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| mudrocks from the London Clay Formation of southern England Physical Hazards Programme Intensity (counts)...mudrocks from the London Clay Formation of southern England S J Kemp and D Wagner mineralogy, London Clay...Āµm X-ray diffraction traces, sample Brambledown, Kent. Bibliographical reference KEMP, S.J. AND WAGNER...mudrocks from the London Clay Formation of southern England. British Geological Survey Internal Report, IR/06/060...to help explain the geotechnical behaviour of the UK London Clay Formation. This project follows similar |
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| FOSSILS FIELD TRIP TO SHEPPEY ā with focus on selenite SMLS BBQ ā 8th August 2021 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY...between the main part of the city and Pittsburgh Point, at that time a peninsula jutting into Lake Havasu...under the bridge and flooded, separating Pittsburgh Point from the city, creating an island. After reconstruction...in-situ. The surprising thing was the highest fixing point was not near the top of the quarry face but many...until 1989 that this species from Merrivale, the sole UK occurrence (to date), was first described in the |
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| Roger Kemplen 1 Orchard Cottages Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME90EX 01444 483041 0208 6541298 01743 850616...are angular. Martin commented that the cut-off point between the two is, of course, ill-defined. A common...IDENTIFICATION Peter Moore gave an excellent Power Point presentation on basic mineral identification at...Don Ford had put together a pack of aluminite, selenite gypsum and a polished flint for everyone. Then...crumbly so we wandered carefully across to the selenite gypsum exposure. -~ - - - -~_/_;Ā·::;~:-t):--_~'= |
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| 9LZ MarkOddy Bryanstone Langton Road Speldhurst KENT CR95BX Elvire Mortimer Pen-y-Bryn Ford Near Shrewsbury...Saturday February 21 st 2009 We rendez-vous'd at Warden on the Isle of Sheppey at noon as the tide receded... but the main group walked up to and beyond Warden Point. Although Sheppey beach has been fairly barren...the beach with a significant concentration at Warden Point. Quite a few of the very desirable hemispherical...from the sides of the internal cracks (Fig. 1), selenite gypsum was found in the clay and a fair number |
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| at Warden car park 025717 at 10 a.m. We shall park here, walk along the beach beyond Warden Point and...drive about two/three miles before turning off to Warden. The road finishes in a car park which is our rendez-vous...ā¢ā y nbledownā.p' 3ā¢ ,Punāfletts'Sgs W / ā Point 4 ā ā . T^ "" ā ^orwĀ°Ā°d\./. y / Shurlond ....of nodules; pyrite (sometimes iridescent) and selenite (clear) gypsum in the clay. It is also famous...starting at Hensbrook which is on the far side of Warden Point, so we may see him on the beach. Fruits and |
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| Road Speldhurst KENT TN30NP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sidcup KENT DA14 SEL Trevor...the wide range of different mineral species in the UK. Introduction By way of introduction we were reminded...Time: Geological resources are finite and at some point in time the mine or quarry will close. Politics:...apply to geological environments, especially in the UK. Well, world wide there are new geological exposures...collecting opportunities in the UK are more limited than this and Mike noted that the UK currently has few new |
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| pyritized fruits, which are so plentiful at Warden Point, in the Isle of Sheppey, has always been pointed...with flint pebbles, sharks' teeth, and fibrous selenite. Below this are in places lenticular masses of...WHITAKER, W.-"On the Lower London Tertiaries of Kent." Quart. Yourn. Geo!. Soc. vol. xxii. 1872. - - |
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| North Kent CoastāUpnor near Strood 23 North Kent CoastāIsle of Sheppcy: Warden Point 25 North Kent CoastāHemo...CoastāHemo Bay 26 North Kent CoastāPegwell Bay 29 Swanscombc 32 EDITED BY S. W. HESTER Revised edition...Head. Overlying the Lower Tertiary beds of cast Kent there arc extensive spreads of brickearth, in part...40 landenian: WOOLWICH AND READING BEDS In cast Kent glauconitic yellowish fossiliferous sands, which...Fine-grained pale-coloured sands, fossiliferous in cast Kent. At the base, resting on the Chalk, is a layer of |
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| SUSSEX MINERAL & LAPIDARY SOCIETY www.smls.org .uk ***-***'lrl<-lrl<******7rl<'lrl<'lrl<**'lrl<**kl...9LZ MarkOddy Bryanstone Langton Road Speldhurst KENT CR95BX Elvira Mortimer Pen-y-Bryn Ford Near Shrewsbury...and Gill Burgess also Jonathan Abbs arrived from Kent, Peter Nancarrow from Surrey, and Trevor Devon brought...the Cretacous, coming from the chalk at Splash Point Beach, Seaford in East Sussex. The specimen was... The specimens entered all came from sites in England and Scotland and were nearly all collected on Society |
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| te d from a local paper : T H E LAND SLIP AT WARDEN POINT.- T h e following letter on th e above s ubjec...from near Mil o T own, eas t of Sh eerness, to Warden Poin t (from whence eastward the land r ap idly...ellness p oint at th e eas tern en tra nce of tho Swale), is composed of London clay, of undul atin g form...the septaria, to be presently described ; with selenite, wood fossilized or perforated by the teredo who...that this specimen was obtained at a cottage near Warden, as well as a portion of the jaw, with teeth, and |
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| Antigorite, its visible on the edges and looks like selenite 3x2.5 Pentreath Beach Lizard Cornwall Ā£8 94 VOLKOVSKITE...across showing the internal structure. Warden Point, Sheppey, Kent, with collectors label. It Has some weak |
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| BN18 OJA Eileen Lim 11 Langdale Rise Maidstone Kent ME16 OEU Colin Brough 1, William Allen Lane Lindfield...Mineral Show continues to grow in importance as a major UK event which has brought publicity, money and increased...On a beautiful summer's day 18 people arrived at Warden to scour the beach for fossils and minerals. The...incomplete. The two most interesting mineral finds at Warden Point were: a superb baryte rose on calcite found...trips we discovered that the journey from Warden to Warden point was an easy li miles walk, but a 2Ā½ miles |
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| UNDFIELD NORTON NORTON West Sussex CROYDON Kent Kent CR95BX ME90EX ME90EX RH162SA 0181 6541298...the author. -3- SMLS Journal 162 Nov/Dec 1999 UK VISIT OF THE MILLAU GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 16th-23rd...know the UK. However, the rest of the group knew little English and many had never been to England before...of the visit was twofold. Firstly, to visit some UK collecting sites, and obtain some specimens of British...that Her Majesty has never been to the beach at Warden Point). Accommodation was in Croydon, in a hotel |
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| 'promptly filled, and driven off in the direction of Warden Point, at the extreme east end of Sheppey. The lower...the procession of well-filled vehicles arrived at Warden Court, where, through the kindness of C. Payne...remains, together with coprolites and crystals of selenite, exhibited by Messrs. Boughey, Hall, and Atkins...and have a thi cknes s of about 25 feet. At thi s point the party left the shore, and entering a pretty |
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| Road Speldhurst KENT TN3 0NP John Burgess TheOld School 168 North Cray Road Sidcup KENT DA14 5EL Trevor...early 19th Century as the first University in England outside of Oxford and Cambridge, and now a truly...laboratory area, the only one of its kind in the UK, where the apparatus includes devices to study mechanisms...information. For example the carboniferous rock from the UK can be easily distinguished from carboniferous rocks...Tingley- spent a beautiful sunny day collecting on Warden Point beach on the Isle of Sheppey on Saturday 241h |
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| Road Speldhurst KENT TN3 ONP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sid cup KENT DA14 5EL Trevor...morning, to catch our train to Vienna. It was at this point that someone mentioned our interesting trip round...modem winery ear1ier in the day. Ah! This touched a point of honour. What did the French (the modem winery...great colour and pattern. Terry also entered three UK cabochons of which the orbicular jasper, in particular...awarded the "Best in Show''. The judges also made a point of commenting that they had double-checked to confirm |
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| 420 Copeland, Dr. ... 477 138, 140, 5116 Copt Point Coral-bed, Gault 144 Coralline Oolite 92,328,357.... 127 Earth's axis, obliquity of 11,15, 16 East Kent Gravels 257 PAGE. 256 Ebsfleet ... 485 Ecca-beds...to 491 Graphite in Greenland 466 Gravels of East Kent 257 286, 290 .. of Somme Valley Gr ays bods ......Poikilitie rocks, section of... 79 " series... 52 Point Wilkie 473 Polar expeditions... 460 Political importance...Sard 445 Sardonyx ... Saxons' landing place in England 256 Scarborough ... 334, 355, Ā·363 " Castle Hill |
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| 1980. 90/141 Pyrite with calcite. Warden Point, Isle of Sheppy, Kent. Bright pyrite crystals to 3mm sprinkled...specimen; collected 1982. Fluorite, chalcopyrite, selenite, baryte and calcite. Clayton Adit, Ecton, Staffordshire...a calcitic matrix. 88/103 Calcite and quartz. Selenite Chamber, Wapping M ine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire...crystalline matrix. 94/ 1 06 Calcite and quartz. Selenite Chamber, Wapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire...ine matrix. Selenite. Wapping M ine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Greyish botryoidal selenite covering surface |
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| Road Speldhurst KENT .. TN30NP John Burgess The Old School 168 North Cray Road Sid cup KENT DA14 SEL Trevor...take a photograph of the helicopter and I had to point out that he was appearing on television. Finally...evidence of consultation nor, apparently, has Natural England been consulted over access to the SSSI. I have...As the main magma mass cools and higher melting point rock-forming minerals start to crystallize out,...spent a lovely sunny spring day coll_ecting on Warden Point beach on the Isle of Sheppey on Sunday 18 March |
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| 9LZ MarkOddy Bryanstone Langton Road Speldhurst KENT CR95BX Elvire Mortimer Pen-y-Bryn Ford Near Shrewsbury...excellent and beautifully illustrated article in the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals (UKJMM) on Wave/lite:...class 10. Classes 10 and 11 can include minerals from UK or overseas. - 14 - SMLS Journal 216 Nov/Dec 2008...within the British Isles, which are defined as England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel...two pages on MINDAT's website: ā¢ Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, Kent which has been one of the most popular |
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| Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME9 OEX Roger Kemplen 1 Orchard Cottages Norton Lane NORTON Kent ME90EX 01444 483041...weather had been wet for two months, and the beach at Warden was a quagmire. In 2003, our visit followed one...only took 20 minutes to reach the section below Warden Point where the best nodules are usually found. However...the lower slopes had been rewarded with finds of selenite, although this, too, had required some digging...excellent refreshments and the best one-day-show in the UK. Admission is Ā£1.50 for adults, 50p for children |
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| also produced by the US, India and Pakistan. In the UK it is mined at Aberfeldy (Perthshire) and as a biproduct...class 10. Classes 10 and 11 can include minerals from UK or overseas. 2. Specimens in classes 2, 2A, 3,...the British Isles, defined for these purposes as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Channel...13-15), John Pearce with minerals from the South of England, Nick Hawes with a selection of his British minerals...cabinet contained Minerals from the South East of England collected from sites a few hoursā drive from Haywards |
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| the rocks to that obtaining in the south-east of England, a difference, however, being that the anticlinal...Bay to Headon Hill; and at Fresh water Church. Warden Cliff, &c. Headon Hill, Alum Bay. ~~ ~ t>i \'...alter it. There was a curious error on the latter point in a note to Mr. Starkie Gardner's Report on the...Wight. They are not known to occur elsewhere in England ; the Middle and Lower Headons, however, extend...neglected by geologists ; but, since it shows some point s of interest, the Director urged the memb ers, |
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| Baryte and other minerals from the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. 5 Paul K. Monk. Metal mines of the British Isles...OF SHEPPEY, KENT Paul K. Monk I ntrod uction The north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, has long been...occurring are calcite, pyrite, gypsum (variety selenite), and unidentified iron oxides. The area is also...dedicated collectors in the field. Location Warden Point (I\latn. Grid Ref. TR 0272) is on the north...generally low lying island off the north coast of Kent. Access to the cliffs and beach can be difficult |
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| never found any fossils in any of the beds. I may point out what seems an evident fact, namely, that these...the full force of the impetus is delivered at one point of contact, which is seldom the case when a flat...awake the inhabitants. The party soon reached Warden Point, where another exten sive landslip, near the...cliffs rapidly decrease in height towards Shellness Point, where they terminate. Th e members, after descending...landslip from its base, and securing crystals of selenite, or " Quarry Glass," as this mineral is locally |
Warden Point, Warden, Swale, Kent, England, UK