tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61864771390427031622024-03-16T18:52:18.842+00:00BGS Geoheritage – images from the collectionsBritish Geological Surveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13740304547062993679noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-42332381208576301252018-11-16T08:50:00.000+00:002018-11-16T08:50:17.897+00:00Edward Battersby Bailey (1881-1965)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">E B Bailey doing fieldwork (<a href="http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=33766&index=18&total=26&view=viewSearchItem" target="_blank">P225785</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">E B Bailey was born on 1 July 1881 at Marden, Kent. In 1902 he graduated with first-class honours in geology and physics from Clare College, Cambridge. In the same year he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain and worked in Scotland.</span></div>
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<span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1915 Bailey joined the Royal Garrison Artillery as a subaltern. He was wounded on the Somme in September 1916 and near Ypres in 1918. These wounds resulted in the loss of an eye and a permanently damaged left arm. Bailey was awarded the Military Cross, the Croix de Guerre and was made a Chevalier of the <span style="color: #222222;">Légion d'honneur. In spite of his injuries he later wrote in <em>Geological Survey of Great Britain</em> (1952) "The 1914 War was a comparatively happy one for juniors on the staff..."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">In 1919 Bailey became District Geologist for the West Highlands and Islands. He resigned from the Geological Survey in 1929 and took up the post of Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow. In 1937 Bailey was appointed Director of the Geological Survey after the premature death of Bernard Smith.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Ba<span style="color: #222222;">iley was Knighted in 1945 and in April of that year retired as Director of the Survey. He continued to be active in the field of geology until shortly before his death on 19 March 1965.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="border-image: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;">A G MacGregor in an obituary in the <em>Geological Society of America Bulletin </em>described Bailey as "a very great geological leader and investigator". Rather more irreverently he was described in <em>Down to Earth: One Hundred and Fifty Years of the British Geological Survey</em> (1985) as "perhaps the most eccentric Director of them all".</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">F M Trotter was born at Gateshead on 19 April 1897. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1916 he <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was studying geology and chemistry at Armstrong College, Newcastle when, at the age of 18, he joined the Royal Engineers. Trotter was sent to the Western Front as a dispatch Rider. In 1918 while near Vimy he was badly wounded by shrapnel and lost one of his eyes and part of his skull.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After he recovered Trotter was able to resume his studies at Armstrong College and was awarded his BSc in 1920. In 1921 he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain and was first stationed at their office at Whitehaven, Cumbria. A study of the glacial history of the Vale of Eden and surrounding areas gained him a DSc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1933 Trotter moved to the Forest of Dean and at the outbreak of the Second World War he was sent to South Wales to work on the coalfield. At the end of 1941 he was promoted to District Geologist for the North-West of England and in 1955 he became Assistant Director (Deputy Chief Scientific Officer). He retired in 1963 and died on 24 July 1968. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In an obituary in the <em>Proceedings of the Geologist's Association</em></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">his former colleague William Colin Campbell Rose wrote: <span style="font-family: "arial";"><em>It was a constant source of wonder and admiration to his colleagues that despite this tremendous handicap (of which he never complained) he enjoyed his life and work to the full and seemed not to suffer any disadvantage.</em></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15982767520833008116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-33599424055482968372018-11-06T12:00:00.000+00:002018-11-06T12:00:39.111+00:00Cecil Henry Cunnington (1889-1918)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C H Cunnington (of whom we do not have a photograph) was born on 7 June 1889. In 1909 he obtained a first class honours degree in Geology from University College, London. Cunnington joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1910 and spent much of the next four years surveying an area bordering the Warwickshire Coalfields. An obituary in the <em>Proceedings of the Geological Society</em> later referred to this as "excellent work".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He had joined the Officer's Training Corps before the outbreak of the First World War so entered the army soon after it began. In 1915 he was sent to Gallipoli on special military duty along with two other former staff from the Geological Survey, R W Pocock and T H Whitehead.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The work they did was related to trying to find an adequate water supply for the troops there. An unpublished report on the geology of the Gallipoli peninsula was produced for the War Office. Sadly, it is now untraceable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After returning from Gallipoli, Cunnington joined the Machine Gun Corps and served in France. He was invalided out of the army in 1917 and later underwent a major operation. He suffered a relapse and died on 26 April 1918. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">During the war 29 staff from the Geological Survey and Museum joined the armed forces. They consisted of <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">14 geologists,
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labourers and 1 assistant clerk. C<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ecil Cunnington holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only one of those who did not survive the war.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">For a detailed study of the terrain at Gallipoli see Doyle, P & Bennett, M R 1999. "Military Geography: the influence of terrain in the outcome of the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915". <em>Geographical Journal</em>, 165, p12-35<br /><br />
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paper "Some aspects of the British Geological Survey’s contribution to the
war effort at the Western Front, 1914–1918" by D G Bate and A L Morrison.
This can be downloaded </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518164/"><span style="color: #0563c1;">here</span></a><br /><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Andrew L Morrison</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15982767520833008116noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-36319657016927892822018-10-22T10:21:00.001+01:002018-11-16T16:11:27.415+00:00H H Thomas, the Geological Survey and the First World War<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H H Thomas (<a href="http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=137447&index=5&total=9&view=viewSearchItem" target="_blank">P585032</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">In September 1916 the Geological Survey was contacted
by the Admiralty Compass Department asking for assistance with the design of
aircraft compasses. The problem was with the compass point and cup which were
part of the bearing that allowed the compass needle to move. Herbert H Thomas,
a petrographer at the Survey, was given the task of finding a solution. The
point and cup were both made out of sapphire, which caused the point to develop
flaws and cracks. In a report Thomas and Survey chemist E G Radley wrote:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">“It appeared desirable that sapphire should
be retained as the material for the cup, and therefore we sought some slightly
less hard substance suitable for the points.</span></em></span></span></span><br />
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</span>Agate, from its closely felted microscopic structure, absence of
cleavage and inclusions, moderate hardness and extreme toughness, was selected
as the most suitable natural substance for the purpose. It is also cheap and
can be obtained easily in this country in homogenous masses.”</span></em></span></span></div>
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</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">This combination of sapphire and agate turned
out to be successful and solved the problem.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><em>
</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">H H Thomas was also involved in the analysis
of concrete from German fortifications. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">In September 1917 it was noticed that German
concrete pill-boxes on Vimy Ridge, which had been captured by Canadian troops,
were made with gravel which could not have come from Belgium. It was suspected
that the Germans had transported the gravel through the neutral Netherlands. If
this was the case then it was in contravention of the Netherland's neutrality
declaration as the Dutch were supposed to prevent the belligerent powers from
transporting military materials across neutral territory.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">By October samples of the suspect concrete
had been received by the Geological Survey <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">and analysed. One of these samples
was F2397.<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span>Niedermendig lava set in concrete<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photomicrograph of Niedermendig lava (viewed under crossed polars)<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">In a report Thomas described it as:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> "<i>Fine
grained grey spongy lava. Tephrite. Occurs as angular fragments and chips, and
has the appearance of a quarried rock. This rock by its mineral-constitution
and structure is of an unmistakable type. It has all the characters of the
Niedermendig tephrite, so extensively quarried on the eastern slopes of the
Eifel, bordering on the Rhine. Its usual port of Shipment is
Andernach" </i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">This meant that the gravel must have come
from Germany. This issue was so important the J J H Teall, a former Director of
the Geological Survey was brought out of retirement to confirm the
identification. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The evidence resulted in a Dutch threat to
stop the transport of German sand and gravel across the Netherlands.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">This could have brought the Netherlands into
the war but none of those involved wished this so an agreement was
reached.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">You
can find out more about the Geological Survey and the First World War in the
paper "Some aspects of the British Geological Survey’s contribution to the
war effort at the Western Front, 1914–1918" by D G Bate and A L Morrison.
This can be downloaded <a href="http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518164/"><span style="color: #0563c1;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">You
can read about how one geologist, C B Wedd, was mistaken for a German spy <a href="http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508684/"><span style="color: #0563c1;">here</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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about the forthcoming publication </span><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">La Terre et le Feu, géologie et géologues sur le front occidental </span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://agbp.fr/blog/2018/07/souscription-14-18-la-terre-et-le-feu#.W9hi7ZP7Tcs" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333; 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15982767520833008116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-19248858090512472692016-08-30T20:12:00.000+01:002016-08-30T20:12:08.938+01:00 Isla Observatorio, Tierra del Fuego geomagnetic observatory 1902-1917<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_T7ytMYDbmrcXnEiSCfFzoi7FiPBDlwI2jyHQ30I4tdPB245HvG2g83iVbw7ETBZ9SJI0PuxCsu72X1VmLLTfCN6B-VLoR_rAqVHjHfPI0t8hNilK06jOrAFkWJ8ipJd8wnpyk9IOj8/s1400/ELI__1291.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=" Isla Observatorio, Tierra del Fuego lighthouse" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_T7ytMYDbmrcXnEiSCfFzoi7FiPBDlwI2jyHQ30I4tdPB245HvG2g83iVbw7ETBZ9SJI0PuxCsu72X1VmLLTfCN6B-VLoR_rAqVHjHfPI0t8hNilK06jOrAFkWJ8ipJd8wnpyk9IOj8/s600/ELI__1291.jpg" title=" Isla Observatorio, Tierra del Fuego lighthouse" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A chance discovery among some photographs in the BGS Geomagnetic archive included this interesting image of a lighthouse. After much searching, this was identified as the Isla Observatorio at the southern tip of Argentina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following photograph is a good match for the <a href="http://www.histarmar.com.ar/SubArch/CARLOSPVAIRO/Vairo-Islaobservatorio/IslaObservatorio.htm" target="_blank">fifth photo down on this history of the island</a>, further evidence that this set of photographs is indeed the observatory on Isla Observatorio.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4NUpCPavkJMNZp1jAE3aZbdWhNBr0HkPvbtzWDAKLIlUDKy6AN2CqnaVR9mrUMyIIbxMna0KdqCkE-8VoxcIMz4Rn6fKrvb4L0ykWiVrxgXkH1ZucmA9hY-6WhTZQ9FiOsMrBKTYFK3E/s1600/ELI__1284.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=" Isla Observatorio, Tierra del Fuego geomagnetic observatory" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4NUpCPavkJMNZp1jAE3aZbdWhNBr0HkPvbtzWDAKLIlUDKy6AN2CqnaVR9mrUMyIIbxMna0KdqCkE-8VoxcIMz4Rn6fKrvb4L0ykWiVrxgXkH1ZucmA9hY-6WhTZQ9FiOsMrBKTYFK3E/s600/ELI__1284.jpg" title=" Isla Observatorio, Tierra del Fuego geomagnetic observatory" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Observatory was run by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lieutenant Commander Horacio Ballvé, who may be among the people pictured in the photo below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HISTAMAR <a href="http://www.histarmar.com.ar/SubArch/CARLOSPVAIRO/Vairo-Islaobservatorio/IslaObservatorio.htm" target="_blank">Las expediciones de investigacion arqueologica de Carlos P. Vairo y el Museo Maritimo de Ushuaia. Faro de isla Año Nuevo, Monumento Nacional Dec.64/99</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Eli Simpson Archive is a major collection of c 100 large format record books full of exploration accounts, newspaper cuttings, maps, surveys, photographs and published articles compiled by Eli Simpson and other members of the British Speleological Association. These extracts give a flavour of the material found in the albums. These items are from the Gaping Gill album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The collection was held for many years at the British Cave Research Association Library but are now held on deposit at the <span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 21px;">National Geological Repository at British Geological Survey, Keyworth for safekeeping.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 21px;">Archives such as this one are not only important for the historical viewpoint but are also important as a source of information that supports current research into karst geohazards.</span></span><br />
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at Murchison House, British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, a copy of the North-west Highlands Memoir (Peach et al, 1907)
was found in the Palaeontological Department. It has been rebound but is in
excellent condition with little signs of use and no obvious foxing. The memoir
contains detailed descriptions of the Lewisian, Torridonian, Moine and Cambrian-Ordovician
rocks in the Durness to Kyle of Lochalsh area, summarising the results of the
survey’s detailed work there in the late 19</span><sup style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> century. This copy
patently belonged to John Horne who was Assistant Director in the Geological
Survey in Scotland from 1901 until his retirement in 1911.</span></div>
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memoir contains the signatures of 29 attendees of the renowned 1912 excursion
to Assynt, which followed on from a British Association meeting in Dundee in mid-September
that year. This excursion, led by Peach and Horne, was attended by 31notable European
and British geologists (see Barber, 2010). The flyleaf also contains the
signatures relating to an excursion undertaken in 1914, when John Horne took a further
party to Assynt. Attendees included Sir Alexander and Lady (Rachel Workman) MacRobert,
but also included the well-known geologists Reginald A Daly and Professor
Molengraaf. Rachel Workman, the daughter of the noted American mountaineers
William and Fanny Workman, was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and gained
a degree in geology from the University of London in 1902. She undertook
research and published papers on alkaline igneous rocks (e.g. carbonatite and
nepheline syenite) and was one of the first women to be elected a fellow of the
Geological Society in 1919. Information on the MacRobert Trust, including her
ladyship’s contribution to the Second World War, can be found at </span><a href="http://www.themacroberttrust.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The MacRobert Trust</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.
The memoir is to be archived by BGS.</span></span></div>
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Gunn, W., Clough, C.T., Hinxman, L.W. & Teall, J.J.H. (1907). <i>The geological structure of the northwest
Highlands of Scotland</i>. Memoirs of
the Geological Survey, U.K. </span></div>
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Peach and Horne: the British Association excursion to Assynt September 1912. <i>In</i> Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H.,
Holdsworth, R.E., Krabbendam, M. and Strachan, R.A. (editors) <i>Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building:
The Legacy of Peach and Horne</i>. Geological Society, London, Special
Publications, <b>335</b>, 29-49.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photograph of the entire party of the Assynt Excursion led by B.N. Peach and J. Horne, taken outside the Inchnadamph Hotel during September 1912. Excursion of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting held in Dundee. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photograph of the foreign visitors outside the Inchnadamph Hotel, Assynt Excursion held in September 1912, led by B.N. Peach and J. Horne. Excursion of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting held in Dundee. </td></tr>
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scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-694820539704737002015-11-22T21:42:00.000+00:002015-11-22T21:59:33.226+00:00CALX carbonata (calcite) from British mineralogy by James Sowerby 1802-1817<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From: Sowerby, James. 1802-1817. British Mineralogy: Or Coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain. Plate from vol: 2. page no.81.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From: Sowerby, James. 1802-1817. British Mineralogy: Or Coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain. Plate from vol: 3. page no.171. Modern name: Calcite. Location: Samples from the Dimple mine near Matlock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From: Sowerby, James. 1802-1817. British Mineralogy: Or Coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain. Plate from vol: 4. page no.19. Modern name: Calcite. Location: Sample collected in Derbyshire.</span></div>
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scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-75101725186227467752015-10-23T15:28:00.000+01:002015-10-23T15:28:56.254+01:00William Edmond Logan - A Geological Pioneer<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A geologist with the then Ordnance Geological Survey (now the British Geological Survey) from its inception in 1835 and a contemporary of <a href="http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/DeLaBeche/home.html">Henry de la Beche</a>, <a href="http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/WELogan/home.html">William Edmond Logan</a> went on the become the first Director of the
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Survey of Canada</a> which was formed in 1842. He remained in that post until 1869 when he was succeeded by another pioneer of the British Geological Survey, <a href="http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/pioneers/pioneers.cfc?method=viewRecord&personId=11&currentTab=tab_S">Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the <a href="http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/library/home.html">British Geological Survey Library</a> in Edinburgh,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the following images show a couple of early examples of the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Exploration Geologique du Canada: Rapport de Progrès </i>or the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a p</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aper presented to the 'History of the Book in Canada’ Open Conference in May 2001: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.hbic.library.utoronto.ca/vol2shipley_en.htm">‘I wish these annual reports were at the devil’: William E. Logan and the publications of the Geological Survey of Canada, </a></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Brian Shipley discusses the process undertaken by Logan in producing these Reports of Progress, revealing the objections Logan had in this approach to documenting the work of the Survey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shipley's thesis;<a href="http://dalspace.library.dal.ca:8080/xmlui/handle/10222/54890"> 'From Field to Fact: William E. Logan and the Geological Survey of Canada' </a>is also available to download from Dalhousie University Library. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <a href="http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/trailblazers/william-edmond-logan/3479">notable
and honoured man</a>, Logan is the subject of a Dinner Address
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Canada on the 7<sup>th</sup> June 1963, which makes for an entertaining and informative read.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-14768609231027863662015-10-13T22:19:00.001+01:002015-10-14T23:11:54.137+01:00Geological Survey of England and Wales 1:63,360 maps - map covers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmjHpKYMuvY3CuYW7KoqwUovVi2XGUhnFj9Npgg8tQbxAq72PNbIeZBDXGKZ69GcAquMIEx1-uO0QqOhqStsjIjX5BLbQ2lJI58LdRjof6aCshEd6Fp0C_mZdPd5Dffj-pQL12NaUy5p4/s1600/SJ035ReigateReduced.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cover for sheet 286 Reigate (Drift ) 1:63,360 map. 1938. Thi illustration on the cover is common to all sheets published at the time. Does anyone know if the place depicted is a real place?" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmjHpKYMuvY3CuYW7KoqwUovVi2XGUhnFj9Npgg8tQbxAq72PNbIeZBDXGKZ69GcAquMIEx1-uO0QqOhqStsjIjX5BLbQ2lJI58LdRjof6aCshEd6Fp0C_mZdPd5Dffj-pQL12NaUy5p4/s640/SJ035ReigateReduced.jpg" title="Cover for sheet 286 Reigate (Drift ) 1:63,360 map. 1938. Thi illustration on the cover is common to all sheets published at the time. Does anyone know if the place depicted is a real place?" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cover for the folded sheet 286 Reigate (Drift) 1:63,360 map. 1938.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The illustration on the cover is common to all sheets issued 'mounted in sections' at that time. Does anyone know if the place depicted is a real place and if so, where it is?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Panel from sheet 286 Reigate (Drift ) 1:63,360 map. 1938. The full map can be viewed in the <a href="http://www.largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/iip/mapsportal.html?id=1004122" target="_blank">BGS Maps Portal</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cover for 1:63,360 Special sheet Arran. Published 1910.The full map can be viewed in the <a href="http://www.largeimages.bgs.ac.uk/iip/mapsportal.html?id=1004448" target="_blank">BGS Maps Portal</a>.</span><br />
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Carte géologique du terrain entre le lac d'Orta et celui de Lugano. Leopold Buch. [1829].<br />
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An image of the full map can be found <a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8441798m" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Leopold_von_Buch" target="_blank">Christian Leopold von Buch</a> (1774 – 1853) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first Foreign Member of the Geological Society of London.<br />
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<a href="http://todayinsci.com/B/Buch_Leopold/BuchLeopold-FoundersOfGeology(1897).htm" target="_blank">A biography of Christian Leopold von Buch</a><br />
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scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-49208221958582477112015-09-08T21:09:00.000+01:002015-09-08T21:09:25.807+01:00Eruptive rocks of Brent Tor by Frank Rutley, 1878.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhzoibESfXqvNvy2Qad_1kOAr_medGveGeUGLfu8OqJY5PrgiTDQmdi2EUYiw2qclWdP0sgULWOXOsLktcLRxMN4fgz0mS4R5DK17rQzy2tqPrOp8cqfw4irjiGmnVBjLdKMcTe1NrQg/s1600/pet003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=" Plate VIII. Basalt with glassy magma mainly devitrified. Brent Tor, North-west side of the foot of the Tor, Magnification x55." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJhzoibESfXqvNvy2Qad_1kOAr_medGveGeUGLfu8OqJY5PrgiTDQmdi2EUYiw2qclWdP0sgULWOXOsLktcLRxMN4fgz0mS4R5DK17rQzy2tqPrOp8cqfw4irjiGmnVBjLdKMcTe1NrQg/s640/pet003.jpg" title=" Plate VIII. Basalt with glassy magma mainly devitrified. Brent Tor, North-west side of the foot of the Tor, Magnification x55." /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plate VIII. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basalt with glassy magma mainly devitrified. Brent Tor, North-west side of the foot of the Tor, Magnification x55.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'Eruptive rocks of Brent Tor and its neigbourhood' was the first special petrographical work issued by the Geological Survey. It is dated 1878. It denotes a time when microscopic examination of rocks collected during the mapping of new districts became routine. Colour chromolithographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frank Rutley was also the author of Elements of Mineralogy first published in 1874 and still available in print today in its 27th edition!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik9Yq4OULoi1I2YGVmF9TPEw_I3DwkgaYD3twi3F-ERkTvn1BHKRNpkruMI4-E6dzTQWR_D8EOCSxSGd2hA8kYh-piohYafAt6cERU5sClhfVlFpQqkJU8y9OTYr6_Hfh97Gq-FBlymAg/s1600/pet002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Plate IX. 1. Decomposed Greenstone, Greston Bridge. 2. Slate beneath lower Greenstone, Greston Bridge. 3. Elvan, S. end of Shilla Mill Quarry (Polarized). 4.Mag'n. Mica and cavities in Quartz of Granite, Brazen Tor. 5. Fluid cavities containing cubes of NaCl, Brazen Tor. 6. Amygdaloidal Schalstein, Churlhanger, near Lamerton." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik9Yq4OULoi1I2YGVmF9TPEw_I3DwkgaYD3twi3F-ERkTvn1BHKRNpkruMI4-E6dzTQWR_D8EOCSxSGd2hA8kYh-piohYafAt6cERU5sClhfVlFpQqkJU8y9OTYr6_Hfh97Gq-FBlymAg/s640/pet002.jpg" title="Plate IX. 1. Decomposed Greenstone, Greston Bridge. 2. Slate beneath lower Greenstone, Greston Bridge. 3. Elvan, S. end of Shilla Mill Quarry (Polarized). 4.Mag'n. Mica and cavities in Quartz of Granite, Brazen Tor. 5. Fluid cavities containing cubes of NaCl, Brazen Tor. 6. Amygdaloidal Schalstein, Churlhanger, near Lamerton." /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plate IX.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Decomposed Greenstone, Greston Bridge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Slate beneath lower Greenstone, Greston Bridge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Elvan, S. end of Shilla Mill Quarry (Polarized).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.Mag'n. Mica and cavities in Quartz of Granite, Brazen Tor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Fluid cavities containing cubes of NaCl, Brazen Tor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Amygdaloidal Schalstein, Churlhanger, near Lamerton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No. 1 Hornblende, Pyrites and Quartz in Amphibolite, Brazen Tor, Devon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No 2 Schorl in the Granulitic margin of the Granite in contact with No. 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No 3. Pyroxene (probably Diallage) in Gabbro? Cottage Inn, Main Road to Marytavy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No. 4 Titaniferous Iron, partly altered (Gabbro) Cock's Tor, near Tavistock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bo. 1 x55. Nos. 2,3 and 4 x25. ordinary transmitted light. On the surface of No. 4 a little light was also reflected simultaneously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brent Tor. (South side near the base) x25</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brent Tor from Hart's Hall, near Morwellham</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great Staple Tor on the western Margin of Dartmoor (mural jointing in granite).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunken lane, road from Thorncombe Street leading to Godalming via Munstead Heath, Surrey. Looking north-west at the road from Thorncombe Street (2 m. south-east of Godalming) leading to Godalming via Munstead Heath. A sunken lane in Hythe Beds. A section in 15 to 20 ft. of evenly-bedded loamy sand, containing seams of siliceous sandstone up to 3 inches thick. This road-cutting results from the wear caused by wheeled and hoofed transport over the years (before the road was metalled) and the removal of the sandy debris by rainwash and wind etc. on this sloping ground, which lies below the plateau formed by the Bargate Beds at the top of the hill beyond the car. The sunken roads of the Weald are a good example of man as a geological agent. Roads and farm tracks of this type are common over the whole of the Lower Greensand outcrop and in some localities on the outcrops of the Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand the Upper Greensand and the Chalk. All stages of their formation can be seen from simple tracks to cuttings 20 feet deep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunken lane, South Ambersham. Deep sunken lane in Selham Ironshot Sands. These coarse-grained limonite-rich sands are a local development within the Lower Greensand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunken lane approximately 850 m. SSE of Tillington Church. Sunken lane in Lower Greensand sandstones. Pale fawn silty sandstones in Lower Greensand exposed in west side of lane. Fine-grained sands with nodular chert horizons are present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The recent landslip at <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-33939525" target="_blank">Mappleton</a> demonstrates what an active coast Yorkshire has. The pictures from the archive today shows a landslide that happened in June 1993 further up the coast from Mappleton and just south of Scarborough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Holbeck landslide, south of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, attracted considerable interest when it destroyed the four-star Holbeck Hall Hotel between the night of 3 June and 5 June 1993. A rotational landslide involving about 1 million tonnes of glacial till cut back the 60 m high cliff by 70 m. It flowed across the beach to form a semicircular promontory 200 m wide projecting 135 m outward from the foot of the cliff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The likely cause of the landslide was a combination of: rainfall of 140 mm in the two months before the slide took place; issues related to the drainage of the slope; pore water pressure build up in the slope and the geology. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first signs of movement on the cliff were seen six weeks before the main failure, when cracks developed in the tarmac surface of footpaths running across the cliffs. These were filled to stop ingress of water to the cliff, but when the cracks reopened, shortly before the main failure, the council closed the cliff paths below the hotel. At this time a small part of the hotel garden was also observed to have suffered a minor movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was originally 70 m of garden between the hotel and the cliff edge. At 6 am on the 4 June a guest saw that 55 m of the garden had disappeared. The hotel was evacuated and the landslide continued to develop, culminating in the collapse of the east wing of the hotel by the evening of 5 June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The landslide is a rotational landslide degrading to a mud/debris flow which covered the rocks on the beach (platform).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cliff consists of Glacial Till (sandy, silty clay) resting on a low cliff of the Middle Jurassic Scalby Formation. The Scalby Formation comprises Scalby Mudstone and Moor Grit (sandstone).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Post by Bob McIntosh</span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-20566080582181634132015-08-01T22:43:00.002+01:002015-08-01T22:43:24.452+01:00Camborne mining district, Cornwall. 1904<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">View of the Camborne mining district taken from the engine house of Dolcoath Mine. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking E.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the distance, to the right, can be seen Carn Brea. 1904.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-4081902386893224252015-07-26T17:37:00.000+01:002015-07-26T17:37:56.261+01:00Brora coal pit, Sutherland, 1899<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brora coal-pit, 0.8 km. west of Brora. Sutherland. Coal-pit and rock exposures (lower part of the Jurassic Corallian and Oxford Clay). The photograph shows the small colliery workings with a row of cottages to the right. The main seam of the Brora Coal was c. 3 feet 6 inches thick within which was a band of pyrites. This greatly reduced its value. Most coal in Scotland is derived from Carboniferous strata, the Brora Coal is unusual in that it is of much younger Jurassic age. The coal had a strong sulphurous odour, was liable to spontaneous combustion both in the mine and on the spoil heaps or even in transit and it had a high ash content. The history of mining of this coal dates back to 1598 when Jane, Countess of Sutherland opened the first pit. Many other records of mining exist since then. In 1910 output was 6000 tons. The coal raised was used in the immediate neigbourhood, at the brickworks adjacent to the mine, in the Brora Wool Mill which also supplied Brora with electric light and the local inhabitants used it as a domestic fuel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photograph by Robert Lunn, 1899.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oblique aerial view of Craigielaw Point, Aberlady. East Lothian. Looking north-west. Bedded sediments. Lower Limestone Group. The Lower Limestone Group is the uppermost division of the Lower Carboniferous in the district. The strata has a regional dip to the west or north-west of up to 5 degrees, though between Craigielaw Point and Aberlady Point gentle minor folds are superimposed on the larger structure. Note the concrete anti-landing defences from World War 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-50061901726466926712015-06-20T23:39:00.003+01:002015-06-20T23:39:58.171+01:00Coe's Chalk-pit, Bramford, Suffolk 1925<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coe's Chalk-pit, Bramford, Suffolk, 1 1/4 m. N. of railway-station. Looking E. General view of pit. The succession shown is<i> quadratus</i>-chalk, <i>mucronata</i>-chalk (uppermost 30 ft.), Thanet Beds, Reading Beds, Red Crag (?), glacial sands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-47870583050433618812015-06-02T21:52:00.000+01:002015-06-02T21:52:11.185+01:00Agglomerate, Mortonhall Quarry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">The Systematic Series is arranged by Geological Survey 1"/1:50,000 map sheet area. Representative rocks from each sheet were collected or drawn from other collections to make a teaching collection for new Survey field geologists.</span></span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-70984370533606376072015-04-19T18:37:00.002+01:002015-04-19T18:37:40.386+01:00Working Portland Stone <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easton, Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd., Portland. General view of mason's workshop in Portland Stone works. Works of Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd. 1930.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQLj3w89ASJvmA5wgz_RMZhuQlqxwPGTFtbUlpIv1vPW-j1dcZT78QFcPvBG84IkaVSff4cXGwqf5OMRTWEfgP4ARdlZNGx38pFG_9X1b7wUOevalO1agiDOlCP547yOjdYTA5gJ7WU5o/s1600/P204941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Easton Quarry, Isle of Portland, Dorset. There are several quarries in the Easton area working the white freestone limestones known as Portland Stone. In the early 19th century, when many of the quarries were still in the hands of the Crown, they were principally worked by convict labour. Large stone columns are a feature of most classical stone buildings and in later times many British architects copied such classical themes. Portland Stone proved to be ideal for this purpose because the beds of limestone are quite thick. Here a section of stone column is being turned on lathe at the works of the Bath & Portland Stone Company. The section is of 4 ft. diameter, and is one of five constituting a column 25 ft. high. As Portland Stone seems to be less affected by pollution than other United Kingdom limestones it has been widely used in London, particularly since the early 19th century e.g. Custom House, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Bank of England, Whitehall and Downing Street." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQLj3w89ASJvmA5wgz_RMZhuQlqxwPGTFtbUlpIv1vPW-j1dcZT78QFcPvBG84IkaVSff4cXGwqf5OMRTWEfgP4ARdlZNGx38pFG_9X1b7wUOevalO1agiDOlCP547yOjdYTA5gJ7WU5o/s640/P204941.jpg" title="Easton Quarry, Isle of Portland, Dorset. There are several quarries in the Easton area working the white freestone limestones known as Portland Stone. In the early 19th century, when many of the quarries were still in the hands of the Crown, they were principally worked by convict labour. Large stone columns are a feature of most classical stone buildings and in later times many British architects copied such classical themes. Portland Stone proved to be ideal for this purpose because the beds of limestone are quite thick. Here a section of stone column is being turned on lathe at the works of the Bath & Portland Stone Company. The section is of 4 ft. diameter, and is one of five constituting a column 25 ft. high. As Portland Stone seems to be less affected by pollution than other United Kingdom limestones it has been widely used in London, particularly since the early 19th century e.g. Custom House, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Bank of England, Whitehall and Downing Street." /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easton Quarry, Isle of Portland, Dorset. There are several quarries in the Easton area working the white freestone limestones known as Portland Stone. In the early 19th century, when many of the quarries were still in the hands of the Crown, they were principally worked by convict labour. Large stone columns are a feature of most classical stone buildings and in later times many British architects copied such classical themes. Portland Stone proved to be ideal for this purpose because the beds of limestone are quite thick. Here a section of stone column is being turned on lathe at the works of the Bath & Portland Stone Company. The section is of 4 ft. diameter, and is one of five constituting a column 25 ft. high. As Portland Stone seems to be less affected by pollution than other United Kingdom limestones it has been widely used in London, particularly since the early 19th century e.g. Custom House, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Bank of England, Whitehall and Downing Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easton, Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd., Portland. Hand-carving in Portland Stone. Only straightforward work such as that on ashlar and on mouldings is carried out by machine. Finer work is all done by hand. Works of Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easton, Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd., Portland. Stack of finished masonry in Portland Stone. The diameter of sections of fluted columns in foreground is 4 ft. Works of Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-24630809140345117162015-04-06T20:52:00.001+01:002015-04-06T20:52:29.611+01:00China-clay works, Devon and Cornwall<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lantern China-clay Works, near Rescorla, St. Austell. Looking SW. View of lower part of clay-pit. This photograph, taken down in the pit, shows the stream of water, by which the clay is washed out of the decomposed granite travelling down the stope and from thence through the sand-pits to the 'bottom hole launder', whence it is pumped to the surface. The sand-pits are only partly visible in the photograph, but the annexed diagram shows the direction of flow of the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China clay workings, Great Pit, Lee Moor, south Dartmoor. General view of china clay-pit showing systems for disposal of waste sand; (1) right, old inclined railway to large 'burrow', and (2) left, new covered conveyor belt to small burrow (sited on ground having low clay yield). China clay is formed by the kaolinization of granite, a process of late hydrothermal alteration where acid solutions moved along the joints in the granite and caused the plagioclase feldspars to be converted to kaolinite. The name kaolin comes from the mountain Kauling in China where the material was discovered. Large scale exploitation began in the 18th century. Recently the industry has become intensively mechanized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span></div>
scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-6246813396523252182015-03-15T17:56:00.002+00:002015-03-15T17:56:49.985+00:00Odd rocks of the Scilly Isles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJh74_fh3ppWFspiz_F0q_lJQ-u64LALgHnyl9_3UAxjm-DEzVoQWT35j81viG7xsdNY7mSbZ_6qdJcLhRNQR56dQ2XvkWDR_QxvuD5eluNZPE9blWkHOnprTisVx4WerWVWHrxJgksU/s1600/LoadedCamel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJh74_fh3ppWFspiz_F0q_lJQ-u64LALgHnyl9_3UAxjm-DEzVoQWT35j81viG7xsdNY7mSbZ_6qdJcLhRNQR56dQ2XvkWDR_QxvuD5eluNZPE9blWkHOnprTisVx4WerWVWHrxJgksU/s640/LoadedCamel.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BGS Image ID: <a href="http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=68484" target="_blank">P241716</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'Loaded Camel' St. Mary's.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">BGS Image ID:<a href="http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=68499" target="_blank"> P241720</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'Nag's Head' St. Agnes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">BGS Image ID: <a href="http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=68488" target="_blank">P241717</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 'Punch bowl' St Agnes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A series of photographs taken by R.H. Preston illustrating weathering of granite. The photographs were donated to the British Association for the Advancement of Science Collection. Photographs are dated 1895.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See also<a href="http://britgeoheritage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-drum-rock-st-marys-scilly-isles.html" target="_blank"> 'The Drum Rock'</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-81910924574924725082015-02-23T19:09:00.004+00:002015-02-23T19:09:38.543+00:00Geology in a tin - Campbeltown Sandstone<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCsVD4tr2XnvymJx3kCyVJFma5RA83bZsnQXA5M2ezA-esReRWJg_N_TpsD_8vOfSAcHnEgLeWusQA9MEP4gsh3ulNFF6-v_t-QjZ0j4gJvKAPXDNLXyOsiPjflACg7HjnvgCxJBCtbo/s1600/CapbeltownSand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="This specimen is probably from the Campbeltown Sandstone, of Carboniferous Limestone Coal Group age. It was worked by the Campbeltown Coal Company Limited at the Argyll Colliery, Machrihanish, as a sandstone that was ground for furnace hearth sands. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7420. The sandstone was worked by stoop and room and in places large galleries were opened up to work the full c. 63 feet thick sandstone. The rock was first holed and then the blasting charges were inserted some way up the working face. The rock was crushed at the pit but not washed. The Campbeltown sand was used as a substitute for Belgian sand for lining the Siemens-Martin steel furnaces; also for steel and iron castings and for glass making. In 1918 it was reported to be transported by light railway to Campbeltown, shipped to Glasgow, places on the Ayrshire seaboard, Workington, Cumberland and a certain amount exported to Calcutta." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCsVD4tr2XnvymJx3kCyVJFma5RA83bZsnQXA5M2ezA-esReRWJg_N_TpsD_8vOfSAcHnEgLeWusQA9MEP4gsh3ulNFF6-v_t-QjZ0j4gJvKAPXDNLXyOsiPjflACg7HjnvgCxJBCtbo/s640/CapbeltownSand.jpg" title="This specimen is probably from the Campbeltown Sandstone, of Carboniferous Limestone Coal Group age. It was worked by the Campbeltown Coal Company Limited at the Argyll Colliery, Machrihanish, as a sandstone that was ground for furnace hearth sands. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7420. The sandstone was worked by stoop and room and in places large galleries were opened up to work the full c. 63 feet thick sandstone. The rock was first holed and then the blasting charges were inserted some way up the working face. The rock was crushed at the pit but not washed. The Campbeltown sand was used as a substitute for Belgian sand for lining the Siemens-Martin steel furnaces; also for steel and iron castings and for glass making. In 1918 it was reported to be transported by light railway to Campbeltown, shipped to Glasgow, places on the Ayrshire seaboard, Workington, Cumberland and a certain amount exported to Calcutta." /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BGS Image ID: <a href="http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=101639" target="_blank">P527640</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This specimen is probably from the Campbeltown Sandstone, of Carboniferous Limestone Coal Group age. It was worked by the Campbeltown Coal Company Limited at the Argyll Colliery, Machrihanish, as a sandstone that was ground for furnace hearth sands. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7420. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sandstone was worked by stoop and room and in places large galleries were opened up to work the full c. 63 feet thick sandstone. The rock was first holed and then the blasting charges were inserted some way up the working face. The rock was crushed at the pit but not washed. The Campbeltown sand was used as a substitute for Belgian sand for lining the Siemens-Martin steel furnaces; also for steel and iron castings and for glass making. In 1918 it was reported to be transported by light railway to Campbeltown, shipped to Glasgow, places on the Ayrshire seaboard, Workington, Cumberland and a certain amount exported to Calcutta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span>scotfothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14663788633690660653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186477139042703162.post-84735928584001749062015-02-19T22:39:00.001+00:002015-02-23T14:55:32.437+00:00Sir Roderick Impey Murchison at the Museum of Practical Geology<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISfRV9vRey8ALiT36ivvn5KE1-SYpi0f8IUge_4zHIhjJo6tP0AYUC7Cp3HMieSqIP2eMNqLiuejsR0zaH-ncmqDgWuYZ5BFXGhztW2bt_92kSlvOEDPGPcHYnu71ZwWksprTISGosWk/s1600/Murchison.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Photograph. Written on the back of the photograph is ' Sir Roderick Murchison (restoration)'." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISfRV9vRey8ALiT36ivvn5KE1-SYpi0f8IUge_4zHIhjJo6tP0AYUC7Cp3HMieSqIP2eMNqLiuejsR0zaH-ncmqDgWuYZ5BFXGhztW2bt_92kSlvOEDPGPcHYnu71ZwWksprTISGosWk/s800/Murchison.jpg" title="Photograph. Written on the back of the photograph is ' Sir Roderick Murchison (restoration)'." /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> BGS Image ID: <a href="http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=34338" target="_blank">P640912</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written on the back of the photograph is ' Sir Roderick Murchison (restoration)'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be interesting to find out the story behind the mannequin - who was the wag who perpetrated this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, London. c1855 -1900 GSM/MG/E/5.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posted by Bob McIntosh</span><br />
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