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Spinel from
Kilbourne Hole, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA


Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Chemical Analyses:
Oxide wt%:
1
SiO20.08 %
TiO20.10 %
Al2O359.42 %
Ga2O30.01 %
V2O30.06 %
Cr2O38.66 %
Fe2O3*0.60 %
FeO*9.70 %
MnO0.09 %
CoO0.02 %
NiO0.40 %
ZnO0.08 %
MgO20.40 %
Total:99.62 %
Empirical formulas:
1(Mg0.78Fe2+0.21Ni0.01)(Al1.80Cr0.18Fe3+0.01)O4
Sample references:
1FKM-162
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Forsterite2 photos of Spinel associated with Forsterite at this locality.
Enstatite2 photos of Spinel associated with Enstatite at this locality.
Diopside2 photos of Spinel associated with Diopside at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kilbourne Hole, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:125467
Long-form Identifier:1:3:125467:9
GUID (UUID V4):0df63f29-10c9-473a-b9f0-1789147f5c93
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
64.9km (40.3 miles) Ophelia claim, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
64.9km (40.3 miles) Iron Mask claim, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
65.2km (40.5 miles) Merrimac Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of K-feldspar in crustal xenoliths at Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico Eoweno S. Gnpw Departmmt of Earth and...xenoliths of quartzofeldspathic gneiss at Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, is sanidine, commonly microperthitic...quartzofeldspathic xenoliths. Introduction bourne Hole, and discussthe evidencerelating to the origin ef...basalt at The crustal xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole have Kilbourne Hole, a maar in the Rio Grande rift described...garnetiferous quartzofeldspathic purple, An orthopyroxene-spinel inor brown. blue, gneisses.In the samples examined
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract Spinel lherzolite and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Rio Puerco Volcanic Field, New Mexico, were...throughout the Rio Puerco xenolith suite and at Kilbourne Hole in the southern Rio Grande rift. The discrete...immediately prior to entrainment. Melt infiltration into spinel-facies mantle (xenoliths) prior to eruption was...Sciences, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA E-mail: zsharp@unm.edu...Introduction The Rio Puerco Volcanic Field (RPVF) in New Mexico straddles the boundary between the Colorado Plateau
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evolution of spinel lherzolite xenoliths and the nature of the mantle at Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico Dexter...may be accompanied by plagioclase (low pressure), spinel (moderate pressure), or garnet (high pressure)...geothermobarometers to olivine– clinopyroxene–orthopyroxene–spinel peridotites is problematic. An alternative approach...The models, when applied to xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, constrain P and T of equilibration and are...constrained pressure estimates for Kilbourne Hole, placing the xenoliths in the spinel stability field at depths
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Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, USA, 10964 of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds...for 22 peridotite xenoliths from the USA (Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico), Tanzania, and Cameroon. For a subset...separates (olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, and spinel). Bulk peridotites show significant heterogeneity...to as light as -0.38‰. The δ60/58Ni in the Kilbourne Hole xenoliths correlate negatively with bulk-rock...equilibrium effect and usually is in the decreasing order spinel>olivine=orthopyroxene>clinopyroxene. However, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Grande rift: Evidence from Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths, New Mexico Takako Satsukawa a, b,⁎, Katsuyoshi...79968, USA e Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA f Department...University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409, USA b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Editor: P. Shearer Keywords: peridotite xenolith Kilbourne Hole maar Rio Grande rift mantle flow crystallographic...Peridotite xenoliths from the Kilbourne Hole maar, New Mexico, consist of spinel lherzolite, harzburgite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grains separated from spinel lherzolites from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA demonstrate that two discrete...Zindler and Hart, 1986; Os mass balance in Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths Hofmann, 1997) has been...and isotope analyses of bulk-rock, silicate and spinel mineral separates, and 2 populations of sulphide...suite of 28 peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA. We demonstrate that the behaviour...SETTING, PETROLOGY AND PETROGRAPHY OF SAMPLES Kilbourne Hole is one of several late Pleistocene volcanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/01 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...20742, USA 3 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA 4 Laboratoire...2000) Abstract—The Re-Os isotopic systematics of spinel- and garnet-bearing mantle xenoliths from North...confidence 95%) was defined on the basis of 117 spinel-bearing xenoliths from this work and data from...enstatite chondrites, not carbonaceous chondrites. Spinel-bearing mantle peridotites sampled by volcanism
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2004 Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/04 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA GEMOC ARC National...accepted in revised form March 25, 2004) Abstract—Spinel lherzolite and harzburgite xenoliths from the Basin...and mantle lithosphere, we limited our study to spinel lherzolites and harzburgites, which sample depths...Puerco volcanic field; EB, Elephant Butte; KH, Kilbourne Hole; PM, Potrillo maar; SC, San Carlos; GVF, Geronimo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
14 August 2004  Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract Spinel peridotite xenoliths associated with the Rio Grande...Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401 USA E-mail: rwendlan@mines.edu Y. Kil (&) Isotope Research...through New Mexico to Presidio, Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico. The three study areas, Kilbourne Hole in the...relationships to the rift axis. With the exception of Kilbourne Hole, xenolith localities selected for study in...Padovani (1977) not been investigated in detail. Kilbourne Hole contains a large variety of crustal and mantle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
systematics of peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico Jason Harvey a,⇑, Stephan König b, Ambre...abundances in peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA, potentially provides valuable insights...S-undersaturated melt. Despite these observations, the Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths have HSE systematics that...occurs with the crystallization of clinopyroxene and spinel from silicate melts, i.e., lithophile, siderophile...characterized peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA – the first comprehensive study of HSE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arizona or New Mexico would be the places to start. One of the best places in New Mexico is a short distance...far from the Mexico border in Dona Ana County. The locality is known as Kilbourne Hole and has been a...label stated that it was from Knippa in Medina County and that it was collected in 1939 by H. Cook, Don’s...knew that Knippa is not in Medina County but in adjacent Uvalde County. Knippa is about 70 miles west of...San Antonio on Interstate 10. Although the Uvalde County bedrock is mostly composed of sedimentary rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
co-existing clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene from Kilbourne Hole and San Carlos mantle peridotites. The 44Ca/40Ca...shield stage tholeiites (USA), one dunite (DTS-1) from Twin Sisters (Washington, USA), and clinopyroxene and...mantle minerals and basalts. δ44/40Caa Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA Clinopyroxene 0.94 1.00 0.88 0.97 1...1.77 1.84 1.68 Average 1.73 San Carlos, Arizona, USA Clinopyroxene 1.11 1.05 1.02 1.09 1.03 0.95 1.01...Orthopyroxene 1.16 1.15 1.31 Average 1.21 Hawaii, USA Mauna Kea SR 687 Average SR700 Average SR685 Average
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Experimental melting of crustal xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico and implications for the contamination...MartinsviUe, VA 24112, USA 2 IT Corporation, 5301 Central Ave. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA 3 SN-2, NASA/Johnson...NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA Received September 24, 1992 / Accepted January 28, 1993...= 900-1000 ~ on four crustal xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole demonstrate the varying melting behavior of...volcanic rocks exposed 150 km to the NW of Kilbourne Hole, in the Black Range in the MogoUonDatil volcanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks in the Pinacate volcanic field, northwestern Mexico D.J. Lynch a, T.E. Musselman a, J.T. G u t m a...Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA bDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences,... Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06457, USA (Received February 18, 1992; revised and accepted August...rocks in the Pinacate volcanic field, northwestern Mexico. Lithos, 29: 294-302. Six volcanic rocks, reconnaissance...between + 5.0 and + 5.7. Clinopyroxene in a rare spinel-lherzolitenodule derived from the uppermost mantle
Report (issue)
assemblages in a suite of xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico . 25 Edward L. Dromgoole and Jill D...related rocks from Westland and Otago, South Island, New Zealand . Barbara A. Barreiro and Alan F. Cooper...A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless...Potash Sulfur Springs igneous complex, Garland County, Arkansas Robert E. Zartman and J. Michael Howard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
trends in spinel lherzolites from Salt Lake Crater, Hawaii, and Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, are essentially...mid-ocean ridges. Using Cr/(Cr + A1 + Fe a+) in spinel as an index of the degree of depletion in fusible...south central New Mexico is underlain by oceanic mantle. We propose that the Kilbourne Hole lherzolites...preserved when subduction further offshore created new additions to the continent above that near-shore...prior to eruption at the surface. 1. Introduction Spinel lherzolite inclusions found in basalts are commonly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TX 77004, USA 2 Jacobs, NASA Johnson Space Center, Mail Code XI3, Houston, TX 77058, USA; anne.h.peslier@nasa...University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, 29208, USA 4 Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian...xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole (KH) and Rio Puerco (RP) along the Rio Grande Rift (NM, USA) were analyzed...xenoliths come from two localities in New Mexico, Kilbourne Hole (KH) in the southern Rio Grande Rift...the mantle lithosphere beneath the southwestern USA by the Farallon subduction has been inferred west
Journal (issue)
deposits from the Barrington basalt province in New South Wales, one typical of East Australian sapphire...Figure 1: Distribution province, 250 of of Sydney, New South Wales. Corundum/zircon suites suites are marked...by inclined province, 250kmkmnorth north Sydney, New South Wales. Corundum/zircon are marked by inclin...from central Queensland (Anakie Fields) and New South Wales (New England Fields) and from East Pailin. Pallin...shield volcano in eroded New South South Wales within within the Cainozoic New Figure 3: Working eluvial/alluvial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotope disequilibrium between mantle minerals in a spinel-lherzolite Kevin W. Burton a,b,Ł , Pierre Schiano...silicates and sulphide from a spinel-lherzolite from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico. These results confirm that...Keywords: Re=Os; isotopes; sulfides; silicates; spinel lherzolite; disequilibrium 1. Introduction The...and sulphide phases from a spinel-lherzolite from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico. These results provide quantitative...studied is an anhydrous spinel-lherzolite (KH8312) from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico. Silicate minerals have
Report (issue)
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...East Potrillo Mountains and vicinity, Dona Ana County, New Mexico by William R. Seager and Greg H. Mack...Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 SOCORRO 1994 ii NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...MINING & TECHNOLOGY Daniel H. Lopez, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES Charles E...OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Alan Morgan, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(average 18 ppm) for a suite of 90 basaltborne spinel and garnet peridotite xenoliths from central Asia...have near-zero serpentinization that matches the spinel lherzolite xenoliths from alkali basalts [3]. The...sulphides are intergrown with holly-leaf shaped spinel from protogranular textures or dispersed between...[2-4,11,20]. Only sixteen samples (five amphibole/spinel lherzolites, six anhydrous layered pyroxenites...comparatively restricted number of basalt-borne spinel lherzolite xenoliths, the French Massif Central
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94720, USA 2 Branch of Isotope Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, MS 18, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA 3 Dept...Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Abstract. Measurements have been made of the oxygen...Stop 963, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA Reprint requests to: T.K. Kyser Several features...indicated a lack of detectable isotopic zoning in spinel, pyroxene, and plagioclase. All chemical analyses...o Al-augite bearing nodules; 9 Cr-diopside type spinel lherzolites. Horizontal line represents for zero
Journal (issue)
and Edward W. Boehm Kilbourne Hole Peridot John K. Fuhrbach 1V. R. 16 NOTES AND NEW TECHNIQUES 28 Opal...Opal from Querktaro, Mexico: Fluid Inclusion Study 35 43 Ronald J. Spencer, Alfred A. Levinson, and Iohn...dislinctive orange to red ''fie" opols ot Queretoro, Mexico, is believed to be unique. To help solve the lnyslery...opal. The buckle is courtesy of R. Esmerian, Inc., New York. The 80.12-ct rough opol ond the 16.27-ct cabochon...place goes to an article that explained important new theories on diamond formation: "Age, Origin, and
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80523, USA ZDepartment of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 3Department...Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-2 150, USA 4Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution...Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C. 2001 5, USA *Correspondence author's e-mail address: jmorgan@geol...Moon. But some suites of xenolithic and orogenic spinel lherzolites, and abyssal peridotites, have a CI-normalized...MS#4339 0Meteoritical Society, 200 I . Printed in USA. 1258 Morgan et al. carbonaceous chondrites (Meisel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University...University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Received 6 July 2006; received in revised form 3 May 2007;...a direct product of 1–5% melting of H2O-bearing spinel lherzolite. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...lava flow, and are themselves hornblende-bearing spinel lherzolite and chrome–olivine websterite, occuring...Background The lithospheric mantle beneath El Peñon, Mexico, has been influenced by several subduction regimes
 
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