Hatrurim (Hatrurim Basin), Negev, Israel
Latitude: 31°12'6"N
Longitude: 35°17'0"E
Largest (and central) area of exposure of the Hatrurim Formation (qv), west of the south end of the Dead Sea.
(Note that not all specimens labelled "Hatrurim" are really from this locality, but are often geological shorthand for the Hatrurim Formation and may have come from any of the several other localities where this formation outcrops in Israel and Palestine; see locality "Hatrurim Formation".)
References
- Sharygin, V.V., Sokol, E.V. & Vapnik, Ye. (2008): Minerals of the pseudobinary perovskite-brownmillerite series from combustion metamorphic larnite rocks of the Hatrurim Formation (Israel). Russian Geology and Geophysics 49, 709-726.
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