Publications
Aluminite and other aluminium minerals from Newhaven, Sussex: the first occurrence of Nordstrandite in Great Britain, by R. D. Wilmot and B. Young, published 1985 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 96 issue 1, article, pp.47-52) View Online
Abstract:The aluminous minerals aluminite, basaluminite, gibbsite, bayerite and nordstrandite together with poorly crystalline alumino-silicates occur in collapsed Tertiary sediments filling solution pipes in the Upper Chalk at Newhaven, Sussex. They appear to have formed by the reaction between acid groundwater and the Tertiary clays and the Chalk. Similar occurrences elsewhere on the Sussex coast are described.