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Veatchite from the Permian evaporites of Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

F. H. Stewart ,
R. A. Chalmers  and
R. Phillips
F. H. Stewart
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Science Laboratories, University of Durham
R. A. Chalmers
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Science Laboratories, University of Durham
R. Phillips
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Science Laboratories, University of Durham
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Some years ago a few small grains of an unknown mineral were separated by F. H. Stewart from well cuttings from the Permian lower evaporite bed of the Eskdale no. 2 borehole, sunk by the D'Arcy Exploration Company near Aislaby, north Yorkshire. The mineral (not then identified) was mentioned in an account of the mineralogy of this evaporite bed (Stewart, 1949, p. 626). Flame tests suggested that boron and strontium were present, and this was confirmed by Dr. R. L. Mitchell of the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research in Aberdeen, who, by spectrographic work, found that these were the main constituents, and that very much smaller quantities of Ca, Mg, Ba, Na, and K were present.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 30 , Issue 225 , June 1954 , pp. 389 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © 1954, The Mineralogical Society

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