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Aragonite from
Roadside quarry, Boca da Encumeada pass, Serra de Água, Ribeira Brava, Madeira Island, Madeira, Portugal


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roadside quarry, Boca da Encumeada pass, Serra de Água, Ribeira Brava, Madeira Island, Madeira, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:427383
Long-form Identifier:1:3:427383:7
GUID (UUID V4):1aa6879d-a412-4da7-992b-2e5dfe7ec9c2
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
13.6km (8.4 miles) Fajã Grande, São Roque do Faial, Santana, Madeira Island, Madeira, Portugal
14.9km (9.3 miles) Pico da Cruz, São Martinho, Funchal, Madeira Island, Madeira, Portugal
16.5km (10.2 miles) Ribeira da Janela beach, Porto Moniz, Madeira Island, Madeira, Portugal
16.9km (10.5 miles) Foz da Ribeira do Faial, Faial, Santana, Madeira Island, Madeira, Portugal
18.5km (11.5 miles) Porto da Cruz beach, Porto da Cruz, Machico, Madeira Island, Madeira, Portugal
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Salitre Formation), and microbial laminites and aragonite crystal fan pseudomorphs in the more southern...by the Geologic Survey of Brazil or CPRM (Dalton de Souza et al., 2003; Fonseca et al., 2014). (For interpretation...al., 2019) and early cements associated with aragonite crystal fan facies in the Sete Lagoas Formation...southwestern margin by the Paranapanema Block and Río de la Plata Craton (Heilbron et al., 2017; Reis et al... the Serra do Santa Helena Formation (~60 m), the Lagoa do Jacaré Formation (~50 m), the Serra do Saudade
Journal (issue)
Gemcutter Page R0<:khunllng Situ Treasures of Madeira and Portugal Page By D. S. Freir The Shining Mountain...Sites Treasures of Madeira and Portugal by D. S. Frei, TRAS OSMONTES PONTE DE BARCA VALENC DES GONCALO...MINAS DE • PANASOUEIRA VILA NOVA DE (A«NHJo) \• • MILFONTES MONCHIQUE MINAS SE DOMINGOS PORTUGAL The...The entire main island is of basalt, except the eastern tip which is mainly of lime. When the Portuguese...first landed in Madeira they found the whole place to be densely afforested (t!he name Madeira means wood
Report (issue)
ASSOCIATION GUIDE A FIELD EXCURSION GUIDE TO THE ISLAND OF MALWRCA by H. C. JENKYNS, B. W. SELLWOOD and...0 7073 0588 8 FRONT COVER: View of Cutri, Sierra de Levante, Mallorca, with the Jurassic stratigraphy...the Bathonian. A FIELD EXCURSION GUIDE TO THE ISLAND OF MALLORCA by H. C. JENKYNS, B. W. SELLW OOD...Pomar Departament de Ciencies de la Terra, Universitat de Jes Illes Balears, Carretera de Valldemossa, km...km 7.5, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN. Other contributors: Elaine Jones (Turtiary sediments), Shell International
Catalog/List
5mm£3 Hannover Cove.St Agncs, Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture... Brosso Minc,lvrca.ltaly lxl £5 Boghill Road Quarry, Glengonnley, County Antrim, Yaknl Mine,Bigndic...£10 OH Claims, Gila County, Arizona U.S.A Haury Quarry, Black Forest, Germany Ayama Bolivia ½x½£1.50...with a few crystals . cut and polished 5x3.5 £7 Aragonite display piece from l roud Morocco .white borryoidal...colour with veins of brown Bementite. (Greystones Quarry, Lezant,Comwall) a) 3x4 inches £ 1 5 b) 3x2.5 £
Journal (issue)
gaining entry to the best of type, and pieces which pass that test are the ones that give me the most pleasure...photo. Elbaite, 14.5 cm, Pederneira mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Joe Budd photo. Pyromorphite...Scovil photo. Topaz, 9.5 cm, Xanda mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Joe Budd photo. Supplement...- - - - - - - - Heliodor beryl, 6.2 cm, Slocum quarry, East Hampton, Connecticut. Ex Scott Kleine collection...photo. Elbaite, 9.3 cm, Pederneira mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Joe Budd photo. 28
Report (issue)
crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...Na 2 O 5.3, H 2 O 12.4, = 100. Analysis: Fritz Island, Berks County. Sadtler, Jr., Am. Chem. J., IV,...Berks County: Fritz Island, minute white radiating tufts; Delaware County: Ward's quarry, mealy white radiations... A12 O 3 31 4 SiO 2 37 100. Analysis: Fritz Island, Berks County. White, gations of radiating structure
Journal (issue)
Dune Environments, Laie, O'ahu, Hawai'i Eric Heinen De Carlo 1 Edward Sawada2 1 Department of Oceanography...found in a blue roc k (nonesic ul ated basalt) quarry located within the remains of the caldera of the...found in the karst cavern discovered at the Laie Quarry in April 1998. Photograph by Ed Sawada. Japan... • Country Locality Aus tralia White Rock Quarry, near Adelaide, South Australia Aus tria Aus tria...Continued on page 8 Mineral News 2 Review: Roadside Geology of Massachusetts By James W. Skehan, softcover
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a little unfortunate. Like the collections of aragonite-shelled organisms found 117 TH E CHAl. K OF...Trochiform. Otherwise they a re alike both in the aragonite shells and the unusu ally large number of the...(So w.) B ourguet icrinu s ellipticus d 'Orb " serra tus Wood s Metopaste r exsculptus Spencer " splnosus...splnosus (So w.) quadratus Sp encer Chla my s cretosus (De fra nce) .. uncat us (Fo rbes) Plagi ostom a hope...Du ja rdi n ? Limea sp . nov. Oxytoma seminudu m (Da mes) Ino ceramus inconstans Wood s lam ar ck i Park
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photo. November/December: Elbaite on quartz, Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Hyman and Beverly...1948), D. Leicht, 126-28 Apatite, California, 162 Aragonite, Missouri, 227; Utah, 244 Archduke Stephan Franz...Mineralogy Cahill, C., Ferroaxinite from Lime Crest Quarry, Sparta, New Jersey, 252-56 Cairncross, B., see...minerals from Chile, 56 Chimney, 351 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5-7, 85-86,149-50,213-15,293-95...Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, 380-89 de Vries, P., Secondary Minerals from the Carletonville
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Apophyllite, New Jersey, 324; Washington, 274 Aragonite, Bolivia, 410 Arem, J. E., see Media Reviews Arkansas... M. A., Recent Mineral Finds at the Millington Quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey, 320-24 Beryl, California...34-38 China, Hunan, orpiment, 279-80 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5, 83, 14748,229,309,371-73 Chlorite...Connoisseur’s Choice, R. B. Cook, Ferberite, Panasqueira, Portugal, 282-84; Fluorite on Quartz, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie..., Minerals from the Weyerhaeuser Lincoln Creek Quarry, Lewis County, Washington, 268-75 Cubanite, Missouri
Journal (issue)
him negotiating with the local Arabs( Highdown quarry Richard dug deep trenches and uncovered superb...inland quarries and looking for vugs along the· roadside rather than visiting many coastal sites. Communications...from a point on one island to a quarry you could see across the water on the next island, might involve a...example by the side of the road as we drove to Satan quarry on Streymoy. Tree casts can result if a lava flow...stlbite. (20mm) Strand quarry, Bordoy Specimen: Colin Brough - 7- Fig. 5 Strond quarry, Bordoy Fig. 7 Apophyllite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New York, 148 Apophyllite, Arkansas, 304, 316 Aragonite, Arkansas, 292 Are Cultured Pearls Mineral? The...policy, 293; phosphate minerals, 294; Diamond Jo quarry, 300; fee-collecting areas, 308; Granite Mountain...Rochester Mineralogical Symposium Chips from the Quarry, 5, 101, 181, 365, 453 Chlorite, Arkansas, 317...Fossils from the Green River Formation, Douglas Pass Area, 134-139; Phucops (or Fake-ops?) from Morocco:...Fossils from the Green River Formation, Douglas Pass Area, Colorado, R. Dayvault, A. Gorski, 134-139
Book (volume)
minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep... E 6 mi., on French Cr., the Scott Rose Quartz QuarryAmblygonite (large yellow crystals), Aquamarine...gravelsopalized wood, agatized wood. WASHABAUGH COUNTY CEDAR PASS:  area to NW, on side of US 16agatized wood, chalcedony...quarriesmarble;  NE 2½ mi., a quarryFrench pink marble;  S, a quarrymarble. MARYVILLE, area of Montvale...Pyrite, Selenite. JASPER, the Chattanooga Shale Quarrygem crystals. MONTEAGLE, just S, in a rd. cut,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
our stay we made a trip over a ridge to Wingate Pass where we secured some jasper of fair quality and...was not "faking." The vein is in a bank by the roadside (see picture, page 36, R. & M., January-February...onyx from our friends. W e also visited Oscar's aragonite claim and secured some blocks large enough for... .---* w : f ü * •'-•• Oscar Wahlstrom's aragonite claim. The writer "bluffing" at using the sledge...crystals on top. The next trip was at night to the quarry of the Calaveras Cement Company tor fluorescent
Journal (issue)
inclusions of Iepidolite! Both types are from Madagascar Island, now Malagasy Republic. I spent a good bit of time...feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...(5 cm) on matrix. The locality has been given as Da- Fig. 2 Spessartine with smoky quartz, Guangdong...seen only the famous copper pseudomorphs after aragonite twins, of which he had several. The native crystallized...crystals on matrix, clear and sharp, from San Pablo de Napa, Potosi Department, both in Bolivia. He also
Book
Honorary Emeritus Professor, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Valentin R. Troll Chair in Petrology...occurrence of recent volcanism on the most easterly island, Lanzarote, to be due to the interaction of small-scale...programs with the result that the account of every island is supported by geological excursion itineraries...geology, petrology, and volcano-tectonics of each island. There are a number of geology texts already available...concepts concerning the formation and history of each island and have applied these to the evolution of the
Book
BRYAN Tuomas M. Scott Guy H. MEANS Boca Raton Public Library, Boca Raton, FL 2008 Mountain Press Publishing...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bryan, Jonathan R. Roadside geology of Florida / Jonathan R. Bryan, Thomas...Geological Survey Photo Archives The authors dedicate Roadside Geology of Florida to our parents and families...25 a | 0 25 50 50 100 miles | 100 kilometers De et “acid Key West Roads and sections of this book...Plants of the Panhandle 115 Side Trip to Santa Rosa Island — 117 Dunes and Dune Lakes—A Side Trip on Florida
Journal (issue)
molten lava were thrown up into the air as the magma de-gassed as it reached the surface. These bits of lava...these cones had associated lava flows, as the safely de-gassed molten rock flowed peacefully away from the...boulangerie to pick up some lunch. There was much roadside geology to admire en-route, including the 'inverted...different route revealed more stunning 'text book' roadside geology. On one mountainside road there was an...most satisfying day. On our journey home, the roadside showed clear evidence of mining. Not only could
Journal (issue)
geode bed below the magnesian limestone we find a de posit of marly clays and argillaceous limestone filled...underlies the soil, and which forms the stones by the roadside along the whole route is called “ gneiss," or...specimens of which may be found in the ditches by the roadside as we walk along. We may find colorless quartz...will be found as black sand in the gutters by the roadside. On occasional specimens of the gneiss, may be...yellowish crystals. About a mile from the town . in a roadside bank, some very fine amethyst crystals may be
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite...Marcasite, Pyrite, fossils. GREEN (or Strontian) ISLAND, Put-in-Bay, Lake Eire, as fine crystals and large...secondary line rd., then N ½ mi. to Maple Grove Quarry) ⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite...Marcasite, Pyrite, fossils. GREEN (or Strontian) ISLAND, Put-in-Bay, Lake Eire, as fine crystals and large...secondary line rd., then N ½ mi. to Maple Grove Quarry) ⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bolivia, 59; Germany, 59; New Jersey, 26; Portugal, 59 Aragonite, Vermont, 239 Archibald, D. D., abstract...Carlsen, K., Early Vermont Mining, 267-74 Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, R. Clements...Clinojimthompsonite from the Type Locality: Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, R. I. Gait,...Chesterite, Vermont, 235; 275-81 Chips from the Quarry, 5, 85, 148, 293, 374 Chromite, Vermont, 241 Chrysocolla... 141, 205, 284, 365, 428 Clements, R., Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, 231-35; Vermont
Journal (volume)
of a large Allione of g-ator at Manilla in the Island of Luconia, the Philippines, XI. Researches on...Physical Geography, Geology, and Climate of the Island of Madeira. By James MacAULAY, A. M. and M. D. Communicated...Sun-Stone on the Selenga in Siberia. 9. Plumbiferous Aragonite. 10. II. Bucklandite or Black Epidote. Tachylite...mountain-masses of these different formations pass into one another ; as all geognosts know and admit...moreover are merely difi^erent in structure, often pass directly into one another more rarely they are sedirect
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cleistol)ora Beds and of the S:qri~.qotl~.qris and S~.min~da Beds are described by Mr. Dixon I Q. j. G. S. vol...railwaycutting. The upper beds ate better exposed in Press's Quarry I (where about :~0 feet are seen)and in the adjacent...in the woods just north of the northernmost quarry (Quarry 1) gives a good section of some 35 feet of...)--The lowest 20 feet of rock exposed in Press's Quarry, at the base of the precipice below Sea-Walls,...thrust-fault traverses the cliff overlooking Press's Quarry. Near the top of the cliff it runs parallel to
Book
(Ponca) 40-41 Boxley (fossils) 42-43 Boxley Quarry (fossils, minerals) 44 Altus (fossils) 45 Cinnabar...onto a smaller gravel road. A few yards later, you pass the deserted buildings remaining from the town of...Crlsto has produced quartz, amber calcite, and aragonite. The amber calcite fluoresces red under UV light...Just to the south is an abandoned phosphate-rock quarry in a shale deposit believed to be Pennsylvanian...pelecypods are inside limonite concretions. > 1 The quarry can be seen from the limestone bluff. Drive about
 
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