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Aragonite from
Moiliili Quarry, Honolulu, Oahu Island, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:White acicular, associated with gismondine.
UV - phosphorescent bluish white.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moiliili Quarry, Honolulu, Oahu Island, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:947397
Long-form Identifier:1:3:947397:3
GUID (UUID V4):60b363be-787b-4368-8328-8559d961822e
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
11.5km (7.1 miles) Kapaa Quarry, Koolau Range (Koolau caldera), Oahu Island, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Keolu Hills, Kailua, Koolau Range (Koolau caldera), Oahu Island, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Puu o Ehu Quarry, Kailua, Koolau Range (Koolau caldera), Oahu Island, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
39.9km (24.8 miles) Laie Concrete Quarry, Lᾱ'ie, Koolau Range (Koolau caldera), Oahu Island, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
51.3km (31.9 miles) Dillingham Quarry, Mokuleia, Waiʻanae Range, Oahu Island, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Science and Technology University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 edecarlo@soest.hawaii.edu T...7192 Kalanianaole Highway Suite A143A-103, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825 bryan@bluecapproductions.com he Hawaiian...highlight some of the important mineral resources of Hawaii and their locations and accessibility, presenting...context. Figure 1. Kaena quarry, viewed from the Kealia Trail, Mokuleia, Oahu. Eric Heinen De Carlo photo...courtesy of John Smith, Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii at Manoa; ages courtesy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zeolitesin a nephelite-melilite basalt exposedin a quarry near lfonolulu has been known since 1900, when...published his acccjunt of the geology of the island of Oahu. The s.pmgy9i4s were mentioned by.Whitman Cross...1930 when Professor Eakle upon his retirement to Honolulu made full collections of material from the crystal...investigating these collections at the University of Hawaii, and it is to this work that he referred in a letter...collection: MoiliiH quarry, referred to above. This lies within the city limits of Honolulu about one half
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DATE DUE \ } GEOLOGY STATE OF OF THE HAWAII Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with...volcanic eruptions similar to those on the island of Hawaii. Subsequently he published a guide to the...that Stearns return to Hawaii to study the geology and ground-water resources of Oahu. Because more than...and scaled the summit of every mountain range in Hawaii. During these years he wrote or was senior author...geology published by the Division of Hydrography of Hawaii, listed in the bibliography. He also did the preliminary
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have formed, and are still forming, the Hawaiian island chain. This book is not a highly tech¬ nical treatise...active volcano is still adding acreage to the island of Hawaii; an eruption in the summer of 1969 sent a...known on earth have op¬ erated to some extent in Hawaii. Detailed here are not only the dramatic effects...irl & Sea Volcanoes the Sea THE GEOLOGY OF HAWAII Gordon A. Macdonald and Agatin T. Abbott ILLINOIS...COLLEGE LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER HONOLULU UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PRESS 1970 ’ll *0 O' c 3*1 //
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nephelinite tuff (35,000 years old) at Koko Crater, Oahu, Hawaii, consists of a top zone (up to 12 meters thick)...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...heated by the molten flow. Many volcanic flows in Hawaii and Washington (in the U.SA) and Iceland, show...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland.
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nephelinite tuff (35,000 years old) at Koko Crater, Oahu, Hawaii, consists of a top zone (up to 12 meters thick)...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...heated by the molten flow. Many volcanic flows in Hawaii and Washington (in the U.SA) and Iceland, show...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland.
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fossil-hunting localities, organized by state, county, township, section, or other landmark, together...collecting fossils began about 2,500 years ago on the island of Cos in the Aegean Sea, when Hippocrates (460...studying petrified marine faunas he found on the island of Malta, accurately concluded that Malta had been...7 THE ERA OF THE FLOODISTS In a limestone quarry near the village of Oeningen in Upper Baden, stonemasons...up largely of calcium carbonate (calcite or aragonite); during replacement, silica—a much harder mineral—may
Book (edition)
Polyphosphates 9. Silicates 9 .A Nesosilicates (island silicates) 9.B Sorosilicates (groups of islands...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula), St. (Saint)...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado
Report (volume)
introduced for use in North America, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...America, Greenland, the West Indies, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian
Book (edition)
Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
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Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in
Book (edition)
Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode...lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Antimonselite Antimony native Apatite Apophyllite Aragonite Ardennite Arfvedsonite Argentite Argyrodite Armenite...places. Aggregates, sand and gravel are followed by quarry and dimension stones (Prentice, 1990; Lorenz, 1991)...minerals. Travertine is a calcareous rock of aragonite and/or calcite deposited from the hot, warm or...types may be subdivided into layered (Stillwater, USA, Kemi , Finland, Fiskenaesset, Greenland, and funnel-shaped...deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Antimonselite Antimony native Apatite Apophyllite Aragonite Ardennite Arfvedsonite Argentite Argyrodite Armenite...places. Aggregates, sand and gravel are followed by quarry and dimension stones (Prentice, 1990; Lorenz, 1991)...minerals. Travertine is a calcareous rock of aragonite and/or calcite deposited from the hot, warm or...types may be subdivided into layered (Stillwater, USA, Kemi , Finland, Fiskenaesset, Greenland, and funnel-shaped...deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit
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Johnson, Canberra (Australia) G .A. Mahood, Stanford (USA) R. Scarpa, L'Aquila (Italy) 4 K. Bell J. Keller...similar to HIMU and EMI recognized from oceanic island basalts. Stable isotopes of fresh natrocarbonatite...Anthropology, St Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617, USA Historic and Recent Eruptive Activity of OJdoinyo...similar to basaltic lavas erupted on Mount Etna and Hawaii. Factors governing flow lengths, morphology and...vane (Fig. 2) based on earlier versions used on Hawaii (Shawet al. 1968) and Mount Etna (Pinkerton and
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perthite, pegmatite, S. of Iron Creek, Pennington County, Black Hills, S. Dakota (Higazy, 1949). Anal. R...7Tn"P°tash-°ligo<;1Ta8e ”)> Crater of Mt. Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctic (Mountain, 19-6). Anal. E. D. Mountain...unmixed to oligoclase and orthoclase), larvikite, quarry near Larvik, near Oslo, Norway (Muir & Smith, 1966)...of quartz and felspar (after Wahlstrom, 1939). Island, Nelson, New Zealand, has been presented by Lauder...alkali felspars in the same rock. In the Head Harbor Island granite (Terzaghi, 1940) the alkali content of
 
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