 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gilgen Windows Alps-The Hallein District I . Alps-The Hallein District II . Alps-The Lammertal and Gosau...five on Spittal, in Carinthia, and the last two on Leoben and Vienna respectively. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7....Geologists' Association 1966 Field Meeting in Austria. The form of the orig inal Guide has been retained...on Spittal, in Karnten (Carinthia), one day in Leoben and one in Vienna (Fig. I). The ma in object of...of one of the numerous good tourist guides to Austria. The present Guide is intended for use in conjunction |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pea~oalogy © Springer-Verlag 1993 Printed in Austria Geochemistry of Polymetamorphic Ultramafics (Major...serpentinites, magnesite-serpentinites, magnesite-talc- serpentinites, chloritetalc-tremolite schists or...X 689200 Y 160800 X 688700 Y 163500 railway tunnel railway tunnel X 692200 Y 161600 X 691300 Y 160800...olivine; ore; opx orthopyroxene; srp serpentine; tic talc ture phases (Table 1). The ultramafic rocks are...zoning. Black walls made up by biotite, chlorite, and talc usually marks the contact with the gneissic country-rocks |  | | Book | | Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part |  | | Book | | actually sold in the year 1863 —” - - No. of - District. Mines. Copper Ore. Tons. Cornwall and Devon... NATIVE Copper, den driform. From the Lizard District, Corn wall. .* See the Mineral Statistics compiled... From a vein in Serpentine at Mullion, Lizard District, Corn 29. NATIVE Copper, crystal lized. Cornwall...Croker Fox. CoPPER, in Serpentine. From the Lizard District, Corn 31. NATIVE CoppER, reticulated. wall....following order:-" Western mines of Cornwall. Eastern district of Cornwall. 162. CoPPER-GLANCE, massive. Devonshire |  | | Journal (issue) | | I. Jacobson Alpine Anyhydrite from the Simplon Tunnel, Switzerland..................479 by W. E. Wilson...International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, where more collecting opportunities presented...presented themselves. When Al’s assignment in Austria concluded in 2002, they retired to Powell Butte near Portland...Surselva, Switzerland Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website and see us at Mineral-Shows worldwide:...140-foot-level tunnel, then proceeding upward into a raise just above the 140-foot tunnel but below the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE ST. CLAIR RIVER GREAT SHIELDS RAILWAY OF THE TUNNEL. excavated matter. [SEPTEMBER Flush...inches. By their means excavation of the great railway tunnel now successfully the shield is forced forward...with a yellow stain of the under-river portion or tunnel section of the great per square inch, which is...two great 21 foot shields, by means of which the tunnel was by the Tool Manufacturing Company, of Hamilton...headings were worked in the excavation of this tunnel, one heading being started from the American side |  | | Journal (issue) | | Iron Mines, Snake Hill, Guttenberg, the Erie Railway Tunnel, Hoxie’s Quarry at Paterson, and later the...BOHEMIAN GARNETS. Br GEORGE F. Kusz. THE garnet district of Bohemia is situated about 60 kilometers northwest...kilometers constitutes what is known as the garnet district of Bohemia. It is probable that garnets may be...industry. The largest garnet ever found in this district is now preserved in the Green Vault of Dresden...schist. Among the rocks are serpentine, porphyry, talc, talcoschist, and conglomerate from the tertiary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | years' geological researches in the St. Gothard district, I have become familiar with most of the statements...article, was the eminent engineer of the St. Gothard tunnel. By accident Prof. Bonney has referred to him in...association (in the southern section of the Gothard tunnel, 700—800 m. from the mouth) of this calc-mica schist...Profil geologique du St. Gothard dans l'axe du grand tunnel etabli pendant la construction (18731880) par F...inside the mountain, counted from the mouth of the tunnel" {he. cit. French text, p. 56; German, p. 51, 52) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 226. t I THE ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL. 'rHE great work of boring a railway tunnel, niue miles and a quarter...Italy, this new railway through the Alps will be much pre ferred to the Mont Cenis Railway, which owed its...one kingdom. The tunnel through the Col de Frejus, commonly called the Mont Cenis Tunnel, is a mile and...two· thirds shorter than FIG. l.--ST. GOTHARD TUNNEL.-ENGINEER ROSSI PASSES THROUGH THE OPENING. this...next day the dIrectors, engineers, etc., of the tunnel assembled in the two ends to witness the final |  | | Book (volume) | | adjacent Islands, whether mountain-tops, valleys, railway cuttings, or mines, where there was any chance...Phil. Mag., xvii. Analysed. Kaemmererite after Talc 42: : Hagdale, Unst : : (fig.). Apparently...said to occur at Boyleston near Barrhead, Gryfe Tunnel near Greenock, and Berry Glen in North Ayrshire...other instances it is a saponitic mineral. : !88.*Talc after Anthophyllite : Hillswick, Shetland : ... 189. Talc after Enstatite 190. Talc after Kyanite (?) : Ollaberry, Shetland: 191.*Talc after |  | | Journal (issue) | | Alpine Pink Fluorite from the New Gotthard Road Tunnel, Switzerland.....................................COVER: FLUORITE, 5.8 cm, from the New Gotthard Road Tunnel. Found in September 2022. Thomas Schüpbach photo...of the English Lake District that is now within the borders of the Lake District National Park. The nearest...lent him his 3.70-meterlong telescope, and the railway engineer, Robert Stephenson (1803– 1859), lent...1840s were turbulent years: famine in Ireland, “railway mania” and a financial crisis in England, uprisings |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (pericline), adularia, titanite, prehnite; and 7. talc, dolomite, magnesite. Paragenesis one refers mainly...04 January 2015 Table 3. Minerals from the railway tunnel from Obemrald-Realp. gold silver bomite chalcopyrite...in table 2 and from the Oberwald-Realp railroad tunnel in table 3. Cavradi Gorge (Tavetsch): The Cavradi...(left). Bazzite (=Sc beryl) and stilbite, Furka railway tunnel. Length of longest bazzite crystal about 5...grossular, var. hessonite ilvaite prehnite preiswerkite* talc titanite tremolite (partly asbestiform) vesuvianite |  | | Book (edition) | | reflected light (e.g. micas). or flexible (e.g. talc) minerals. In crystal optics for reflected light...ability of a mineral to scratch another one: 1 - talc, 2 - relative ability of an opaque mineral to reflect...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...of some skarns and eclogites. With anthophyllite, talc, chromean spine!, and magnetite in desilicified |  | | Report (issue) | | clays............................. Pyrophyllite and talc................................. Bibliography....................... Analyses of pyrophyllite and talc...................................................have been described as smectite from Cilly, Lower Styria, and Woburn Sands of England are typical bentonites—...an analysis of potash-bearing phyllite * * * and talc layers would not be unbentonites of Ordovician age...potash clays resembled sericite. Maegde- chlorite, talc, or brucite, and possibly other minerals of frau |  | | Journal (issue) | | first described in 1840, from its occurrence in a railway cutting at Bishopton, Renfrewshire; but specimens...Thomas Brown since 1810. I (see fig. 2.) of a tunnel and its approach cuttings for the :-.J che later...are turned out." (Heddle, Glasgow to Greenock railway, an unusual mineral was of che zeolice family...minerals in Scotland; ... Dr Brown, living in the district, had kept an eye upon everything that came his...this rare and beautiful mineral in the Bishopton Tunnel in 1842 [sic]." The Society's proceedings for |  | | Book | | the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293 Minerals...10:85-89 Micromounting in the eastern Alps of Austria (by K. Kotal) 13:171-173 ALSTONITE An occurrence...Rybicki) 7:72-77 Chalcanthite from the Helvetia district, Arizona (by G. Robinson) 9:252 Cuprite [from...Arizona (by W. A. Thompson) 11:248-250 The Tombstone district, Cochise County, Arizona (by S. A. Williams) 11:251-257... A. Scovil) 21:99-100 Arizona's Silver mining district (by P. Bancroft & G. Bricker) 21:151-168 The Fat |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | excavation of the Susa Valley railway tunnel. In this locality, tunnel excavations are planned through...some high-speed railway lines such as Turin-Lyon and Genoa-Milan will involve tunnel excavations occurring...the proposed excavation of the Susa Valley railway tunnel. Its goal is to provide up-todate, clear information...is composed of dolomite, tremolite, chlorite, and talc. Tremolite veins contain minor calcite and iron...with the project of the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway, see Gattiglio and Sacchi (2006). The present study |  | | Book (volume) | | Dum- at Boyleston, near Barrhead, at the Gryfe tunnel, near varieties of Erythrite bartonshire; Greenock...The structure is large (Aitken and H.). In the railway cutting a mile west of Inverlair station, in veins...white. Earely containing crystals of pale green Talc, together with Sphene. coarse-grained vein or belt...belt of the norite rock of Craigbuirach. A this district stretches towards Eetanach. This contains Labradorite...fan-shaped Anal. 1. Sphene, Molybdenite, Tremolite, and Talc. EOSS-SHIRE. Totag, at the pier, crystallised, |  | | Book | | in 1964. The photograph shows the buckling of railway lines. Above: The rapidly growing city of Tokyo...the earth The need for tunnels The earliest known tunnel was built by the Babylonians in about 2160 B.C...Today, social and economic pressures A modern road tunnel demand a fast uninterrupted flow of road and rail...Seikan railway tunnel inJ apan. • As cities become more and more crowded, the underground railway becomes...the digging of tunnels in soft rock. Building a tunnel in hard rock A -• .• Drainage D I I . I I I I |  | | Book | | 4. Pearly, or like the lustre of a pearl ; as in Talc, Steatite, Brucite, &c. The term metallic-pearly...the light, but without producing an image, as in Talc, Copper Pyrites, &c. (4.) Glimmering : when the...breaking, and retains the position given to it, as in Talc. 5. Elastic ; when, after being bent, the mineral...Mohs, is that generally adopted : 1. 2. 3. 4. Talc : the common laminated green Gypsum : a crystallized...the case of Pyrosclerite, which is often reddish. Talc resembles the preceding group in most characters |  | | Book | | the preceding one. The softest on the scale (1) is talc; the hardest is diamond (10). the world's hardest...enough. Some are 'flexible' like molybdenite and talc (above) which means they bend. Some are 'elastic'...stibnite (right). Pearly Milky shimmer like pearl, e.g. talc (left). Above, left to right: The mineral barite...in the initial plotting of the course of a railway tunnel, for instance, before detailed survey work...graphite, kyanite, prehnite, sillimanite, staurolite, talc and tremolite. Above: Spectacular minerals like |  | | Journal (issue) | | Maidstone, a sandy limestone or westwards from that district a calcareous sandstone from the Lower Greensand...followed by an account of the Park Farm drainage tunnel near Linlithgow. and a thrashing mill chamber and...structures. if 'built'. can be listed - quite a few tunnel portals and even masonry-lined tunnels for example...impressive Black Country Museum and Dudley Canal tunnel underground boat trips which visit one of the entirely...least twice included the limestone mines and canal tunnel in Study Weekend programmes. SOURCE: Graham WORTON |  | | Book (edition) | | great distances, are often quite foreign to the district where they are now foupd. Such a deposit could... an indication that the rocks of that coastal district are hard. So far as one can generalize, the reverse...of -the succession may be lacking in any given district; To this in fact, a more detailed knowledge of...Ordovician succession in North Wales and the Lake District. Some of our finest scenery has been carved out...Lake Qirvan. Conglomerates, sandstones, Moffat. District. Black Grey and shales black black shales |  | | Book (edition) | | famous screes in England are those in the Lake District, along the eastern side of Wastwater, where the...record that the telegraph wire on the TransOaspian railway was worn down to half its diameter in 11 years...made. To avoid the accumulation of sand alongside railway Fxo. !.-MOVEMENT oi, SA.ND-DUNES. Arrows show...are an example of widespread soil erosion in a district of low rainfall. A century ago, this region of...dusty soil, reducing vast areas to desert. The district became a barren, wind-eroded, sandy waste, bare |  | | Book | | Chrysobervl, Cymophane, Alexandrite . Spinel . Talc, Pyrophyllite 24 Granite 24 . Leucite, White...His scale is the following: Degree ; Hardness of Talc. 2. 3? 33 Gypsum. 3. 33 33 Calcite. 4....chalk, sometimes aggregated with a small quantity of talc. It is found in Corsica and Upper Italy, and is...peculiar schistic rocks, such as gneiss, mica-slate, talc, and chlorite schists. All of them are more or less...The hardness, is greater than that of chlorite and talc, and exactly the same as in mica (=2’5), the specific |
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