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Opal from
Clastic dikes, Gurim anticline, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel


Locality type:Dike
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Clastic dikes, Gurim anticline, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1014113
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1014113:9
GUID (UUID V4):ea96cee4-f075-4fee-9f82-f8bfa7c81d35
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
6.3km (3.9 miles) Har Ye'elim, Dead Sea, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
10.3km (6.4 miles) Arad Mine, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
34.2km (21.3 miles) Scorpions Pass, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
94.9km (59.0 miles) Unnamed marble quarries, Tulul al Hammam, Siwaga, Lisdan-Siwaga Fault, Hashem region, Daba-Siwaqa complex, Transjordan Plateau, Amman Governorate, Jordan
95.4km (59.3 miles) Daba, Daba-Siwaqa complex, Transjordan Plateau, Amman Governorate, Jordan
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2, pp. 221–227. GEOCHEMISTRY Clastic Dikes of the Hatrurim Basin (Western Flank of the Dead Sea) as...study shows that the mineral assemblages from clastic dikes in areas adjacent to the Dead Sea graben may...concretes. The main infilling material of the clastic dikes is composed of wellsorted and wellrounded...hydroxylapophyllite, tacharanite, calcium silicate hydrates, opal, calcite, and zeolitelike phases, which is indicative...reflecting the interaction with alkaline solutions (opal and calcium hydrosilicate overgrowths; full replace
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University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article...online 15 March 2013 The Mottled Zone (MZ) or Hatrurim Formation, which occurs near the Levantine Transform...the presence of dikes and tube-like bodies, which consist of brecciated exotic clastic material derived...Zone (MZ) or the Hatrurim Formation (Fm.) in South Levant, which includes of Jordan, Israel and Palestine...Jebel Harmun, 8 e Hyrcania, 9 e Nahal Darga, 10 Hatrurim, 11 e Malhata, 12 e Beit Sahur, 13 e Tarqumiya
Report (issue)
Geological Survey of Israel Ministry of National infrastructures Energy and Water Resources Petrographic...Petrographic atlas of the Hatrurim Formation by Shulamit Gross Edited by Keren Weiss-Sarusi, Yehoshua Kolodny...June 2016 Shulamit Gross (1923-2012) 5 The Hatrurim Formation (the “Mottled Zone”) Below we present...updated knowledge and views of the nature of the Hatrurim Formation. We avoid references to the very voluminous... as well as the references cited therein. The Hatrurim Formation (or the "Mottled Zone” referring to
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DONALD RYAN GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1063-J...Bulletin 1063-J) Geology and uranium deposits of the southern Black Hills. Prepared on behalf of the U.S. Atomic...-_Clastic dikes._________________________________________________ Origin of the clastic dikes.___.____...____________________ 418 84. Distribution of poles of 22 clastic dikes in the Mowry Shale. 419 TABLES Page TABLE 1...382 410 GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS GEOLOGY OF THE EDGEMONT QUADRANGLE
Report (issue)
umbia Basin and Sur::>owuiinq Areas of Washington with Sel.ected References to CoZumbia Basin Ceo logy...Society of America. Anastasio, Angelo, 1972, The southern plateau: an ecological analysis of intergroup...--------~ 1949a, Geology and are deposits of Boise Basin, Idaho: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 944-C,...intrusion and mineralization in the Coeur d' Alene district, Idaho: Economic Geology, v. 44, no. 3, p. 169-185;...Reconnaissance geology and ore deposits of the /'olinera1 district, Washington County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau of Mines
Report (edition)
Geophysical Union, published by the National Research Council for the Union from Washington, D. C. AM. INST....Washington, D. C. CASTANEA. Castanea, published by the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club from Morgantown, West...paleontologic descriptions of 31 oil wells in the southern part of the Coastal Plain are included. Only Cretaceous...illus., 1964. Numerous references to rocks in the southern tier of Georgia counties are included in a discussion...mapped. The Murphy Marble belt and the Chatsworth district are the most important occurrences, although the
Report (edition)
Geophysical Union , published by the National Research Council for the Union from Washington , D. C. AM . INST...Washington , D. C. CASTANEA. Castanea, published by the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club from Morgantown , West...paleontologic descriptions of 31 oil wells in the southern part ofthe Coastal Plain are included . Only Cretaceous.... , 1964. Numerous references to rocks in the southern tier of Georgia counties are included in a discussion...mapped . The Murphy Marble belt and the Chatsworth district are the most important occurrences , although
Book
Metallurgical Engineers Archaean areas in the southern part of the Canadian Pre-Cambrian Shield showed...For unraveling the compUcated structure of the district, Gruner and his associates, as well as the geologLsts...Crilerion of Su^ssion, 47; Regional Unconformity, 47; Incrustations on Regional Unconformities, 61; Profiles...Variation in Texture of ^Xedium- and Fine-grained Clastic Rocks . . . Rhythmic Graded Bedding, 79; Interrupted...Filled with Clastic Dikes, 212; Clastic Dikes Formed by Substratal Intrusion, 213; Clastic Dikes Formed by
Report (issue)
of the region surrounding a major zinc mining district and the Vail recreational area, with emphasis...................... . Clastic unit A .............................. . Clastic unit Band the dolomite...dolomite bed of Dowds .. . Clastic unit C and the reef dolomite of Lionshead Clastic unit D ... -.............................. . Clastic unitE and Wearyman and Hornsilver Dolomite Members ......................... Robinson Limestone Member ................ . Clastic unit F ............................... . Elk Ridge
Report (volume)
University, Ala. Alberta Research Council Contr.; Rpt. Alberta Research Council Contribution; Reports. Edmonton...Natl. Research Council, Div. Geol. and Geog.; Committee Rpts. National Research Council, Division of Geology...Vermillion, S. Dak. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. Bull. Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin. Los Angeles...coal parting compression flora of the Appalachian Basin [abs.]: Am. Jour. Botany, v. 37, no. 8, p. 672,...discontinuities in exploring for oil in: the Permian Basin, are indicated briefly. The interpretation of reflections
Report (issue)
Intrusive rocks ________________________________ _ Dikes ____________________________________ _ Plug ___..._ ~etamorphism Relation between intrusion and regional folding_ Petrography and petrology __________________...silL __ _ Summary diagrams of joints, foliation, dikes, veins, faults, and lineaments _____________ _ Camera...of Late Cretaceous age and comprise three gross regional stratigraphic units, w. SMEDES the aggregate...extend northward where they fill an intermontane basin. The Pleistocene and Recent are represented by terrace
Report (issue)
along the north side of the Saddle Mountains anticline from Smyrna Bench westward across the Columbia...scarps in the Ringold Formation,which occur on the southern margin of Smyrna Bench north of the Saddle fountains...rocks on the north side of Gable Mountain. The southern limit of the fault was not determined, but its...on the north flank of the Horse Heaven Hills anticline and south of the Walla Walla River. About 8 miles...the Horse Heaven Hills anticline are parts of a linear, deep-seated, regional structural feature that
Report (issue)
volcanic centers known as calderas and deposited as regional ash-flow sheets. One of the largest of these centers...was previously mapped by Lipman (1976a) and the regional geology discussed by Lipman and others (1973)...(modified from Lipman, 1976a). GEOLOGIC SETTING Regional Geology The American Flats Wilderness Study Area...complex (27-29 m.y.) Idarado ® Shennandoah-Dives Regional ash-flow sheets and minor lavas (27-30 m.y.) Early...and Burbank, 1964; Luedke, 1974) indicated that dikes related to this center cut ash-flow tuff (the Ute
Report (volume)
[Jour.]- Appalachia. A journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Washington, D.C. Appl. Optics - Applied...Canadienne de Geotechnique. National Research Council of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Jour...Canadian Journal of Botany. National Research Council of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Jour...Canadian Journal of Chemistry. National Research Council of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Jour...Earth Sci. - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Council of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Jour
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Proceedings. Washington, D. C. N atl. Research Council, Comm. Repts.; Highway Research Board Bull.; Highway...Research Board Special Rept.-National Research Council, Committee Reports; Highway Research Board Bulletin;...Investigation. Vermillion, S. Dak. Southern Calif. Acad. Sci. BulL-Southern California Academy of Sciences...reconnaissance in the Plains area-Missouri River Basin, in Am. Soc. Testing Materials, Symposium on surface...and Spragge townships, Blind River uranium area, District of Algoma: Ontario Dept. Mines Prelim. Rept. 1953-2
Report (volume)
Canada: Hume, G. S., Gunning, H. G., 5. California, southern, pegmatites: 3. Arciniega, V. M. Geology teacher...hobby: Meen, V. B. , 1. Pegmatites, California, southern: Mineralogy and the field geologist Arciniega...exploration techniques:Levorsen, Tectonic theory, Basin Ranges: A. I., 8. Longwell, C. R., 1. Discovery...T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E., 4. Sedimentary basin development and Northwest Territories, Oueen oil...D. , 4. 3. Coal, Lookout Mtn., possibilities: Southern, limestone: Lamar, Shotts, R. C., 5. J. E., 11
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC FIELD TRIPS in NORTHERN OREGON and SOUTHERN WASHINGTON Delano Photographies BY PUBLISHED...GEOLOGIC IN FIELD TRIPS NORTHERN OREGON AND SOUTHERN WASHINGTON John D. Beaulieu Field Trip Committee...Rattlesnake Formation, by Harold E. Enlows Deschutes Basin, by Edward M. Taylor Road Log TRIP 2. . 3 ....Stratigraphy and structure of Yakima Basalt in Pasco Basin, . ington, by Donald J. Brown and R. K. Ledgerwood...of Oregon land lies is batholithic highs, and Basin and Range terrain. West of the Cascades the interaction
Report (issue)
.... 38 Horse Heaven anticline ................. 39 Simcoe Mountains anticline ................ 40 Fault...42 Cross faults .................... .43 Satus basin .......................... 44 Toppenish uplift............ Hembre Mountain anticline. ................ Satus Peak anticline ................... Late Quaternary...deformation ............. Peavine anticline .................... Toppenish basin ....................... Ahtanum.............. Tampico anticline .................... Cowboy Parking Lot anticline ............... South
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jurassic limestones of the Isle of Portland in southern England were also once soils. They called them...mottled paleosols of the greenschist facies of regional metamorphism (RetalIack 1985, Feakes & Retallack...log-shaped nodules whose orientation reflects regional groundwater flow (Jacob 1973). Also obvious in...paleosols could have derived much silica from plant opal, which is an easily mobilized form of silica compared...illitization (Retallack 1976). This remobilization of plant opal must also have been a phenomenon of burial because
Report (issue)
of tree roots on Miocene deposits of the Madrid Basin, Guadalajara, Spain. Photo by A.M. Alonso-Zarza...and Sequence Boundaries 1. Calcic pedocomplexes—Regional sequence boundary indicators in Tertiary deposits...across the Carnian-age Ischigualasto–Villa Union basin, northwestern Argentina .....17 N.J. Tabor, I.P...stable isotope composition of paleosol calcite from Israel .................................................distribution within glacial till in Taylor Valley, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica ...................
Book
Central and Southern | - Doi STUDIES OF APPALACHIAN GEOLOGY: CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN STUDIES... STUDIES OF APPALACHIAN GEOLOGY Central and Southern Edited by GEORGE W. FISHER JOHNS HOPKINS BALTIMORE...individual papers more closely, and to provide a regional The classical interpretations of Appalachian...an attempt to answer these questions for the southern and central Appalachians. It is not an exhaustive...by active workers. Some of the papers present regional summaries of recent work; others describe more
Report (volume)
Los Angeles Basin, outcrop areas, Cretaceous : SchoellhamPr, .J. E. Rincon pegmatite district: Hanley, J...Proceedings. Washington. Alberta Research Council Rept.-Alberta Research Council Reports. Edmonton, Alberta. Am...Rest>arch Council, Comm. Paleobotany; Highway Research Board Bull.National Research Council Committee...Quadrangle Maps. Vermillion, S. Dak. Southern Calif. Acad. Sci. BulL-Southern California Academy of Sciences...A guide for invertebrate fossil collecting in southern Oklahoma : Compass, v. 28, no. 3, p. 206-209,
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and the Central Mining District, Grant County Burro Mountains Apache No, 2 District Lake Valley Caballo...Mountains Chloride District Hansonburg District Socorro Area New Placers District Grants Area Nacimiento...Uplift Harding Pegmatite Ojo Caliente Pegmatite District 4. COLORADO MINES nm — On 29 DEPOSITS MEXICO...Luis Valley and the San Juan Mountains Bonanza District 33 33 36 37 46 54 bP) 57 59 60 64 68 74 78 80...Sneffels-Telluride District Red Mountain District Cement Creek Tungsten Area Ouray (Uncompahgre) District Poughkeepsie
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CONNECTICUT New Haven, Yale University Library DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, Library of Congress FLORIDA...and Mechanical College of Texas Library Dallas, Southern Methodist University Library *E1 Paso, El Paso...Research Institute CANADA Ottawa, National Research Council Library CEYLON Colombo, University of Ceylon CHILE...Committee on Atomic Energy, c/o National Economic Council PORTUGAL Lisbon, Junta de Energia Nuclear U.S...Library and Information Division, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research UNITED NATIONS
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