Scawt Hill Traditional Cache
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Scawt Hill Co. Antrim
This site is not suitable for children.
There are 100 foot vertical drops and very steep ground.
You should be capable of moving on steep loose slopes.
Large plastic tub with various items, pencil and logbook.
Parking at around
N54º53.818
W005º55.648
Scawt Hill achieved international recognition through the researches and publications of C.E. Tilley. As a mineral site it yielded not only new minerals, notably larnite, hydrocalumite, rankinite, portlandite, and scawtite, but many rare ones in unique parageneses. Similar occurrences were identified at other localities worldwide and many of the research workers visited the Co. Antrim site.
The high temperature formation of the silicate minerals and their subsequent hydration, mirrored the industrial manufacture and use of cement. Again industrial mineralogists and chemists visited this natural counterpart to their own work.
The origin of alkali and alkali basic igneous rocks is still a highly contentious issue; Tilley was able to prove, most convincingly, that limestone assimilation could produce a differentiation series of basic igneous rocks markedly undersaturated and enriched in alkalis but on a very restricted scale. This contribution to petrogenesis was appreciated worldwide.
With the development of more sophisticated methods of mineral analysis it is inevitable that many more new and rare minerals will be found in the Scawt Hill rocks.
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Jvgu lbhe onpx gb onfnyg pyvss snpr gur pnpur vf nccebk ba n
erirefr ornevat bs 92º gbjneqf 2 ynetr fgbarf ba gur bgure fvqr bs jnyy. Gurer vf n fznyy gerr nobhg 20 srrg nobir tebhaq, pnpur vf nobhg 15 srrg yrsg.