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Microcline from
Railway tunnel, Fjordveien, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway


Locality type:Tunnel
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Railway tunnel, Fjordveien, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:780563
Long-form Identifier:1:3:780563:9
GUID (UUID V4):731032af-6c3e-4694-b16c-0abdc579454d
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
8.4km (5.2 miles) Løkenåsen, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
8.4km (5.2 miles) Nordre Jarlsberg Brygge, Selvik, Sande, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
10.6km (6.6 miles) Hanekleiva tunnel, Kjeksrød, Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
24.2km (15.0 miles) Moss Quarry (Skolt Quarry), Moss, Viken, Norway
25.4km (15.8 miles) Hakavika, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway
26.0km (16.2 miles) Elgskauåsen tunnel, Røyken, Asker, Viken, Norway
26.1km (16.2 miles) Vesleelva, Gislerud, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway
26.8km (16.7 miles) Holtehædde, Hedrum, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway
32.8km (20.4 miles) Vardås Fort, Nøtterøy, Færder, Vestfold, Norway
33.0km (20.5 miles) Bakstevalåsen, Gunhildrud, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
McTavish Reservoir site and in the Mount Royal railway tunnel which runs under the McGill campus. Figure...end of the park. Mount Royal Tunnel In 1912–1913 a 4.8-km-long railway tunnel was driven through Mont Royal...Royal by the Canadian Northern Railway (Clegg, 2008). This gave geologists a unique opportunity to examine...1923; Chartrand, 63 Figure 15. The Mount Royal Tunnel and a geological cross-section of the mountain... East entrance of the Mount Royal Tunnel in 1913, when the tunnel was still being driven. Several occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
228 Astrophyllite, Colorado, Greenland, Malawi, Norway, and Spain, anal., opt., isomorphous substitutions...crystal structure, 377 Barkevik, Langesundsfjord, Norway, astrophyllite, 97 Baryte, Masson Hill, Derbyshire...M6ssbauer study, anal., 448; Galway, anal., 498; Norway, anal., zI6; Spitzbergen, anal., 857; Uganda, anal...crystal structure, formula 264 Bygland, Setesdal, Norway, granite, biotite, garnet, K-feldspar, 2t6 Calabona...New South Wales, anal., hourglass zoning in, 113; Norway, complex intergrowths with orthopyroxene, 313;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coal with ferruginous clay was recorded from a railway tunnel near Dover. Large stones mixed with rotten...The felspar is mainly a finely cross-hatched microcline, but orthoclase is also present. This again is...shows rather more quartz than does No. 1, whilst microcline is less prominent and both orthoclase and plagioclase...the refractive index is higher than that of the microcline, but lower than that of the Canada balsam (I-539)...slight strain-shadowing, felspars, plagioclase, microcline and probably orthoclase, a doubtful pinite (
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discussed by Torgersen et al. (2014) in northern Norway along the edge of a Palaeoproterozoic tectonic...Ma to 542 Ma are presented and from Sweden and Norway essential data based on Suominen (1991), Winterhalter... Elminen et al. Fig. 3. (A) A sketch of 220 m tunnel floor showing the Myras clay, the fault structures...(B) A sketch of the clay-filled fracture with the tunnel cross section, drill cores and drill core sections...from the study site, and during the mapping of the tunnel, new diabase and quartz porphyry dykes of the same
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
four localities near Frodsham, especially in the railway cutting, a wellsorted mottled soft fine-grained...which the present structures are found are the railway cutting, along Main Street and in Pinmill Brow...over the railway; 7 = Ministry of Labour, Rock Methodist Church (parapet with view over railway cutting);...cutting); 8 = Frodsham railway station; 9 = exposures on north side of northern disused marshalling yard (the...either side of the signal gantry and above the tunnel mouth, reveal contorted cross-bedding as well as
Book (volume)
PLATES AT END OF VOLUME. PLATE LII. Orthoclase, Microcline, LI II. LIV. LV. LVI. LVII. LVIII. LIX. LX...Dum- at Boyleston, near Barrhead, at the Gryfe tunnel, near varieties of Erythrite bartonshire; Greenock...by Dr Heddle with Albite.] ; Felspar Group. Microcline (315). 79. x, 1. xxviii. [c, 201 ; 001...Varieties containing soda are more fusible. Microcline Orthoclase. in is It Not acted upon by acids...and, generally, this is more apparent in the Microcline of those remarkable bands of granitoid rock
Report (chapter)
decimetre-scale faults in the shales, whereas excavation of a tunnel has generated metre-scale fracturing. Some low...(upper Aalenian, Bajocian and Bathonian). A railway tunnel, constructed about 100 years ago, gives access...repository (Fig. 1). Galleries have been driven from the tunnel, and boreholes have been drilled to obtain samples...breccia (Cabrera 1995). Engineering works related to tunnel construction, have generated additional fractures... 1. Geological cross-section of the Tournemire tunnel site with inset map showing location of Tournemire
Book (volume)
adjacent Islands, whether mountain-tops, valleys, railway cuttings, or mines, where there was any chance...said to occur at Boyleston near Barrhead, Gryfe Tunnel near Greenock, and Berry Glen in North Ayrshire...Foliated (Schiffer Spar)), Dolomite, Orthoclase, Microcline, Graphic Granite, Albite, Oligoclase, Andesine...Siderite, Strontianite, Malachite, Orthoclase, Microcline, Paulit or Hypersthene, Augite (var. Hudsonite...Calcite, Aragonite, Hyilromagnesite, Orthoclase, Microcline, Spar), Pyroxene (var. Funkite Amphibole (I
Journal (issue)
I. Jacobson Alpine Anyhydrite from the Simplon Tunnel, Switzerland..................479 by W. E. Wilson...140-foot-level tunnel, then proceeding upward into a raise just above the 140-foot tunnel but below the...the 80-foot tunnel. Emmett did all of the rock cutting with a hydraulic diamond chain saw, cutting out...cookeite crusts from elbaite; iron stains from microcline; The Mineralogical Record, volume 54, July–August...Zhang Photos Alpine Anhydrite from the Simplon Tunnel, Switzerland Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical
Book (edition)
752. 8.85.5.85.Z = 4. d: 4.1(7)- 3.16(10)- 259(7) Norway, abundant at Norra Karr, Jonkoping prov., - 233(7)...Stavem, and Tvedalen, all Langesundsfjord, Vestfold, Norway, and at Narssarssuk and at Naujakasik, Ilimaussaq... Ontario, at Urstacl, Hittero Is., Vest-Agder, Norway, and in some greisens and carbonatites. At the...U-Th-REE pegmatites on Hittero Is., Vest-Agder, Norway. In the Trout Creek Pass pegmatites, Chaffee co...53l. 1.538. 2\'=77°.(+). near Narvik. Nordland, Norway. ln good crystals of cleavelanditeat Muiane pegmatite
Journal (issue)
first described in 1840, from its occurrence in a railway cutting at Bishopton, Renfrewshire; but specimens...Thomas Brown since 1810. I (see fig. 2.) of a tunnel and its approach cuttings for the :-.J che later...are turned out." (Heddle, Glasgow to Greenock railway, an unusual mineral was of che zeolice family...this rare and beautiful mineral in the Bishopton Tunnel in 1842 [sic]." The Society's proceedings for...specimens having been found during the cutting of the tunnel, and from its great raricy is much prized by mineralogists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regional strike (NNE.-SSW.) of the sediments. In the tunnel-cutting at St. Aubin, and in the coastal section...coarser biotite-hornblende granite. In the old railway cutting south of Pont Marquet both the marginal...small quarry east of Mont Nicolle between the old railway track and the Route des Genetes. West of La Carriere...and embayed margins. Inclusions of perthite, microcline, sericite, penninite and zircon are common. Quartz...=An. 12%-14%; X'jool =8°_9°, =An. I3 %-14 %), microcline and orthoclase. Oligoclase exhibits parallel
Book
island of Laven in the Langesundfjord District of Norway. Interestingly, and in contrast to its unusual...turning left onto Chemin Benoit, crossing the railway tracks and Boulevard Sir Wilfried Laurier (route...accessed from Montreal by P560.S2.Dl.P522 I Fonds railway. One of the attracJ.E. Livernois Ltee / Livernois...the time unknown (it was discovered in 1835 in Norway). The compact gray-black shale resembling basalt...other alkaline systems, most notably in southern Norway and southeastern Asia (Thailand, Cambodia). Robert
Book
L. Countryman) 8:503-504 AMAZONITE Amazonite [microcline] from the Pikes Peak batholith [Colorado] (by...R. F. Martin) 10:373-384 Colorado amazonite [microcline from the Keyhole vug. Ten-Percenter mine, Teller... Ullensvang Statsallmenning, Hordaland Fylke.] Norway (by W. L. Griffin. T. Garmo, H. Lovenskiold & A...ausumte and plumbian conicbalcite from [the Tuckers Tunnel prospect,] La Plata County. Colorado (by J. E Taggart...Boehmite from syenite pegmatites in the Oslo region, Norway (by A. 0. Larsen) 12:227-230 BOGGS, RUSSELL C.
Book (edition)
record that the telegraph wire on the TransOaspian railway was worn down to half its diameter in 11 years...made. To avoid the accumulation of sand alongside railway Fxo. !.-MOVEMENT oi, SA.ND-DUNES. Arrows show...cliffs are undercut by a river or the sea, or in railway and road cuttings where excavation has created...Oelsian, BaA1 2 Si 20 8• KAlSi3 0a Ortlwclase . (Microcline) . ·. ·. ' ' ' Mixtures of orthoclase and...polarization colours. PROPERTIES IN THIN SECTION. Microcline, KA1Si 30 8 • Triclinic potash-felspar. Crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
To the north, in the abandoned Great Western Railway cutting. banded dolomitic linestone again dips...Limestone of the abandoned Great Western Railway cutting and tunnel. A further fold pair can be inferred...the pairs of folds exposed in the abandoned railway tunnel to the east; the southernmost pair do not appear...quartz, quartzite, muscovite, plagioclase and microcline. The equivalent bed within the trench section...quartz (both strained and unstrained), quartzite, microcline and plagioclase feldspar and chert. All the grains
Book
of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland 181 13 63 72...an exception is the mining museum of Kongsberg, Norway, showing only a single species (silver). We arrived...1 0234-51881 /2 About 1.3 km N. from the main railway station, landmark is a mine headframe. Tues.- Fri...Bonn 0228- 732766 about 1 km SW of Munsterplatz (Railway Station) Wed. 15-17 hrs, Sun. 10-12 hrs. Free....Bournonite Miargyrite Proustite Azurite 1-1 Kongsberg, Norway 1-2 Etiro mine, Namibia 1-5 Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland
Journal (issue)
Detroit with wheels and castings for a portable railway and car and also —in order to protect his property...was impassable because of rapids. They made a railway track from timbers, placed the copper rock on a...underbrush, the home of pestiferous mosquitoes, this railway was laid and the copper bowlder (sic) was transported;...the pegmatite mass, associated with crystals of microcline, muscovite, quartz, albite, schorl, and other...completely coating one or both pinacoids; spessartine, microcline, quartz, stokesite in remark­ able radial-spherical
Report (issue)
constituent minerals include quartz, orthoclase, microcline and hydrobiotite; quarry above Whinny Hill Brick...and later for the main line of the old Midland Railway between Leeds and Carlisle. By contrast Wharfedale...during the construction of the Skipton and Ilkley Railway in 1887, S. A. Adamson produced in 1888 the first...exposed in the cutting on the Keighley—Skipton railway [988506],1 850 yds. N. 35°E. of Carleton Bridge...during the construction of the Skipton and Ilkley railway a little south of the overbridge at Syke House
Journal (volume)
academic studies by making trips to Sweden and Norway and working for one year at the Mining Academy...late kinematic potash-rich, migmatite-forming microcline granites, such as the Hanko and Helsinki granites;...granodiorite (I.) group »prim-orogenie » and the microcline granites »ser-orogenic ». Saksela (1935 ; 1936)...granites in Central Pohjanmaa; 5. migmatiteforming microcline granites. A typical example of the granodiorite...lowest-melting or »eutectoid » granite composition. The microcline granite in southern Finland forms migmatites
Report (issue)
three points by small north-south faults. In the railway cutting south of Hever Station [46704435] the fault...westerly continuation of the fault seen in the Hever railway cutting. A series of old quarries at Brooker's...fault and the Wadhurst Clay on the north. In the railway cutting to the east Prestwich and Morris (1 846)...Farm [494542], south-east of Sundridge, to the railway cutting at Sevenoaks. Both horizontal bedding and...House, formerly Bishop�s Court [52205435]. In the railway cutting changes of dip were noted and the axis
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diameter, are found with anatase in the Wolfsberg tunnel, near Spittal/Drau (Gernot Weissensteiner, pers...serandite (manganese analogue of pectolite) and microcline, followed by analcime, paranatrolite, Na-gonnardite...1897). Analcime also occurs in the Scharfenstein Tunnel near Bensen and at Stabigt, near Tetschen (Hintze...Island (Alun Baines and Gordon Auton, pers. comm.). NORWAY Fine, opaque analcime trapezohedra, up to 3 cm...(rarely with cube faces) are found in Southern Norway at Laven (= Lamo); the islands of Little Aro, Big
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diameter, are found with anatase in the Wolfsberg tunnel, near Spittal/Drau (Gernot Weissensteiner, pers...serandite (manganese analogue of pectolite) and microcline, followed by analcime, paranatrolite, Na-gonnardite...1897). Analcime also occurs in the Scharfenstein Tunnel near Bensen and at Stabigt, near Tetschen (Hintze...Island (Alun Baines and Gordon Auton, pers. comm.). NORWAY Fine, opaque analcime trapezohedra, up to 3 cm...(rarely with cube faces) are found in Southern Norway at Laven (= Lamo); the islands of Little Aro, Big
Report (issue)
constituent minerals include quartz, orthoclase, microcline and hydrobiotite; quarry above· Whinny Hill Brick...and later for the main line of the old Midland Railway between Leeds and Carlisle. By contrast Wharf edale...during· the construction of the Skipton and Ilkley Railway in 1887, S. A. Adamson produced in 1888 the first...exposed in the cutting on the Keigbley-Skipton railway [988506], 1 850 yds. N. 35°E. of Carleton Bridge...during the construction of the Skipton and Ilkley railway a little south of the overbridge at Syke House
Report (issue)
during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway westward, blacksmith Tom Flanagan discovered gossancovered...copper mineralization along the railway right-of-way. Later that year a railway cut made through the adjacent...used to transport the ore to a loading chute at a railway siding, 400 m away. The mine consists of an inclined...which crosses it at a point 14.5 km north of the railway crossing at Capreol. Refs.: .8.2 p. 151-159; ~...from Highway 84 at Capreol: km 0 Capreol, at railway crossing; proceed north onto Highway 84. 7.0
 
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