5 England and Wales 5 Scotland 8 Channel Islands LIST...under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...rocks of all kinds except marble Limestone group Dolomite Limestone Marble Porphyry group Aplite Dacite...Lim cw Chlorite or chloritic M D Gabbro Md Dm Dolomite sMd p Dt Dolerite rDt Rotten Dolerite Q F Felsite
Book (edition)
distribution of roadstones by K. C. DUNHAM, D.Sc., S.D. (England and Wales) and A. G. MacGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland)..... I GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF R OADSTONES England and Wales (Fig. 1) 2 Scotland (Fig. 2) .. ...GROUP LIMESTONE GROUP Contact-altered rocks of Dolomite all kinds except marble Limestone Marble GRITSTONE...ROADSTONES ENGLAND AND WALES (Fig. 1) Roadstones quarried from the solid rock in England and Wales are...for this purpose. For this reason, south-eastern England, south-east of a line joining Lyme Regis and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RADIOLARIAN ROCKS ~n the Lowv.~ CVLm MmS~aES of DEvoN, COa~WALT., and W~sT SOM~aSET. By GEORGE JEN~INGS................. 615 (a) Barnstaple District, N. Devon. (t~) Dulverton, W. Somerset. (c) Ashbrittle, W...Holcombo Rogus, Canonsleigh, and Westlelgh, N.E. Devon. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. (e) Bosc~stle...District, Devon. (/~) Ramshorn Down, near Bovey Tracey, S.E. Devon'. (i) Chudleigh District, Devon: (k) Bishopsteignton...Bishopsteignton, near Teignmouth, S.E. Devon. Mode of Occurrence of the Radiolarian Rocks ..........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northern limb of the Venn Anticline was first studied. Quarries at Bilster Miihle, north of the Kornelimiinster...(Massenkalk) of the Frasnian stage were seen in a quarry near Schmidthof. On one bedding plane occur numerous...especially P . pentagona GoldĀ£. At the entrance of the quarry above the mas sive limestone, nodular limestone...reticularis L. and Orthis iwanowi Tschern . In a quarry south of Walheim Station a good secti on of the...shales of the uppermost Gedinnian were seen in a quarry near the bridge over the Lensbach between Mulartshutte
Book (edition)
0115-936 3200 e-mail : sales@bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac. uk Shop online at.: www.thebgs.co.u.k !Vlurchison House...Business Centre, Harrier \-Vay, Sowton, Exeter, Devon EX2 7Hll 'B' 01392-445271 Fax 01392-445371 Geological...Natural Environment Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 lEU 'B' 01793-411500...Assets in Easten1 England 3 Igneous & n1etamorphic rock resources and workings in the UK, 2005 4 Sandstone...resources and workings in the UK, 2005 5 Lin1estone resources and workings in the UK, 2005 6 Sand and gravel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ossiferous Cavern of Pleistocene Age at Hoe Grange Quarry, Longcliffe, near Brassington (Derbyshire)." By...During quarrying operations in Hoe Grange limestone quarry in April, 1902, the workmen broke into a cavern...the results being given in the present paper. The quarry is situated near the top of the plateau, at about...D.Sc, F.G.S. Six volumes, published by the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers...hypothesis, to suggest the conditions under which the dolomite may have been deposited in the different parts
Book
of Exeter, but also in the Asbclysc Forest and north of Credi ton. The Carboniferous rocks are overlain...confinnation of the presence of Permian rocks in Devon. Older ew Red Sandstone rocks contai_n lavas dated...of the British Geologi,cal Survey, Sheet 325 (England and \.Vales). Authors RA Edwards, BSc, PhO R C... BSc, PhD University of Arizonri Printed in the UK for the Stationery OCTice Ā·qo00849 C6 12/ 99 Olher...distrfrt.s BOOKS British Regional Geology South-west England, 4th ediLion 1975 iv[emoirs Okehampton (324), 1968
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at Ā£21 796...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...minerals. The value of minerals production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect their ultimate value
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ENVIRONMENTS IN THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF SOUTH DEVON, ENGLAND C. J. R. BRAITHWAITE Department of Geology...sedimentation of Middle Devonian carbonate rocks in south Devon is presented. It can be resolved into two groups...a linear belt of shallow water, perhaps to the north of a lowlying land mass. Sedimentary structures...INTRODUCTION The Devonian carbonates in south Devon range in age from Eifelian (Plymouth; TAYLOR, 1951)...a discontinuous belt which expands across south Devon from Plymouth in the west to Torquay and Brixham
Book (edition)
Welton Chalk at Melton Ross Quarry, Singleton Birch Ltd., near Brigg, North Lincolnshire. Ā© D Cameron ISBN...Natural Environment Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1EU ī€½ 01793ā€“411500...Figures 1 An extract from Huntā€™s 1858 listing of Quarry Returns 2 Current distribution of BRITPITS database...resources and workings in the UK in 2014 4 Limestone resources and workings in the UK in 2014 5 Sand and Gravel...resources and workings in the UK in 2014 6 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK in 2014 7 Coal resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Massiv yon Stavelot-Venn 1 und bildet sein sich 1) Das Massiv yon Stavelot=Venn bildet z u s a m m e... / .,7" Simrnera~h Siegen Ged/nne - Mit/el-Devon S/lur (Salm) Revin Eros Erupfir Abb. 2: ]3er...seiner Umgebung in drei grol3e streichende Zonen: 1. Devon des Siidflfigels (nur Unterdevon in klastischer...SCHMIDT 1952) jiingeres Ordovic und Gotland. 3. Devon und Karbon des Nordfltlgels (Unterdevon und Oberkarbon...verwischen. Die n S r d l i c h e Z o n e umfa~3t das Devon und Karbon des Nordfltigels des Vennsattels. Hier
Report (issue)
325. MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SUltVEY. ENGLAND A ND THE ,v ALES. GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND...his famous Report on the Geology of Corn,vall, Devon, a11d West Somerset, published in 1839. A re-survey...CONTENTS. .. - - - l Middle Culm Measures. (1) North of the Credit.on Valley (Morchard type). (2) South...ILLUSTRATIONb Ā· Section in Quarry, near Woodah, Doddiscombsleigh Cl1ert Quarry, south of Woodah, Doddiscombsleigh...Section from near Bradninch to Whimple Section north of Dolbury, near K.illerton - ,, 7. Road-cutting
Report (issue)
Institut der Technischen Hochschule Aachen Die Dolomite am Nordwest-Abfall des Hohen Venns im Raume Aachen...Nebengestein Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā· Die horizontbestƤndigen Dolomite Ā· Die Ć¼brigen Dolomite Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā· Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā· Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā· Kartierung und...Anhang: Tabellen, Tafeln und Abbildungen Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā· Dolomite im Arbeitsgebiet 5. 6. 7. 8. Seite 3 s....Hauptteil die Ć¼ber die Kartierung und Beschreibung der Dolomite und diejenigen Ć¼ber die Bewertung und Anwendung...petrographische Beschreibung der verschiedenen Dolomite wird unterstĆ¼tzt durch einige Mikrophotographien
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
............... 480 (1) :Eastern District. (2) North-Western District. (3) South-Western District. (4)...of us (:E. :E. L. D.) extended the work into the north-western part of the area in connexion with the Geological...coal-basin. They present several outcrops, ranging west-north-west on the whole, as they have shared in the powerful...the coast-line lying at no great distance to the north), and northwards and southwards ; and the bearing...therefore be distinguished, under the name of the North-Western District, from the southernmost, which lies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRATIGRAPHY. By Professor N. Tilmann II. 2 HOHES VENN AND NORTHERN EIFEL. By Professor Wf. Wunstorf...only seen in the northwesterly part of the Hohe Venn, where the Lower Devonian rests with marked discordance...on a larger scale. The Palseozoic block in the north emerges from below the transgression of the Upper...by faults of north and south direction which seem to be the prolongation towards the north of the great...different in composition. Towards the west, the north-westerly part of the Rhenish Schiefergebirge is
Book
A HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY CORNWALL AND DEVON TRUR : PRINTED BY HEARD AND SONS, BOSCAWEN STREET...STREET. HANDBOOK MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOE THEIR DISCRIMINATION, AND...SECRETARY TO THE MINERS' ASSOCIATION OF CORNWALL AND DEVON; SECRETARY TO THE KOYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY;...THIS HANDBOOK TO THE MINERALOGY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON IS DEDICATED, BY HIS SINCERE ADMIRER AND MOST... &c., DEVON PARAGENETIC .... PART II. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MINERALS IN CORNWALL AND DEVON PLATES
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGLAND AND WALES Geology of the Country around OKEHAMPTON...Beche. His 'Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset' (1839) was the first memoir...other early Geological Survey maps of south-west England, are undated, but it is believed that they were...'The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England'. The district formed part of the area in which...geophysical methods. In 1962 the newly formed South-West England field unit, successively under Dr. F. B. A. Welch
Book
Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman...PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin and copp...1\llaga::i11e, on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his...Meldonaplitequany.nr Okehampton, Devon (leucophanite)' Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon PottsGillmine,Caldbeck
Report (edition)
British Regional Geology I * South-West England r * FOURTH EDITION e ā–  - O ā€ ..y 1835 Geological...British Geological Survey Front cover: Bull Point, Devon (For full explanation see p. ix) NATURAL ENVIRONMENT...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologist, South-West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the conĀ­...in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carboniferous rocks...Isotopic age-determinations of rocks of south-west England ...... Facing 112 1. . . . List of Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thrusted above the Vennā€“Weserā€“Inde nappe towards the Northwest ŽFig. 1.. The Vennā€“Weserā€“Inde nappe comprises...comprises the two subnappes Vennā€“Nappe and Weserā€“Indeā€“ Nappe. Further to the NW, the Herveā€“Aachenā€“Imbrication-Zone...Herveā€“Aachenā€“Imbrication-Zone separates the Vennā€“Weserā€“Inde nappe from the Liegeā€“Wurm syncline. Structural Ā“ interpretation...the cleavage planes are overgrown by idiomorphic dolomite crystals, indicating postdeformational hydrothermal...deformation features such as kinking. Chlorite, dolomite, and biotite ŽaV16. occur as minor components
Report (edition)
SCIENCES British Regional Geology South-West England (TH [RD EDITION) By E. A. Edmonds, M.Sc. M. C...world war, interest in the geology of south-west England has further inten ified. Much valuable work ha...done, and in 1962 the newly l"ormcd outh-we t England field unit of the Geological Survey began ix-inch...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologi t. South-We t England, editor). Private workers whose publications have...countryside and natural history of south-west England. An EXHIBIT illustrating the geology and scenery
Report (edition)
British Geological Survey Front cover: Bull Point, Devon (For full explanation see p. ix) ā€¢ā€¢ ll On 1... G .. Bisson (District Geologist, South--West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the conĀ­...in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carbonifļæ½rous rocks...age-determinations of rocks of south-west . . . . . . . Facing England 1 112 List of Geological Survey Maps and Memoirs...18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Geotectonic map of the north Atlantic region with Greenland and nortl1-east Ca11ada
Book
14 21. Milverton 4. Building stones 18 22. North Curry 5. Soils and farming 25 23. Norton Fitzwarren...localities. Rarely will a polite request to visit an old quarry be refused. Every The Ordnance Surveyā€™s 1:50,000...sufficient to satisfy This does not include Gamlins Quarry The Likewise the British Geological Surveyā€™s...Great Britain. His geological surveys of Southwest England included west Somerset and are described in his...his Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and west Somerset (1839). We include a number of quotations
Book
* , - North Wales -- - Shropshire . - * South Staffordshire. Warwickshire North Staffordshire... - 156 to 158 * - ā€˜ā€™ā€™ - - 156 ā€¢ 157 - Dolomite, Carbonate of Magnesia, &c. - s ā€¢ , ... - ...District. Mines. Copper Ore. Tons. Cornwall and Devon Northern Counties Wales - Ireland - 190 - 10...scale in limestone are at Llandudno in North Wales and Ecton in North Staffordshire. They are commonly associated...intermingled with quartz. Devon and Courtnay Mines, near Tavistock, Devon. - 7. String of NATIVE. Copper:
 
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