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Forsterite from
Acqua Palomba, Pachino, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy


Locality type:Cliff
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Comments:Composition in the range Fo70–85
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Acqua Palomba, Pachino, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1392095
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1392095:3
GUID (UUID V4):418c6777-dfee-42de-ab9f-86e7cb861ff7
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
5.4km (3.4 miles) Contrada Maucini, Pachino, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy
53.8km (33.4 miles) Valle Guffari, Buscemi, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy
75.9km (47.1 miles) Mineo meteorite, Mineo, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
77.5km (48.1 miles) Mount Caliella, Palagonia, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Paleogene within-plate magmatism of Pachino-Capo Passero (southeastern Sicily) and Adria (La Queglia and Pietre...Pietre Nere, southern Italy): geochemical and isotopic evidence against a plume-related origin of circum-Mediterranean...Firenze, Via Giorgio La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: riccardo.avanzinelli@unifi...Bologna, Piazza di Porta San Donato 1, 40126 Bologna, Italy 3 now at: Schlumberger Italiana S.p.A., Via dell’Unione...Europea, 6/A - Torre Alfa, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy 4 Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, U.O. di Firenze
 
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