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Tobermorite from
Loch Eynort, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Loch
Classification
Species:Tobermorite
Formula:Ca4Si6O17(H2O)2 · (Ca · 3H2O)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tobermorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Loch Eynort, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:960393
Long-form Identifier:1:3:960393:6
GUID (UUID V4):f89e0ada-b08d-4fa3-b66e-c464c8609eb6
Nearest other occurrences of Tobermorite
5.6km (3.5 miles) Drynock, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
19.4km (12.0 miles) Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
20.1km (12.5 miles) Staffin Road, Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
72.4km (45.0 miles) Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
960 A re-examination of tobermorite. By G. F. CLARI~G~VLL, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.G.S. and M. H. HEY, M.A...., D.Sc. D e p a r t m e n t of Mineralogy, British Museum. [Read June 12, 1952.] O B E R M O R I T E...E , a h y d r a t e d silicate of calcium, was described b y M. F. Heddle in 18801 from three Scottish...Tobermory in the island of Mull, and the third a quarry near the pier a t Dunvegan in Skye. F u r t h e r localities...Boc, Loch E y n o r t in Skye,: and Ardtornish Bay in Morven (Morvern), Argyllshire.3 Because of marked
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE JOURNAL Vol. 32 OF THE MINERALOGICAL June 1961 SOCIETY No. 253 Tacharanite...other hydrated calcium silicates from Portree, Isle of Skye. By JESSIE M. SWEET,M.B.E., B.Sc., with analyses...r a y determinations by D. L. WILmAMS. Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History). [Read...vesicles of an olivine-doleritethat occurs as a small outcrop near Portree in the Isle of Skye contain...include tobermorite, xonotlite, gyrolite, and what is presumed to be a new member of the tobermorite group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pumpellyite, 8~ SCOTLAND An Gearna, Ben More, Isle of Mull, corundophilite, 171 Falls of Rogie, Ross and...Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde, tholeiite, 4~7 Halkirk, Caithness, aegirine, 439 Imachar, Isle of Arran, tholeiite...tholeiite, I4I Isle of Mull, tholeiite, I Rhum, peridotite, allivalite, chromite, diopside, olivine, plagioclase...plagioclase, 347 57o TOPOGRAPHICAL Syke, tobermorite, 229 Tyndrum, Perthshire, cadmian tetrahedrite,...freibergite, 28o Inverness-shire Loch Eynort and Portree, Skye, tobermorite, 229 Rockall, bazirite, elpidite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambro-Ordovician Skarns on Isle of Skye, Scotland Brian Jackson Location Skye is the largest of the Inner Hebridean...Hebridean islands. Its location in the north-west of Scotland is both remote and isolated. The coastline is...is hilly and much land lies above 150 metres. Most of its hills are below 450 metres, but the Black Cuillins...high and rugged with the peak of Sgurr Alasdair reaching 993 metres. Skye is about 80km from north to south...from the sea. This dramatic coastline surrounds some of the most exceptional and varied scenery to be found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Note on some new localities f o r Gyrolite and Tobermorite. By JAMES CURaZ~, M.A., F.R.S.E. [Read November...Anderson from Storr in Skye in 1851, it has been recorded from a considerable number of other places in that...observed it at the mouth of the burn called Allt Mbr, between Loch Brittle and Loch Eynort, and has now to record...the mouth of Loch Bracadale, which brings the number of localities at present known in Skye up to fourteen...eastern escarpment, and at the more isolated localities of Lyndale and Portree. Similarly, it occurs in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Thermal behaviour of tobermorite from N’Chwaning II mine (Kalahari Manganese Field, Republic of South Africa)...Italy Abstract: The minerals belonging to the tobermorite group differ essentially by their basal spacing...behaviour of tobermorite 11 Å from N’Chwaning II mine (Kalahari Manganese Field, Republic of South Africa)...shrink at 300  C, is accurately studied by means of thermo-gravimetric and differential scanning calorimetric...that at  420  C, tobermorite 11 Å transforms into a phase with a basal spacing of approximately 10.1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TAYLOR Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. SUMMARY. Tobermorite minerals vary...conditions of formation of normal and anomalous tobermorites are discussed in the light of synthetic evidence...evidence. TOBERMORITE minerals vary in some properties, most notably in whether loss of molecular water...et al., I972), but not with those from Loch Eynort, Scotland (Gard and Taylor, 1957) or Heguri, Japan...described as 14/~ or I I/~ tobermorite according to the approximate value of the layer thickness. All the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALPHABETICAL INDEX Names of authors are printed in SMALL CAPITALS,subjects in lower-case roman, and...3oth List of new mineral names are not included in this Index, nor are the names in the Report of theamphibole...I74 AHMAD (S.) and MORRIS (D. F. C.), Geochemistry of lateritic Ni ores with reference to noble metals...) and SUNAGAWA(I.), Study of the sector structure in adularia by means of optical microscopy, infra-red...microscopy, 453; -and ZUSSMAN (J.), The unit cell of talc, IO7 Alabandine, I.R. spectrum, 277 and MI7
Book (volume)
BIRKELBY NIVERSITY Of ICAUPORN.A EARTH SCIENCES y REESE LIBRARY "TOlVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE... THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited, Edinburgh FOR DAVID DOUGLAS...Pyrites. DRAWN! eV DR HCDDLE THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R... CONTENTS OF VOLUME DlSILICATES. II. CONTENTS. VI CLINTONITE GROUP. VOLUME LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS...Ord Ban, Loch an . . of Actinolite Crystals, Groups MAPS IN II. Frontispiece . Eilean (M'Tier)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY GYROLITE AND REYERITE OF J. W. Mrvnn eNo K. L. Jauxenats, Johns-ManailleResearchCenler...These experiments combined with dehydration studies of pure compounds have shown that reyerite has a composition...\{ere unsuccessful due to a gradual transformation of gyrolite to reyerite During this inversion mixed-layer...gyrolite-reyerite phases have been observed. On the basis of selectedarea electron difiraction patterns and (0001)difiraction...to form reyerite G:18.7 A). Due to a 60orotation of successivelayers the expanded gyrolite Iattice (e:22
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
riversideite, tobermorite, and plombierite. By J. D. C. McCoNNELL,M.Sc. 1)epartment of Mineralogy and...and Petrology, University of Cambridge. [Conmmnicated by Prof. C. E. Tilley, F.R.S., read March 26, 1953]...exist within the" calcium silicate hydrate (l)' group of artificial preparations (Taylor, 1953a, p. 168)....individual hydrates may be distinguished from the position of the 002 reflection in X-ray powder photographs. The...The d spacings corresponding to the three hydrates of this group examined during the present investigation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
transformation of tobermorite into xonotlite. By H. F. W. TAYLOR, D.Sc., Ph.D. D e p a r t m e n t of Chemistry...Chemistry, University of Aberdeen. [Read 6 November 1958.] Summary. This hydrothermal process has been studied...using single crystal X-ray methods. A crystal of tobermorite (CasSi60~H10),treated with water at 380 ~ C...probably with unoriented silica. The relationship of orientations ofproduct and starting material was...intermediate dehydration of the tobermorite to the 9.35 ~. state. The structural basis of the relationship is
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)
REGULARLY INTERSTRATIFIED CHLORITE-VERMICDLITE AND TOBERMORITE IN ALTERATION ZONES AT GOLDFIELD, NEVADA by RICHARD...Department of Geology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana ABSTRACT Hydrothermal alteration of andesitic...regularly interstratified chlorite-vermiculite and tobermorite. X.ray diffraction and oscillating-heating data...interstratification of the chloritevermiculite. This mineral is found in the zone of least alteration and...and was formed by the alteration of hornblende phenocrysts. Penninite is an intermediate stage in this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dehydrationrrecrystallization mechanisms, energetics, and kinetics of hydrated calcium silicate minerals: an in situ TGArDSC...b, B.U. Komanschek b a Department of Earth Sciences, UniÕersity of Manchester, Williamson Building, Oxford...Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK b Daresbury Laboratory, CCLRC, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK Received 11 January 1999...Abstract ˚ The dehydration and recrystallization of the natural hydrated calcium silicates xonotlite...xonotlite wCa 6 Si 6 O17 ŽOH. 2 x, 11A anomalous tobermorite wCa 5 Si 6 O 16ŽOH. 2 P 4H 2 Ox, and hillebrandite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vacuum of the electron microscope. An earlier report that tacharanite changes into a mixture of tobermorite...Tacharanite shows some important resemblances to tobermorite, but there are also significant differences....SWEET (1961) described a new mineral from Portree, Scotland, which she named tacharanite. It was a calcium...calcium silicate hydrate, with appreciable amounts of A1 and other elements; the chemical analysis, X-ray powder...a resemblance to tobermorite. Tacharanite has since been reported from Mull, Scotland (Walker, 1971),
Book
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Zeolites Defined Origin of the Name The name zeolite was created in 1756, by Freiherr Axel Fredrick...(to boil) and "Iithos" (stone), to describe a group of silicate minerals that expel water when heated and...many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research in zeolite mineralogy was done, at that...Britain. Because of differences in language, nationality, and obscurity of some of the publications,... no uniform system of nomenclature had been developed. There was no governing body, like the International
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Zeolites Defined Origin of the Name The name zeolite was created in 1756, by Freiherr Axel Fredrick...(to boil) and "Iithos" (stone), to describe a group of silicate minerals that expel water when heated and...many local names in the eighteenth century. Most of the research in zeolite mineralogy was done, at that...Britain. Because of differences in language, nationality, and obscurity of some of the publications,... no uniform system of nomenclature had been developed. There was no governing body, like the International
Book
Editor-in-chief EARL INGERSON Department of Geology University of Texas Austin 12, Texas SYMPOSIUM P U...Frankfurt-am-Main Copyright © 1962 Pergamon Press Ltd. Library of Congress Card Number 54-60838 PRINTED IN THE GERMAN...D CLAY MINERALS VOLUME 9 P R O C E E D I N G S OF THE NINTH NATIONAL C O N F E R E N C E ON CLAYS AND...Sponsored by Committee on Clay Minerals of the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council and...Assistant Editor State Geological Survey, The University of Kansas Associate Editors THOMAS F. BATES DOROTHY
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This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...phorographed specimens are fivm the collectio11s of both authors as ire!/ as from many other collections...Te~in 14/02/03/0 I All rights reserved•• ·o pan of thh. work may be reproduced by any mechanical. photographic...photographic, or electronic process, or in the fonn of a phonogrciphicrecording. nor may it be ,torcd in...public or private U<,e. without written penni,,ion of the publi,her. ISBN 80-7296-039-3 CONTENTS Preface
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