Dunure coast, Dunure, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UKi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Dunure coast | Coast |
| Dunure | Village |
| South Ayrshire | Council Area |
| Scotland | Country |
| UK | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
55° 24' 20'' North , 4° 45' 44'' West
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Ayrshire
This locality has been a well-known collecting area for many years. It comprises the beaches and fields in the countryside south of Ayr extending around the small coastal fishing village of Dunure.
The agate-bearing rocks comprise a crescent shaped area of land about 5 miles long lying around the Carrick Hills, stretching north to the Heads of Ayr and south to Croy Bay, varying in width from 3 to 4 miles inland. The Old Red Sandstone lavas are exposed here on the beaches and at some inland sites and comprise hundreds of sequential lava flows varying in thickness from a few to more than a hundred feet.
Dunure has been a centre for agate collecting since at least the early nineteenth century and accounts of the area highlighted the coloured stones that could be found there. Agate and jaspers from here were extensively used in Scottish Pebble jewellery in the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, because of its easy accessibility, it became a favourite destination for collectors and lapidary club outings from Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Source: http://www.agatesofscotland.co.uk/ayrshire/dunure%20area/dunurearea.html
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Agate Formula: SiO2 |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony Formula: SiO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Quartz var. Agate | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | var. Chalcedony | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Agate | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Agate | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
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Dunure coast, Dunure, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK