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Almandine from
Dusky Sound, Fiordland National Park, Southland District, Southland Region, New Zealand


Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Comments:Occurs in a partially metamorphosed ultrabasic rock which was probably a hornblende olivine gabbronorite prior to metamorphism. Microprobe analysis provided in reference.
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Ion Microprobe
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dusky Sound, Fiordland National Park, Southland District, Southland Region, New Zealand
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:853188
Long-form Identifier:1:3:853188:9
GUID (UUID V4):4a11ac55-c964-4c24-ad26-aeeaf1efbbdc
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 125th ANNIVERSARY...1865 -1990 NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 104 ISSN 0077-9628 Minerals of New Zealand by G. L....initials should be G.T., not G.L. Lower Hutt, New Zealand 1990 I I Beach sand, alluvium, • terrace...Figure 1. Simplified geological sketch-map of New Zealand. 0 20 40 60 80 100 KM l INTRODUCTION It...Morgan's "Minerals and Mineral Substances of New Zealand" was published, as NZ. Geological Survey bulletin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arc – Fiordland, New Zealand N. R. DACZKO,1 L. A. MILAN1 AND J. A. HALPIN1,2 1 GEMOC ARC National Key Centre...continental magmatic arc now exposed in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand, record remarkably different P–T–t histories...the Fanny Bay Group and Deep Cove Gneiss near Dusky Sound. Integrated petrography, mineral chemistry, mineral...the sample of the Fanny Bay Group south of the Dusky Fault records a Carboniferous history with peak...magmas including the voluminous high-P Western Fiordland Orthogneiss, yet they lack mineralogical evidence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism caused by magma loading in Fiordland, New Zealand E . H. B RO WN Department of Geology, Western...granulite facies metamorphism in the Fiordland area of New Zealand has distinctive mineralogical, textural...time with a large plutonic complex, the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss (WFO). Although temperatures and pressures...mechanism of ‘magma loading’ has been invoked. In Fiordland, the high-pressure metamorphism can be explained...loading; New Zealand. I N T RO DU C TI O N The Fiordland Complex, lying in the south-west part of New Zealand
Book
UC-NRLF NEW ZEALAND of department Geological Survey Branch (P. G. Morgan, Director). LIST...LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, BY P. O. Issued MORGAN AND under the authority of the Hou, J...Z. JOHN MACKAY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER 1913. NEW ZEALAND-!, n Department jfe 5j Geological Survey...Morgan, Director). LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, P. Issued O. MORGAN AND under the authority...Minerals . . ... LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND INTKODUCTION. FOR many years there has been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
adjacent to the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand A. H. ALLIBONE, 1 L. A...2620, Australia (rodinian@msn.com) 2 GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary...Private Bag 1930, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand ABSTRACT In southwest New Zealand, a suite of felsic diorite...diorite intrusions known as the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss (WFO) were emplaced into the mid to deep crust...suite (Malaspina Pluton) between Doubtful and Dusky sounds. New mapping shows intrusive contacts between the
Book
411 • New Hebrides NewCaled~ • • Norfolk I. Lord Howe I. • SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN SEA NEW ZEALAND...BASIN I , .. The Geological Structure of New Zealand a volume in the REGIONAL GEOLOGY SERIES edited...Oligocene, Landon Limestone Photograph: New Zealand National Publicity Studio photo J'ublished GEOLOGY...STRUCTURE OF NEW ZEALAND J . T. Kingma I , • THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF NEW ZEALAND JACOBUS T. KINGMA...Wiley-lnterscience Publication JOHN WILEY & SONS New York• London• Sydney• Toronto I \ • ' Copyright
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Progressive Regional Metamorphism in Southern New Zealand. By F. J. TURNER, University of Otago, Dunedin...regional metamorphism in the southern portion of New Zealand have been published. In the following pages a...distribution, the metamorphic rocks of southern New Zealand may conveniently be divided into three groups:—...the heads of Lakes Metamorphism in Southern New Zealand. 161 Wakatipu and Wanaka. On the south-west...the high grade of metamorphism attained in that district. (3) The south-western corner of the island from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lower crust of a Cretaceous magmatic arc, Fiordland, New Zealand H. STOWELL,1 K. ODOM PARKER,1 M. GATEWOOD...Dunedin Research Centre, GNS Science, Dunedin, New Zealand 3 Laser Ablation ICP-MS Facility, United States...granulite facies mid-to lower crust in Fiordland, New Zealand, provides evidence for pulsed intrusion...facies Doubtful Sound shear zone provide the oldest known age for extension in Fiordland at ≥112.8  2...metamorphism of the Pembroke Granulite in northern Fiordland; therefore, high-P metamorphism and partial melting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cretaceous polybaric granulite terrain, Fiordland, southwest New Zealand J.Y. Bradshaw* Department of Geology...Dunedin, New Zealand Abstract. Regionally extensive two-pyroxene granulites in Fiordland, southwest...southwest New Zealand, are products of metamorphism of a suite of anhydrous magmas which crystallized two pyroxenes...of the terrain. The Phanerozoic granulites in Fiordland share some petrologic similarities with Precambrian...extensive ( ~ 2500 km 2) granulite terrain in Fiordland, New Zealand (Fig. 1), is a notable exception. It consists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Fiordland, New Zealand C. M. Weno Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand...incompletely reconstituted metatroctolite from Fiordland, New Zealand. It occurs in complex assemblagesincluding...Cr2O3is also recorded from a mafic metatuffrom Fiordland. Introduction In their thorough review of staurolite...metamorphosedlayered basic intrusion in central Fiordland, New Zealand. The staurolite is unusually low in iron...complex polymetamorphic terrane in the Dusky Sound area of Fiordland, 20-40 km southwest of the localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kyanite-bearing regional aureole, George Sound, New Zealand G. L. CLARKE,1 J. A. FITZHERBERT,1* L. A...Australia (geoffrey.clarke@usyd.edu.au) 2 GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary...ABSTRACT The George Sound Paragneiss (GSP) represents a rare Permo-Triassic unit in Fiordland that occurs as...gabbroic and dioritic gneiss of c. 120 Ma Western Fiordland Orthogneiss (WFO). It is distinguished from Palaeozoic...Palaeozoic paragneiss common in western Fiordland (Deep Cove Gneiss) by SHRIMP and laser-ablation U–Pb
Book (volume)
Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1988. All rights...of Geology University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo...University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Division of Marine and...and Freshwater Sciences, DSIR Wellington, New Zealand Present address: CCOP/SOPAC, c/o Mineral Resources...Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand Present address: Bureau of Mineral Resüurces
Report (volume)
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 James Antonio C. Lasaga Geological Laboratory Yale University New Haven...As in any field of endeavor, we are provided with new questions, thereby dictating future directions of...Ribbe to sainthood. Derrill M. Kerrick University Park, PA September 3, 1991 ili TABLE Page ii iii...focused on reactions responsible for the formation of new minerals that were not present in the protoliths...of the Cooma Grano- Wz Australia, The diorite, New South Wales, y Lia OUTER MELTING ZONE (MIGMATITE
Book (volume)
(ROSENBUSCH, N. Jahrb. 1872 , 59 ). b) Waterville , New- Hampshire. Ebenfalls hierher gehörig wegen seiner...Lyle's Hill in Antrim County. c) Im Yellowstone National Park , Wyoming, kommen Fayalitkrystalle nach J. P...wahrscheinlich auch Fayalit nach Fig. Fayalit aus dem19. National-Park W. E. HIDDEN (Am. Journ. Science III. 1885,...Vorkommen. a) Franklin und Sparta , Sussex Co. , New Jersey, am Mine Hill und Stirling Hill. Wurde von...zersetzen. Vorkommen. Stirling Hill, Sussex Co., New Jersey, zusammen mit Willemit, Franklinit , Jeffersonit
 
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