WebSafe 3.7mindat.org
|
|
🏠
Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral QuizTime Machine
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Saponite from
Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Saponite
Formula:Ca0.25(Mg,Fe)3((Si,Al)4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Saponite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1000229
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1000229:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Saponite
14.6km (9.1 miles) ⓘBoyleston Quarry, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cornwall; 2 from Somerset; 1 from Cheshire; 2 from Scotland; and 2 from Ireland). Geographical distribution...minerals: of the 287 minerals listed, 121 are from Scotland; 116 244 H. G. M A C P H E R S O N from England...64 are from England (48 from Cornwall); 35 from Scotland; 19 from Ireland; and 7 from Wales. The remaining...Pennines and northern England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc. When this has been done the way ahead will...checking references in publications unobtainable in Scotland, and for confirming the existence of certain specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(55) III.—Chapters on the Mineralogy of Scotland. Chapter Sixth.— " Chloritic Minerals." By Professor...P 56 PROFESSOR HEDDLE ON THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND. which plug the steam-holes of amygdaloids :—the...or new. PEOFESSOE HEDDLE ON THE MINEKALOGY OF SCOTLAND. 57 remarks (' Microskopische Beschaftenheit...characteristic of diabase; and those who look in Scotland for chlorite in rocks in all other respects entitled...rocks. 58 PROFESSOR HEDDLE ON THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND. The members of first are not decomposed by chlorhydric
Book (volume)
with Prase. ; - Mor, purple. Ladder road and west side of the Dee, on the right of the Strath...greenish-grey. south-west of Ben Vuroch, Blair Athole, earthy, banded brown and grey. Fifeshire west side of Largo...Barlocco LIBRARY CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND Printed by Nfill and Company, Limited, Edinburgh...JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...specimens from almost every known mineral locality in Scotland, and made several hundred analyses. In addition
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bowlingite have led to redesignation of this mineral as saponite. nlBrnoos on INvnsrrcarroN X-ray powder photography...chlorite, nontronite, saponite, and vermiculite. Average chemical analyses,all of saponite from shallow intrusions...composition, Ied them to redefi.nebowlingite as saponite. Other r-ray powder studies of minerals fitting...vwS vwS wS l.t. Bowling Quarry, Dumbartonshire,Scotland.Joint-filling. 14. Bowling Quarry, Dumbartonshire...intrusions were obtained from Bowling Quarry, Dumbartonshire, Scotland (type locality of "bowlingite";
Book (volume)
"TOlVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited...Pyrites. DRAWN! eV DR HCDDLE THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...Stereograms of Gypsum, & and c Projections, Map of Scotland, Index to the one- inch Ordnance Survey . . ... Orthoclase. J . G. GOODCHILD. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND, VOL. II. OXYGEN SALTS. II. A. SILICATES....the junction of the Ailnack and the Avon, on the west bank of the former stream, with Entile and Chlorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
peripatetic mineral dealers, who for some years visited Scotland, systematically to mislead their cus­ tomers as...and away the largest collection of minerals in Scotland ; he was the contemporary of Macculloch, Thomas...Campsie Hills ; and he stated that in the south-west of Scot­ land there was but one locality for the...such are perhaps the most showy minerals found in Scotland, I have made repeated search, both over the bleak...cant that during one or other of his visits to Bowling quarry (extending over a period of iive-and-forty
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
beyond. Ben Lomond and the mountain ranges to the west, as well as the Campsie fells and the Ochils, were...influence of a great fault which runs from east to west along the northern face of the Cathkins. This fault...the south, at an angle of about 75 degrees. In the west side of the rock, the pillars gradually coalesce... These beds form the rock termed " Osmund" in Scotland, and which is so often referred to by old writers...as a similar mineral found in the dolerite of Bowling quarry, an analysis and description of which may
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dunmore 25 Bonnethill Road Pitlochry PH16 5 E D , Scotland I D E N T I F Y I N G M I N E R A L S N A M E...Robertson is director of the Resource Use Institute in Scotland. He is also the author of over 150 publications...1877, 1:154) was later regarded as a synonym for saponite, but P . Gay and R . W . LeMaitre (Amer. Miner...Leadhill mines i n Lanarkshire Strontian, Morven Mull Scotland Strontian, Argyll Susanna mine, Leadhills Tobermory...Tobermory B a y , Mull Torbane H i l l , near Bathgate Bowling on the Clyde T A B L E 2: Obsolete Mineral Names
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
likely to be a magnesium-rich smectite, such as saponite (Ehlmann et al. 2018). The VIR observations also...processes or mobilized by impactinduced heating (Bowling et al. 2016). While hexahydrite (MgSO4.6H2O) was...process, but is converted into Mg-serpentine and saponite clays, while the iron is released to combine with...secondary assemblage is composed of the four minerals saponite, antigorite (or, in practice, another Mg-serpentine...(e.g., Howard et al. 2011). The most abundant saponite is Na-rich prior to exchange with ammonium. Ksaponite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differing only for the Mg/(Mg + Fe) ratio, and all are saponite (Fig. 7). In contrast, the finer grained smectites...palagonitized glass (Pal). The large vesicle consists of saponite (Sm). (C) Vesicles in the altered glass consisting...inner portion containing smectitic flakes (Sm, saponite) and often calcite in the core. Apatite (Ap) may...LT—lapilli tuff; VD—volcanic diamictite. Mg saponite 591.85 LT 600.05 T 615.44 VRS 622.83 VD 641.44...volcanic glass within all types of sediments are all saponite (trioctahedral smectite) with variable Fe/Mg ratios
Book
36445 Apex Ridge, Roe/call, Inverness-shire, Scotland J.R.Hawkes, R.J.Merriman, R.R.Harding & D.P.F...13, p. 67. Eckermannite (Cotype) BM 1949,00151 West of road between Norra Karr & Kaxtorp, Granna, Lake...p. 503. --ïżœ ._J ïżœ - Griffithite, var. of saponite (Cotype) BM 1923,01023 Griffith Park, Los Angeles...Gleann Cosaidh, Loch Quoich, Inverness-shire, Scotland A. Livingstone (1980) Min. Mag. 43, p. 833. Junitoite...(Part of Holotype) BM 1950,003 1 1 Wolgidee Hills, West Kimberley, Western Australia R.T. Prider (1939)
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
608 AuszĂŒge. Dies entspricht der Formel: I wo = UK^ 4- III + -APe + + A ^ I + hC^ + tVC« und...seinem Fundort, dem Grubendistrict von Penwith in West-Cornwall, benannte Mineral ist dunkel bernsteingelb...Analysen schottischer Glimmer (Chapt. on the Min. of Scotland. Ch. 5. The Micas; with description of Haughtonite...und Terwandter Mineralien (Chapt. on the MiQ. of Scotland. Ch. 6. »Chloritic Minerals« ^—Ebenda). Der Verf...Wasserverlust bei 100«. (s. die Tabelle S. 631.) n. Saponite. 1) Delessit aus den BlasenrĂ€umen eines Mandelsteins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hill were found fine Specimens of volcanic ash, saponite, bowlingite, & c , &c. Some of t h e party proceeded...o special ones were arranged, as undernoted:— Bowling, on Saturday, 23rd March, 1889, under t h e conductorship... w h i c h stretches for some distance east and west. A fault here brings t h e Lower Carboniferous measures...boniferous limestones and shales of the W e s t of Scotland, mounting them in slides for t h e microscope
Book
are Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy; and Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom. Obsolete Synonyms: analcidite...QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. DOMINANT TRAPEZOHEDRON WITH...of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada; Glasgow region, Scotland, and England, U.K; Italy; U.S.S.R; and Michigan...(filled with clay inclusions), are found on the coast, west of Masset, Graham Island, in the Queen Charlotte...vesicular basalt flows in the Buttle Lake area, west of Campbell River, in the central part of Vancouver
Book
are Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy; and Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom. Obsolete Synonyms: analcidite...QUARRY, BOYLSTONE QUARRY GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. GLASGLOW, SCOTLAND, U.K. DOMINANT TRAPEZOHEDRON WITH...of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada; Glasgow region, Scotland, and England, U.K; Italy; U.S.S.R; and Michigan...(filled with clay inclusions), are found on the coast, west of Masset, Graham Island, in the Queen Charlotte...vesicular basalt flows in the Buttle Lake area, west of Campbell River, in the central part of Vancouver
Book (edition)
geological firsts and de\'elopments emerging from the UK that set a new standard for others to follow. Together...conservation remain enshrined in the constitution of UK museums. Informed senior management realise the benefits...History). NMS National Museum of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland). NMW National Museum Wales...Somerset and Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Mereheud quarry, East Cranmore, Somerset Merehend...Rogerley, Diana Maria, Lady Annabella, Greenlaws and West Boltsburn mines, \Veardale, Co. Durham, and from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
approximately 90 9 40 km in size, located ~20 km west of crater Tafakula (within the “orange medium region”;...et al. (2011). c Fe-bearing, Mg-rich serpentine/saponite intergrowths as studied by electron beam analysis...are specified as Fe-bearing, Mg-rich serpentine/saponite intergrowths (Tomeoka 1990; Brearley 1992; Zolensky...regolith by impacts on ice-bearing bodies, but Bowling et al. (2016) determined via simulations that maximum...74:4881–4892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.05.020. Bowling T. J., Ciesla F. J., Marchi S., Johnson B. C.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and even for phases such as montmorillonite and saponite. Ehlmann et al. (2017) found from laboratory experiments...Ermakov A. I., Raymond C. A., Williams D. A., Bowling T. J., Preusker F., Park R. S., Marchi S., Castillo-Rogez...1016/j.icarus.2009.04.008. Castillo-Rogez J. C., Bowling T., Fu R. R., McSween H. Y., Raymond C. A., Rambaux... Bland M. T., Ammannito E., De Sanctis M. C., Bowling T., Schenk P., Scully J. E. C., Buczkowski D. L...serpentine (i.e., like antigorite or chrysotile). Saponite occurs in hydrothermal veins in serpentinite and
Report (issue)
Ancud (San Carlos) on the island of Chiloe, off the west coast of South America. ing to Dana (1892), it is..., BOWLINGITE. A name given to a mineral from Bowling-on-the -Clyde described and named by Hannay (1877)...(1877). Heddle in 1879 showed this mineral to be saponite. Hannay, J. B. (1877) On bowlingite, a new Scottish...154-157. Heddle, M. F. (1879) The mineralogy of Scotland, saponite Trans., vol. 29, p. 91-102. p. BRAMMALLITE...term for a material which seems to have included saponite, at least in part. He remarks that it was used
Book
the basalts of Dunbartonshire, Glen Farg, Renfrewshire and other localities of Scotland; - in the augite...Betz 1981). Faroes: in the basalts of Naalso. Scotland: in the basalts of Skye (see also Sweet 1961);...mesolite/scolecite, (3) stilbite, (4) laumontite. Scotland: in the basalts of Talisker, Skye, and of Staffa...thomsonite for a mineral from Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, in honour of T. Thomson. One year later...Zeolites Fig. 1.2D. Lamellar thomsonite from Skye, Scotland (SEM Philips, x 500) ~iX ! ! ! DO : ! i 'Ii
Book (edition)
Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...parts of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain. The
Book
GRIFFITH . ( Six sheets.) 1854. Stanford's Map of Scotland. ( Six sheets.) Reynolds's Geological Atlas of..." WIGHT, ISLE OF 78 77 MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND ABERDEENSHIRE 81 81 . ARGYLESHIRE . ISLANDS...OF 85 85 CONTENTS . MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND— (continued ). PAGR CAITHNESS CLACKMANNANSHIRE...counties, like the Malvern Hills, or Cairn Gorm in Scotland, are referred to the several counties in which...slight difference of a prefix, such as New , East, West, Great, &c. This important distinction being frequently
Book (edition)
Mitchell of Truro, to Mr. Lavin of Pen zance , for West Cornish localities ; and to Dr. Forster Heddle ...100. Lithomarge. GENERAL CLASSIFICATION . 101. Saponite. 102. Kaolin . Genus 5. SILICATES VITA Bo RATES...Rev. W. Cumming, at Beary in the Isle of Man. Scotland . At Craigman coal -mine, near New Cumnock in...Wigan in Lancashire, Lesmahagow in Lanark shire, and West Wemyss in Fife. 5 COAL . Analyses of Cannel...Lithomarge . GENERAL CLASSIFICATION . Genus 5. 101. Saponite. 102. Kaolin . 103. Pinite. Group 2. Non -ALUMINOUS
Book (edition)
produce the superb calcite and baryte specimens from West Cumberland, has declined to a shadow of its former...Professor of Chemistry at St Andrews Uni\'ersity, Scotland, and tireless collector and analyst of Scottish...Scottish minerals. Author of 11le mineralogy of Scotland', published posthumously (1901), and of many papers...Penzance, from 1847 or earlier. Fine specimens from West Cornwall, also from abroad brought home by Cornish...Mitchell of Truro, to Mr. Lavin of Pent:ance, for West Comish localities; and to Dr. :Forster Heddle ‱of
 
Mindat.orgÂź is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. MindatÂź and mindat.orgÂź are registered trademarks of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2026, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph and Ida Chau.
To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844. doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: February 23, 2026 23:09:12
Go to top of page