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Dolomite from
Limestone quarry, Merchingen, Merzig, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limestone quarry, Merchingen, Merzig, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:362640
Long-form Identifier:1:3:362640:5
GUID (UUID V4):f9682fa6-9187-44d1-a34f-683f08f92cc4
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
4.6km (2.8 miles) Arweiler Quarry, Reimsbach, Beckingen, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany
5.9km (3.7 miles) Copper mine, Düppenweiler, Beckingen, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany
10.8km (6.7 miles) Michelbach Quarry, Großer Horst, Schmelz, Saarlouis, Saarland, Germany
11.4km (7.1 miles) Schartenmühle, Schmelz, Saarlouis, Saarland, Germany
16.2km (10.1 miles) Setz quarry, Steinbach, Lebach, Saarlouis, Saarland, Germany
19.4km (12.1 miles) Manganese mine (incl. Johann Shaft; Jakob Adit), Krettnich, Wadern, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany
24.2km (15.0 miles) Kloppberg Quarry, Kastel, Nonnweiler, Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany
25.1km (15.6 miles) Luisenthal Mine, Luisenthal, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
25.8km (16.0 miles) Göttelborn Mine, Göttelborn, Quierschied, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
25.9km (16.1 miles) Clay pit, Mariahütte, Nonnweiler, Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universität, Albertstraße 23B, 79104 Freiburg i. Br., Germany Université Louis Pasteur (ULP-Strasbourg 1), Ecole...studied transect in Luxembourg, westernmost Germany (Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz), and eastern France (Lorraine...Muschelkalk has been dated with conodonts in a quarry near Wasserbillig (at Moersdorf; Demonfaucon, 1982)...lower evaporite horizon can be correlated from the Saarland (Büschdorf) to eastern France (Sarralbe and Sarrebourg)...gypsum or anhydrite; halite occurs in southern Saarland (Müller and Konzan, 1993) and northern Lorraine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1989 Variscan molasse in the Saar-Nahe Basin (W-Germany), Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian By ANDREASSCHXrE~...aTOM Variscan molasse in the Saar-Nahe Basin (W-Germany) ~apymes~ aa ~O~HOMKpae FyHcpm~aCTaJ~ Kpyue, a... Variscan molasse i.n the Saar-Nahe Basin (W-Germany) 503 o ._1 o "IU Z N D IaJ r~ 2s n I NW~IS...-- Variscan molasse in the Saar-Nahe Basin (W-Germany) Lower Rotliegend and Upper Carboniferous differ...known from the Westfalian of the Ruhr Basin in NW-Germany. They are the so called ,,Kaolin-Kohlentonsteine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extensional setting of the Upper Rhinegraben, SW Germany Katharina Pfaff & Ludwig H. Hildebrandt & David...Zn–Pb–Ag deposit in the Wiesloch area, Southwest Germany, is controlled by graben-related faults of the...Geowissenschaften, Wilhelmstr. 56, 72074 Tübingen, Germany e-mail: markl@uni-tuebingen.de L. H. Hildebrandt...und Umweltschutz, Im Köpfle 7, 69168 Wiesloch, Germany formation waters. The ascending brines originally...of the pore and fracture fluid residing in the limestone aquifer, which had a pH between 8 and 9 in equilibrium
Book
(Lower Ivluschelkalk, Middle Triassic, Southwestern Germany) I-w-,.-ULRICH SCH'wARZ ·' .. E . .Schweizerbart'sche...Diagenese der devonischen und permotriassischen Dolomite in der Eifel (Origin and diagenesis of Devonian...(Lower Muschelkalk, Middle Triassic, Southwestern Germany). By H ANS-ULRJCH SCHWARZ. - II, 100 pages with...Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele u. Obermiller) Stuttgart Printed in Germany by Gebriidcr Ranz, Diecenheim Contr. Se<.limentology...parts of eastern France, Luxen1bourg, southern Germany, and northern Switzerland comprising the southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Intraformational fluid flow in the Thuringian Syncline (Germany) - Evidence from stable isotope data in vein mineralization...Intraformational fluid flow in the Thuringian Syncline (Germany) - Evidence from stable isotope data in vein mineralization...Intraformational fluid flow in the Thuringian Syncline (Germany) - evidence from stable isotope data in vein mineralization...Geowissenschaften, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany Abstract D MA NU SC RI PT Vein mineralization...Mesozoic sediments in the Thuringian Syncline, Germany, was investigated for the first time by petrography
Report (issue)
LIMESTONE AND DOLOMITE IN THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. INTRODUCTION. Both limestone...limestone and dolomite are important from an economic standpoint in the Birmingham district. Limestone is used...used for lime and cement, and both limestone and dolomite are extensively utilized as flux in iron smelting...three distinct limestone formations and one dolomite formation. These are the Bangor limestone, the Chicka'inauga...Chicka'inauga ("Trenton") limestone, the Knox dolomite, and the Conasauga limestone, the highest being named
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cryptic exposure horizons in the Carboniferous Limestone of Portishead, Avon* T. J. FAULKNER Department...lower horizon overlies the Courceyan Black Rock Limestone (mid-ramp facies) and is separated from the upper...subaerial exposure horizons in Belgium and southern Germany, and may be the product of a proposed major eustatic...cycle terminates at the top of the Black Rock Limestone, at what had been previously considered to be...a major nonsequence separated the Black Rock Limestone and the Gully Oolite in southwest Britain. Wright
Report (issue)
Europe. The upper Eifelian fauna of the Dundee Limestone of Michigan, Ohio, and western Ontario, which...Rockport Quarry Limestone, Ferron Point Formation, Genshaw Formation, Newton Creek Limestone, and lowermost...lowermost part of the Alpena Limestone (all the Traverse Group) of Michigan contain a lower Givetian fauna...the upper part of the Alpena Limestone and the Four Mile Dam Limestone, Norway Point Formation, Potter...Potter Farm Formation, and Thunder Bay Limestone (all the Traverse Group) of Michigan lie within the P. varcus
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Coal Measures, Millstone Grit, and Carboniferous Limestone. Though thick in some places they are absent from...different from the beds at the base of the Lower Limestone in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire which are often...but at Thickley Quarry it reaches eight feet. THE LOWER LIMESTONE. The Lower Limestone is thin in the...masses of pure limestone occur in it. One such grey limestone bed occurs among the dolomite in Thickley...but its boundaries where it rests on the Lower Limestone about Trimdon and Coxhoe are at present rather
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analysis. Found in cavities in deformed veins of dolomite carbonatite, Kovdor phoscorite–carbonatite complex...the Slabik company quarry at Üdersdorf (5 km south-southwest of Daun), the Stolz quarry at Graulai (1 km...km west of Schalkenmehren), western Eifel area, Germany. Lengauer, C.L. et al. (2001): Mineral. Petrol...Friedrich Karl Biehl (b. 1887), of Osnabrück, Germany, the first mineralogist to do scientific work on...Crystallography at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Found in a fumarole in the North Breach of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present the theory of the possibility of using limestone sorbents containing carbonate minerals with increased...low magnesium calcite, high magnesium calcite, dolomite and huntite. These carbonate minerals are characterized...with magnesium at temperatures similar to the dolomite decarbonization temperatures, which are, thus...starts earlier and is more effective. Keywords: limestone; carbonate phases; sorbents; desulphurization...high magnesium calcite, protodolomite, ordered dolomite and huntite [1–32]. These carbonate phases were
Book
Southwick Quarry) Hylton Castle Cutting Claxheugh Rock, Claxheugh (Ford) Cutting and Ford Quarry Dawson's...Dawson's Plantation Quarry, Penshaw Humbledon Hill Quarry Tunstall Hills, Sunderland; Maiden Paps and the Tunstall...Plantation Quarry Seaham Stony Cut, Cold Hesledon High Moorsley Quarry Hawthorn Quarry Horden Quarry Blackhalls...Blackhalls Rocks Trimdon Grange Quarry Raisby Quarries 4 North-east England (Yorkshire Province) 13 15...Parks Quarry Moor Newsome Bridge Quarry Micklefield Quarry South Elmsall Quarry Bilham Quarry Cadeby
Report (volume)
quartzite, chert, and conglomerate_______ Limestone, dolomite, chalk, and marble_____________________ Shale...(1912) determined the porosity of many sandstone, limestone, and slate specimens of building stone by saturating...shale, 8.2 percent; sandstone, 14.8 percent; limestone, 5.3 percent; and all sedimentary rocks, 8.5 percent...Southern "Potsdam'' Wisconsin _______ ---------- Quarry _______ _ sandstone. Northern "Potsdam" ____ do...Sandstone.----------------1 Conley, Great Britain _____ Quarry _______ _ 1 ---------5 3. 8 9 .2 7. 8 2.5 1
Catalog/List
hrdownie Quarry specimens. Also "Potato Stones" from the Hendips. 4. ANALCIME.Magheramorne Quarry,Larne...trapezohedral xtls to 3mm. t5 each. 5. ANALCIME.Croft Quarry,Croft,Leicestershire.7 specimens.Specimen A-white....tlO. 16. ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall. Large milky Quartz breccia...tl2. Attractive. 18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten Down Quarry,Calstock,Cornwall. 2 specimens. Specimen A-matrix...SC,t.6. 19. ARSENOPYRITE(CHLORITOID), Penlee Quarry,Newlyn,Cornwall. Quartz fragment encrusted and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
depositional environment. Luminescence of calcite and dolomite requires 20---40 ppm Mn, with the equipments used...leuchten gelb (Taf. 1 - - Abb. 2), w~ihrend b) die Dolomite des anisisehen Paueiforata-Dolomits der Jaggl-Plawen-Einheit...Literatur fiber den Mn-Gehalt eisenarmer Calcite bzw. Dolomite fiber den Grenzbereich zwischen lumineszierendem...zonierten Dolomiten und Calciten Oberskythisehe Dolomite aus der Permotrias der zentralalpinen Jaggl-PlawenEinheit...und dunkelrotbraun leuehtender AuBenzone. Diese Dolomite enthalten durehsehnittlieh 1--8 Gew.-~ FeCO3,
Report (volume)
oolite shoal complex in the Cadeby (Magnesian Limestone) Formation (Upper Permian) of eastern England...the Sprotbrough Member of the Cadeby (Magnesian Limestone) Formation (Upper Permian) of eastern England.... . . . . . 9 19 31 55 63 75 87 103 113 127 Germany J. PAUL. Environmental analysis of basin and schwellen...schwellen facies in the lower Zechstein of Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J...Stratigraphy of the Lower Werra Cycle (Z1) in West Germany (preliminary results) G. RICHTER-BERNBURG. Zechstein
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
below it, that it formed part of the Magnesian Limestone and not of the higher salt measures. It is apparently...up and over newer ones. At Claxheugh the lower limestone divides and part is thrust over middle reef; at...Roker dolomite. C, Concretionary limestone with Filograna bed at the top. Fl, Flexible limestone. S, Shell...Shell limestone reef, including zones A, B, C, and D in ascending order. B, Brecciated rock on east and...and west flanks of the reef. L, Lower Magnesian Limestone with Marl Slate at the base. Y, Yellow Sands.
Journal (issue)
minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local museum...030 ft) and the second is Bergwerk Saar in Saarland, Germany at 1,750 metres (5,740 ft). However, even...talk. Hands-on practical time at the workshop. Limestone-hosted iron ores. The history of production, dating...USA Trade Fair Centre, Munchen-Riem, Munich, Germany. Lady Manners School, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK...Saxony, http://www.freiberger-mineralienfreunde. Germany. de/mineralienboersen.html Holiday Inn, Orange
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bores Middleton Road Bore (West Hartlepool) Chilton Quarry AREA SOUTH OF THE DARLINGTON FAULT MINERAL OCCURRENCES...is described. It is shown that the Magnesian Limestone has been mineralised throughout its entire thickness...Productive Coal Measures under the cover of Magnesian Limestone. Since the publication of that paper, our knowledge...knowledge of the mineralisation of the Magnesian Limestone has been increased as a result of information...a mineralised zone in one of the South Durham dolomite quarries. This additional information is recorded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was written, for the most part, last summer in Germany, and some of the facts were given briefly to Section...observable in South Lancashire, where the Magnesian Limestone with Svhizodus Schlotheirai (the equivalent of...TRIAS OF CENTRAL EUROPE. 391 dolomit of Central Germany) is overlain by the lowest Bunter strata. On this...with breeciated masses of angular fragments of dolomite (now bound ~ogether by a calcareous matrix), before...water-worn (as the upper surface of the Magnesian Limestone is in our northern counties), but the extent to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals in these rocks are calcite, clay minerals, dolomite, glauconite, goethite, gypsum, hema­ tite, limonite...pyrrhotite and other iron sulfides in calcite, barite, dolomite, and quartz in geodes. Other species reported...on {0221}, 4 cm across; Meshberger Stone, Inc. quarry, Bartholomew County. Richard Russell specimen and...largest crystal 3.5 cm across; Berry Materials quarry, Jenn­ ings C o . J . Kielbaso specimen; R . Russell...right): Pyrite, 1.5 cm high; Rensselaer Stone C o . quarry, Jasper County. Vernon Swanson speci­ men; Richard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Triassic dolomite and limestone, 2. Middle and Upper Jurassic limestone, 3. Cretaceous limestone. Barbed...trinity of the Rókahegy Dolomite, the Zuhánya Limestone and the Csukma Dolomite, with their more than 800...geomorphology of the mountain range. The Templomhegy Dolomite is a specific formation of the Villány Hills because...decreasing amount of terrigenous clastics, pure limestone develops; the sequence is terminated by an erosional...Late Bathonian, when a thin bed of sandy, marine limestone was deposited. It is also preserved in local lenses;
Journal (volume)
David I. Green 37 59 The mineralogy of Whitwell Quarry, Derbyshire Peter J. Briscoe, John Chapman, David...Tindle 60 120 Mineralisation at the Steetley Quarry complex on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border...thick evaporite sequences dominate. The Magnesian Limestone has provided building stone for millennia. It...crystallographically fascinating fluorite from Old Towns Quarry near Newton Aycliffe, cannonball calcite concretions...localities around Ferryhill and rose quartz at Hawthorn Quarry near Easington. Minor copper mineralisation is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geosciences, Section 3.3, Telegrafenberg, 14473-Potsdam, Germany b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...chemical study on the origin of co-existing calcite, dolomite, ankerite and sideroplesite in the 2.4 Ga Itabira...itabirites, which are composed of micritic quartz and dolomite with inclusions of nano- and micro-hematite. Nanometric...ferrihydrite clusters are observed in the micritic dolomite. Mineralogical and textural features indicate...early diagenetic hematite nodules intergrown with dolomite. Silica in the ferrihydrite structure increases
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Mesozoic sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, and dolomite rocks of the Morvan Massif in central Burgundy...affecting both the dolomite host rock at Pierre-Perthuis and Marigny-sur-Yonne and the limestone host rock at...(Sizaret et al., 2004; Cathelineau et al., 2012), Germany (Meyer et al., 2000; Schwinn and Markl, 2005; Dill...of mineral assemblages occurring within dolomite, limestone, sandstone, and conglomerate fluorite deposits...fluorite, barite, and quartz deposition in dolomite, limestone, sandstone, and conglomerate. The microthermometric
 
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