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Amber from
Kent, England, UK


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:'Amber' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:Occasionally found along the sea coast (Hall, 1868).
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amber data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kent, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:790683
Long-form Identifier:1:3:790683:1
GUID (UUID V4):b9a5d5f4-b536-497e-bd93-35c915cc7c9a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Folkestone Warren, Kent Acanthoceras rhotomagense Lower Chalk Blue Bell Hill, Kent First of all—some...tell us a little bit about Amber. Amber Gary Woodall As you will all know amber is fossilised tree resin...some of the oldest amber beads dating to 9000bc have been found in Southern England. Occasionally insects...west. A dealer turned up who specialised in Baltic amber. He had masses of it and all for sale very cheaply...Some of the amber fossils I bought at the gem show Baltic amber can be found in England, mainly in East
Show/Event (guide)
Details 27 Lower Meadow, Harlow, Essex CM18 7RD, England. Tel: (0279) 415844 THE SHOW BY COLLECTORS, FOR...COLLECTORS. ORGANISED BY: EARTH SCIENCE PROMOTIONS UK Journal of Mines and Minerals / The Only National...Geological Maps, 121 Hayas Chase, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 OHY 01 776 0464 Ephemera, Portraits, etc. Other... Aloo o number of fine classico from CORNWALL,ENGLAND end SCOTLAND wlU be available. Specimens for the...CORNWALL. TR19 7SU. 121 HAYES CHASE,WEST WICKHAM, KENT. BR4 OHY. HILARY CORKE 0) JIM CRAIG I G.STRATTON
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Bembridge Marls), late Eocene, Isle of Wight, England L. M. E. M C COBB*, I. J. DUNCAN*, E. A. JARZEMBOWSKI†...Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK † Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Maidstone, Kent, UK, and Postgraduate Research...for Sedimentology, The University, Reading RG6 2AB, UK (Received 29 August 1997; accepted 5 March 1998)...with minimal disarticulation or compression. While amber is still the most renowned (Poinar, 1992; Grimaldi...Eocene; 36 Ma) on the Isle of Wight, southern England (Fig. 1). The Bembridge Marls Member of the Bouldnor
Journal (issue)
Clubs and Societies Market Place Rockhuntlng Sltea Amber Hunting in Poland by ' St. Zdanowicz Iceland's Minerals... 1 Amber is connected with a story from my early childhood,. My mo.thet had a beautiful amber necklace...craftsman in the eighteenth century. So I disliked amber, and never seriously thought about it. I have a...Rus­ sian and Mongolian stones, but not a piece of amber. WE My friends, who knew of my hobby, asked me...during the summer on the "Baltic coast collecting amber?' 'I'd much rather pick mushrooms,' was my usual
Journal (issue)
Obituary Geology of the Rockall Basin Amazing Amber Rockwatch Back Cover - Festival of Geology GAMag47...guides and organises field excursions both in the UK and abroad. 5 Festival of Geology Walks 6 July...Stafford 19 Geology of the Rockall Basin 20 Amazing Amber Useful Email contacts President: president@geologistsassociation...horse-shoe-crab from the Herefordshire Lagerstätte, UK, reconstructed using virtual techniques. Magazine...Lecture July 2013 Mapping rocks: digital mapping of UK Quaternary geology Leanne Hughes BGS Introduction
Journal (issue)
BN18 OJA Eileen Lim 11 Langdale Rise Maidstone Kent ME16 OEU Colin Brough 1, William Allen Lane Lindfield...OF THE EARTH - SOCIETY - MEMBERS' FINDS FROM THE UK. LOCAL SOCIETIES AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS. ADMISSION...first discovered by Mike Wood and mentioned in the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, number 14 page 35...doubt many members like me who thought Amber was A•ber was Amber but now we know better. Most· of' the...the specimens available to us are no doubt Baltic Amber (Upper Eocene. approx 40 million years old) mainly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3 Bromley Road, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 3ES, UK Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth...Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK c School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental...of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK b A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...Available online xxx Keywords: Lower Cretaceous England Wealden fossils vertebrates invertebrates plants...The non-marine Wealden succession of southern England contains a great variety of fossils, new finds of
Journal (issue)
the ability of the Government agencies (Natural England and its equivalents) to maintain the geological...be useful to have a representative from Natural England on Council. Dr Colin Prosser was duly invited to...Glen Affric (S); Special sheet Assynt (B). For England and Wales sheet 27 Durham (B); 71 Selby (B & S);...Wessex basin extends across southern England from Devon in the west to Kent in the east. The basin contains...throughout the day. We have exhibitors from all over the UK including local geological societies, geological
Catalog/List
called Stella Septarii, from the Iſle of Sheppy, Kent, 102 Do. do. 7 No: 103 Foliated, from 228 France...Furland in Jutland, Denmark. Common Pipe Clay, from England. Blue Clay, from Oxfordſhire. Blackiſh Clay, from...| Rediſh, - 286 Do. 290 Do. Browniſh, from England. 291 Do. Bluiſh, Scotland. 293 Do. Red, Scotland...Iſtof Angle- ſ 306 Red and White Jaſper, from England. 307 Do. 308 Do. ä - do. 0" 309 Red Jaſper...North Faro. 339 Do. called Stella Septarii, from Kent. 349 Amorphous Zeolite, from North Faro. 341 Do
Journal (issue)
GEMSTONE CLOCKS Agate etc. OF AMBER Beads, carvings, tumble, insects in amber, etc .. MINERAL SPECIMENS...best & most active mineral wholesale website 1n the UK R A D E 0 N L y CONTENTS Journey to Tafilalt...Page Principle behing the Refractometer Caught in Amber . . . . . . . . . . . Shows, Displays & Exhibitions...LA12 7EE 01229 584023 andy@agatehouse.co. uk www.agatehouse.co. uk We offer very competitive rates for advertisers...fax: 020 7430 1279 I school@holtandco.demon.co uk 7 Malachite When selecting bathroom tiles to go
Journal (issue)
left for GEMS' The British Lapidary Magazine AMBER HUNTING EXPEDITION TO POLAND Vol. 4 No. s Sept...Prehistoric Fish of Caithness by Peter Rodgers Polish Amber 'Klondike' by Stanislaw Zdanowicz page 31 page...5: Saltmine near Cracow; fly Gdansk Days 6/13: Amber hunting on Baltic coast, viewing collections, etc...put him in the affluent set! has been found in England. It is re­ ported from the higher part of Brandy...Gold has never been worked system­ atically in England, although minor amounts have been extracted by
Book
gold and gemstones, and to the meadows of middle England to look for buried historical treasure. You will...1980s, when over 50,000 people were involved in the UK alone. Today there are around 30,000 detectorists...below are some of the coins that were minted in the UK from the Anglo-Saxon period right up until decimalisation...denarius coin. The penny was first introduced to England in AD 785 by king Offa of Mercia, and it was eventually...coins were unearthed in a field in Appledore near Kent. Detectorists Bert Douch, Phil Collins and Laura
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article...demonstrated by GCR sites throughout southern England. ß 2011 The Geologists’ Association. Published...Percival Allen FRS Wealden Lower Cretaceous Southern England Percival Allen FRS (Perce; Fig. 1) first entered...non-marine Lower Cretaceous Wealden strata of southern England, stemming from his childhood in rural East Sussex...depositional model for the Wealden of the Weald district of Kent, Sussex and Surrey (Allen, 1975b), in which he overturned
Journal (issue)
Howie Vice-Presidents: E.M. Bruton, AE. Farn, D.G. Kent, RK. Mitchell Honorary Fellows: RA Howie, RT. Liddicoat...and repair to' and chatoyancy observed in five amber prayer beads that were submitted for examination...three items on pearls. Surface-enhanced amber urface-enhanced amber is a topic we have discussed on more...material that was removed gave a typical resinous 'amber' odour) the colour difference was more noticeable...between the surface and interior of colour-enhanced amber. © Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory
Journal (issue)
Geological Series No 17. ISBN 0 7200 0454 3, £25.00. Amber. The natural time capsule by Andrew Ross, i998....565 091311 X, £7.95. Quaternary of South-West England by S Campbell, C 0 Hunt, J D Scourse, D H Keen...Trisslc vert&at. Fossil evldence tom North-West England by Geoffrey Tresise with William A S Sarjeant....Gmundwater. ourhidden assetby R A Downing on behalf of the UK Groundwater F m m . Keyworth: British Geological...Simon Lamb and David Sington. New amber club A new organisation fw amber collectors, the International Club
Journal (issue)
Annual subscription '(six copies) £1 post free in the UK. Overseas $3.25 (US) or '£1.25 Our front cover: Reproduced...you are looking fo1· gemstones, particularly in England, your best bet is a seaside holiday. If it is general...Achnasheen, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Searching for amber on the Baltic Coast, descent of one of the fabulous...Ludgate HIii, London EC4M 7B0. In our next issue: Amber Hunting on the Baltic Coa st. LAKELAND ROCK SHOP...one of the more prolific areas in the north of England is Robin Hood's Bay. Here may be found agate, jasper
Journal (issue)
\Xhr-,1w M11amber. rlw second c:wr 10 be: found 111 13.1hic Jmbc.:r...1mll1on-year-old ams h.1ve bi:en found in rare Cretan:ous amber from Nc.:w Jt·r...(GEMROCK SOOP) 47a Benrick St, London. WI V JRA England Tel & fn; 0171 437 5184 14 • We are also Wholesale...iss11r. P/rnse keep 11p the good 111ork! M.Simmons - Kent 15 �\, 9 � l"E �-­ �-:-: ... � I -� 1-i...together and may separate if wetrt:d. Coral and amber - very soft and cau be scratched wnh a fiugernail
Journal (issue)
, FIMM, FGA *G. H.Jones, B.Sc, Ph.D., FGA D. G. Kent, FGA D. M. Larcher, FGA A. D. Morgan, FIBF, FGA... FlMM, FGA G. H. Jones, B.Sc, Ph.D., FGA D. G. Kent, FGA E Sadler, B.Sc, FGS, FGA K. Scarratt, FGA M...on the Royal Gold Cup of of France France and England. In In Annales Annales du 9gee Congrès Congres...4374 Fax: 01-726 4837 289 J. Gemm., 1989,21,5 Amber—fact and fantasy Raymond J. L. Walters, FGA Kingsbury...interesting and absorbing reading. Amber - fact and fantasy Pretty in amber to observe the forms Of hairs
Book (edition)
Brighton in the 19th century 3. Referred collections Amber Coleoptera 4. The Catalogue 5. References Cover...collections at the Booth were amongst the largest in UK provincial museums. That Morley was probably glad...the earliest examples of a computerised database in UK museums, developed by Smout himself and using the...France, Russia and Poland, as well, of course, the UK, and published papers individually or more often...the Geologists’ Association, 111, 247-252. Baltic Amber, Yantarny, Kaliningrad, Russia, 1993 BMB 019000
Journal (issue)
for plant fossils at Betteshanger Country Park, Kent, April 2019 Any views expressed in this Newsletter...Lower Tertiary outliers of North West Kent The MFMS at the Kent Show Ground—July 5-7 2019 Spring Report...on some Tertiary outliers in NW Kent. There is a report on the Kent Show. Finally a report on our Spring...Death Valley is 5260. (By the way the county of Kent is only 1440 square miles!) The Grand Canyon is...and Las Vegas have convenient direct flights to the UK. But Rocky Mountain National Park is usually omitted
Journal (issue)
Howie Vice-Presidents: E.M. Bruton, A.E. Farn, D.G. Kent, R.K. Mitchell Honorary Fellows: R.A. Howie, R...Chatham!USA JP Remeika/AT&T Bei i Labs!USA EAD White/England CC Chatham!USA ce Chatham!USA J Lechleitner/Austria...gahnite, various colours (NC) EAD White et al./England 1960 Spinel and gahnite, various colours (NC) JP...Elizabeth I J. Gemm., 1997, 25, 7, 453-516 of England. Illustrated examples are taken from various museums...Romanian amber with notes on chemistry, geology and occurrence, varieties and characteristics. Amber is found
Book (edition)
prior permission of the publisher. Printed in the UK for HMSO Dd 293699 10/93 C20 531/3 12521 Contents...Frontispiece: Geological Sketch Map of Southern England INTRODUCTION § : : ; , : SEQUENCE OF THE...Oligocene age are almost confined to south-eastern England (see map), their outcrops being situated mainly...strata always deserve attention. Further afield in Kent, the cliffs and beach near Herne _ Bay still yield...Reid & Chandler. Seed. (x 1.) London Clay, Sheppey, Kent. RANGE: London Clay. . Iodes corniculata Reid &
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK (e-mail: john.nudds@man.ac.uk) The present work...Lower Greensand, Cretaceous. Copt Point, Folkestone, Kent. Casey 1961, p. 96. Pseudorthoceras knoxense (McChesney)...Boring (depth 1107 ft), Stour Valley, nr Canterbury, Kent. Boyd Dawkins 1913a, p. 362. Boyd Dawkins 19136...Dominican amber pseudoscorpion (Arachnida; Pseudoscorpiones). Abstracts, World Congress on amber inclusions...(Chelicerata; Xiphosura) from the Westphalian B of England. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie
Journal (issue)
By Anna Malecka 752 Characterization of Mexican Amber from the Yi Kwan Tsang Collection V. L. Villani...Production Editor. 21 Ely Place London EC1N 6TD UK t: +44 (0)20 7404 3334 f: +44 (0)20 7404 8843 e:...company limited by guarantee and registered in England No. 1945780 Registered office: Palladium House...in 1870 and subsequent events, Wilhelm moved to England with his brother Louis, where he changed his name...J. and Davenport C., 1919. The Crown Jewels of England. Cassell and Company Ltd., London, 84 pp. Zimerman
Book (volume)
دیم‬ tockor THE OF * ** FOSSILS of Şir sem ENGLAND ; IN BA A CATALOGUE of the Engliſh Fossils in...towards a Na tural Hiſtory of the Foſſils of England. This noble and happy Country is extremely fertil...Mineral Delineations 14 Bitumens, Coal, Jet, 22 Amber ... 528 1046 528 IS74 So great a Variety as fifteen...VII. Bituminous Foſſils, Pitchſtone, Coal, Jet, Amber , P. 165 . VIII. Salts, Rock - Salt, Alum , Vitriol...40 . -Sea -Shells found on the higheſt Hills in England , * d. 40. Sea-Shells adhering to Belemnitz , *
 
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