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Calcite from
Wolkberg Cave, Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wolkberg Cave, Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1222199
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1222199:8
GUID (UUID V4):c6786583-2c76-4693-a88d-bdf39ed3f77f
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
67.0km (41.6 miles) Zandrivierspoort Fe deposit, Pietersburg greenstone belt, Capricorn District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
71.4km (44.4 miles) Magnet Heights carbonatite, Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
73.4km (45.6 miles) Gravelotte, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
73.9km (45.9 miles) Murchison Mine, Consolidated Murchison Mines, Gravelotte, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
77.0km (47.8 miles) Beta shaft, Alpha-Gravelotte Mine, Consolidated Murchison Mines, Gravelotte, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
77.0km (47.8 miles) Malati Pump mine, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
79.9km (49.7 miles) Echo Caves, Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
82.0km (51.0 miles) Athens-Weigel Mine, Consolidated Murchison Mines, Gravelotte, Murchison Range, Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality, Mopani District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
87.1km (54.1 miles) Hillside Quarry, Stavoren-Mute Fides, Marble Hall, Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
88.6km (55.1 miles) Spitskop Alkaline Igneous Complex, Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality, Sekhukhune District Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa
References
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Late Pleistocene stalagmite growth in Wolkberg Cave, South Africa Steffen Holzkämper a,⁎, Karin Holmgren...Resources and the Environment, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa d Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften,...University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...9 April 2009 Editor: P. DeMenocal Keywords: South Africa Late Pleistocene climate variability stalagmites...of climate and environmental change in southern Africa during the last glacial period, in spite of the
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Quaternary Research Dating Unit, CSIR, Pretoria 0001, South Africa (Received January 1, 1993;revision accepted...assisting in the fractionation process. The Wolkberg cave speleothems preserve a record of the uranium... An isotopic study of speleothems from the Wolkberg Cave, within the aquifer, was carried out to corroborate...outcrop over large areas of the interior of South Africa. The crystalline dolomitic limestones, possibly...Planetary Science Letters 123 (1994) 81-93 Wolkberg cave were studied. The uranium isotopic signature
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(Fenoglio 1935), Suonion mine No. 19 in Lavrion District, Greece (Giester et al. 2000), Sommergraben near...Eibengrotte cave near Wiessenthal, Germany (Fischbeck, Müller 1971) or Wolkberg cave in Capricorn District, South...South Africa (Martini, Kavalieris 1978). Genth and Penfield (1890) and later also Fonoglio (1935) proposed...hydromagnesite, nesquehonite, dolomite, aragonite, and calcite speleothems of the Fränkische Sweiz, Western Germany
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Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) record off West Africa as well as a similarity with the Bond events. Periods...were also observed in sediment records off West Africa (deMenocal et al., 2000). They are thought to be...Caribbean area has also played an important role in local human history. For instance, episodes of severe...order to confirm the transition from aragonite to calcite at 240 mm distance from top. The internal 1s-standard...Cuba Pequeño (CP) was collected in the Dos Anas cave system (14 km length), which is located in the Sierra
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Implications for preserved alluvial records in the South African Karoo C.J. Oldknow a,⁎, F. Oldfield a, A...Dryland alluvial successions across interior South Africa are a focus of pedosedimentary research because...Wilgerbosch River, on the Great Escarpment, South Africa. The pedosedimentary architecture of a calcretized...systems have been documented across interior South Africa, but the formation of rhizogenic calcretes in...(gullies) and associated badland terrain across the South ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: cjo61@liv
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Oscillation medieval climate anomaly speleothem prior calcite precipitation aragonite trace elements 1. Introduction...covers the time period 619–1962 AD and is from a cave located in an area sensitive to droughts, which...atmospheric conditions compared to calcite and may therefore recrystallize to calcite (Frisia et al., 2002; Martin-Garcia...interpreted in terms of prior calcite precipitation (PCP). Prior calcite precipitation (Fairchild et al...CO2 degassing within the karst aquifer or at the cave ceiling. This leads to super-saturation of the water
 
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