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Calcite from
Umm Said, Qatar


Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Umm Said, Qatar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:718391
Long-form Identifier:1:3:718391:1
GUID (UUID V4):335f06b7-32fe-4a0d-af54-197259fed33b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (chapter)
University on May 31, 2015 Surficial deposits of Qatar Peninsula M. M. Ashour S U M M A R Y : The present...of a geomorphological mapping of the surface of Qatar. In this work a regional map of the surficial deposits...of aerial photographs and topographic maps. The Qatar Peninsula has been exposed since the Miocene and...deposits may be of a local or exogenous origin. Qatar. Extensive Recent deposits cover most of the area...winters and very hot summers. Physiography of Qatar The Qatar Peninsula is located in the Arabian Gulf at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Natural and depleted uranium in the topsoil of Qatar: Is it something to worry about? Basem Shomar a...Yasir Mohieldeen a a b Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar Foundation, P.O. Box...5825, Doha, Qatar Central Laboratory Unit, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar a r t i c l...r a c t This study examines uranium in soils of Qatar to investigate whether there is any detectable traces...using a 10 km grid system throughout the State of Qatar. The U concentrations and isotopic compositions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Baltres, A. and Medesan, A., 1978. High-magnesian calcite in fecal pellets of Artemia salina from Techirghiol...Sediment. Geol., 20: 281--290. High-magnesian calcite with 28--30 mole % MgCO3 was found in fecal pellets... The crystallization fabric of high-magnesian calcite is equigranular; the poorly defined crystals, 3--5...in diameter. The source of this high magnesian calcite cement was the hypersaline lake water with very...season. INTRODUCTION H i g h - m a g n e s i a n calcite o c c u r r e n c e s are k n o w n f r o m various
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HOLOCENE INTERTIDAL CALCIUM CARBONATE CEMENTATION, QATAR, PERSIAN GULF J. c . M. TAYLOR AND L. V. ILLING...sediments surrounding the Qatar Peninsula, Persian Gulf, contain high-magnesian calcite and aragonite cements...cements. The magnesian calcite appears to occur both as a primary precipitate and as a replacement of aragonite...druse, and pellets by microcrystalline magnesian calcite is accomplished by dissolution and reprecipitation;...feature of the Recent carbonate sands surrounding the Qatar Peninsula. They were investigated in the course
Journal (issue)
four years. However, based on things that have been said and names that have been floated for key positions...1; see “Processes of Dolomite, Evaporite, and Calcite Cement Formation” on p. 8) with relatively high...Pennsylvania and the former partially replaced with calcite) are in one horizon Morgantown lime quarry. The...vugs), now filled with calcite cement, are common. Petrographically, nonferroan calcite spar or fine-grained...calcitic laminations or form a mosaic texture of calcite and type 2 dolomite. The latter Page 5 of 20 Pennsylvania
Book
A Fossil Hunting Guide to the Miocene of Qatar, Middle East A Geological & Macro-Paleontological Investigation...Formation of Qatar A - CONTENTS A - Contents B - Contacting the author C - About Qatar D - Foreword...Environment of Deposition of the Dam Formation in Qatar 3.1 - General 3.2 – Salwa Member (General) 3.2.1...4.0 - The macrofossils of the Dam Formations in Qatar 4.1 – Vertebrates 4.1.1 – Pisces / Fish (Sharks...80 1 Fossils of the Miocene Dam Formation of Qatar 6.0 - Geological features 6.1 - Beachrocks 6.2 -
Book
Sedimentary accretion along the leeward, SE coast of Qatar Peninsula, ey iat Ne einen nee Sears hes atthe Won...Sedimentary accretion along the leeward, SE coast of Qatar Pen- insula, Persian Gulf, in Purser, B. H., ed...aragonite, high-magnesium calcite, and lesser amounts of low-magnesium calcite. Grain size generally decreases...sediments are better sorted and higher in calcite. High-magnesium calcite increases toward the coral cnolls...dual-component sediment, with low- magnesium calcite being the predominant carbonate mineral, although
Book
Sedimentary accretion along the leeward, SE coast of Qatar Peninsula, ey iat Ne einen nee Sears hes atthe Won...Sedimentary accretion along the leeward, SE coast of Qatar Pen- insula, Persian Gulf, in Purser, B. H., ed...aragonite, high-magnesium calcite, and lesser amounts of low-magnesium calcite. Grain size generally decreases...sediments are better sorted and higher in calcite. High-magnesium calcite increases toward the coral cnolls...dual-component sediment, with low- magnesium calcite being the predominant carbonate mineral, although
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bar scale is 0.25 ram. 295 296 (sometimes calcite), rounded buttons of anthraxolite and some sulphide...1976. Geochemistry of tidal flat brines at Umm Said, S.E. Qatar, Persian Gulf. In: B.H. Purser (Editor)
Book
Juwayri dunefield Qishn-west Ra’s Fartaq dunefields Qatar south-eastern dunefield Sinai desert Wadi Araba...Sab’atayn 10.13 Sources of sand for the south-eastern Qatar dunefield 10.14 Sources of sand for the Ramlat al...‘Uyun al Aflaj 15.2.19 Jabrin palaeolake 15.2.20 Umm as Samim xi 347 349 351 351 351 351 353 356 356...Hawa) 15.3 Continental or Inland Sabkhah 15.3.1 Umm as Samim 15.3.2 Sabkhah Fuwat ash Sham 15.3.3 Sabkhah...Jazir 16.2.2 Sahil Jinawt 16.2.3 South–eastern Qatar dunefield 16.3 Coastal Evaporite Deserts (sibakh)
Report (volume)
Mars 337 ASHOUR, M. M. Surficial deposits of Qatar Peninsula 361 MILLINGTON, A. C., JONES, A. R....Department of Geography University of Qatar Doha PO Box 2713 Qatar C.S. Breed US Geological Survey Flagstaff...assist with the mapping of surface deposits in Qatar (Ashour) and for monitoring the processes of sediment...chert-rich gravels cemented by clear crystalline calcite. Many of these old fan sediments have been chemically...gravels in central and eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar to date from late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene sub-humid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gypsum Crystals Formation and Habits, Umm Said Sabkha, Qatar. In Sabkha Ecosystems Volume IV: Cash Crop...Microbially-driven formation of Cenozoic siderite and calcite concretions from eastern Austria. Austrian J. Earth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wide, 200-m drop A, R Singing dunes near Umm Said, Qatar 25◦ 02 19 N, 51◦ 24 25 E Barchan dune...Mountain with sand drift: 500-m wide, 70-m drop A Umm Shumar, Sinai Desert, Egypt 28◦ 17 28 N, 33◦...2010 17:22 minerals in the cemented “glue” are calcite and dolomite. Periodic percolating rainwater through
Book
2MgS04.2Na2S04.5H20 Aragonite ** CaC03 Mg-calcite ** (Mg.CaJCO, Bassanite CaS0..1/2H,0 4 2 Magnesite**...Na2C03.2Na2S04 Nitratite (soda nitre) NaN03 Calcite** CaC03 Nitre (salt petre) kno3 Carnallite...burial) Rare to absent Common to pervasive Calcite cementation related to burial) Anhydrite-halite...carbonates - aragonite, dolomite, low-Mg calcite and high-Mg calcite - and evaporite salts - gypsum, anhydrite...usually composed of aragonite, high- and low-Mg-calcite, magnesite or even primary dolomite. The essential
Journal (issue)
as nonferroan calcite (trilobites and Salterefla) or both ferroan and nonferroan calcite (echinoids and...filled by nonferroan calcite spar, or occasionally a second stage of equant ferroan calcite and dolomite as...preserved as nonferroan calcite or are molds filled by equant ferroan calcite and dolomite or both (ooids...is a spar-filled mold: or 2) rinds of fibrous calcite commonly with fascicular-optic properties or a...stage and retaining original fabric were calcite or Mg calcite; those with a fibrous to microcrystalJine
Report (chapter)
carbonates because Sr is usually incorporated into calcite (Morse & Mackenzie 1990). Generally high Sr concentrations...DEPOSITION related to the relative abundances of calcite in the dolomites (as a common result of diagenesis)...composition, which is non-uniform and includes dolomite, calcite and magnesite (although some Mg may also be concentrated...structures from the precipitation of percolating calcite-saturated waters, resembling structures formed...195–208. Dravis, J. J. 1996. Rapidity of freshwater calcite cementation – implications for carbonate diagenesis
Report (issue)
belt) produced proportionally more high-magnesium calcite or even some dolomite by their biochemical processes...different assemblage of organisms produced mainly calcite, and limestone was the carbonate deposited. Sediments...already containing magnesium in organically secreted calcite matrices. In such evaporative environments, gypsum...water by organisms and deposited as high magnesium calcite must all be significant factors. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION...where its northsouth trace is marked by a coarse calcite-impregnated limestone cataclastic breccia some
Book (edition)
characterized by the study of processes, can be said to have started with the publication of Kuenen ...dissolution such that below a certain depth, the calcite con1pensation depth (CCD), few calcareous particles...lead to supersaturation of surface waters for calcite and aragonite during phases of intense biologica...salinity or environment. Even a rootlet bed cannot be said to have formed in any one environment. It may have...reprecipitated within the soil as siderite, sesquioxides, calcite or sulphates, depending on the pore-water che1nistry
Book
other areas ownership, coupled with it may be said that excellent investors before Thai in this...year to the DMR 30 days of the expiry date of the said In the case where year prospecting in excess...results It provides Provisional within end of the said period through Atchayabat, and other relevant...good potential exploration underlying Coal - calcite- associated diorite of subvertical tuffs Mining... over intrusion. molybdenum partly zonal calcite while rals. tion in DDH13. show strong are
 
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