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Microcline from
Lewis Cliff, Buckley Island quadrangle, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Cliff
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lewis Cliff, Buckley Island quadrangle, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1320365
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1320365:2
GUID (UUID V4):a9e81a3a-705c-4be1-87a6-483088883f87
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1985 with his map of the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. We are pleased to republish these paintings...during the 1969/1970 field season. Prolog Antarctica! The very word brings to mind images of fierce...winds, bone-chilling cold, and utter desolation. Antarctica has the reputation of being a hostile place unfit...worked there have a very different impression of Antarctica. To us it is a place of unsurpassed beauty where...biological processes work in this unique environment. Antarctica is also a continent without borders where scientists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chromite, chromium augite, diopside, ilmenite, microcline, and plagioclase, all certified by the United...and 3a). Conspicuously, plagioclase phases in Lewis Cliff (LEW) 88516, Los Angeles, and Queen Alexandra...represent observed falls, and QUE 94201 resided in Antarctica for 290 Ā± 50 ka (Nishiizumi and Caffee 1996)...meteorites from ejection events older than 5 Ma. In Antarctica, an area that has some of the best preservation...terrestrial age of achondrites from Victoria Land, Antarctica. (abstract). 25th Lunar and Planetary Science
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Norbert Clauer Robert N. Clayton Simon Clemett R. A. Cliff Jean S. Cline R. Clocchiatti Paul L. Cloke Kenneth...Kenneth A. Foland Derek C. Ford Robert 0. Foumier Lewis E. Fox C. France-Lanord R. J. Francey Roger Francois...aubrite: Igneous origin of oldhamite S. AMARI, R. S. LEWIS, and E. ANDERS: Interstellar distributions 449...diamond; size of Sic and graphite 459 R. S. LEWIS, S. AMARI, and E. ANDERS:Interstellar grains in...1557 E. R. SHOLKOVITZ, W. M. LANDING, and B. L. LEWIS: Ocean particle chemistry: The fractionation between
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the arc-continent collision/accretion between the island arcs (e.g. Bogda, Dananhu) in the Junggar ocean...ocean, which led to the final assembly of TE the Eastern Tianshan during latest Carboniferous time. CE...Carboniferous time, followed by collision/accretion of the island arcs (e.g. Bogda, CE P Dananhu) in the Junggar...Central SC R as well as the final assembly of the Eastern Tianshan. IP T Tianshan block, which can shed...Tianshan is further divided into the western and eastern segments roughly along the Urumqi-Korla transect
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5 to ā€“ 3. The groundmass assemblage albite + microcline + nepheline + sodalite + arfvedsonite + aegirine...size. The major groundmass minerals are albite, microcline, nepheline, sodalite, aegirine, arfvedsonite...discrete grains of albite and microcline. In some samples, microcline forms small euhedral laths and...crystals in the groundmass. In some places, euhedral microcline laths occur as inclusions in sodalite (Fig. 2e)...along cracks and, locally, at the contact with microcline, sodalite has been replaced by analcime. Olivine
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Geological Survey Department, P.O. Box 672, Koforidua, Eastern Region, Ghana e School of Nuclear and Allied Science...juvenile crust formed from the depleted mantle in an island arc environment. Ā© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights...in the Upper West Region of Ghana and marks the eastern side of the larger Proterozoic Boromo greenstone...Archaean rocks of Liberian age (3000ā€“2500 Ma), and an eastern domain consisting of Birimian terrane containing...characteristic cross hatched twinning, are predominantly microcline. Accessory minerals include zircons, apatite
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Asrrophys. J. Lett., 319, L109. [3] Huss G. R. and Lewis R. S. (1994) Meteoritics, 29, 791. [4] Amari S....chemical weathering is slow: cold deserts such as Antarctica and hot deserts like the Nullarbor. Many thousands... (1993) Nature, 325, 25-33. [2] Huss G. R. and Lewis R. S. (1994) Meteoritics, 29, 791-810. [3] Verchovsky...National Science Foundation. References: [ l ] Lewis R. S. et al. (1975) Science, 190, 1251. [2] Ozima...et al. (1983) GCA, 47, 1887. [12] Huss G. R. and Lewis R. S. (1994) Meteoritics, 29, 791. [13] Geiss J
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Crust in the Youanmi and South West Terranes, and Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, of the Yilgarn Craton...Komiya and Shigenori Maruyama Chapter 3.2. Ancient Antarctica: The Archaean of the East Antarctic Shield ....and strongly deformed rocks are described from Antarctica by Harley and Kelly, from the North China Craton...belt (LaflĆØche et al., 1992). The first Archaean island arc was recognized by Folinsbee et al. (1968) in...MAJOR PALEOARCHEAN ROCKS The oldest rocks in Antarctica occur in the Napier complex in Enderby Land (Fig
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Crust in the Youanmi and South West Terranes, and Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, of the Yilgarn Craton...Komiya and Shigenori Maruyama Chapter 3.2. Ancient Antarctica: The Archaean of the East Antarctic Shield ....and strongly deformed rocks are described from Antarctica by Harley and Kelly, from the North China Craton...belt (LaflĆØche et al., 1992). The first Archaean island arc was recognized by Folinsbee et al. (1968) in...MAJOR PALEOARCHEAN ROCKS The oldest rocks in Antarctica occur in the Napier complex in Enderby Land (Fig
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over K-feldspar in TC, while mesoperthite or microcline perthite (rarely orthoclase perthite) is the..., 1999. Petrology and geochemistry of Camiguin Island, southern Philippines: insights into the source...charnockitization in the Chilka D Lake area, Eastern Ghats Belt, India ā€“ a reappraisal. Geological Magazine... Z.Q., 1984. Archaean granulite gneisses from Eastern Hebei Province, China: rare earth geochemistry...slab melting: high pressure differentiation of island arc magma, Mindanao, the Philippines. Earth and
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Al (Crystal Bay bytownite, USNM R-2912), K (microcline USNM 143966), P (schreibersite). Detection limits...presumably, is from terrestrial weathering in Antarctica. No sharp boundaries of different levels of translucence...impact-melt from the L-chondrite parent body and Lewis Cliff 88663, an L7 chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary
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south (Fig. 1a). It is tectonically divided into Eastern and Western blocks by the TransNorth China Orogen... The Eastern Block underwent a Paleoproterozoic (2200ā€“1900 Ma) rifting event along its eastern margin...is believed to be a collision zone between the Eastern and Western blocks formed at ca. 1850 Ma (e.g....2005; Kusky et al., 2007). The basement of the Eastern and Western blocks is mainly composed of Neoarchean...Tectonic framework of the NCC emphasizing the Eastern Block, Western Block and Trans-North China Orogen
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Tuscon, Arizona. Barry Yampol: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Victor Yount: Warrenton, Virginia. Josef...Oxford Clarendon Press. (GL) Glusker, J. P., & M. Lewis (1994), Crystal Structure Analysis for Chemists...north to south 14. Oceania 15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities section includes...(Verespatik). In Russia, gold is found on the eastern slope of the Ural Mts. for a distance of 500 miles...Creek, NT. In New Zealand, Hauraki Peninsula, North Island, and placer deposits in Nelson, Westland, Otago
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11065, NWA PR 11043, Allan Hills (ALHA) 77005, Lewis Cliff (LEW) 88516, and Roberts Massif (RBT) 04261/2...Ni-olivine (Ni), apatite (P), albite (Na), and microcline (K). Detection limits were ā‰¤0.01 wt. % for K2O...Yangting, L. (2004) A New Martian Meteorite from Antarctica: Grove Mountains (GRV) 020090. Acta Geologica...FeO-rich asteroids revealed by the achondrite Lewis Cliff AL 88763. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 50, 1750-1766
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chromite; chromium augite; diopside; ilmenite; microcline; plagioclase; pentlandite; and metal standards...impact melt from the L-chondrite parent body and Lewis Cliff 88663, an L7 chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary...Mineralogy and Petrology 56:119ā€“134. Whitlock R., Lewis C. F., Clark J. C., and Moore C. B. 1991. The Cerro
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chromite, chromium augite, diopside, ilmenite, microcline, and plagioclase, all certified by the United...Fine-grained rims in the Allan Hills 81002 and Lewis Cliff 90500 CM2 meteorites: Their origin and modification
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Amaril.2, L. R. Nittlerl, E. Zinnerl, and R. S. Lewis,, IMcDonnell Center for the Space Sciences and the...experiments we used micrometeorites obtained from Antarctica by M. Maurette in January 1994. Earlier studies...years numerous meteorites have been found in Antarctica and in the hot deserts of Australia (Nullarbor)...Gani. Compared with typical samples found in Antarctica and Australia, samples from Libya are large,...References: [ I ] Biirki P. R. et al., this volume. [2] Lewis R. S. et al. (1989) Nature, 339, 117-121. [3] Biirki
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in carbon (Halbout et al., 1986) and nitrogen (Lewis et al., 1983) indicated the presence of presolar...identification of diamond, the carrier of Xe-HL (Lewis et al., 1987), silicon carbide, the carrier of Ne-E(H)...(GMS) of carbon, nitrogen, and the noble gases (Lewis et al., 1994; Russell et al., 1996, 1997), by thermal...nebula and about parent-body processes (Huss and Lewis, 1995; Mendybaev et al., 2002). 1.02.6 SILICON...concentrations ranging up to ,10 ppm (Huss and Lewis, 1995). Most SiC grains are less than 0.5 mm in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phases at UNLV: augite (for analysis of Mg, Si), microcline (K), ilmenite (Ti, Mn, Fe), albite (Na), plagioclase...chondrites, such as LaPaz Icefield (LAP) 031220, Lewis Cliff (LEW) 87223, Yamato (Y)793225, and QUE 94204
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FeO-rich asteroids revealed by the achondrite Lewis Cliff 88763. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 50, 1750-1766....spectral unmixing. Quartz BUR-4120 Silica glass Microcline BUR-3460 Quenched basalt Albite WAR-0244 Fo0Fa100
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Allan Hills main icefield, Frontier Mountains, Lewis Cliff, and MacAlpine Hills, for example, contain meteorites...concentrations, and synthetic forsterite for Mg. We used microcline, rutile, fayalite, synthetic Cr2O3, and synthetic...classify all of the meteorites returned from Antarctica within two years, as required by the U.S. Federal...populations of types of meteorites present in Antarctica. In addition, having analytical data in hand...questions surrounding the collection of meteorites in Antarctica is whether the collection procedure is recovering
 
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