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Plagioclase from
The Pleiades, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Volcano
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 The Pleiades, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1326505
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1326505:0
GUID (UUID V4):3b5b4ed9-55ec-4659-b0e4-e573f0a4316a
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Late Cenozoic alkaline lavas of the McMurdo Volcanic Group, Antarctica PHILIP R. KYLE* Departments of...of Geology and Chemistry, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and PETER C. RANKIN...northern Victoria Land alkaline lava samples which were representative of four lava lineages of the McMurdo...Group, Antarctica. A kaersutite and two feldspar mineral separates were also analysed. Two of the lava...heavy REE and depletion of middle REE. The patterns result from the fractionation of olivine, clinopyroxene
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Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam - Printed in The Netherlands 317 [5] Iridium enrichment in volcanic...volcanic dust from blue ice fields, Antarctica, and possible relevance to the K / T boundary event Christian...version received January 4, 1989 Blue ice fields in Antarctica, well known as stranding zones of Antarctic meteorites...place since its formation. Among the most important structures on the ice fields are dust bands which...thousand kilometers from the source volcanoes. Samples of dust layers taken in the Lewis Cliff/Beardmore
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The Transantarctic Mountains These watercolor paintings by Dee Molenaar were originally published...map of the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. We are pleased to republish these paintings with the permission...permission of the artist who owns the copyright. Gunter Faure · Teresa M. Mensing The Transantarctic...Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water Gunter Faure The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences and...Ohio 43210 USA faure.1@osu.edu Teresa M. Mensing The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences and
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Surface Sediments of a Small Bay in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica Jaewoo Jung 1 , Youngtak Ko 2 , Joohan Lee 3...Abstract: The second Antarctic station of South Korea was constructed at Terra Nova Bay, East Antarctica, but...beaches along the coastline. Fourteen sampling sites to collect surface sediments were chosen in the small bay...for grain size and clay mineral analyses to study the sediment source and sediment-transport process with...Under the dominant erosional features (streamlined feature and meltwater channel), icebergs are the major
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Phonolite Lavas at Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica by P. R. KYLE 1 , J. A. MOORE 1 , AND M. F. THIRLWALL...Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica, is an active, intraplate, alkaline volcano. The strongly undersaturated...anorthoclase phonolite, and are termed the Erebus lineage (EL). The lavas are porphyritic with olivine (Fo...differentiation compared with other incompatible elements. The light REE are enriched (LaN/YbN = 14-20) and there...uniform and low (~O7030) throughout the EL, suggesting derivation of the basanites from a depleted asthenospheric
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Phonolite–Trachyte Succession at Mount Sidley, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica KURT S. PANTER1∗, PHILIP R. KYLE1 AND JOHN...1997 The 1·5 Ma evolution of the Late Pliocene (5·7 to 4·2 Ma) Mt Sidley volcano, Marie Byrd Land, is...produce alkali basalt from the same mantle source. The differentiation of the phonolitic series is modeled...modeled by fractionation of diopside, olivine, plagioclase, titaniferous magnetite, nepheline and/or apatite...from alkali basalt is modeled for compositions in the trachyte series. However, many trachytes have variable
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I ~- , Mineral Resources Potential of Antarctica SHL WITHDRAWN Physical Sciences ANTARCTIC...Joseph L. Reid, Editor ANTARCTIC OCEANOLOGY II: THE AUSTRALIAN- NEW ZEALAND SECTOR Dennis E. Hayes...NORTHERN LAND Edmund Stump, Editor GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE Jarvis B. Hadley, Editor VICTORIA ANTARCTIC...ANTARCTIC GEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL 'fRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS Mort D. Turner and John F. Splettstoesser...8nmIES AT PLATEAU STATION, ANTARCTICA Joost A. Businger, Editor OCEANOLOGY OF THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL SHELF
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heterogeneous metasomatism in Northern Victoria Land lithospheric mantle (Antarctica) Beatrice Pelorosso, Costanza...heterogeneous metasomatism in Northern Victoria Land lithospheric mantle (Antarctica), LITHOS (2016), doi: 10.1016/j...version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting...note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all...all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Pervasive, tholeiitic refertilisation
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Publications Volcanic markers for dating the onset of the Anthropocene Victoria C. Smith Geological Society, London... London, Special Publications or the Lyell Collection Notes © The Geological Society of London 2014...dating the onset of the Anthropocene VICTORIA C. SMITH Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History...explosive eruptions that coincide with the defined beginning of the Anthropocene could therefore be used...archives, and assess the relative spatial differences in marked anthropogenic change. The 1815 eruption of
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Natural evidence and experimental constraints on the role of crystal mushes Marco Brenna1,*,†, Alessio...Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy 1 Abstract The generation of silica undersaturated phonolite from...saturated trachytes is uncommon, as it implies the crossing of the thermal barrier and critical plane of silica...phonolite has been observed within the Al Shaatha pyroclastic sequence in the Harrat Rahat Volcanic Field (Kingdom...compositions to simulate the pressure-temperature-volatile conditions that generated the observed liquid line
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Black IMCA Insights by The IMCA Team Meteorite of the Month by Editor Tektite of the Month by Editor Terms...this website do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The Meteorite Exchange, Inc., nor those...any person connected therewith. In no event shall The Meteorite Exchange, Inc. be responsible for, nor...other cyber location linked to from this website. The Meteorite Exchange, Inc. does not endorse, edit nor...other cyber location linked to from this website. The Meteorite Exchange, Inc. shall not be held liable
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Amsterdam - Printed in The Netherlands 12 [6] THE CHEMISTRY OF HYDROTHERMAL MOUNDS NEAR THE GALAPAGOS RIFT...dredged from the sediment mounds have a unique chemistry and mineralogy which reveals details of the hydrothermal...hydrothermal processes that produce these deposits. The mounds form primarily by deposition of Fe, Mn and Si...fluids which circulate through the basalt crust and the overlying sediments. The Mn, Fe and Si are strongly...strongly fractionated in the process; the Fe and Si precipitate within the mounds under slightly reducing conditions
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About the Photo: The lava photo on the cover was taken in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the big island...island of Hawaii. The lava in the photo is flowing from active vents on the flank of Kilauea volcano....When lava flows into the sea, sulfuric acid in the lava mixes with chlorine in the water to form a mist...Copyright © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States...permission of the publisher. The National Geographic features were designed and developed by the National
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ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS Editor L. H. AHRENS University of Cape Town, South Africa Co-editors... Preface THE suggestion to hold an international symposium on The Origin and Distribution of the Elements...originated at the London (July 1963) meeting of IUPAC's Commission of Geochemistry. The Commission was...dissolved in 1965, and the suggestion for the symposium was passed on to the embryonic International...Headquarters in Paris in November 1965 and the idea of a symposium and the theme itself appealed so strongly both
 
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