(Steinbruch Michels (einschl. Steinbruch Bous; Steinbruch Geilen), Niedermendig, Mendig, Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland)
A couple of small quarries in the upper Mendig lava flow ("Mendiger Mühlsteinlava"), a nephelinite-leucite-tephrite. The quarries are located in the northern part of Mendig city (Niedermendig), in the area of Hotel Hansa.
Xenolites (sub-volcanites, crystalline schists, Ca-rich rocks).
Individual localities:
- Michels quarry (abandoned)
- Bous quarry
- Geilen quarry
References:
- Nöggerath, J.J. (1841): Zirkon in der porösen Mühlstein-Lava von Niedermendig, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, p 696
- Wolf, Th. (1868): Die Auswürflinge des Laacher-Sees, Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, Vol. XX, pp 1-78
- Brauns, R. (1922): Die Mineralien der Niederrheinischen Vulkangebiete, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart
- Frechen, J.: Sammlung geolog. Führer, Vol. 56, Schweizerbart (Berlin, Stuttgart), 1976
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Map Reference: 50°23'N , 7°17'E
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