 | | Book | | Endsleigh House 50 Daniell Road Truro, Cornwall TR1 2DA England Printed in Great Britain by Short Run...that he knew of no place on earth that surpassed Cornwall in the number and variety of its minerals. Hogg's...is subtitled 'in wich [sic] is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science'...later by Collins' A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon' (1871; 1892 with addenda, the latter...mention Purser's 'Minerals and locations in S.W. England' (1974). The work was never published, although |  | | Report (chapter) | | building and decorative stones of Cornwall, UK COLIN M. BRISTOW Cornwall Geoconservation Group, Ty Gwyn...46 Chatsworth Way, Carlyon Bay, St Austell, Cornwall, UK (e-mail: mail@colinbristow.com) Abstract: Arising...varied suites of igneous and sedimentary rocks, Cornwall has a rich variety of building and decorative...such as elvan and sandrock, do not occur outside Cornwall, so local stone provides much character to the...granite. A tourmalinized granite, luxullianite, was an important decorative stone, and was used for the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | September, 1924. Vol. XX. Topaz from Cornwall, with an account of its localities. By Arthur Russell...Russell. [Read January 15, 1921.] rpOPAZ, so common an accessory in tin lodes in all parts of the world...hitherto been looked upon as comparatively rare in Cornwall. When massive, or even in the form of small, well-developed...mass, thus affording evidence that topaz is in Cornwall, as in the case of other countries, a comparatively...secondary quartz. Primary topaz is also very common as an accessory in Cornish granites, having clearly been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | XJ&sher—Pleistocene Geology of Cornwall. 251 V.—PLEISTOCENCE GEOLOGY OF CORNWALL.1 By W. A. E. USSHER, F.G...stream in the valley bottom, and in another place, higher up, at 40 feet above the stream :—Loam 1 foot 8...yellowish clay with broken slate, with the stump of an oak 4 feet long and nearly a foot in diameter, 7... 252 W. A. E. Ussher—Pleistocene Geology of Cornwall. the following section at Market Strand, Falmouth...and that another part of it had been met with in an excavation at Bar Pools. The open space before the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chemical variation in tourmalines from south-west England By G. M. POWER~ Department of Geology, University...tourmaline from the granitic rocks of southwest England have been analysed by emission spectrography for...being higher in Mg, Ca, Sr, and Sn and lower in Fe, Mn, and F and also tending to have a higher Cr, V...growth. H E geology of the granites of south-west England is reviewed comprehensively by Exley and Stone...were obtained from crushed samples of the rock using an isodynamic magnetic separator. Each concentrate was |  | | Report (issue) | | MEMOIRS· ·OF ·-1}RE-·GEOLOGICAI/ SURVEY.. -: ,. ENGLAND AND WALES. .. - -EXPLANATION Q_F SHEETS 361...SECTIONS, AND MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGIOA SURMEY. OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AND MU,SEUM E>F PRACTICAL GEOLOGY• of...6d. A Compl1 �) ; 4 (I. of l\ta11); 5 {Lake ENGLAND .i Di��rct) Dewon;}; ' ....' .. -: Torquay NEW...(Oolour Pllnted) •• l 6 SSS. WORTHING, ROTTI.NGD�AN •• 1 6 1 6 SWANSEA (Colour printed) •• •• SS!. NEW...(Golom, p1·iQted) �-• •• 843"' SWAN AGE, OORFE CASTLE •• l 6 268. READING (Coiou-r p�inted) •• •• 846 |  | | Catalog/List | | WICK CARRUTH Copse Cottage Drakewalls Gunnislake Cornwall PL18 9EG Tel/Fax: Tavistock (01822) 832530 *...MAY/JUNE 1907 *1. AGARDITE. Wheal Carpenter, Hayle, Cornwall. Iron stained quartz matrix showing micro green...IRANOXITE) , '.I?.!- _rs Mine, Gunn' . . "■nrnwall. An interesting cellular mass of pinkish francolite with...30x20x10mm. £6. 6. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. A dark chalcocite/chalcopyrite matrix with hundreds... Lanreath, Cornwall. A fine small museum, specimen ex. Chicago Natural History Museum. An intergrown |  | | Book | | Twelveheads Press PO Box 59, Chacewater Truro, Cornwall TR4 8Z}. especially true of its minerals, some...rocks lie at the bottom of a sequence, but in Cornwall this becomes far from simple where rocks have... i he hia rte hd Db lle A \ IC ATION et OE hb an TIME BEGUN (million years before present) O' ‘ATERNARY...(metamorphism) of existing rocks. The land wl ‘ch is now Cornwall has seen periods of uplift and sinking beneath...conditions changed too, for the land that is now Cornwall was once close to the Equator before the action |  | | Report (issue) | | MEMO.IRS OF THE GE()LOG-ICAL SURVEY ENGLAND AND WALES. EXPLANATION OF SHEET 347. THE GEOLOGY OF THE...and Museum of Practical Geology. •· LIST 6f CORNWALL. 32. NE., by C. Reid ; 32 SE., by C. Reid, G...33 • •• •• • • •• ••• " 6. Bedding in Penhellick Quarry • • • 62 ••• ••• ■■ " 7. Pegmatite Vein at St....Chytane Clay• wor;lcs " .. 81 • •• ••• ••• " 9. Quarry in Calc-flintas west of Treesmill... 108 ••• •••...United Mines 143 •• • • •• • ••• ••• ,, 17. Duke of Cornwall Mine ••• 143 • •• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ,, 18. East |  | | Book | | Collectors Guide to ^MINERALS, ROCKS and GEMSTONES \in Cornwall and Devon |'; '’i '■-■ ,, t Cedric Rogers...Collector’s Guide to MINERALS, ROCKS AND GEMSTONES in Cornwall and Devon Cedric Rogers i D. BRADFORD BARTON...Truro LTD MINERALISED ILPMACOMar AREAS of CORNWALL & DEVON Main. Concentrations of mints. (has...r?°'%S Miu- Man-fa-nese. 6% tintagel/x 5 b - An(imoiU| LAuNccsroH papsrpiu ...GEMSTONES OF CORNWALL Quartz Gemstones 12 13 GRANITE AND OTHER ROCKS Felspar. Mica. Schorl. Chlorite China |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. ENGLAND AND WALES. I�DEX TO REPORT t ' ON THE • GEOLOGY · OF CORNWALL, DEVON, AND...importance than the '' Report 011 the Geology of Cornwall.. Devon and vVest Somerset," by Sir Henry De la...were issued. Unfo1·tunately·it was published without an Index, the want of which has been felt by everyone...proved of so much service during the re-survey of Cornwall an...nthracite, 113, 114, 124-126, 143, 144, Amethysts in Cornwall, 497. Amicombe Hill, height of, 4, 14. 513-515; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | F.G.S. or Hensbarrow granite mass, which covers an T H EareaSt. of,Austell roughly, thirty square miles...of the West of England, is, nevertheless, perhaps the most interesting on account of an extensive development...mass includes also the outlying portions of Castle-an-Dinas and Belowda Beacon, together with the closely...district in Cornwall, rising to a height of 1,000 ft. above sea-level in Hensbarrow Beacon, an elevation...visited by the Association during their excursion to Cornwall in 1887, when visits were paid to Carclaze and |  | Davison, E.H., Dines, H.G., Leese, C.E., Owen, D.E. (1938) Easter field meeting, 14th–21st April, 1938, Cornwall. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 49 (4) 385-391 doi:10.1016/s0016-7878(38)80003-1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EASTER FIELD MEETING, 14th-21St APRIL, 1938, CORNWALL. Report by the Directors :- E . H. DAVISOK, DINES...over Lower Culm and in pl aces ev en on to Devoni an . The coac hes were rejoined and th e journey to...district, were given close attention in Hodge's Ground Quarry. On the steep valley slop es dropping to the park...plentiful and a thick bed of pyrrhotite was sampled. An older exposur e y ielded axinite, epidote and zoisit... the phyllites on the Golf Course ottrelite, and an intrusive near by a very tough greenstone. Saturday |  | | Journal (volume) | | member Roger Penhallurick. © The Society, 1969. Cornwall Archaeological Society President A N D R E W D...interested in the history and material culture of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (persons under 16 being...publications of the Society or of the former West Cornwall Field Club should be sent to Miss M. Buckingham...Price to non-members: Fifty Shillings. Printed in Cornwall by H. E. Warne, Ltd., St. Austell H* P0 Hi w...WEAVER A Possible Roman Road aligned on Stratton. Cornwall 81 K . E . JERMY, M.A., A.I.M., A.R.HIST.S. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Meeting in 1930 of the Geologists' Association. Cornwall has been little visite d in the past, by the Association...confined to an area which lies roughly between these two districts. The main feature will be an examination...and others]. By reason, too, of the fact that Cornwall has been known from time immemorial as one of...writings on the general geology of south-west Cornwall are voluminous. Despite this fact, however, there...accompanying aureole of metamorphism. The mass occupies an area of approximately eight square miles, roughly |  | | Report (edition) | | Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter as an agency service-!or the government of Northern Ireland)... G .. Bisson (District Geologist, South--West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the con...volume [1966] of the Royal Geo logical Society of Cornwall. The succeedi11g years have seen notable advances...in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carbonif�rous rocks...age-determinations of rocks of south-west . . . . . . . Facing England 1 112 List of Geological Survey Maps and Memoirs |  | | Catalog/List | | LATE MAURICE J. E. GRIGG ESQ OF INDIAN QUEENS CORNWALL TO BE HELD IN “THE VICTORY HALL" THE DRANG, INDIAN...SPECIMEN) 80x70 2 BISMUTHINITE XSTLS. PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE, TWO XSTLS TO 3MM IN BISMUTHINITE/QUARTZMATRIX...ACC No. 826. MOLYBDENITE & NATIVE BISMUTH, PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE. A 20 MM AREA OF MOLYBDENITE AND A 20...“STOSS-SIDE” DEPOSITION OF PYRITE ON QUARTZ XSTLS AN EARLY 19thC SPECIMEN. ACC No. 570. TURQUOISE PSEUDOMORPHING...PSEUDOMORPHING SCHEELITE. GUNHEATH CLAYPIT, STENALEES. AN INCOMPLETE SINGLE CRYSTAL, NO MATRIX. 50x35 22 |  | | Catalog/List | | Localitv Peru Broken Hill Australia Crow Hill Mine, Cornwall Kildonan Burn Sicilv Elba Glen Strathfarrat Scotland...Wheal Andrew, Cornwall Israel Sutherland Scotland Cardiff, Ontario, Canada Lizard, Cornwall Pacific Ocean...Ocean Lizard Cornwall Ashover Derbyshire Eire Gwenap, Cornwall (Lowe) Aberfeldy, Scotland Brein Lecanvie...Yorkshire Yakutia Russia Milos, Greece Wheal Andrew Cornwall Bala Wales A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1...Herodsfoot, Cornwall Barstow) St Endellion Cornwall (Broadstone) Hinoston Down, Cornwall Judkins Qy, | | | Report (edition) | | British Regional Geology I * South-West England r * FOURTH EDITION e ■ - O ” ..y 1835 Geological...Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the latter as an agency service for the government of Northern Ireland)...Mr. G. Bisson (District Geologist, South-West England), as well as Professor W. R. Dearman and the con...volume [1966] of the Royal Geo logical Society of Cornwall. The succeeding years have seen notable advances...in our knowledge of the geology of south-west England. Most of the great expanse of Carboniferous rocks |  | | Book | | 01·dnance Geological Su1·vey, ancl of ,vhich Plate I. is an Index. A 2 • I • • • • CONTENTS • CHAPTER...CHAPTER I. �etch of tlze Pllysical.Eealu1'es of Cornwall, Devon, and 1Pest·sonterset. Rcaso11s for first...district of Cambo1ne, Red ruth. Gwennap, &c., Cornwall, by Mr. Thomas, ib. Course of the ,vater• l1erl...courses of the prin cipal rivers and streams of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, 22. • Gctteral con...detrital rocks round the granite of Devon and Cornwall, ib. Remarks on the conditions which would have |  | | Catalog/List | | Gallery, L0wer Boscaswe/1, Pendeen, Nr. Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain. Telephone: Penzance (0736) 788286... APATITE/GILBERTITE. Treme~n Coast,Nr.Helston,Cornwall. clase rich Pogmatic m~trix with silvcry-yellow...creamy,small Stilbite xtls,which coat an unidentifiod brown mineral an Traprock matrix. 4x3x2",~.00. 11...forms,developed over and completely envelop:5.ng, an ~.nncr metrix co!"e. Displays ucll. 4x2ix2f", ~10...ARGENTITE/NATIVE SILVE::<. \·!h. DJ.chy ,Rt .Gennys, Cornwall. Whi t vein Quartz matrix ca:::-rying a :.ittle |  | | Book (edition) | | Granite .. Granite • Schorlaceous Granite Schorl Rock .. .. Schorl -· _ Granite Veins and Dvkes Granitic...occurre11ce. To descriptions of the rocks in the CASES an index l1as been added at the end of the volume, indicating...his hand, the student will be able to form as fair an idea as can be gathered in a museum of the lithological...their order of succession. He will find that in England and Wales the Tertiary rocks are mostly formed...grit. Such is the general natu1~e of the rocks in England ancl Wales ; but in other parts of the wo1·ld there |  | | Book (edition) | | ANTIQUITIES, MINING, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF UXzmm Cornwall SECOND EDITION. To which is added, for the...AND LIBERALITY WITH WHICH THEY CONTINUE TO UPHOLD AN INSTITUTION ;> WHICH HAS RENDERED THEIR HOME THE...him from a resolution he had formed on quitting Cornwall, that of abandoning a science which can never...tendency, wholly incompatible with the duties of an anxious and laborious profession. As those Bay...into the hands of the inclined to consider it as an hither- to unpublished production of the celebrated |  | | 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...volume ( 1966] of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. The writer have attempted to produce a handbook |  | | Book | | PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers of b th tin...the n:di co, ery and im estigati, e cataloguing of an historic rr.ir;.:ralcull ction Andy Tindle ~e\\...Oxford University Museum of Natural History; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro; Sedgwick Museum, University of...andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto de'ermi:iethechem:cal composition |
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