Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I ON THE FORMS OF THE STRATIFIED ALPS OF SAVOY (1863)
- II NOTES ON THE SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF SOME PARTS OF THE ALPS, WITH REFERENCE TO DENUDATION (1865)
- III ON BANDED AND BRECCIATED CONCRETIONS (1867–1870)
- IV DEUCALION: COLLECTED STUDIES OF THE LAPSE OF WAVES AND LIFE OF STONES (1875–1883)
- V ON THE DISTINCTIONS OF FORM IN SILICA (1884)
- VI CATALOGUES OF MINERALS
- 1 CATALOGUE OF A SERIES OF SPECIMENS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE MORE COMMON FORMS OF NATIVE SILICA (1884)
- 2 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS IN ST. GEORGE'S MUSEUM, SHEFFIELD (1877–1886)
- 3 CATALOGUE OF FAMILIAR MINERALS IN THE MUSEUM OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT (1884)
- 4 CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF SILICEOUS MINERALS GIVEN TO AND ARRANGED FOR ST. DAVID'S SCHOOL, REIGATE, BY JOHN RUSKIN (1883)
- 5 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS PRESENTED TO THE CONISTON INSTITUTE (1884)
- 6 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS SHOWN AT EDINBURGH (1884)
- 7 NOTES ON MINOR COLLECTIONS
- VII THE GRAMMAR OF SILICA (not hitherto published)
- APPENDIX: LETTERS, ADDRESSES, AND NOTES
- INDEX
- Plate section
5 - CATALOGUE OF MINERALS PRESENTED TO THE CONISTON INSTITUTE (1884)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- I ON THE FORMS OF THE STRATIFIED ALPS OF SAVOY (1863)
- II NOTES ON THE SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF SOME PARTS OF THE ALPS, WITH REFERENCE TO DENUDATION (1865)
- III ON BANDED AND BRECCIATED CONCRETIONS (1867–1870)
- IV DEUCALION: COLLECTED STUDIES OF THE LAPSE OF WAVES AND LIFE OF STONES (1875–1883)
- V ON THE DISTINCTIONS OF FORM IN SILICA (1884)
- VI CATALOGUES OF MINERALS
- 1 CATALOGUE OF A SERIES OF SPECIMENS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE MORE COMMON FORMS OF NATIVE SILICA (1884)
- 2 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS IN ST. GEORGE'S MUSEUM, SHEFFIELD (1877–1886)
- 3 CATALOGUE OF FAMILIAR MINERALS IN THE MUSEUM OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT (1884)
- 4 CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF SILICEOUS MINERALS GIVEN TO AND ARRANGED FOR ST. DAVID'S SCHOOL, REIGATE, BY JOHN RUSKIN (1883)
- 5 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS PRESENTED TO THE CONISTON INSTITUTE (1884)
- 6 CATALOGUE OF MINERALS SHOWN AT EDINBURGH (1884)
- 7 NOTES ON MINOR COLLECTIONS
- VII THE GRAMMAR OF SILICA (not hitherto published)
- APPENDIX: LETTERS, ADDRESSES, AND NOTES
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
Carbonate of Lime from the Jura, nearest the Alps, showing fossils and cracks resulting from desiccation.
Carbonate of Lime with Iron Pyrites crystallized on Quartz.
Carbonate of Lime with Sulphides of Lead and Iron on Quartz.
Carbonate of Lime in large and small Crystals with sulphide of lead.
Carbonate of Lime in hexagonal plates.
Carbonate of Lime in small acicular and large twinned crystals, on Galena.
Carbonate of Lime in modified plates.
Carbonate of Lime in acicular and radiating columnar crystals.
Carbonate of Lime in acicular and radiating columnar crystals.
Carbonate of Lime in acicular and radiating columnar crystals.
Fluor spar in cubes beautifully modified on the angles.
Fluor spar in beautifully modified cubes.
Fluor spar, angle fractured, planes beautifully composed of low pyramids with inlaid Quartz.
Fluor spar on Quartz, two cubes curiously combined.
Blue Fluor spar on Quartz, truncate on the angles.
Blue Fluor spar on Quartz, cubes purple in the interior.
Fluor spar and Iron Pyrites on Quartz, cubes purple in the interior and beautifully modified on the angles.
Fluor spar, octahedric, transmuting itself into Chert.
Fluor spar much modified, its substance entirely replaced by Chert.
Large Agate formed in Basaltic rock, and containing crystals of Carbonate of Lime.
Agate showing involutions, natural colour.
Agate showing involutions and tubular centres, natural colour.
Agate showing large involutions, coloured.
Agate, coloured.
Amethyst, with coating of chalcedony on one side.
Chalcedony, becoming agatescent.
Chalcedony assuming Agate form.
Agate in its most complex manner of concretion.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 515 - 518Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1906