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Note on rare twins of Calcite from Somerset
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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The crystals to which this note refers, occur in a quarry in the New Red Sandstone at Bindon, in Somerset, on the property of Mr. H. H. Worthington, and were presented to the Oxford Museum a few months ago by his son, Mr. J. H. Worthington. I have lately had an opportrinity of visiting the locality and examining the mode of occurrence of the specimens.
The crystals have all been obtained from a single, roughly vertical vein in the side of the quarry, which shows an exposure of irregularly alternating beds of red sandstone and conglomerate. The pebbles of the latter consist, for the most part, of a compact purplish limestone, while a few are of greasy-looking quartz.
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- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 13 , Issue 62 , December 1903 , pp. 329 - 330
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1903
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