 | | Report (edition) | | BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY THE MIDLAND VALLEY OF SCOTLAND EDINBURGH HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE price...BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY The Midland Valley of Scotland SECOND EDITION, REVISED By M. MACGREGOR, M.A...Institute of Geological Sciences, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW1 IDE. I CONTENTS T. Introduction...Fig. 6. Map of Darvel-Galston-Sorn district, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire .. 27 Fig. 7. Section across...Knockgardner and Linfern Loch, near Straiton, Ayrshire . 32 Fig. 8. Diagram showing general succession |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arbitrary datum point marked on the surface in the quarry, and angular measurements (to the nearest degree)...University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. The Teschenite Sill of Charlestown, Fife. By FREDERICK WALKER...classification of the analcitic intrusions of Central Scotland.1 FIELD CHARACTEES OF THE SILL. The sill in question...an east-west direction and running along or just south of the Dunfermline-Culross branch of the L. & N...is mapped as " tD " and is referred to as '' teschenite " in the corresponding Geol. Survey Memoir.2 |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey, Scotland THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE • AYRSHIRE COALFIELDS AREA I KILBIRNIE, DALRY... PREFACE • THE original geological survey of the Ayrshire Coalfields was executed in the years 1863 to 1869...with a staff of four geologists started work in J Ayrshire. After Dr. Clough s death, Mr. E. B. Bailey, in...publish the description of the geology of the Ayrshire Coalfields in a series of short memoirs, each...22) is in prepara A new one-inch map of North Ayrshire , tion, and will be published in ' solid and ' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | course of the research embodied in this paper is the south-eastern part of the county of Fife, lying between...presence of disturbed sandstone in the plantation south-west of Long Gates suggests proximity to the north-west...sediments can be seen. On the older maps a whinstone quarry is indicated at the western end of the hill, but...sandstones crop out to the north-west and to the south, dipping towards the neck, which is filled with...rusty-red weathering. Balram Middle Neck.—To the south-west of the neck just described is another one whose |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 120 G. W. Tyrrell—Alkaline Igneous Rocks, Went Scotland. Campignien or Early Neolithic Beach. This proved...PALEOZOIC ALKALINE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND. By G. W. TYEEFXL, A.B.C.SC, F.G.S., Assistant...agglomerate of the Carskeoch vent, near Patna, Ayrshire. Macroscopically it is light grey, compact, and... G. W. Tyrrell—Alkaline Igneous Rocks, West Scotland. 121 and resembles neither the essexites of...stones in South Lanarkshire. The type-rock apparently comes from one of the long north-west-south-east dykes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | n Volcanieity in Scotland Review of Carboniferous-Permian Volcanicity in Scotland 1) By E. H. FRANCIS...outcrop in Scotland is in the Midland Valley rift, though ro&s of that age also occur farther south along...Beds (mostly tufts) of Eskdale (e. 180 m.) to the south. Most of the lavas are varieties of olivine-basalt...relatively short-lived ash-cones. They formed in Ayrshire (Ei age) but were most abundant in Fife, occurring...possibly into Westphalian "B'" in Fife, but in Ayrshire volcanicity was more intermittent and is represented |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Old Red Sandstone age occur in the Carrick Hills, south of Ayr, where an area of twelve square miles is...THE DISTRICT. rock s occur near Galston, North Ayrshire, where they are associated with intrusions of...overlook the Glasgow basin on the north, west, and south . These are conveniently divided by faults and valleys...the south the enormous block of volcanic rocks covering most of Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire has not...yet fully explored, th e R enfrewshire and North Ayrshire district is known to contain sanidinetrachyte |  | | Report (edition) | | British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Natural...British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland THIRD EDITION By I. B Cameron, BSc, and D. Stephenson...the area around Distinkhorn and Tincorn Hill, Ayrshire 45 16 Palaeolatitudes for the British Isles during...and ice limits 40 Sequence of shorelines in SE Scotland 41 Isobases of the 11ain Late Glacial shoreline...Salisbury Craigs frorn Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. A teschenite sill cover of rnid Carboniferous age intruded |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | February, 1928. " The Siluro-Devonian boundary in South Central Wales." By S. H. Straw, M.Sc, F.G.S. The...strip of country extending from the Wye Valley, south-east of Builth, along the scarp Reports & Pro...285 of Mynydd Eppynt and south-westwards to Llanfiangel Aberbythych, south-west of Llandeilo. Over most...most of this tract the rocks dip steeply in a south-easterly direction. They have been studied in a number...hundred feet thick in the Wye Valley thins out south-westwards under the Tilestones, which thenceforward |  | | Report (edition) | | INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SCOTLAND The Geology of the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh...FIRST published sheet of the Geological Survey in Scotland, that which contains the metropolis of the kingdom...in surveying part of the Eastern Counties of Scotland, that many of the Maps on a scale of six inches...extending the Geological Survey of Great Britain into Scotland. We also considered it desirable to commence the...quickly as possible into the great Coal-fields of Scotland, but the Ordnance Survey of the Western Counties |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland. The conom1c of the �entra AREA III BO'NESS... I0.29 OP' THIE CENTRAL COAI... FIEJ...D OF SCOTLAND. I ! I ! ! ,, l Coun·ty Bounds.,.ies shown...Sheets 31 and 32 of the One-inch Geological Map of Scotland. It falls mainly into the county of Linlithgow...Detailed Description . . B. Linlithgow Loch to Hillhouse • (2) Detailed Description CHAPTER VI.-MILLSTONE...III CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Central Coalfield of Scotland 1 has been div.ided for the purpose of detailed |  | | Book | | Clackmannan Group Passage Formati,,n Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member Troon Vc)lcanic Member basal member Upper...Measures Middle Coal Measures Lower Coal Measures Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Member (! Clyde Plateau Volcanic...Figure la ·-·---· -·-· - Kinneswood Formation Troon Volcanic Member Upper Limestone Formation ,. •...000 Geological Sheet 22W and part of Sheet 21E (Scotland) Hydrogenlog;y N S R()bins �u;neotts -rocks D...��u-n,ey, Sheet 22\V and pa1·t of Sheet 2 1 E (Scotland) i\11,thar S K l\.1onro, BSc, Pl1D, CGeol B,ritisli |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dolerites, and tholeiites o f the Midland Valley of Scotland. These rocks are quarried extensively for use... the Canary Islands, Iceland, India, Ireland, Scotland, and the U.S.S.R. Some specimens used were from...dolerite, Parkthorn, Troon, Scotland Olivine dolerite, Hillhouse, Troon, Scotland Olivine tholeiite, Kaimes...Kaimes, Edinburgh, Scotland Teschenite, Craigie Hill, Midlothian, Scotland Olivine basalt, Burnside,... Angus, Scotland Palagonite, Ardtun, Mull, Scotland Basalt, Deccan Traps, India Dolerite, Canary Islands |  | | Book (edition) | | History !Vluseum (Earth Galleries), Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DE 'B' 020-7589 4090 Fax...resources and workings in tJ1e UK, 2008 3 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK, 2008 4 Limestone resotu-ces...tonnes) 4 Active Mineral Workings by co.mmodity in the UK, including Noriliem Ireland, Channel Islands and...industries, which represents their contribution to the UK econo1ny. The GVA of the nunerals extractive industries...1ninerals produced in 2005 in the UK, expressed as sales on an ex-works (quarry) basis as opposed to gross valued |  | | Book (edition) | | qutm-y in South Yorkshire (Rotherham Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd, Scrooby Top Quany, Doncas1e1; South Yorkshirej...0115-936 3200 e-mail : sales@bgs.ac.uk www.bgs.ac. uk Shop online at.: www.thebgs.co.u.k !Vlurchison House...History Museum (Earth Galleries), Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DE 'B' 020-7589 4090 Fax...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 resources and workings in the UK, 2005 Tables l Production |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diversify the great plain of the Midland Valley of Scotland. They are situated 9 miles north-west of Glasgow...culminates in the high ground of Misty Law. To the south the Kilpatrick Hills are bounded by low, undulating...Burn Crooks on the north to Douglas Muir on the south, is about 4 miles, and remains rather uniform. The...Water, in the Loch Lomond drainage area; and on the south to the Clyde and Kelvin. As a rule the valleys are...activity originally stretched right across central Scotland from Stirling to the Mull 1 Tyrrell and Martin |  | | Book (edition) | | (England and Wales) and A. G. MacGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. (Scotland) LONDON: HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1951...OF R OADSTONES England and Wales (Fig. 1) 2 Scotland (Fig. 2) .. 4 PART I. CRUSHED STONE QUARRIES...Dolerites of all kinds including theralite and teschenite Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite...value for this purpose. For this reason, south-eastern England, south-east of a line joining Lyme Regis and...be of late Silurian to early Devonian age. One quarry each in Cornwall and Devon work the Hercynian granite |  | | Book (edition) | | Middlesex. September, 1960. Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, S.W.7. lll .. CONTENTS...ROADSTONES IN GREAT BRITArN 4 England and Wales 4 Scotland 6 Channel Islands 9 LIST OF SOURCES OF ROAD...headings, with all the counties of England, Wales and Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the...address of owner or occupier Name and situation of quarry, pit or works Type or types of rock, gravel or...Dolerites of all kinds including theralite and teschenite Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite |  | | Report (issue) | | MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL. soilVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN SCOTLAND The Geology • · .of ·. East Fife (Explanation...41 of the 'One--inch' Geological Map of Scotland and the south...eastem part of Sheet 49. These sheets...Institute of Geological Sciences Exhibition Road South Kensington London SW7 2DE JV WOODLAND Director... .. Introduction, 221. Folds, 221. Easterly to south-easterly normal faults, 224. North-easterly zones...the exception of a small area south of the Firth of Forth) and the south-eastern part of Sheet 49. It |  | | Book (edition) | | Gaswells. h-ont cover Operations at Shap Beck Quarry, Hanson Aggregates, North.em Region. © D Cameron...Ji'igures 1 An extract from Hunt's 1858 listing of Quarry Re turns 2 lJnited Kingdom production of n1inerals...resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 4 Limestone resotu-ces and workings in the UK in 2010 5 Sand and grave...resources and workings in tbe UK in 2010 6 Sandstone resources and workings in the UK in 2010 7 Coal resources...and workings in the UK in 2010 8 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas workings in the UK in 2010 Tables l Production |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Late-Carboniferous Petrographical Province of Western Scotland. (With Lantern Illustrations.) By G. W . TYRRELL...is practically co extensive with the county of Ayrshire.' The lavas form a small basin at Mauchline, on...and interesting types such as analcite-syenite, teschenite, essexite, theralite, kylite, lugarite, monchiquite...along with predominating olivine-basalts. of Hillhouse type, amongst the lavas. The almost universal...vulcanicity. The Fife vents resemble strongly the Ayrshire Permian vents in size, number, and contents ; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Upper Limestone Group of the Namurian of central Scotland I. H. FORSYTH Palaeontology: R. B. Wilson Trace-fossils:...Upper Limestone Group of the Namurian of central Scotland 1 3 5 6 7 7 17 18 Introduction Calciferous...Syncline (Figure 1) lies about eight kilo1netres west-south-west of Paisley and almost 20km westsouth-west of...the through valley from Renfrewshire to north Ayrshire between the Renfrewshire Hills to the north-west...syncline is about 2.5km long from north-east to south-west and one kilometre across. In the core Lower |  | | Book (edition) | | cover Operations in the Welton Chalk at Melton Ross Quarry, Singleton Birch Ltd., near Brigg, North Lincolnshire...Figures 1 An extract from Hunt’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...and workings in the UK in 2014 8 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas workings in the UK in 2014 9 Marine Sand |  | Clough, C. T., Hinxman, L. W., Wilson, J. S. Grant, Crampton, C. B., Wright, W. B., Bailey, E. B., Anderson, E. M., Carruthers, R. G. (1911) Memoirs of the Geological Survey, The Geology of the Glasgow District (1st ed.) Geological Survey of Great Britain | Report (edition) | | • MEMOIRS OF TIIE GEOLOGICAij SURVEY, SCOTLAND. ·. THE GEOLOGY • OF THE • GLASGOW DISTRICT. (GLASGOW...Killearn in the north to the Cathkin Hills in the south, and from Renfrew and Barrhead in the west to Bothwell...western suburbs of Glasgow north of the Clyde, and-south of the river:--..the ground between Renfrew and...Anderson were allotted the City and suburban areas south of the Clyde between Govan and Thornliebank, the...observations· made by local geologists in the west of Scotland and published in the Transactions o.f the Geological· |  | | 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 £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 |
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Hillhouse Quarry, Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK