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Eg (Eeg), Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
Photo: olav revheim
Skarn rocks (marble lenses in gneisses) forming reaction rims around small layers of limestone in the Precambrian granitized migmatite of the Kristiansand area. Vesuvianite has been found in this area (around the Eeg gård (Farm)) since before the 1840s in large, 7-10 cm long crystals. The classical locality, which was recognized as exhausted by 1840 (Keilhau 1840), is today underneath a large hospital building complex, but vesuvianite has in newer time been found in the forest west of the hospital.
Mineral List
| 'Andradite-Grossular Series' Calcite Diopside | Epidote Grossular 'Hornblende' | Meionite Pyrite Quartz | Spinel var: Pleonaste Vesuvianite |
11 entries listed. 8 valid minerals.
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References
- Weiss (1829): Über den Vesuvian von Eeg bei Christianssand. Verh. naturf. Freunde, Berl. 1, 4. Stück, 261 (Excerption by Zepharovich).
- Keilhau, B.M. (1840): Reise i Lister- og Mandals-Amt. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 2:231
- Zepharovich,V.R. von (1864): Kristallographische Studien über den Idokras. Sitzb.Wiener Aka. 49: 116
- Barth, T.F. (1963): Contribution to the Mineralogy of Norway No. 22. Vesuvianite from Kristiansand, other Occurrences in Norway, the general Formula of Vesuvianite. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 43: 457-472.
- Revheim, O. (2001): Vesuvian fra Eg, Kristiansand. STEIN 28 (2): 6-7
- Nordrum, F.S. (2005): Nyfunn av mineraler i Norge 2004-2005. Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrift. 30: 117-124
- Keilhau, B.M. (1840): Reise i Lister- og Mandals-Amt. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 2:231
- Zepharovich,V.R. von (1864): Kristallographische Studien über den Idokras. Sitzb.Wiener Aka. 49: 116
- Barth, T.F. (1963): Contribution to the Mineralogy of Norway No. 22. Vesuvianite from Kristiansand, other Occurrences in Norway, the general Formula of Vesuvianite. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 43: 457-472.
- Revheim, O. (2001): Vesuvian fra Eg, Kristiansand. STEIN 28 (2): 6-7
- Nordrum, F.S. (2005): Nyfunn av mineraler i Norge 2004-2005. Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrift. 30: 117-124
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