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Plagioclase from
Marion Island, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marion Island, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1307031
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1307031:9
GUID (UUID V4):a4715461-ee20-4682-bbee-905f9bbfa631
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambridge University Press 1 K–Ar geochronology of Marion Island, Southern Ocean IAN M C DOUGALL*, WILHELM...WILHELM VERWOERD† & LUC CHEVALLIER†‡ *Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University...†Department of Geology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Republic of South Africa...2000; accepted 31 October 2000) Abstract – Marion Island is a youthful intraplate shield volcano in the...the location of a mantle plume. New K–Ar age determinations on 37 whole rock samples of so-called older
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORIGINAL PAPER Clinopyroxene megacrysts from Marion Island, Antarctic Ocean: evidence for a late stage...December 2018 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature 2019 Abstract Clinopyroxene megacrysts...megacrysts (up to 5 cm) from a scoria cone on Marion Island, Antarctic Ocean are zoned, with compositionally...arranged haphazardly throughout crystals. Inclusions of olivine, pyrrhotite, oxides, sulphides, and rounded...contain voids that are concentrated in the middle of each crystal indicating that the initial crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrology and Geochemistry of MORB from 25 °E to 46 °E along the Southwest Indian Ridge: Evidence for...Styles of Mantle Enrichment* ROBERT L. FISHER 3 1 Department of Geology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch...Rondebosch 7700, South Africa Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 3 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093 2 (Received 19 May...ridge segments between 25 °E and 48 °E. In terms of petrography and major element variations the samples
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0022-3530/90 $3.00 Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic: Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of a Basanite-Phonolite Lava...1 Department of Geology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, RSA 2 Department of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK ABSTRACT The island of Tristan da Cunha, located at 37°S, 12°W in...in the South Atlantic, is the largest of a group of three islands, the others being Nightingale and Inaccessible...Inaccessible. Tristan da Cunha comprises a continuous series of alkaline lavas ranging in composition from ankaramitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Petrology 9 Springer-Verlag 1992 Petrogenesis of anomalous K-enriched MORB from the Southwest Indian...Watkins 1 1Department of Geology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa 2Woods Hole Oceanographic...Hole, MA 02543, USA aHawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Received...and 15~ during Leg ANT IV/4 of the F.S. P O L A R S T E R N . Lavas from 4 of 6 dredges are moderately nepheline...basalts and hawaiites. Mgnumbers indicate that many of the lavas are fairly primitive (Mg No. = 63-67),
Report (chapter)
at University of St Andrews on April 30, 2015 Periglacial processes and landforms of the Antarctic:...Antarctic: a review of recent studies and directions KEVIN HALL Geography Programme, University of Northern British...hall@unbc.ca) Abstract: The wide range of periglacial environments of the Antarctic, from the wet, mild oceanic...conditions in the Northern Hemisphere at the height of the last glacial, is an analogue for periglacial...monitoring climatic change. Almost the whole known suite of periglacial landforms is present. Recent research
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
France Isotope Geology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium d UMR 6538 Domaines océaniques...lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary while the composition of Manamana end-member implies a location within the...Pliocene Ambre Mountain and Pleistocene Nosy Be Island alkaline volcanoes display a restricted isotopic...and BSE or a pole beyond. The exceptional variation of mantle sources involved in the Cretaceous episode...lines of evidence dismiss the mantle plume model. Cretaceous volcanism resulted from reactivation of a lithospheric
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1970 Geochenfistry of an Oceanite-Ankaramite-Basalt Suite from East Island, Crozet Archipelago BERNARD...NORMAN D. WATKINS and CHRISTIANE. ABRANSON Department of Geology, Florida State University JACQUES NOUGIER...and geochemistry of East Island have been investigated for the first time. The island is a deeply dissected...remnant of a Pleistocene shield volcano, one of several emerging from an oceanic rise forming part of the...southwest branch of the Indian Ocean ridge system. The lavas form a fiat-lying sequence of oceanites, ankaramites
Book (volume)
4B: Volume 5: Volume 6: The South Atlantic The North Atlantic The Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean The...The Eastern Mediterranean The Western Mediterranean The Arctic Ocean The Indian Ocean In Preparation:...and Resources Institute University oj South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina and Francis G. Stehli College...Ocean PLENUM PRESS· NEW YORK AND LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Nairn, A...Stehli. Includes bibliographies. CONTENTS: v. I. The South Atlantic. - v. 2. The North Atlantic. - [etc.] -
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LIST OF CONTENTS JANUARY Articles M. MCLENNAN,S. R. TAYLORand V. R. MCCREGOR:Cieochemistty of Archean...Greenland SCOTT A. A. FINNERTYand F. R. BOYD:Evaluation of thermobarometets for garnet peridotites I 15 J...VERHEYEN, R. B. JOHNSand J. ESPITALI~?: An evaluation of Rock-Eva1pyrolysis for the study ofAustralian coals... 71 C. L. WIERSMAand J. D. RIMSTIDT:Rates of reaction of pyrite and marcasite with ferric iron at pH...and BOR-MINGJAHN:Nd-Sr isotope and REE geochemistry of alkali basalts from the Massif ,. Central, France
Book
Stockholm/Gothenburg/Lund INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES SERIES B - NUMBER I ANTARCTIC...British Antarctic Survey, Department of Geology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham 15, England Symposium...RESEARCH and sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITETSFORLAGET OSLO 1972...by earth scientists in the scientific exploration of Antarctica can best be judged from the fact that...the 1963 Symposium on Antarctic Geology held at Cape Town, Antarctic earth scientists were able to mount
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY VOLUME 46 NUMBER 12 PAGES 2427–2464 2005 doi:10.1093/petrology/egi060 Hafnium...Isotope and Trace Element Constraints on the Nature of Mantle Heterogeneity beneath the Central Southwest...(13E to 47E) 1 DEPARTMENT OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM, CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON, 5241 BROAD BRANCH...DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, PRIVATE BAG, RONDEBOSCH 7701, SOUTH AFRICA RECEIVED...suite of mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) from 13 to 47E on the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR), one of the
Book (edition)
Number 0-913312-98-3 Printed in the United States of America American Geological Institute 4220 King...Acknowledgement .iv Introduction.v Source and Development of the Vocabulary .v Changes in this Edition .vi Indexing...Sediments .711 ListO Geographic terms.711 List P Fields of interest .720 Maps & Charts.726 Stratigraphic Chart...Pacific Ocean.731 Acknowledgements The 5th edition of the Thesaurus was prepared at AGI by Ruth Shimomura...the Vocabulary Task Force (VTF), a subcom¬ mittee of the GeoRef Advisory Committee, assisted in the preparation
Book (edition)
Geological Institute All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 85-073613 International...Number 0-913312-78-9 Printed in the United States of America American Geological Institute 4220 King...84n,Suita a &.m.9e em & Vv Source and development of the vocabulary......................000- Vv PREIDACKNE....acmxa-arat dete GG tee oo) 501 List P Fields’ oF interest |. .vudees.chort Postowns doers ane « 509... Foreword AGI wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the GeoRef Advisory Committee's Vocabulary Task Force
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic evolution and genesis of the Quaternary basanitetrachyphonolite suite of Itasy (Madagascar) as inferred...magmatic evolution and genesis of the Quaternary basanite-trachyphonolite suite of Itasy (Madagascar) as inferred...doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.04.003 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for...version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting...magmatic evolution and genesis of the Quaternary basanite-trachyphonolite suite of Itasy (Madagascar) as inferred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
L_L_A PALEOMAGNETISM AND POTASSIUM-ARGON AGE OF ST. PAUL ISLAND, SOUTHEASTERN INDIAN OCEAN: CONTRASTS IN...N.D. WATKINS Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.L (USA) I. McDOUGALL...McDOUGALL Research School of Earth Sciences, A ustralian National University, Canberra, A.C. 7: {A ustralia)...Cameroon (West Africa) Received July 31, 1974 Revised version received October 22, 1974 A total of 135 oriented...18 separate basaltic bodies on St. Paul Island on the axis of the mid-Indian ridge, and subjected to paleomagnetic
Report (issue)
Manghnani(Eds.) 83 NonlinearDynamicsand Predictability of Geophysical 68 MicrowaveRemoteSensingof SeaIce FrankCarsey...R. G. Warrick, and J. Hannah (Eds.) 70 Synthesis of Results from ScientificDrillingin the Indian Ocean...Trajectories(IUGG Volume13) A. VallanceJones(Ed.) 74 Evolution of the Earth and Planets (IUGG Volume 14) Phenomena...(Eds.) 88 ActiveMarginsand MarginalBasinsof the Western Pacific BrianTaylorandJamesNatland(Eds.) 89 N...InteractionsBetweenGlobalClimateSubsystems: The Legacy of Hann (IUGG Volume15) G.A. McBeanandM. 91 Seaflo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
n d C. D u p u y c Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, H I 96822, USA Laboratoire...resembling those expressed today in the Indian Ocean at Marion and Prince Edward islands and on the central Southwest...that affecting the Bushe and Poladpur Formations of the later Deccan Traps in India. Alkalic dikes in...Mahabaleshwar Formation of the Deccan, in that they document the influence of a low 2°6pb/2°4pb, negative...Southwest Indian Ridge near 40°E. The original location of this end-member appears likely to have been in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
element chemistry of ocean island basalts — Conditions of mantle melting and heterogeneity of mantle source...Matthew G. Jackson b, Cin-Ty A. Lee a a b Department of Earth Science, Rice University, 6100 Main Street...Texas 77005, USA Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broadbranch...December 2009 Editor: L. Stixrude Keywords: ocean island basalts major element chemistry lithosphere–asthenosphere...estimate average compositions of near-primary, ‘reference’ ocean island basalts (OIBs) for 120 volcanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lists available at ScienceDirect China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Geoscience Frontiers journal...characterization of ancient and modern mineralogy from volcanic eruption in Tenerife Island: Implication...Rull-Pérez b a Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of La Laguna, San Cristobal de...Torrejón de Ardoz, CP 28850, Madrid, Spain c Department of Earth Dynamics and Observation, Instituto de Geociencias...performed on basalts from two locations from Tenerife Island: (1) the Arenas Negras volcano which belongs to
Report (issue)
end II UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGY AND BIOLOGY OF NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP-SEA CORES Part...ECHINODERMATA Part 7. MISCELLANEOUS FOSSILS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF FAUNAL DISTRIBUTION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 196-D UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Harold L. Ickes, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Director Professional Paper 196-D GEOLOGY AND BIOLOGY OF NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP-SEA CORES BETWEEN NEWFOUNDLAND...H. CLARK MISCELLANEOUS FOSSILS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF FAUNAL DISTRIBUTION By LLOYD G. HENBEST UNITED
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 663–689. Geochemical Evolution of Indian Ocean Basaltic Magmatism N. M. Sushchevskayaa...Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina...ru b ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart...Gramberg AllRussia Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologiya)...bbelyatsky@mail.ru d Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow, 119017 Russia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochern/stry of Precambdan gneisses: relevance for the evolution of the E+mtAntarcac Sl eld • ~,~ G'~...19831015: Geochemistry of Precambrian gneisses: relevance for the e~)iution of the F,£~ Antar~c Shield...0024.4937. A,~chtaean granulite4acies ~rlhogncis~:s of the Napier Complex in Enderby Land, metamorphosed...chemically dislinct suites. The mo~ abundant, main|y of tonalitic to oCanodioriti,: composition, shows strong...depletien, explicable by hydrous partial melting of a garnet-bearing source (garnet amphibolite or possibly
Book (edition)
plinth, near Daadenning Creek, south of Kellerberrin, in the Wheat Belt of southwestern \NA. • It. •...sandstone massif that is part of the Gill Range, some 220 km southwest of Alice Springs, N~f A gcntly-arcuate...plane is exposed in the valley of a s111all strea1n. Beehive forn1s typical of the region are seen to the...natural an1phitheatre. The r i 1T1 of the basin is formed by a sequence of n1assive sandstone and quartzite...eastvvards across the Ranges to Lake Fro1ne. The floor of the Pound was farn1cd until a drought- breaking flood
Book
than Polymetallic Nodules Of the International Seabed Area Prepared by: Office of Resource and Environmental...April 2004 Cover photo courtesy of Dr Verena Tunnicliffe, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada...Canada Minerals Other than Polymetallic Nodules of the International Seabed Area ii Published in Jamaica...International Seabed Authority 2004 National Library of Jamaica Cataloguing-in-Publication Data International...Kingston) Minerals other than polymetallic nodules of the International Seabed Area : proceedings… p. ;
 
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