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Forsterite from
Pisgah Crater, Lavic, San Bernardino County, California, USA


Locality type:Crater
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Comments:Occurs as phenocrysts in lavas.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pisgah Crater, Lavic, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:641375
Long-form Identifier:1:3:641375:0
GUID (UUID V4):d1d742ec-9014-4f1b-b49a-da1f638a2e87
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
42.2km (26.2 miles) Dish Hill Crater (Dish Hill; Siberia Hill; Siberia Hill Crater), Trojan, San Bernardino County, California, USA
58.0km (36.0 miles) Amboy Crater, Amboy, San Bernardino County, California, USA
66.6km (41.4 miles) New Method Mine, Amboy area, Bristol Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
81.6km (50.7 miles) Superior Valley 014 meteorite, Superior Valley, San Bernardino County, California, USA
93.9km (58.3 miles) Cima Dome, Ivanpah Valley, Ivanpah Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mojave Desert Area, California W ~ S. W i s ~ Geology Department, University of California Santa Barbara,... California 93106 Received April 21, 1969 Abstract. The basaltic lavas erupted throughout the Mojave...(SiO~=48--51% ; ne ~ 0; K 2 0 < 1.0%). One volcano, Pisgah Crater, erupted five times, with lava from each successive...s g a h Crater l a v a field of t h e M o j a v e Desert, s o u t h e a s t e r n California, v a r i...a v e D e s e r t a r e a of s o u t h e r n California (Fig. 1). Most volcanoes lie n e a r or along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90032 Department of...Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 Origin of Lherzolite Inclusions in the...Malapai Hill Basalt, Joshua Tree National Monument, California ABSTRACT dence that the nodules could be the...melting. Alkali olivine basalt at Malapai Hill, California, occurs as a late Cenozoic stock that has intruded...a viable theory for the sequence of lava at Pisgah Crater. Most petrologists agree that basalt forms in
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES RICHARD SACHSE, Director DIVISION OF MINES FERRY...FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO WALTER Vol. 36 W. BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1940 No. CALIFORNIA...MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 85005 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY Of CALIFORNIA DAVIS ] DIVISION...Averill, District Mining Engineer San Francisco Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Los Angeles ...George L. Gary, Mineral Technologist San Francisco John San Francisco F. Bongard, Ore-Buyers' Inspector
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA Abstract. One-atmosphere, anhydrous phase equilibria...crystallization of layered mafic intrusions; he found that forsterite was the liquidus phase for compositions ranging...materials were an alkali basalt from Pisgah Crater, California, and a high-silica rhyolite from a portion...Bishop Tuff exposed in the Owens River Gorge, California. The alkali basalt (sample P-21 of Hughes 1986)...high-silica rhyolite. Numbers next to points give mole% forsterite in olivine, mole% anorthite in plagioclase, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
result of crustal processes. Phenocrysts of high-forsterite olivine (Fo86) from Cerro Overo contain three...The light-colored rock visible partway down the crater walls are outcrops of the Atana ignimbrite. Bottom...microbeam standards Springwater Olivine (Fo83) and San Carlos Olivine (Fo90) olivine were monitored. Melt...the main body of the phenocrysts and the lower-forsterite rims (Milman-Barris et al., 2008). Liquid compositions...deposits on the northern and western portions of the crater rim. Xenolith chemistry and mineralogy matches
Book (volume)
..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Book
Morgantown, West Virginia AP ACADEMIC PRESS New York San Francisco A Subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...Earth Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California H. Kk. Mao (1), Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California JOHN W. SauisBury (117)...portions of the spectrum, * Contribution #2400, California Institute of Technology. 2 P. M. BELL, ...sorption spectrum of plagioclase feldspar from Lake County, Oregon, containing Fe3+ and Fe?*. two lowAbboth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, 93109-9630, USA (reinhard@umail.ucsb.edu) University of Leeds, School...populations (green and brown; each with a distinct forsterite compositions; Fig. 2). For these two samples...for AC CE P major element analysis: synthetic forsterite for Mg and Si, synthetic faylite for Fe, synthetic...xenocrystic mantle olivines. The high CaO at a given forsterite content observed in the olivines examined in...show large variations in olivine forsterite content (olivine forsterite values of 77.6-85.1 [7.5% total
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Johnson, of Napa, California; Norman and Betty Lemkau of Castro Valley, California; Herbert V. Corbett...and Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches...tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big diamond or...Carolina, opals in Idaho and Nevada, jade in California and Wyoming, and agate on many Oregon and Washington
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
explosion craters, many of which presently have crater lakes. Most of the volcanics are tuffs; lavas are...rocks and contains a freshwater lake in its summit crater. Two lava flows occurred to the NE of vents on the...The sample of katungite reported here is from the crater on the left bank of NE section of Katunga Lake...mafurites, sampled on the southern slope of Kyambu crater to the west of Mafuri Lake; 11503 — mafurite from...from the lava flow to the west of the crater Nyungu; 11513 — katungite from the left bank to NE from Katunga
Report (volume)
chim_______ chm.________ Cienc. _______ cient__----_-_ California Catalog central compare with Chapter Chemical...fm________ franc. ___---_ front__--__Ft___..-- Company, County Collections Colorado Commission,Committee Communications...Ind. California Academy of Sciences Proceedings, 4th series, v. 24, nos. 8-11; 26, nos. 1-7. San Francisco...Francisco, Calif. California Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines: Bulletin 129, 136, 139,... 141; Information Circular 34-39. San Francisco, Calif. California Department of Public Works, Water
Report (issue)
and Mineral Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...and Mineral Resources of the Ivanpah Quadrangle California and Nevada By D. F. HEWETT GEOLOGICAL The geology...____________ ____ Francis Mine _______________________ California Mine _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ Lead...___________ __ Big Chief Mine __________________ ___ Crater group ____________________ --Nonmetallic resources...Geologic map and sections of the Ivanpah quadrangle, California-Nevada ________________________________ In pocket
Report (issue)
U, S. A . • • - I • • • • STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...DIVISION OF MINES .. FRA.NCISCO FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO 11 OLAF P. JENKINS, Chief BULLETIN 176...176 DECEMBER 1957 MINERAL COMMODITIES . OF CALIFORNIA • GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND...Bureau of Mines United States Geological Survey California Institute of Technology • • ( 3 ) • • ...Xatural enYironment of the mineral resources of California, by Olaf P. Jenkins ______________________________________
Journal (issue)
town is located near the western edge of Morrill County which is in western Nebraska. Flowing south of...collected are very similar to those from Sweetwater County, Wyoming. These are dear chalcedony with small...Ultra-Violet Products, Inc., of South Pasadena, California , announces two P-ew models of lamps with greatly...heard about them except Mr. C. S. Knowlton in California. The National Museum in Washington has six specimens..." mushers" of Ontario and the gold seekers in California, by contrast, moved about freely and found water
Book (volume)
colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...up to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ...the Southern Onyx and Marble Company of San Diego, California, furnished information and a photograph...photograph on the calcite onyx deposits of Baja California. Owen H. Perry of Marine Minerals, Inc., formerly of...Iowa. The fine photographs of pearling in Baja California waters are from the files of the well-known
Report (volume)
Presses de California Acad. Sci. Proc. Francisco, Calif. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences...Sciences. San California Dept. Water Resources Bull. Bulletin. Sacramento, Calif. California Department...Resources California Div. Mines and Geology Bull. Bulletin. San Francisco, Calif. California Division...and Geology California Div. Mines and Geology County Rept. Geology County Report. San Francisco, Calif...Calif. California Division of Mines and California Div. Mines and Geology Map Sheet Geology Map Sheet
Report (issue)
listed on pages A259-A264. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies listed on pages A211-A215...______________________ _ Pacific Northwest__-__------_-_--------California. --___ __________-__-___----__Nevada.---____..._ Oregon_____ __ ______________-_--__-_---___ California.-.- _ _____________________________ Alaska __...Geologic investigations.-.___________________ 135 San Andreas fault system________________ 135 Geophysical... -.-..._-----_-_--__ .______.___._..___ State, county, and municipal-____________________ Other cooperators--___
Report (issue)
A253-A258 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...Mineralization and structure- ____________ Coal in San Juan Basin _ _ -___________-- m Al 1 i i 7 7 7 9...____ Oregon ________________________________ California. _____________________________ Idaho- _ __ _________...cooperators_-____ ---------_____-____ 209 State, county, and municipal cooperaters__________ 209 Other...silver-gold mining district in northwestern Elko County, has revealed evidence leading to a revision of
Report (volume)
Association of Engineering Geologists. University of California. Berkeley, Calif. Assoc. Fran~aise Etude Quaternaire...Canada. California Acad. Sci. Proc. Francisco, Calif. Les Presses de Proceedings of the California Academy...Sciences. San California Dept. Water Resources Bull. Bulletin. Sacramento, Calif. California Department...Resources California Div. Mines and Geology Bull. Bulletin. San Francisco, Calif. California Division...Mines and Geology California Div. Mines and Geology Map Sheet Geology Map Sheet. San Francisco, Calif
Report (issue)
listed on pages A253A258. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies listed on pages A205-A210...--------------------39 Nevada -----------------------------40 California ---------------------------41 IIawaii and Guam...structural geology _______ _ Nevada and eastern California ________ _ Utah --------------------------------Arizona... Oregon ----------------------------------97 California -------------------------------Klamath Mountains..._______________ _ 98 99 Sierra Nevada -----------------------San _Joaquin Valley ___________________ _ 99 100 Alaska
Report (issue)
listed on pages A263-A268. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...____----_ _ Pacific Northwest _ __________----__-- _ California _ _____________-_-_------_--_ Nevada _______...________________ Arizona. _________________________ California....-------- -------- _ _ Columbia Plateau and...cooperators-____-_______-__-___-__-__-__ State, county, and municipal cooperators---------Other cooperators...sists of banded botryoidal coatings of brown high- County, Ariz., and as much as 600 ppm Re was coniron sphalerite
Report (volume)
Abdei-Gawad, Monem; Silverstein, Joel. Displacement of San Andreas by active transverse faults [abs.]: EOS,... W. 0. Tertiary climatic change in San Joaquin basin, California Evidence from shallow-water mollusks...gastropods and biostratigraphy of the Kern River area, California: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 642, 174 p., illus...Tertiary paleoclimatic trends in the San Joaquin basin, California: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 644-D... George G. The Metaline district, Pend Oreille County, Washington, [Chap.] 6 in Lead-zinc deposits in
Book
Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A Biography) Jay Ellis Ransom...HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London 1817 Portions of this book have...in L.\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia...possible by Howard and Hazel Michael, of Y reka, California, who opened their home and rock museum to me...not unlike the hordes who sailed from Seattle and San Francisco for the Klondike and Alaska thirty-one
 
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