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Gardiner complex, Kangerlussuaq complex, Kangerlussuaq Firth, Tunu (East Greenland) Province, Greenland

Latitude: 68°36'39"N
Longitude: 33°12'43"W
Melilitolite- and carbonatite-bearing ultramafic alkaline complex.

References

- Nielson, T.F.D. (1980) The petrology of a melilitolite, melteigite, carbonatite and syenite ring dike system, in the Gardiner complex, East Greenland. Lithos: 13: 181-197.
- Petersen, O.V. and Secher, K. (1993). "The minerals of Greenland (Gardiner)." Mineralogical Record, 24(2),pp:1-65.
- Mineralogical Magazine: 61: 197–212.
- Nielsen, T.F.D., Solovova, I.P. Veksler, I.V. (1997): Parental melts of melilitolite and origin of alkaline carbonatite: Evidence from crystallized melt inclusions, Gardiner complex. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 126–124, 331–344.
- Johnsen, O. (1999): Gardiner komplekset i Østgrønland: en spænende mineralforekomst. Bergverksmuseets Skrift 15, 5-9 (in danish)

Mineral List

Aegirine
Albite
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Anatase
Andradite
Antigorite
'Apatite'
Arfvedsonite
Augite
Baryte
Barytolamprophyllite
Biotite
Calcite
Cancrinite
Catapleiite
Cebollite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chromite
Clinochlore
Clinohumite
var: Titanclinohumite
Diopside
Dolomite
Eckermannite
Eudialyte
Haüyne
Hematite
Hydroxylapatite
Ilmenite
Kaersutite
Katophorite
Lamprophyllite
'Lamprophyllite-2M'
'Lamprophyllite-2O'
Larnite
Loparite-(Ce)
Lorenzenite
Magnesio-arfvedsonite
Magnesiohastingsite
Magnetite
'Melilite'
Microcline
Monticellite
Natrolite
Nepheline
Nosean
'Olivine'
Pargasite
Pectolite
Perovskite
Phlogopite
Pyrite
Quartz
Schorlomite
Sodalite
Sphalerite
Strontianite
Tenorite
Titanite
Tremolite
Vermiculite
Vesuvianite
Vishnevite
Xonotlite
Zircon


66 entries listed. 56 valid minerals.

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