Latitude: 49°28'10"N
Longitude: 9°2'41"E
Steinbruch am Michelsberg, Katzenbuckel, Eberbach, Odenwald, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
A quarry in sodic shonkinite, which was abandoned in 1974. The lower levels are flooded, but shonkinite and nephelinite are still well exposed in the back wall (northwestern side) of the quarry. In the southwestern wall, veins of tinguaite, tinguaite porphyry and alkali trachyte crop out.
References
- Frenzel, G. (1953): Die Erzparagenese des Katzenbuckels im Odenwald. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 3(6), 409-444 (in German).
- Der Aufschluss (1977): 6, 226.
- Lapis (1980): 7/8: 41-43.
- Nickel, E., and Fettel, M. (1985): Odenwald. Sammlung geologischer Führer Vol. 65, 2nd ed., Bornträger (Berlin, Stuttgart), 231 pp.
- Stahle, V., Koch, M., McCammon, C. A., Mann, U. & Markl, G. (2002): Occurrence of low-Ti and high-Ti freudenbergite in alkali syenite dikes from the Katzenbuckel volcano, southwestern Germany. Canadian Mineralogist 40, 1609-1627.
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