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Calcareous Tufa from
Mono Lake, Mono County, California, USA


Locality type:Saline Lake
Classification
Species:'Calcareous Tufa' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Glendoniteā“˜1 photo of Calcareous Tufa associated with Glendonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcareous Tufa data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mono Lake, Mono County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:269642
Long-form Identifier:1:3:269642:3
GUID (UUID V4):3c2cba31-8935-44b2-808b-017197375a3e
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (chapter)
signature but also by some comparable features. Lake margin bioherms form continuous belts for hundreds...water discharge and substrate topography. Fluvial tufa barrages, cascades and terraced slopes are controlled...hydrothermal, karstic freshwater and evaporative lake carbonates. Carbonate precipitation results from...and will be summarized in this section. The term ā€˜tufaā€™ addresses the products of calcium carbonate precipitation...and bacteria (Pedley 1990; Ford & Pedley 1996). Tufa depositional models have been proposed for fluvial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
China La^e, California Age and Origin of Topography Beneath Mono Lake, a Remnant Pleistocene Lake, California...California Abstract: Mono Lake, lying at the base of the eastfacing escarpment of the Sierra Nevada in eastcentral...eastcentral California, is a highly saline remnant of a previously much larger and nearly 800-foot-deeper...800-foot-deeper lake of late Pleistocene age. It has the following parameters: surface area, 77.2 square miles;...southwestern, western, and northwestern floors of the lake. At depths greater than about 90 feet, however,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fossilization mechanisms of sand tufa endolithic microbial community, Mono Lake (California) Virginia Souza-Egipsya...University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, USA b Servei de Microscopia...communities living in lake shore sand tufa formations in Mono Lake (California) has been observed using...Cyanobacteria; Silica precipitation; Biomineralization; Tufa 1. Introduction Two different approaches have been...shores of an alkaline salt lake at California. Mono Lake is famous for the tufa towers (Council and Benneth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mixing of shoreline springs and lake water, Mono Lake, California, USA JAMES L. BISCHOFF,I SCOTTSTINE...Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA 2Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, California State University... Hayward, CA 94542, USA ā€˜INSTAAR, University of Colorado,Boulder, CO 80309, USA (Received September 2...along the south shoreline of Mono Lake where shoreline springs mix with lake water. Ikaite precipitates...and is incorporated into tufa, but most is dispersed by wave action into the lake where it reacts to form
Report (volume)
13 A CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE THINOLITE OF LAKE LAHONTAN. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...Eliot Lord. Published. V. Copper-bearing Books of Lake Superior, by Prof. E. D. Irving. Published. VI....Nevada, with atlas, by Arnold Hague. In preparation. Lake Bonneville, by G. K. Gilbert. In preparation. Dinocerata:... 3 pi. Price, $1.50. V. Copper-bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, by Prof. R. D. Irving. 1883. 4Ā°. xvi,...Meridian of 76Ā° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S.Williams
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fractionation in a high-alkalinity lake system: Mono Lake, California Laura C. Nielsen a,ā‡‘, Donald J. DePaolo...Center for Isotope Geochemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States c...growth, but natural alkaline lake systems such as Mono Lake, California provide a test bed for the hypothesized...hypothesized stoichiometry dependence. Mono Lake has a Ca2Ć¾ : CO2 3 activity ratio of about 0.0001, seven...measurements of streams, springs, lake water, and precipitated carbonates from the Mono Basin that yield evidence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stromatolites seen in modern "flats" environments and tufa occurring in joints in the graniteā€”gneiss basement...rate of burial during growth of the laminae. (e) Tufa Joints, up to 50 cm wide, on the exposed granite-gneiss...lamination coats pebbles filling the fissures. Rarely, calcareous material mayfillthefissureentirely. Outwards...of fluctuations of water level. Certain thin calcareous silt and limestone units with inter-laminated...1963), the Bahamas (Roehl, 1967), the Great Salt Lake (Carozzi, 1962) and the Essex marshes (Greensmith
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
........................................ 385 California.......................................................... 386 Volcanic eruption in northern California........................................................................................... 462 Lake terraces (old)..................................................................... 471 Tufaceous lake beds..............................................glacier south of Chaix hills (No. 544). Abandoned lake beds, south side of Chaix hills (No. 555). Yahtse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
he was employed mainly on the northern shore of Lake Superior. He published in 1857 a work entitled ā€œ...Burlington, Verm ont. Dip 15Ā°-20Ā° E. The water is Lake Champlain. Ju ly , 1889. 12. Overthrow of Cambrian...just north of Burlington, Vermont. The water is Lake Champlain. Ju ly , 1889. Downloaded from http://pubs...1889. 14. A u Sable chasm in Potsdam quartzite near Lake Champlain, New York. Ju ly , 1889. 1st view. 15... 1886. 48. Cliffs in Topm anā€™s gulf, Jefferson county, New York. Lorraine rocks; U tica shale with interbedded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
biologically related phosphate mineral, from Mono Lake, California, U.S.A. Hexiong Yang,1,* HenrY J. Sun,2...(mainly calcite and aragonite) substrates in Mono Lake, California. The mineral occurs as radiating clusters...shoreline of Mono Lake, California. Mono Lake, located in the hydrologically closed Mono basin, eastern...eastern California, U.S.A., is known for its outstanding biological and geochemical features (Wiens et al...al. 1993 and references therein). This terminal lake currently consists of a hypersaline (84ā€“92 g/L), alkaline
Report (chapter)
those from the Eocene Green River Formation of the USA, are extremely rare (Osmond 2005). More interest...example, extreme lake level oscillations are typical of closed lake basins; the current lake level in the...the Great Salt Lake in Utah is the result of a more than 280 m fall in just 14 ka. Diagenetic processes...processes are far less well understood in lake carbonates and a range of unfamiliar minerals, both primary and...facies models are also currently lacking and whether lake carbonate factories are capable of producing the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of kerogen in a Recent bottom mud from Mono Lake, California: a comparison with selected ancient kerogens...a Recent bottom mud (< 1OOOyrold) from Mono Lake, California, has been analyzed by vacuum pyrolysis-(X-MS...the Belingwe and Transvaal stromatolites. The Mono Lake kerogen consists mainly of cyclic and acyclic...compounds, most notably 2,5-dimethylfuran, in the Mono Lake kerogen indicates a relatively rapid formation...ā€˜proto-kerogenā€™ in algal mats from Laguna Mormona, Baja, California. They found that this ā€˜immatureā€™ kerogen is not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pioneers trekking westwards from the Mississippi to California. Theirjourney took only four months. Todayā€™s...an educational tour with a leader who knows the county. A tour can be run in several different ways...Possibilities for these are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver (Fig. 1). Air...Dam; LA, Los Angeles; LV, Las Vegas; M, Moab; Mc, Mono Craters; MeV, Mesa Verde; MoV, Monument Valley;...Phoenix; Sc, Sunset Crater; SF, San Francisco; SL, Salt Lake City; Y, Yosemite; Z, Zion Canyon. GEOLOGY TODAY
Report (issue)
alpine landscape in the Ruby Mountains. Liberty Lake in the foreground. Photograph by Jeff Munroe, Middlebury...2014. Trip 3. Photograph showing view of Mono Lake at South Tufa looking west to the Sierra Nevada Mountains...Survey, May 1, 2011. Trip 4. Photograph showing Butte Lake from trail on northeastern shore near Butte Creek...volcanogenic setting (Lassen Volcanic National Park, California), in Rosen, M.R., compiler, Sixth International...Preface Limnogeology is the study of modern lakes and lake deposits in the geologic record. Limnogeologists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA Department of Chemistry, Analytical, Environmental...Microbial carbonates from Marion Lake (Australia, Ī“53 Cr ā‰ˆ 0.99%) and Mono Lake (USA, ā‰ˆ0.78%) display significantly...biological effects. We select two types of microbialites (tufa and stromatolites) from different environmental...(stromatolites) or tufa, the latter of which precipitate due to the influx of Ca-rich (stromatolites) or tufa, the...submerged springs springs into alkaline (Mono microbialite Lake) [30,37]. We from investigated intosubmerged
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in Great Britain Biogeochemistry of Mono Lake, California WALTERE. REED Department of Earth and Space...Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, U.S.A. (Received 15 October 1976; accepted...revisedform 21 April 1977) Abstract-Modern sediments of Mono Lake show marked variation in lipid composition with...near-shore environments. In the deepest part of the lake, sediments exhibit a combination of externallyderived...externallyderived constituents, and lipids derived from the lake biota; the latter characterized by low molecularweight
Report (issue)
mineralized areas of the Walker Lake 1Ā° x 2Ā° quadrangle, California-Nevada By H. L. Cannon, Sara Trimby............... Santiago mine, Copper Mountain, California....................... Molybdenum-copper........................ Star City molybdenum mine, California............................ Molybdenum.............................. Bertha Hall lead mine, California................................ Tungsten....................... Flying Cloud tungsten mine, California........................... Chromi um-ni ckel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
now widely recognized that limestone formation in lake settings may give rise to a wide range of carbonate...finally alluvial environments. Two transgressive lake sequences, one late Miocene and one Pliocene, are...r o u p of locally derived gravels, basalts, and lake silts (Malde and Powers, 1962; Malde, 1987)ā€¢ The...much the same form as they did on the Chalk Hills lake floor during Miocene time. Interpretation Excellent...processes during carbonate deposition along this Miocene lake margin. In a stratigraphic context, the occurrence
Report (issue)
........ 1 DAY 1--SANBRUNO TO PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA............................................ ............ 15 Stop 1.5~Coalinga Mineral Springs County Park (Lunch Stop)................. 17 Stop 1.6-Cholame............ 21 DAY 2--PASO ROBLES TO PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA....................................................... 29 DAY 3--PALMDALE TO MAMMOTH LAKES, CALIFORNIA...................................... 32 Summary.............. 33 Stop 3.1--Garlock Fault at Koehn Lake................................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
precipitation took place in palustrine pools related to tufa-like spring systems and in alluvial swamps under...carbonates. The lacustrine-palustrine carbonates and calcareous palaeosols form distinct lithological entities...become problematic. The genetic definitions of ā€œtufaā€ and ā€œtravertineā€ are based upon water temperature...Capezzuoli et al. (2014) suggested that the terms ā€˜tufaā€™ and ā€˜travertineā€™, which imply circumstances that...precipitates (formed at elevated water temperature) from tufa NU carbonates (ambient temperature) precipitated
Report (issue)
Searles Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California Professional Paper 1727 U.S. Department of the...Searles Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California By George I. Smith Detailed geologic maps of...the 150-2 ka Searles Lake Formation, described and named herein. The Searles Lake Formation is divided...units known from drill cores in now-dry Searles Lake, in the center of the valley. Together, these surface...Searles Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1727
Report (issue)
OWENS, SEARLES, AND PANAMINT BASINS, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA. By HOYT S. GALE. INTRODUCTION. The salt-incrusted...valley floor commonly known as Searles Lake, in southeastern California, has lately come into prominence through...features of the lake history and the deposition of the salines through the drying up of the lake waters are...what is now the desert region of southeastern California. These flood waters passed from Owens Valley...CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1913, PART I. sive lake. Finally the waters are believed to have overflowed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Propulsion Laboratory,USA, 2Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, USA, 3University of Wisconsin,USA 1Jet Organic...1University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, USA, 2Stanford University, USA Andrew D. Aubrey1...Jeffrey L. Bada1 1Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA Searching for evidence of extinct or extant life...3University of Bergen, Norway, 4Utah State University, USA Leah Bug1, (leahbug@psu.edu), Lisa Brown1, Pamela...Center, USA, 2SETI Institute, USA, 3Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, 4Thermal Biology Institute, USA, 5University
Book
UJ]fol Ge1 IN DEATH VALLEY AND OWENS VALLEY LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE LIBRARY AND MFIDIA SERVICES...| Sharp, Valley Lake Tahoe Community College Library & Media Services So. Lake Tahoe, CA 96150 GEOLOGY...OWENS VALLEY Robert P. Sharp and Allen F. Glazner LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE UBRARY AND MFDIA SERVICES...94'87ā€”dc21 1. Glazner, Allen F. 2. Geologyā€”Californiaā€” II. Title. 97-37924 CIP Printed on recycled...who taught me about the geology of eastern Californiaā€”Clem Nelson, Steve Lipshie, and my coauthor.
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interesting contribution to the paleoecology of calcareous blue-green algae across the Meso-Cenozoic boundary...algae are abundantly found in the cavities of calcareous skeletons of a variety of organisms ranging from...Porostromata. The Spongiostromata referred to calcareous algal bodies showing no organic or "cellular"...second group was named Oncolithi and referred to calcareous nodules lying freely on the substrate. The "Family"..."Family" Porostromata was created for calcareous algae characterized by the presence of calcified tubules
 
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