| | Book | Smith, and Klein Rouse, Dunn, Grice, Schlenker, and Higgins Boggs, Howard, Smith, and Klein Origins...composition), 600 to 900 meters thick, in the Oligocene to Lower Miocene John Day Formation in central Oregon (Hay...natrolite, gonnardite, gismondine, and faujasite; and a lower zone (up to 8 meters thick) that is analcime-dominant...covering of the flow by additional flows before the lower flow has cooled, differences in chemical environment...vesicular base of Oligocene to Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia | | | Book | Smith, and Klein Rouse, Dunn, Grice, Schlenker, and Higgins Boggs, Howard, Smith, and Klein Origins...composition), 600 to 900 meters thick, in the Oligocene to Lower Miocene John Day Formation in central Oregon (Hay...natrolite, gonnardite, gismondine, and faujasite; and a lower zone (up to 8 meters thick) that is analcime-dominant...covering of the flow by additional flows before the lower flow has cooled, differences in chemical environment...vesicular base of Oligocene to Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia | | | Catalog/List | grey-white crystals on 2x3.5 inch surface. (Croft Quarry,Leicestershire) £5 ANATASE sharp black single crystal...£6 2x2cm £8 ARAGONITE white crystalline mass with some Sulphur crystal sections, Aragonite fluoresces...Phosphorescence. (Agregento Sicily) 3x3 inches £8 ARAGONITE white acicular crystal to 2cm long on dolomite...on the surface, on feldspar. (Globe Mine.Petaca District, Rio Arriba County, new Mexico) £15 b) smaller...top, light brown fibrous on the edges. (Merehead Quarry, Mendips) 2x2.5 £4 HELVITE quite rich light brown | | | | composition in minerals such as calcite, dolomite, and aragonite, or rocks such as limestone, dolostone, and marble...spinel, cuprite, rutile, cassiterite, calcite, aragonite, dolomite, siderite, rhodochrosite, malachite...opalescent: a depth to the light reflected, e.g., aragonite, calcite Resinous: like gum resin secreted by...brownish), p. 212 anhydrite (white or grey), p. 122 aragonite (white, variable), p. 146 calcite (white, variable)...Fine marble (p. 294) quartzite (p. 294) granite gneiss (p. 290) quartzite (p. 296) Beginner's Guide to | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Gilgen Windows Alps-The Hallein District I . Alps-The Hallein District II . Alps-The Lammertal and Gosau...7: Schieferhulle and Gneiss-lamellae of the Molltal ... Day 8: The Central Gneiss Day 9: Altkristallin...eiss-lamella (4) at Raufen (Day 7) ... T he Central Gneiss nea r the Reisseck hut (Day 8) .. . The geology...Geologists' Association 1966 Field Meeting in Austria. The form of the orig inal Guide has been retained...of one of the numerous good tourist guides to Austria. The present Guide is intended for use in conjunction | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | kimberlites (more than 90 %), and is considerably lower in northern Siberia and Ural placers (< 30 %). Key...University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria 2 OREA, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology...of Sciences, Hollandstrasse 11-13, A-1020Wien, Austria e-mail: christian.ademeit@student.tugraz.at The...of Vienna, Althanstraße 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien, Austria Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography...Leoben, Peter-Tunner-Straße 5, A-8700 Leoben, Austria Department of Geology, Shahid Chamran University | | | Journal (issue) | mineral localities: Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Austria .................................................EPIDOTE from Knappenwand, Untersulz bachtal, Austria. (See the article in this issue, p. 167.) The specimen...for the first time in history, have reached the lower range of the Old Masters. Esthetics have never been...History Museum of Vienna Burgring 7, A -1014 Vienna, Austria nappenwand,in the Untersulzbach Valley, is among...beautiful mountains with France, Switzerland and Austria. In Austria, in the southern part of the province of | | | Book | derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...crystallographic symmetry of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite...symmetr:y ar:e no longer: present (Fig. 16a, p. 93). A lower: cr:ystallogr:aphic symmetr:y is often only shown...trigonal, but the true symmetr:y of dolomite is lower than that of calcite, as shown by different etch | | | Book | in 111inerals such as calcite, dolon1ite, and aragonite, or rocks such as li111estone, dolostone, and...spinel, cupri te, rutile, cassiterite, calcite, aragonite, dolo1nite, siderite, rhodochrosite, n1alachite...opalescent: a depth to the light reflected, e.g., aragonite, calcite Resinous: like gun1 resin secreted by...black), p. 82 anhydrite (white or grey), p. 122 aragonite (white, variable), p. 146 calcite (white, variable)...Colour Coarse Fine Light marble (p. 294) granite gneiss (p. 290) quartzite (p. 296) quartzite (p. 294) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...Francisco, Calif., under the heading "Geology of Lower Lake Quadrangle" there appears the following statement—...us—both were from the famous Gillette pegmatite quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn. One specimen...deep purple fluorite occur in the Branford granite-gneiss exposed in excavations at the southeast side of...what is apparently a crush zone in the granite-gneiss adjacent to the Great Fault between the Triassic | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | sphalerite is a lead-silver mine in the Silverton district, San Juan County, Colo. The mineral occurs as...Eugene VanderWender, Harrington, Kent County, Del. District of Columbia—French Morgan, of Washington, D. C...another very unusual find of petrified wood, in the District this time, and within a half mile of where I live...Daytona Beach, Fla. The locality is a limestone quarry near south of Bradenton, Manatee County Fla. Georgia—A...crystals of selenite are found in the Floyd Knobs quarry near New Albany, Floyd County, Ind. Iowa—Nice waterworn | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | xled cyrtolite was found last year in the Pine District, Jefferson Co., Colo., so we were informed by...specimens in the world are found in the limestone quarry in Legrand, Marshall Co., Iowa. The most noted...Here are some of the specimens collected: "Bumpus Quarry, Albany, Maine—Rose quartz, beryl xls (and massive)...black tourmaline xls, beryl, muscovite. "Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mt., Greenwood, Maine—Garnets, black tourmaline...consist mainly of gneiss. Not many minerals were observed. Besides the usual gneiss minerals: Quartz, | | | Catalog/List | some galena in the matrix, Bleiberg Carinthia Austria ( one of the most famous European mines) £20 Min...Bleiberg Carinthia Austria £6 20. HUNTITE white chalky massive areas coating vughy Aragonite, about 2x3 overall...small stilbite crystals 3x2 inches £25 Wagholi Quarry, Poona ,India 23. EUDIALYTE really excellent display...some slight dame which is not obvious. Boyleston Quarry Glasgow, Scotland £9 28. BARYTES cut and polished...green coating on lxl.5 inch quartz (Schwaz Inntal Austria) £7 35. CASSITERITE super lustrous black intergrown | | | Catalog/List | 'holy fallen filled with the olivine it district: from or at regarded The moderate a at high...Meteoric Stone, or Iron Moes, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary. Meteorites, Canon Diablo, Arizona. Kiowa...the crystals sandstone allows cabinet are is Austria-Hungary, brown coal formation.” am cases and...are scarcer. instances, material, Pater- at quarry received the entire we in- or through the...Von 2O to be Thaumasite the he and dis- quarry, West aggregate of pris- matic uals crystals | | | Journal (issue) | State University, Russia Mark Mauthner, Graz, Austria Peter K. M . Megaw, Tucson, AZ Peter J. Modreski...p . 533 497 Chips from the Quarry 518 Connoisseur's Choice: Aragonite Part 3: Southern Africa Bruce...different lighting conditions. Chips from the Quarry M IM'S THE WORD: Dona Leicht. covered the grand...(Note: Writing the name of the museum "mim" in lower letters is the correct way it should be written...5 cm tall, Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar district, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan; | | | Book | distinct bands which help to identify the rock. ■10 Gneiss is similar but contains less mica — it may have... . _ a Basalt Slate Schist 16 Phyllite Gneiss Homfels 17 Quartzite Marble Skam 18 Sedimentary...minerals are cubic. Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology...the fixed index (the ordinary ray) at a higher or lower reading than the moveable (extraordinary) ray. Where...incident beam are retarded by passing through to the lower side of the film, rejoining the main beam either | | | Book | even though they do contain fibrous crystals of aragonite secreted by the organisms. But there are exceptions...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...OF A CHANGING PLANET Acasta (Hadean tonalite) gneiss, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada *...tightly packed spheres, there are layers of platy aragonite crystals in fossil ammonites, and the feldspar...weight of the cation. Mineral Formula Density aragonite strontianite CaCO, SrCO, 2.930 g/cm3 3.785 g/cm | | | Book | bothers to stoop and pick up a piece of limestone, gneiss or granite? And yet, it is these rocks which shape...quartz after barytes)/ bottom right radiating (aragonite) Minerals 13 (Table of Chemical Elements,...trigonal, or, under different conditions, as aragonite (orthorhombic). They are called polymorphs of...left mammillary limonite; bottom right oolitic aragonite 18 Minerals It is not only the native metals...hardness. Each mineral will scratch those in a lower division on the scale and can be scratched by those | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | veins in a metaquartzdioritic Variscan gneiss from the Artenberg quarry near Steinach, Kinzigtal, Schwarzwald...of the lower crust, Degi et al. examine the effects of xenolith-host basalt interaction in lower crustal...basalt interaction to be estimated. Going from the lower crust to the lithospheric mantle, Scribano et al...et al. measure the reaction rate of dolomite+aragonite=Mg–calcite at 800°C, 850°C, and 900°C and 1,600...MPa under H2Oabsent conditions. The dolomite–aragonite aggregate transforms very rapidly into a dolomite–calcite | | | Catalog/List | Bleiberg Carinthia Austria £6 23. HUNTITE white chalky massive areas coating vughy Aragonite, about 2x3 overall...small stilbite crystals 3x2 inches £25 Wagholi Quarry, Poona ,India The name reflects the formula of...very slight damage which is not obvious. Boyleston Quarry Glasgow, Scotland £9 31. ZOISITE variety THULITE...1x 1.5 inch surface of grey · Phonolite. (Arris Quarry, Windhoek,Namibia) £ 10 39. MELANOPHLOGITE a rare...micro crystals over about a2x2cm surface. Visiano Quarry, Parma, Emilia, Italy) £7.50 40. GOOSECREEKITE | | | Book | even though they do contain fibrous crystals of aragonite secreted by the organisms. But there are exceptions...periods of stability PLANET | 114 San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om are uncommon...OF A CHANGING PLANET Acasta (Hadean tonalite) gneiss, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada *...tightly packed spheres, there are layers of platy aragonite crystals in fossil ammonites, and the feldspar...in the atomic weight of the cation. Mineral aragonite strontianite witherite cerussite Gypsum, Formula | | | Report (chapter) | make further progress in the thermobarometry of lower grade metamorphic rocks. Thermodynamic mixing models...T ( K ) , which can be extrapolated linearly to lower T only if InKv is also a linear function of lIT...Extrapolation of any KD thermometer to temperatures lower than the measured a - X data may yield serious errors...1971, Robie & Hemingway 1984, Salje 1986) (6) aragonite = calcite CaCO3 = CaCO3 (Crawford & Fyfe 1965...Fe7SisO22(OH)2 = 7FeSiO3 + SiO2 + H20 (Miyano & Klein 1986) 11 morphic rocks. Reaction (23) controls | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 103, 149 Arabia, Cretaceous Echinoderms, 177 Aragonite, growth of coralloidal, 272 Archcsopteryx, cranium...Grit, and its fossils, 552 Austria, Liassic crinoidal limestone of Lower, 17 Avicula-contorta beds, 228...ilongata, 189; Coprolites, Entomostraca in, 140 on the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, 518 Cork Cuvierian Society,...formations, table of, 360 Crinoidal limestone of Lower Austria, Binornis robustus, 38 17 Dinotherium, Pelvis...401 Donegal, crumpled granite in, 216 Cumberland, Lower Silurian rocks of, Dougall, physical geography of | | | Catalog/List | crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches £70...the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...about 12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE...FLUORESCENCE Haapaluoma Finland 2x2.5 £10 47. ARAGONITE large crystal sections one aboutlx2 inches and...short wave, UV large Ix2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 70. HYDROXYL-HERDERJTE two or three pale brown | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 IV S A L Z...clay-slate veins; Strontianite; "Rosslerite"; Aragonite Xls (fine); Barite (strontian); Marble. Hollergraben—Wagnerite...Passau Czechoslovakia Lower l_ 16 M i l e s 222 AustCla I V. UPPER AUSTRIA ROCKS A N D MINERALS ...Strontianite; Bieberite; Dolom ite Xls (fine); Aragonite Xls (fine) ; Witherire; Covellite; Erythrite;...Ananbergite; Galena. Aim b. Saalfelden. E. of Leogang— Aragonite. Maishofen. S of Saalfelden—Axinite; Zoisite. |
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Gneiss quarry, Ebersdorf, Klein-Pöchlarn, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria