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Apatite from
Gardiner Complex, Kangerlussuaq Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Age information
Maximum recorded age:51.7 Ma
Minimum recorded age:48.9 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
151.7 to 48.9 MaEocene - fission track
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gardiner Complex, Kangerlussuaq Fjord, Sermersooq, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:136980
Long-form Identifier:1:3:136980:9
GUID (UUID V4):549ec98a-c281-487e-ab71-2f11c07301b7
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
78.5km (48.8 miles) Skaergaard intrusion, Sermersooq, Greenland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/lithos 40 Ar– 39 Ar ages of intrusions in East Greenland: Rift-to-drift transition over the Iceland hotspot...prolonged post-breakup magmatism of the central East Greenland rifted margin, the chronology of rift-to-drift...to 100 km inland. The area south of the Kangerlussuaq Fjord includes at least four tectonic lineaments...56–54 Ma, 50–47 Ma and 37–35 Ma. In the Kangerlussuaq Fjord, which coincides with a major tectonic lineament...intrusions of the north–south trending Wiedemann Fjord–Kronborg Gletscher lineament range from 52 to 36
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND BULLETIN 24 • 2011 The East Greenland rifted volcanic margin C....Kent Brooks GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND DANISH MINISTRY OF CLIMATE, ENERGY AND BUILDING... Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 24 Keywords East Greenland, North Atlantic, rifted volcanic...the glacier, the 1965 Oxford University East Greenland Expedition travelled and collected from this area...topography as found throughout most of the Kangerlussuaq–Scoresby Sund inland area. Chief editor of
Report (issue)
and Mining in Greenland GEOLOGY AND ORE The mineral potential of the East Greenland Palaeogene intrusions...Ø 72° Kap Parry I I Kap Simpson Kong Oscar Fjord Oksehorn, Theresabjerg I Mesters Vig I Malmbjerg...Ky s t 69° lle Gardiner complex Wiedemann Fjord Lilloise intrusion Kangerlussuaq intrusion Flammefjeld...Flammefjeld Bl os se Sødalen Miki Fjord Skaergaard intrusion Kangerlussuaq Kap Edvard Holm Palaeogene basalt...sediments Nugalik/Kruuse Fjord pre-Cretaceous Imilik/Kialineq Sulugssut complex 66° Palaeogene intrusive
Report (issue)
copy.qxp 12/02/08 10:58 Side 1 Minerals in Greenland No. 12 - February 2008 GO_12.qxp:GO-02 copy...copy.qxp 12/02/08 10:59 Side 2 Minerals in Greenland Minerals are an integrated part of the geological...history. The variation and wealth of minerals in Greenland have been significant in rendering the country...mining, and following a brief break since 1990, Greenland now seems to be entering a new phase of mineral...mines: a gold mine in South Greenland in 2005 and an olivine mine in West Greenland in 2005. From being a classical
Journal (issue)
Narssarssuk, Greenland. Photo by R. Bode. TITLE PAGE: The most common mineral in Greenland: ice —making...up the typical Arctic icebergs, ubiquitous in Greenland waters; photo by B. L. Nielsen. This special...(CHRISTIANSH AASIAAT (EGEDESMINDE Kangerlussuaq SISIMIUT (HOLSTEINSBORG) KANGERLUSSUAQ (S0NDRE STR0MFJORD) MANIITSOQ...AMMASSALIK (ANGMAGSSALIK) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF GREENLAND NUUK (GODTHAB) PAAMIUT (FREDERIKSHAB) ARSUK...Paleozoic and Mesozoic North Greenland platform and fold belt East Greenland Caledonian fold belt P rote
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
long-lived syenitic centre: The Kangerlussuaq Alkaline Complex, East Greenland Morten S. Riishuus a,⁎, David...samples from the Kangerlussuaq Alkaline Complex (∼ 1000 km2) in central East Greenland, part of the North...Atlantic Igneous Province. This complex mainly consists of the Kangerlussuaq Intrusion but includes at least...gneisses and overlying Palaeogene flood basalts. The complex is divided into (i) older satellite intrusions...gabbros and peridotites, (ii) the voluminous Kangerlussuaq Intrusion (∼ 50 Ma), which displays a gradual
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2003 Abstract Igneous, metamorphic and biogenic apatite contains Lu and Hf in proportions that make this...a new method for separation of Lu and Hf from apatite that involves a single extraction column step for...analysis by MC-ICP-MS. Results from the igneous Gardiner, Skaergaard and Khibina Intrusions indicate that...temperature for the Lu – Hf isotopic system in apatite is relatively high. The Lu – Hf isochron age of...of f 60 Ma for the Skaergaard Intrusion, East Greenland, is older than the generally accepted emplacement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contaminated Magma Chamber: the Kangerlussuaq Intrusion, East Greenland 1 DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES...30, 2008 The Palaeogene Kangerlussuaq Intrusion (50 Ma) of East Greenland displays concentric zonation...as a consequence of repeated recharge of the Kangerlussuaq Intrusion magma chamber by tapping less contaminated...armouring of the plumbing system. Kangerlussuaq; East Greenland; syenite; crustal contamination; magma...geochronology The Kangerlussuaq Intrusion (KI) is situated within the East Greenland volcanic rifted margin
Book
MINERAL SPECIES FffiST DESCRIBED fron1 GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen Also in this series... MINE. RAL ....... SPECIES FIRST DESCRIBED froin GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen The Canadian Mineralogist...organizations: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland Geologisk Museums St0ttefond (Geological Museum's...document on the minerals first discovered in Greenland. After all, as they point out in the first sentence...Introduction, a mere 26 kilometers separates Greenland from Canada along Nares Strait; we are neighbors
Report (chapter)
26, 2015 Tertiary alkaline magmatism in East Greenland: a review T. F. D. Nielsen S U M M A R Y : The...The Tertiary alkaline magmatism in E Greenland is the result of the processes related to the continental...exposed over about 1000 km along the E coast of Greenland, and close to 100 intrusions have been identified...Introduction The Tertiary alkaline magmatism in E Greenland is dominated by salic intrusions and there are...Tertiary. General reviews of the Tertiary of E Greenland have been given by Noe-Nygaard (1974, 1976), Deer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pedersen b,d a Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...could all have originated in the Gardiner Complex in East Greenland. In stage 3, alkali basalts (layers...produced the large subaerial flood basalts in Greenland, at this time moved away from the continent and...Corresponding author. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...locations mentioned in the text. Position of Greenland at 53 Ma after Skogseid et al. (2000). (b) Sample
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and syenite ring dike system, in the Gardiner complex, East Greenland T. F. D. NIELSEN LITHOS Nielsen...and syenite ring dike system, in the Gardiner complex, East Greenland. Lithos 13, 181-197. Oslo. ISSN 0024-4937...0024-4937. The Tertiary Gardiner comptex in East Greenland comprises ultramafic cumulates cut by dikes...melilitolites are attributed to metasomatic processes, the Gardiner melilitol~tes are magmatic. 7". F. D. Nielsen...biotite, feldspathoid, magnetite, pcrovskite and apatite and many secondary minerals. They are ~nvariably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NEPHELINITIC ROCKSAND CARBONATITES, GARDINER COMPLEX, TERTIARY OF EAST GREENLAND T . F . D . N I E L S E N a...n d B. B U C H A R D T Geological Survey of Greenland, DK-1350 Copenhagen (Denmark) Geological Institute...nephelinitic rocks and carbonatites, Gardiner Complex, Tertiary of east Greenland. Chem. Geol., 53: 207--217....carbonatite-bearing Gardiner Complex in the Tertiary Magmatic Province of east Greenland formed during the...rare and confined to the marginal parts of the complex. The Sr 0 of the magmatic liquids are similar to
Report (issue)
Aegirine, nepheline, potassic feldspar, cancrinite, apatite (Lovozero massif, Russia); amphibole, eudialyte...eudialyte, natrolite, pectolite (Gardiner complex, Greenland). Distribution: From Mts. Kukisvumchorr, Rasvumchorr...California, USA. In the Gardiner complex, beyond the head of Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, Greenland. Name: For the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Metallogeny of Greenland Jochen Kolb, Jakob K. Keiding, Agnete Steenfelt, Karsten Secher...Rosa, Diogo, Stensgaard, Bo M., Metallogeny of Greenland, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Metallogeny of Greenland JOCHEN KOLB1, JAKOB K. KEIDING1,2, AGNETE STEENFELT1...Economic Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark...TE D MA Corresponding author: jkol@geus.dk Greenland is the largest island on Earth, with 80% of its
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1981 The Ultramafie Cumulate Series, Gardiner Complex, East Greenland Cumulates in a Shallow Level Magma...alkaline and carbonatite bearing Gardiner complex in East Greenland is divided in: 1) Contact zone of...- cpx-dunite ring and 4) in the centre of the complex ol-pyroxenites and mt-pyroxenites. The zones and...increasingly younger towards the centre of the complex. Primocrysts and intercumulus phases, which are...ARDIN ~:R .,~ COMPLEX O" ~o ~y Introduction The Tertiary alkaline Gardiner Complex at Kangerdlugssuaq
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Histories and Tectonics of Igneous Intrusions in East Greenland A.J.W. Gleadow 1 and C.K. Brooks 2 Department...largely from Lower Tertiary magmatic rocks of East Greenland, with a few examples from Caledonian rocks. The...Caledonian rocks agree with other radiometric ages but apatite is strongly discordant indicating that these rocks...Kangerdlugssuaq cluster around 50 m.y. The Gardiner ultramafic alkaline complex and some of the offshore gabbros...Werner Bjerge complex is the youngest igneous activity so far identified in Greenland with an age of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
perovskite group minerals from the Gardiner Complex, East Greenland LINDA S. CAMPBELL*, PAUL HENDERSON...the intrusive ultramafic alkaline Gardiner Complex, East Greenland, range from almost pure CaTiO3 (perovskite...perovskite, loparite, apatite, melilite and diopside. Mean perovskite/ apatite partition coefficients...coefficients from four of the Gardiner rocks were calculated as La = 10.4, Ce = 13.8, Nd = 13.9, S m = 9.9, Eu =...greater extent than apatite. Light-REE enrichment occurs in both perovskite and apatite. IgdZVWORBS:rare
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evidence from crystallised melt inclusions, Gardiner complex Received: 18 January 1996 / Accepted: 2 September...melilitolites of the ultramafic alkaline Gardiner complex (East Greenland) contain crystallised melt inclusions...Permanent address: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Thoravej 8, DK-2400 København, NV, Denmark Editorial...larnite-normative nephelinite or evolved melilitite. The Gardiner complex and similar melilitolite and carbonatite-bearing...main evolutionary processes are often obscured by complex field relations, extensive late-stage metasomatic
Report (issue)
17.4 18.13 99.96 100.00 (1) Narss^arssuk, Greenland; traces of V, Sc, Mn. (2) Tenerife, Canary Islands;...rinkite, apatite, titanite, ilmenite. Distribution: From Narss^a rssuk and in the Gardiner complex, beyond...beyond the head of Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, Greenland. Near Mt. Karnasurt, Lovozero massif, in the Khibiny...(1855{1884), Danish mineralogist interested in Greenland minerals. Type Material: University of Copenhagen
Report (issue)
Nepheline, microcline, aegirine, rare-earth-bearing apatite, arfvedsonite, perovskite, ilmenite, eudialite–eucolite...Bjørkdalen, Norway. From the Gardiner complex, Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, eastern Greenland. On Tenerife, Canary...Chiriquelo, Paraguay. From the Salitre I alkaline complex, Minas Gerais, Brazil. On Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Report (issue)
38 0.45 0.46 99.67 . 99.75 (1) Kukisvumchorr apatite deposit, Khibiny massif, Russia. (2) Mt. Karnasurt...Yakutia. In the Gardiner complex, near the head of Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, Greenland. From the Langesundsfjord
Report (issue)
Association: Chromite, ilmenite, ulvospinel, rutile, apatite, silicates (igneous); pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite...elsewhere. In the Gardiner complex, beyond the head of Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, Greenland. From Bancroft,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1938 and 1947. Other exhibits within the building complex show the history of minting coins in Norway, mining...situFigure 3. F. Steinar Norated at the end of a fjord, which the air route drum, curator, Norwegian Mining...Norway. include hornblende, scapolite, titanite, apatite, and several other species. Large, sharp ilmenite...recovered from the Cape York region near Thule, Greenland, sits in the center on a huge steel skid. A slice...mainly concentrating on the mineral occurrences in Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. Specimens of
Journal (issue)
... 483 by M. Germine The Gardiner Complex, a new locality in Greenland ........................485...during the 1950s. The ilmenite crystals exhibited complex forms, a metallic luster, and triangular growth...communica­ tion). The jarosite occurs as minute complex crystals and as yellow powder. Superficially similar...having distorted development of {111} or {111}. Complex modifications of this simple habit include development...veins. Graves Mountain rutile is morphologically complex. A selection of crystal drawings that illustrate
 
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