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A Sandstone with Fluorspar Cement and other Sandstones from West Cumberland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. P. Lewis
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SOME time ago Mr. Charles Edmonds provided me with a number of sandstones of Carboniferous age from West Cumberland to compare with the sandstones of the Peel Series in the Isle of Man. These specimens proved to have an interest peculiar to themselves which it is the purpose of this note to describe.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 68 , Issue 12 , December 1931 , pp. 543 - 557
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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page 544 note 1 For an account of the Lower Carboniferous succession in the district, reference should be made to the paper by MrEdmonds, C. on “The Carboniferous Limestone Series of West Cumberland,” Geol. Mag., LIX, 1922, 74–83 and 117–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar. I am indebted to Mr. Edmonds also for supplying the details from which the sections (Fig. 2) have been constructed.

page 547 note 1 Summary of Progress for 1927, Geol. Surv. of Great Britain, 23–36.Google Scholar

page 547 note 2 Loc. cit., 33.

page 549 note 1 Mem. Geol. Surv. Spec. Rep., Haematites of West Cumberlend, etc., 2nd ed., 1924, 36.Google Scholar

page 549 note 2 This is paralleled by the deposition of calcite and dolomite crystals on quartz, or on quartz and specular haematite in many loughs.

page 550 note 1 It is of interest to observe that Mr. Dixon records the following mineral sequence in a lough, “Kidney-ore, specular iron ore, quartz, fluor.” Summary of Progress, 1928, 31. By this sequence the fact is again emphasized that the fluorspar solutions were at work later than the haematite solutions.

page 550 note 2 A heavy mineral separation was made from two samples of Brockram supplied by Dr. B. Smith from the east side of the Egremont Road near the Bigrigg Fault (Geol. Surv. Mem., Haematite, 2nd ed., 1924, 41–2). No fluorspar was found, but both specimens gave a very heavy crop of barytes, which tended to obscure the presence of other heavy minerals; these, however, included zircon, rutile, tourmaline, magnetite (as rounded grains), and staurolite. One specimen yielded gypsum, together with a small fragment of kidney-ore and of a rugose coral, which had been converted into iron-oxide. The presence of staurolite is of interest as this mineral has not been found in the underlying Carboniferous rocks of the district. Both the gypsum and the barytes appear to be present as authigenous minerals.Google Scholar

page 550 note 3 Finlayson, A. M., “The Metallogeny of the British Isles,” Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., lxvi, 1910, 281.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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page 550 note 5 Mem. Geol. Surv. Spec. Rep., Lead and Zinc Ores of Northumberland and Alston Moor, 1923, by Smith, Stanley.Google Scholar

page 551 note 1 This information was supplied by Mr. C. Edmonds, who informs me that “fluorspar occurs at Langhorn in the First Limestone, the sandstone below, the Second Limestone and at the top of the Orebank Sandstone”. In the last instance the sandstone sometimes contains hollow spheres of haematite within which Mr. Edmonds has found cubes of fluorspar. These spheres are of concretionary origin and many of them contain no fluorspar. Other occurrences of fluorspar in West Cumberland are mentioned by Mr. Dixon (op. cit., 1928, 31).

page 551 note 2 The occurrence of stalagmites and stalactites composed of fluorspar and barytes in a cave on the Bailey property, Madoc, Ontario, is recorded by Wilson, M. E., Geol. Surv. Canada, Econ. Series, No. 6, 15 and 67.Google Scholar

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page 557 note 2 Barrett, B. H., Geol. Mag., 1929, 480.Google Scholar

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