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Labradorite from
Balleny Islands, Antarctica


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Anorthite var: Labradorite
Formula:(Ca,Na)[Al(Al,Si)Si2O8]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Labradorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Balleny Islands, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1422704
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1422704:8
GUID (UUID V4):5e1b9c74-3647-430e-8353-ff04049e1de9
References
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Journal (issue)
ROCKS FROM ANTARCTICA: THE DISCOVERY COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) D. R. C. KEMPE...MINERALOGY Vol. 2 No. 7 LONDON: 1973 ROCKS FROM ANTARCTICA: THE DISCOVERY COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM...Issued 5 September, 1973 Price ÂŁ2.45 ROCKS FROM ANTARCTICA: THE DISCOVERY COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM...ii IV. Clarence Island South Orkney Islands Inaccessible Islands (a) Coronation Island (b) Signy Island...Island (c) Powell and Michelsen Islands (d) Fredriksen Island (e) (/) Laurie Island Graptolite Island. (g)
Report (issue)
The Hallett Volcanic Province, Antarctica GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 456-C Prepared on behalf...Volcanic Province, Antarctica By WARREN HAMILTON CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF ANTARCTICA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY..._________________ Introduction __________________________ Antarctica _ ___ Ross Sea petrologic province ____________... McCormick Island ________________ Possession Islands ___________________ Age of volcanic rocks _______________...Antarctic breccias ______ Late Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica Erosion __________________ . Volcanic rocks of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to Phonolite Sequence at Hut Point Peninsula, Antarctica, based on Core from Dry Valley Drilling Project...at Hut Point Peninsula (HPP) on Ross Island, Antarctica. DVDP 1 reached 201 m and penetrated 40 stratigraphic...Titano-magnetite occurs in most samples examined. Labradorite is the predominant feldspar in the basanite,...south-southwest direction from Mt. Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica (Fig. 1). The lavas and their associated pyroclastic...rocks from Victoria Land, islands in the westerns Ross Sea and the Balleny Islands (Fig. 1). The Erebus volcanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
within Australia, and in Antarctica, New Guinea and the New Hebrides Islands, the only areas outside of...district: 40, Xo. 159, 640-624. Wew South W&es: 3; labradorite dolerite, spilite, quartz keratophyre. BENSOPI’...CHALMERS, R. OLIVER (1941) The petrology of the Five Islands, Port Kembla, New South Wales: Australian 11~s...quartz porphyry, quartz feldspar porphyrite, labradorite porphyrite, quartz augite diorite. Roy Sot. Victoria...MAWSOK, DOUGLAS (1950) Basaltic laras of the Balleny Islands, A.S.A.R.E. Report: Roy. Sot. S. Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
170°E 175°E 180° 35°S N (a) Kaikohe - Bay of Islands (9.7 Ma - 1300 yr) (b) MARCH 2005 Auckland ...1995) and the Hauraki Rift. The Kaikohe–Bay of Islands and Whangarei volcanic fields (Smith et al., 1993)...north to south, these fields are: Kaikohe–Bay of Islands and Whangarei (e.g. Huang et al., 2000) of the...Plagioclase phenocrysts in Group A are principally labradorite. They typically exhibit weak normal zoning (core–rim...range of labradorite compositions), although some phenocrysts are strongly zoned (e.g. labradorite cores
Book (volume)
Internal. Geol. Congress, Stockholm, 1910. Antarctica and Some of its Problems. By Professor T. W....FROM THE CAMBRIAN LIMESTONE BRECCIA FOUND IN ANTARCTICA AT 85 S. BY FREDERICK CHAPMAN, V. VI. VII...PETROLOGY OF THE ALKALINE ROCKS OF MOUNT EREBUS, ANTARCTICA. VIII. BY H. I. JENSEN, BY MISS F. COHEN...14, PI. I, Fig. 16. Idem, 1909, Sub-Antarctic Islands of Neiv Zealand, Figs. 1, Figs. 48, 2. 49...55-59 vol. PL 2. I, 1, Idem, 1909, Sub-Antarctic Islands of xxx, p. 14, Lond., Zool., Figs. New Zealand
Book
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)
St Helena, Bouvet, Ascension, Austral Islands, Balleny Islands and the Azores; typical EMI-OIB are Tristan...AbdelRahman (2002). See text for details. Society Islands, Samoa, Tutuila and Upolu (Weaver, 1991; Hofmann...clinopyroxene (salite), 40–50 % plagioclase (labradorite; An58−67 ) and 5 % opaque Fe–Ti oxide phases...variation with distance and time in the volcanic islands of the Cameroon Line: evidence for a mantle plume
Book
earth scientists in the scientific exploration of Antarctica can best be judged from the fact that 7 years...geology and solid earth geophysical literature of Antarctica. It is worth noting that two important differences...where earth scientists have but a fragment of Antarctica exposed to study and at times make, in some cases...parts of Antarctica, and the infuence of new plate tecÂŹ tonic thinking not only in Antarctica but in its...Adie freedom of the SCAR nations working in Antarctica, to give to SCAR his services, for the second
Book (volume)
.............................. F. Sunda Shelf Islands ................................................. VI. Spreading History Between Australia and Antarctica and the Development of the South Australian Margin...550 550 552 554 561 562 567 573 577 579 Oceanic Islands B. G. J. Upton Introduction ............................................... Morphology of the Islands ................................................................................ The Mascarene Islands ..............................................
Book
of spreadÂŹ ing ridges and in isolated volcanic islands away from the ridges, and intrusive igneous rocks...Comoro Islands Marion Island 2 5 4 1 1 Continental intraplate volcanism East Africa Antarctica 11 5...the deep ocean floor; the majority of oceanic islands and seamounts are of this type. THE OCEAN FLOOR...possible exposures of oceanic crust are on the islands of Yap in the western Pacific (Shiraki 1971) and...they were injected into one another. OCEANIC ISLANDS Iceland is the only active volcanic island to be
Book (volume)
on the main doors are shaped in Scandinavian labradorite! Although not a geological society in the strictest... India and the USGS, have work programmes in Antarctica. The Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und... by mighty rivers, near small streams, and on islands GEOLOGY OF WHISKY 83 Figure 1 Clynelish Distillery...the north, is an area that stretches from the islands of Islay and Jura in the south-west to the Buchan...the far south-west of Scotland lie the Argyll islands of Islay and Jura, known particularly for the very
Report (issue)
1990). Geochemical study of basalts from ocean islands thought to be “hotspots” revealed compositions...magma supply rates. (B) Histogram of the Hawaiian Islands at 1-Ma intervals. Gray bars show volumes and magma...silica-undersaturated basalts observed at many ocean islands. More recently, Niu and O’Hara (2003) objected...variations similar to those observed both in oceanic islands and continental rift zones. It would be applicable...Iceland, the Azores, Bermuda, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, the Ascension-Cameroon system, and
Book (volume)
accreted excreta of birds and bats. Whole Pacific Islands, such as Nauru, are, or rather, were composed...(cratons and shields) of all continents except Antarctica, where only one occurrence is so far known. BIFs...siliceous diatom-dominated deposits surrounds Antarctica, and similar deposits are accumulating between...North Pacific, along the equator and adjacent to Antarctica. Calcareous sediments occur along the mid-ocean...Budd DA (1997) Cenozoic dolomites of carbonate islands: their attributes and origin. Earth Science Reviews
Book (volume)
had prevailed almost continuously in the British islands, and scarcely any attempt had been made to check...(Old Viborg), in a bay dotted with dome-shaped islands, is specially attractive. The scenery of the Saima...abandon¬ bluffs, but in the low-lying woods and islands, and these so ment of the advance. Meantime one...Sydney Cove,” which was wrecked at the Furneaux Islands in Bass Strait on the 9th of February 1797the same...waters are dotted with numerous tree-clad islands. These islands increase in number as the river, without
 
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