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Zircon from
Oasis Valley, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oasis Valley, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1382907
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1382907:0
GUID (UUID V4):c4135e7a-2d32-4dcf-84a8-1ce92f630afd
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
36.3km (22.5 miles) Silent Canyon volcanic center, Nye County, Nevada, USA
50.0km (31.1 miles) Big Dune, Amargosa Desert, Nye County, Nevada, USA
83.7km (52.0 miles) Unnamed placers, Tule Canyon, Tokop Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Trends Within the Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley Caldera Complex, Nevada: Evidence for Multiple Cycles of...of the Miocene and Pliocene Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley (TM-OV) caldera complex in the southwestNevada...the Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley (TM-OV) caldera complex in the southwest Nevada volcanic field (Figure...extensional tectonic events make the southwest Nevada volcanic field rocks of the volcanic field...(basaltic to quartz latitic) SETTING The southwest Nevada volcanic field is made up of numerous overlapping
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Copyright © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/99 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...within a shallow, basin-fill aquifer, southern Nevada, USA KEVIN H. JOHANNESSON,1,* IRENE M. FARNHAM,2 CAIXIA...Virginia 23529-0276, USA Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las...Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4009, USA 2 (Received January 25, 1999; accepted in revised form May 12, 1999)...shallow, tuffaceous alluvial aquifer from southern Nevada, USA. The REE concentrations in these groundwaters
Report (issue)
Flat Tuft and1 Some Older Volcanic Units, Nye County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Flat Tuff and Some Older Volcanic Units, Nye County, Nevada By W. J. CARR, F. M. BYERS, JR., and PAUL...Flat Tuff and some older volcanic units, Nye County, Nevada. (Geological Survey professional paper ;...Geology, Stratigraphic Miocene. 3. Petrology Nevada Nye County. I. Byers, F. M. (Frank M.), 1916- . II. Orkild... 1. Index map showing location of southwestern Nevada volcanic field and some associated calderas ..
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PAPER U–Pb zircon geochronology of silicic tuffs from the Timber Mountain/Oasis Valley caldera complex...complex, Nevada: rapid generation of large volume magmas by shallow-level remelting Ilya N. Bindeman Æ Axel...Axel K. Schmitt Æ John W. Valley Received: 9 January 2006 / Accepted: 16 June 2006 / Published online:...timescale in the nested caldera complex of the SW Nevada volcanic field (SWNVF). Voluminous ash flows erupted...Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA e-mail: bindeman@uoregon.edu A. K. Schmitt Department
Report (issue)
FLAT TUFF AND SOME OLDER VOLCANIC UNITS, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA by W. J. Carr, F. M. Byers, Jr., and Paul...FLAT TUFF and SOME OLDER VOLCANIC UNITS, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By W. J. Carr, F. M. Byers, Jr., and Paul...18. Index map showing location of southwestern Nevada volcanic field and some associated calderas---...rocks of pre-Crater Flat Tuff age in the southwest Nevada Test Site region----------------------------------------------16...FLAT TUFF, AND SOME OLDER VOLCANIC UNITS, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By W. J. Carr, F. M. Byers, Jr., and Paul
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from the Topopah Spring Tuff at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA R. J. MOSCATI* AND C. A. JOHNSON U.S. Geological...Federal Center, Box 25046, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225, USA [Received 20 January 2014; Accepted 10 April 2014;...Paintbrush Group from Yucca Mountain, in southern Nevada. The Miocene-age Topopah Spring Tuff is a 350 m...and geochemistry of the tuffs. At Yucca Mountain, Nevada and the surrounding region, extensive studies have...km northwest of Las Vegas within the Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field (Christiansen et al., 1977), a geological
Report (issue)
SURVEY Geologic map of the Oasis Valley basin and vicinity, Nye County, Nevada Mapped and compiled by:...the Oasis Valley area, a major groundwater discharge site located about 15 km west of the Nevada Test...map covers nine 7.5-minute quadrangles in Nye County, Nevada, centered on the Thirsty Canyon SW quadrangle...MARGIN BLACK MOUNTAIN CALDERA MARGIN ; TESTING^ OASIS VALLEY BASIN MARGIN RAINIER MESA CALDERA MARGIN I \...fault iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiii Oasis Valley Basin margin INDEX TO 7.5 MINUTE QUADRANGLES
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Accepted Manuscript The Gold Flat Tuff, Nevada: Insights into the evolution of peralkaline silicic magmas...Belkin, J.C. White, D.C. Noble , The Gold Flat Tuff, Nevada: Insights into the evolution of peralkaline silicic...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT The Gold Flat Tuff, Nevada: insights into the evolution of peralkaline silicic...11142 Forest Edge Drive, Reston, VA 20190-4026, USA d e SC c Environment Centre, Lancaster University...University, Richmond, KY 40475, USA PO Box 8077, Reno, NV 89507, USA * RI Institute of Mineralogy
Report (issue)
Cauldrons of Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley Caldera Complex, Southern Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Prepared...CAULDRONS OF TIMBER MOUNTAIN-OASIS VALLEY CALDERA COMPLEX, SOUTHERN NEVADA Panorarmc v1ew of Timber Mountain...Cauldrons of Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley Caldera Complex, Southern Nevada By F. M. BYERS, JR., W. J. CARR...relations of igneous rocks of Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley caldera complex, including calc-alkalic rocks...rocks from Silent Canyon caldera, southwestern Nevada volcanic field UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING
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MOUNTAIN PERALKALINE VOLCANIC CENTERS, NORTHWESTERN NEVADA TEST SITE: APPLICATIONS TO AN ASSESSMENT OF RENEWED...centers----------------------Volcanic hazards: Nevada nuclear waste storage investigations----------------References...ILLUSTRATIONS Page Figure 1.--Index map of the Nevada Test Site region showing the location of Silent...MOUNTAIN PERALKALINE VOLCANIC CENTERS, NORTHWESTERN NEVADA TEST SITE: APPLICATIONS TO AN ASSESSMENT OF RENEWED...centers are located in the northern part of the Nevada Test Site. The Silent Canyon volcanic center is
Report (issue)
Digital Geologic Map Database of the Nevada Test Site Area, Nevada By Ronald R. Wahl1 , David A. Sawyer1...connection thereby. 1 Denver, Colorado 2Las Vegas, Nevada 3Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico 4Menlo... INTRODUCTION Work on geologic compilation of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) map and Pahute Mesa 30' x 60' quadrangle...geologic synthesis of the southern Great Basin in Nevada. One of the central objectives of the program was...seismicity of the Pahute Mesa 30' x 60' quadrangle. The Nevada Test Site/Pahute Mesa/Beatty digital geologic map
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volcanic and Plutonic Rocks, Southern Nye and Western Lincoln Counties, Nevada ABSTRACT The geochronology of...of Tertiary igneous events at the Nevada Test Site and adjacent area is outlined by 36 recently determined...southern Egan and northern Seaman Ranges of central Nevada, the Needles Range (?) Formation has an averaged...eastern Nevada and western Utah. K-Ar ages given by micas from two exposed plutons in the Nevada Test Site...Stratigraphic sequences in southern Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada. Kistler (1968) demonstrated the analytical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
map of the Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley caldera complex, southwestern Nevada, and the sampling site where...procedurewas applied tite, ilmenite, titanite, zircon, chevkinite, and manganoan to all quantitative...TanksMemberof the Timber Mountain Tuff, southwestern Nevada (this study), and those of olivine from other high-silica...carbonate forms a cover l-2 km thick in the southern Nevada region, there is no evidence of manganese-bearingsulfide...high+ilica rhyolites ofthe Coso Volcanic Field, Inyo County. Journal of Geophysical Research, 86, 10223-1024L
Report (issue)
STRUCTURAL SETTING OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA, AND LATE CENOZOIC RATES OF TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN...IN PART OF THE SOUTHWESTERN GREAT BASIN, NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA by W. J. Cam Open-File Report 84-854...84-854 (Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency Agreement.....26 Other structural elements of southwestern Nevada...........................29 Mesozoic granitic...zones....................................30 Death Valley-Pancake Range belt............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
separation (e.g., Bacon and Druitt, 1988; Bindeman and Valley, 2003; Hildreth, 1981). To address this issue,...chemically zoned ignimbrites from the Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field (SWNVF), the Ammonia Tanks Tuff...related to the formation of the Timber Mountain Oasis Caldera and erupted at ~ 11.45 Ma (Huysken et al...the AT Tuff (data from Mills et al., 1997). and Valley, 2003; Mills et al., 1997). The high-silica pumice...thermal zonation in the AT ignimbrite (Bindeman and Valley, 2003; Lipman et al., 1966; Mills et al., 1997;
Report (volume)
----------Six new members of the James Run Formation, Cecil County, northeastern Maryland, by Michael W. Higgins ...Arizona -----Generalized geologic map of Cecil County, Md., showing members of the James Run Formation...(of Piapi Canyon Group) . early Pliocene southern Nevada Byers, F.M., Jr., Carr, W.J., Orkild, P.P., Quinlivan...cauldrons of Timber Mountain-Oasis VaJ,ley caldera complex, southern Nevada: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper...Isom or Mount Dutton Formation (new name), Bear Valley Formation, or Buckskin Breccia (new name). BALTIMORE
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC MAP OF SOUTHERN YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Robert B. Scott U.S. Geological Survey...orthopyroxene, 1 percent opaque phases, and accessory zircon, apatite, sphene, allanite, and either perrierite...biotite, hornblende, opaque phases, and accessory zircon and sphene (Scott and Bonk, 1984). Zone forms base...biotite, hornblende, opaque phases, and accessory zircon and sphene (Scott and Bonk, 1984). Map unit forms...hornblende, 1 percent opaque phases, and accessory zircon, apatite, sphene, allanite, perrierite and/or chevkinite
Report (issue)
TUFF FROM DRILL HOLE UE-25 NRG#3, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA by Zell E. Peterman and Kiyoto Futa U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Report 95-325 Prepared in cooperation with the NEVADA OPERATIONS OFFICE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY under...Tuff in drill hole UE-25 NRG#3 at Yucca Mountain, Nevada .................................................samples from drill hole UE-25 NRG#3, Yucca Mountain, Nevada ......... 3. Mean compositions of the high-silica...rhyolite of the Tiva Canyon Tuff, Yucca Mountain, Nevada ...................... 3 7 8 CONVERSION FACTORS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2003 Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...calibration of oxygen isotope fractionation in zircon JOHN W. VALLEY,1,* ILYA N. BINDEMAN,1 and WILLIAM H. PECK2...Madison, WI 53706, USA 2 Department of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA (Received June...for the fractionation of oxygen isotopes among zircon, almandine-rich garnet, titanite, and quartz are...(106/T2). The fractionation of oxygen isotopes between zircon and coexisting minerals can provide otherwise unavailable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatism, we present in situ δ18O and U–Pb analyses of zircon, and laser fluorination δ18O analyses of phenocrysts...15.4 Ma, and contain no evidence for xenocrystic zircon. LOVF δ18O(Zrc) values demonstrate (1) both low-δ18O...data, along with new compilations of (1) in situ zircon δ18O data for the SRPY, and (2) regional δ18O(WR)...University of WisconsinMadison, Madison, WI 53706, USA 2 Tohoku University, Miyagi 980‑8578, Japan axis...field · Snake River Plain–Yellowstone hotspot · Zircon · Large igneous province Introduction The time-transgressive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the potential repository level, Yucca Mountain, Nevada Zell E. Petermana,*, Paul L. Clokeb a US Geological...Survey, MS 963 Box 25046 DFC, Denver, CO 80225, USA Science Applications International Corporation, MS...423 1261 Town Center Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89144, USA b Received 15 August 2000; accepted 5 January 2001...samples from the cross drift at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Previous analyses of outcrop and core samples...radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Core samples from drill holes in the cross drift
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00410-005-0025-8 O R I GI N A L P A P E R J. W. Valley Æ J. S. Lackey Æ A. J. Cavosie C. C. Clechenko...crustal maturation: oxygen isotope ratios of magmatic zircon Received: 7 April 2005 / Accepted: 11 July 2005...1007/s00410-0050025-8 Communicated by J. Hoefs J. W. Valley (&) Æ C. C. Clechenko Æ M. J. Spicuzza J. S. Lackey...University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA E-mail: valley@geology.wisc.edu Tel.: +1-608-2635659 Fax:...Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA V. P. Ferreira Æ A. N. Sial NEG-LABISE, Department
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2004 Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/04 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...for U-series dating of opal at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA, using ion-microprobe and microdigestion methods...MS 963, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA S. M. Stoller Corporation, c/o U.S. Geological Survey...CO 80225, USA 3 U.S. Geological Survey, MS 937, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA 4 Varian...35 Dory Road, GL 17, Gloucester, MA 01930-2297, USA (Received November 14, 2002; accepted in revised
Report (issue)
ANALYSES OF VOLCANIC ROCKS FROM THE NEVADA TEST SITE AREA, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA by William R. Page Open-File...Report 90-87 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency............in pocket Figure 1. Map showing the Nevada Test Site and surrounding 2. 3. Standard card...Yucca 4. Map showing calderas of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field...................................rock samples collected from the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, between 1960 and 1985 were analyzed
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AT THE USW G-2 DRILL HOLE, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA by Florian Maldonado and S. L. Koether ...Report 83-732 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency...hole USW G-2........... [in pocket] Map showing Nevada Test Site and vicinity and location of study area...Spring Member, USW G-2 drill hole, Yucca Mountain, Nevada................................. 19 Bar graph...USW G -1 and USW G-2 drill holes, Yucca Mountain, Nevada 7. Fault zones less than 1.5 cm thick, JUSW G-2
 
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