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Nepheline from
Alexander Dam, Kauai Island, Kauai County, Hawaii, USA


Locality type:Dam
Classification
Species:Nepheline
Formula:Na3K(Al4Si4O16)
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nepheline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alexander Dam, Kauai Island, Kauai County, Hawaii, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:521996
Long-form Identifier:1:3:521996:4
GUID (UUID V4):4bf73b65-0fe5-4959-93b5-e2859305c1b5
Nearest other occurrences of Nepheline
15.3km (9.5 miles) Waimea Canyon Volcanic Series, Kauai Island, Kauai County, Hawaii, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGIST published his acccjunt of the geology of the island of Oahu. The s.pmgy9i4s were mentioned by.Whitman...investigating these collections at the University of Hawaii, and it is to this work that he referred in a letter...Honolulu about one half mile east of the University of Hawaii grounds. The rock is quarried by the Honolulu Construction...material. The Alexander Dam which was being constructed for the McBryde Sugar Cornpany on the island of Kauai...AMERICA J/l The Lanakai hills, near Kailua, western Hawaii. Some of the specimens from this district are labelled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
studied: Moiliili Quarry, Honolulu, Oahu; Alexander Dam, Kauai; and the Lanikai Hills, whose locality should...should have been stated as Oahu and not Hawaii. Some of the Lanikai material was erroneously labeled...first of these localities originated from the nepheline-melilite basalt flow in which they are found,...primary vein-development than any other flow on the island. However, the nephelite basalts in the Koolau Range...Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Island of Oahu, Hawaii: Div. of Hgdrography,T. H., BuIl. I, pp
Report (issue)
Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Round Top volcano, Hawaii, USA. 2.706 (100), 4.25 (70), 3.19 (70), 4.93 (60)... Zeolite group. Occurrence: In cavities in nepheline and olivine basalt and leucite tephrite. Association:... At Round Top volcano, Oahu, and Alexander Dam, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. From Concepci¶on del Oro, Zacatecas...Authigenic zeolites in zeolitic palagonite tu®s on Oahu, Hawaii. Amer. Mineral., 54, 182{197. (6) Nawaz, R. (1980)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Science and Technology University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 edecarlo@soest.hawaii.edu T...Kalanianaole Highway Suite A143A-103, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825 bryan@bluecapproductions.com he Hawaiian...highlight some of the important mineral resources of Hawaii and their locations and accessibility, presenting...courtesy of John Smith, Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii at Manoa; ages courtesy...Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa. The article consists of three parts:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
studied: Moiliili Quarry, Honolulu, Oahu; Alexander Dam, Kauai; and the Lanikai Hills, whose locality should...should have been stated as Oahu and not Hawaii. Some of the Lanikai material was erroneously labeled...first of these localities originated from the nepheline-melilite basalt flow in which they are found,
Book
MICHIGAN Houghton County, Park Cowlitz County, Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA... Poona, JAPAN Echigo Province, Merguelen Island Naze PACIFIC AUSTRALIA Victoria, Flinders,...diabase found in cavities, and shists. LOCATIONS: USA Ash Creek, Sonoma and Mendocino Co., California... ATLANTIC ICELAND Berufjord GREENLAND Faroe Island SOUTH AMERICA BRAZIL Rio Grande do Sul, Veronopolis...COLORADO Table Mt. , Jefferson CALIFORNIA Clear HAWAII Many locations. Creek, Baltimore Co. San Benito
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the same authors also starting from mixtures of nepheline and albite and 0.2N NaOH solution at 150° < T...(1980) reported on the hydrothermal treatment of nepheline with 0.1 N NaOH at 150°C in an "open system",...(1966) found natrolite as an alteration product of nepheline from the Pleistocene sediments of Olduvai Gorge...palagonite tuffs of Oahu, Hawaii. At Diamond Head, Punchbowl, Manana Island, Ulupau Head and Salt Lake...framework (Hesse 1983). Czechoslovakia: in the nepheline-phonolites from the area of Most, Brux (Hibsch
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conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper , allegedly...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white ...Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour:...tonnes (25 tons), is mined at Ovifak and Disko Island (Greenland). Nickel-iron in the form of meteorites...meteorite, with pieces found at Canyon Diablo (Arizona, USA), fell c. 20,000-40,000 years ago, creating a crater
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conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper, allegedly the...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white ...Wittwatersrand (South Africa), California and Alaska (USA), Australia, South America and Siberia. G Au Colour:...tonnes (25 tons), is mined at Ovifak and Disko Island (Greenland). Nickel-iron in the form of meteorites...meteorite, with pieces found at Canyon Diablo (Arizona, USA), fell c. 20,000-40,000 years ago, creating a crater
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exchanged. The feldspathoid minerals (leucite, nepheline, sodalite, and others) have a somewhat more open...nephelinite tuff (35,000 years old) at Koko Crater, Oahu, Hawaii, consists of a top zone (up to 12 meters thick)...of abo,ut 1,000 to 0,000 years (Ta,ylor and S,uf,dam, 1981)" This type of occurrence forms in a close...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...heated by the molten flow. Many volcanic flows in Hawaii and Washington (in the U.SA) and Iceland, show
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exchanged. The feldspathoid minerals (leucite, nepheline, sodalite, and others) have a somewhat more open...nephelinite tuff (35,000 years old) at Koko Crater, Oahu, Hawaii, consists of a top zone (up to 12 meters thick)...of abo,ut 1,000 to 0,000 years (Ta,ylor and S,uf,dam, 1981)" This type of occurrence forms in a close...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...heated by the molten flow. Many volcanic flows in Hawaii and Washington (in the U.SA) and Iceland, show
Book (volume)
Tridymite, Cristobalite . . . . .179 NEPHELINE GROUP.231 Nepheline, Kalsilite ....... 231 PETALITE.271...Sodium-rich orthoclase cryptoperthite, ijolite-nepheline-syenite, Sinkwa, Mogok, Burma (Tilley, 1954)....analyses. ...U1“’ 1>0rway 2. M““^Perthite- nepheline-syenite, Fukushin-zan district, Korea (Yoshizawa...0-03). 13. Maximum microcline microperthite, nepheline-syenite, Blue Mountains, Ontario (MacKenzie, 1954)...perthite, pegmatite, S. of Iron Creek, Pennington County, Black Hills, S. Dakota (Higazy, 1949). Anal. R
Book (edition)
the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode...lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is...Blossom 1nine, Juab County, and with austinite at the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utal1; in Inyo, San
Book (edition)
Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in
Book (edition)
Tuscon, Arizona. Barry Yampol: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Victor Yount: Warrenton, Virginia. Josef...Quartz Opal, some yellow varieties of sphalerite Nepheline Tale, brucite Sillimanite such terms as The...California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana...Creek, NT. In New Zealand, Hauraki Peninsula, North Island, and placer deposits in Nelson, Westland, Otago... on concretions in sedimentary rocks. Thomaston Dam, Litchfield Co., CT; Sterling Hill mine, Sussex Co
Report (volume)
introduced for use in North America, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...America, Greenland, the West Indies, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian
 
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