Zermatt - Saas Fee area, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

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Gebiet Zermatt - Saas Fee, Wallis, Wallis (Valais), Schweiz (Suisse; Svizzera)

The Zermatt - Saas Fee ophiolite complex is a fragment of the Tethys oceanic lithosphere.
Pillows are frequent within deformed metabasalt (eclogite and blueschist association).
Greenschist facies overprints parts of the ophiolite.
Coeval blueschist-eclogite facies is characterized by omphacite-garnet-glaucophane-clinozoisite-dolomite-Mg chloritoid-talc-paragonite-phengite-chlorite assemblage.
Notable is the presence of margarite, paragonite, barroisite and preiswerkite.

Mineral List

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Actinolite Albite var: Pericline 'Albite-Anorthite Series' Alleghanyite 'Almandine-Pyrope Series' Amphibole Supergroup var: Byssolite Analcime Anatase Andradite var: Demantoid var: Melanite Antigorite 'Apatite' Arsenopyrite Augite Awaruite Axinite-(Fe) 'Axinite Group' Azurite Barroisite Bearthite (TL) Berlinite Beudantite Braunite Brucite Calcite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Chloritoid Chrysocolla

Chrysotile Clinochlore var: Pennine Clinochrysotile Clinohumite var: Titanclinohumite Clinozoisite Cookeite Copper 'Crossite' Cuprite Diaspore Diopside Dolomite Enstatite Epidote Fluorapatite Fluorite Forsterite Gahnite Galaxite 'Garnet' Glaucophane Grossular var: Hessonite Hausmannite Heazlewoodite 'Heulandite' Jacobsite Jadeite Jarosite 'K Feldspar var: Adularia'

Kyanite Lansfordite Laumontite Lazulite Magnesiochloritoid (TL) Magnesite Magnetite Malachite Manganosite Margarite Meta-autunite Metatorbernite Metazeunerite Morenosite Muscovite Natrolite Nesquehonite Nickelhexahydrite 'Olivine' Omphacite Paragonite Pentlandite Perovskite 'Phengite' Phlogopite Piemontite Prehnite Preiswerkite Pyrite var: Bravoite Pyrophyllite

Pyroxmangite Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Milky Quartz var: Rock Crystal Rhodochrosite Rhodonite Roscoelite Rutile 'Saussurite' Schorl 'Serpentine Group' Siderite Spessartine Sphalerite Spinel Stellerite Stibiocolumbite Talc 'Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series' Tenorite Tephroite Titanite 'Tourmaline' Uraninite var: Pitchblende Uranophane Vesuvianite Zincostaurolite (TL) Zircon Zoisite

125 entries listed. 98 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

Switzerland Wallis (Valais) Zermatt - Saas Fee area Matt Valley Barrhorn series outcrops Embd Kalpetran Quartzite quarries Grächen St Niklaus Flüe Gasenried Bordierhütte Stalden Stägjitschuggen tunnel Törbel Täsch Valley Mellich glacier (Mellichen glacier) Pfulwe Sparrenflue Weingarten glacier Z´Muttlentschuggen Zermatt Findel glacier (Findeln glacier; Findelen glacier) area Flue Alp Rimpfischwäng range Strahlhorn Gorner glacier area Breithorn Gornergrat Grenz glacier Klein Matterhorn (Chli Matterhorn) Lichenbretter Pollux

Switzerland Wallis (Valais) Zermatt - Saas Fee area Matt Valley Zermatt Gorner glacier area Riffelhorn (incl. Gagenhaupt; Gakihaupt) Schwärze (Schwärze glacier) Stockhorn Hohtälli ridge Metapelite outcrops Stockchnubel Theodul glacier Triftji (Triftji glacier) Plattelen Riffel Alp Triftkumme Zmuttbach Valley Grande Dixence power station Schwarzsee lake Monte Rosa massif Saas Valley Saas Almagell Allalin area Allalin glacier Allalinhorn Chessjen glacier Egginer (Egginerhorn) Mittaghorn Saas Fee Fee Glacier Eastern moraine Felskinn Point 2790 Spielboden area Längflue (Längfluh) Gletscher Alp