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Tourmaline from
Sand pit, Heimkehrerkreuz, Witzelsberg, Scheiblingkirchen-Thernberg, Neunkirchen District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sand pit, Heimkehrerkreuz, Witzelsberg, Scheiblingkirchen-Thernberg, Neunkirchen District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:790020
Long-form Identifier:1:3:790020:4
GUID (UUID V4):9f8ee802-d91a-4844-a962-e2d344950e9c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(c) (d) (e) 3. Sampling The Determination of the Sand-Content of the Samples Analysis of Results The Mechanical...Band C of the Cenomanian Limestone, the Membury Lower Chalk and the Middle Chalk ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EXPLANATION...325 325 325 325 329 330 330 331 331 ABSTRACT: The sand in the Foxmould was largely derived from pre-Cretaceous...sediments such as the New Red Sandstone. This source of sand became much less important during the accumulation...accumulation of the Chert Beds, the small amount of sand in these beds indicating a sparse supply of detritus
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R. H. Rastall—Minerals of Lower Greensand. 265 and is followed upwards by a mass of thoroughly vesicular...Clay. This is therefore the lowest portion of the Lower Greensand. Numerous specimens from different levels...; " The Highland Border Bocks of the Aberfoyle District," Trans. Koy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. lii, p. 183...Rastall—'Minerals of Lower Greensand. The only minerals occurring in abundance are zircon, kyanite, tourmaline, and...quite normal and require no special remarks. Tourmaline is abundant and of many colours, including blue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
34 REPORT OF AN EXCURSION TO THE ST. AUSTELL DISTRICT, CORNWALL. APRIL 16TH TO 18TH, EASTER, 1914. By...reached the Lantern Clay Works, near Bugle. This ,clay-pit, although small as compared with many in the neighbourhood...which the clay passes, from its occurrence in the pit to the final, marketable, product. Moreover, the...here. The party first made their way to the clay-pit, from the top of which the Director gave a short...features of its occurrence in the St. Austell district which testify to its pneumatolytic origin. A striking
Journal (issue)
Blackhills Quarry, Swindon, 5 miles NW. Star Gravel Pit, Great Barr Queslett Keeper's Pool, Sutton Park ...1 mile E. of Polesworth, E. of Tamworth Hopwas Sand Pit, W. of Tamworth S. of Grid, ref.i 131 1962)...Perhaps it might derive from a muscovite-gneiss. Tourmaline occurs in several of the leucocratic granites...pebble, with grain-size averaging 0-5 mm. The tourmaline occurs as occasional groups of radiating prisms...fresh and pleochroic. One of these is from Guest's pit, Wollaston Ridge (2.137.BP.17/1). This pebble is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gage of California. "The principal rock of the district is granodiorite. The vein is a quartz-filled fissure...only the name of the country, such as Germany or Austria." The clipping showed a picture of the 350 million...found in only three places in the World, Germany, Austria, and Canon City. "Locally, Kessler said, remains...feet in the ground by someone who was digging for sand. "Although it is in solid rock form, the annular...a stump in the sand pit that might weigh several tons; as a matter of fact, the sand diggers had to go
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Brown & Co., Ltd. The general geology of the district was here described by the Director, who pointed...(lines joining points of equal thickness) of the Lower London Tertiaries and London Clay, was briefly considered...there were two separate areas in Essex where the Lower London Tertiaries and London Clay attained considerable...sequence of the beds in the district was then discussed. The lowest portion of the pit was in stiff blue London...ft. contour, pale brownish, fine Bagshot Sands (Lower Bagshot Beds) had been worked. The latter were 6
Journal (issue)
series names (eg stilbite) and group names (eg tourmaline). A few variental (eg beryl var. emerald) and...& SMITH, M.E. (1993) The Minerals of the Peak District of Derbyshire 13:16-55 see also SARJEANT, W.A...18:17-32 QUIRK, D.G. (1993) Origin of the Peak District Orefield 13:4-15 ROTHWELL, M. & MASON, J. (1992)...C.M. (1997) Rutile from Wheal Remfrey china clay pit, Indian Queens, St. Enoder Cornwall 18:16 LAWTON...RUST, S. (1998) Bismuth minerals from Wheal Remfrey pit, Cornwall 19:11 RUST, S. (1996) Susannite and caledonite
Book
Te:x:t illustra.tions. Wrapper. (1908) LoNDON DISTRICT. 1 0 . Sus-So1Ls from a Sanitary point of view...representative pit. 6. Cost of prodi1ction . .. . .. 5 KA.OLINS.-Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden... .. . . .. . .. ,, 2. Map of the St. A ustell district .. . .. . .. . ... . •. ,, 3. Map of part of Bodmin...Dartmoor Chi}?-a-clay district . . . .. . ... . .. ,, 5. Diagram of a Cornish China-clay pit .. . .. . ... ...... . .. ,, 12. Geological map of St. Y rieix district . .. .. . . .. . .. ,, 13. Diagram of Quarrie8
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(34-42). Pegmatite dykes and quartz veins with tourmaline: An example of partial melting in the contact...(Bohemian Massif): A study of compositional growth of tourmaline and genetic relations Copjaková R., Buriánek...Geoscience, 2012, 5/1 (50-54). High-pressure tourmaline formation and fluid activity in fe-tirich eclogites...eclogites from the Kreuzeck Mountains, Eastern Alps, Austria Konzett J., Krenn K., Hauzenberger C., Whitehouse...International, 2012, 39/1 (19-26). Influence of acid sand pit lakes in surrounding groundwater chemistry, Sepetiba
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
194 STUDIES OF PEBBLES FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS ROCKS (Weald Research Committee Report No. 37) PAGE...PAGE THE PEBBLE BEDS IN THE LOWER GREENSAND IN EAST SURREY AND WEST KENT. By A. K. Wells, D.Se., F.G.S....C.S. 194 THE PROVENANCE OF THE PEBBLES IN THE LOWER CRETACEOUS ROCKS. J. F. Kirkaldy, D.Se., EG.S.,..... 242 255 A Study of the Pebble Beds in the Lower Greensand in East Surrey and West Kent By A. K.... I. INTRODUCTION DURING the examination of the Lower Greensand of West Kent and East Surrey the senior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R. H. Rastall—Minerals of Lower Greensand. 211 " It is difficult, owing to the small number of species...investigation of the mineral composition of the Lower Greensand strata of England, in order to ascertain...work on the scale originally contemplated. The district already dealt with forms in itself a fairly well-defined...INTRODUCTION. The formation generally known as the Lower Greensand attains a considerable development in...1017/S0016756800202690 212 R. H. Rastall—Minerals of Lower Greensand. whether, on the other hand, there were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
many desirable species such as topaz, beryl, and tourmaline. It is common in calc-alkaline complexes and...sheet mica pegmatite mines of the Spruce Pine district, Mitchell and Yancey counties. Relatively productive...pale tan zircon crystals from Mount Malosa, Zomba district, Malawi. Lino Caserini specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...(1983) cites “museum specimens of zircon” from the Sand pit located 6 kilometers south of Perth, North Burgess...locations are Rio do Paixe and Santa Terezinha district, Campos Verdes. Sharp zircon crystals to 1.5 cm
Journal (issue)
only a lot of rough pale pink morganite, black tourmaline, etc. I hear the area is quite dangerous, with...freely and singly in a vug, from Brixlegg, Tyrol, Austria, which I bought (and had been hoping to get some...Illinois - Kentucky Fluorspar District is Dead! Long Live the Fluorspar District! 14-8:1,5-8 Hedegaard, Claus...The Brown Derby Pegmatite Reopened. Quartz Creek District. Ohio City, Gunnison County, Colorado. 14-2:5;...Wulfenite from the Milford Mine, Goodsprings Mining District, Clark County, Nevada. 14-2:1.6,7 Kleine, Scott
Report (issue)
slight adjustnients, in the new map. Parts of the district were described i11 the memoir on ' The Geology...Sands, and at tbe top, mottled Reading Beds B.-SA�D PIT (WHEELER'S PrT), .N..E. OF s·uDBUR'Y� Thanet Sands...succeeded by Red Crag sands and disturbed glacial sand, gravel and ... ... ... . .. Boulder Clay . .. ...-Section in Chalk Pit, Monk's E1eigh (W. Whitaker) ••• ••• ••• 5.-Railway Challr Pit, Sudbury, 1915 (G...in Ballingdon Ch�lk pit (W. Wh±t�ker) •• • • ••• 7 .-(Upper) Section at Sand pit south of Al exandra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granite intrusion characterised by the quartz-tourmaline-cassit erite association and by local kaolinisation...of granite types occurr ing in the Widecomb e district, to a verification of th eir plac e in the local...later syste m also dipping north, but at a much lower angle. By correlating these with similar E.-W. joints...porphyritic biotite-granite exposed in the quarries at lower levels immediately to the north. The sheet-like...-S. conjugates are few. (b) The occurrence of tourmaline veins, elvans, joints, etc. veering about an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Permian Yellow Sand Formation of eastern England. Although the Yellow Sand Formation has been investigated...-...-.'..,'.., -; P . ' . " °' "-" .¢', Yellow Sand I "-'. " "-" • ;--'l ~ r ,- ,-. M Coal a +--+....i~I • .- CtS-Sherburn I N: Omet~,s Yellow Sand F~X)k.-gendes • -2".. • o ".. o. .-,. , -...cross-stratified Yellow Sand, whose upper 30-50 cm are cemented by dolomite. The Yellow Sand then lies unconformably...absent. At exposure 4* 5, in the Sherburn Hill sand pit of the Durham area, the Magnesian limestone is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
moldavitebearing gravels from other places, e.g. the gravel-pit near Slavibo? to the south of Tel5 (STEJSKAL, 1924)...fell directly in the areas of the corresponding sand-gravel deposits of southern Bohemia and southwestern...Occurrences of the first type are in imperfectly sorted sand-gravel sediments with Fig. 1. Oooumnoes of mold...constitute lenses in crossIjedded sands. In the sand-pit near Slavgtice in Moravia moldavites were also...ferruginous quartz, citrine, black-grey quartzibe. and tourmaline-sometimes also partly rounded pegmatite quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gto n H aven , where a series of sla tes in the Lower Grey .Measures is exposed . There again , fine examples...connected with it that carries Upper Culm ro cks over Lower Culm and in pl aces ev en on to Devoni an . The...phyllites-the lowest members of the Upper Devonian of the district, were given close attention in Hodge's Ground...refreshment. At an exposure of diabase amid the sand dunes, adinole and limestone provided plenty of...contorted slates with thin grit bands typical of the Lower Culm form the fine promontory on the northern side
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sandpit had been opened by the Oxted and Limpsfield Sand Mining Co. Here the basal Folkestone Pebbly Beds...seen passing down into the loamy glauconitic fine sand of the Sandgate Beds, of which about 3l feet were...Redhill and Nutfield district. The section showed about 20 ft. of the pebbly sands; the lower two-thirds being...head of the garden an excellent section of the lower part of the gravel with its uneven junction with...of References see p. 345. 34 2 F. GOSSLING, Sand was examined. The characters of this and other gravels
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chalk with the Eocene (Thanet Sand). The sand-pit in Maryon Park (Gilbert's Pit) was then visited where the...succession to be seen is: YPRESIAN UPPER LANDENIAN LOWER LANDENIAN Blackheath Beds marine ~ . and freshwater...Shell Bed estuanne Woolwich Bottom Bed . { Thanet Sand manne The Upper Chalk, formerly seen, is now covered...their appearance. The Thanet Sand, about 45 ft. in thickness, is a fine sand, with grain-size 0.1 to 1 mm...ilmenite, limonite, zircon and rutile, while tourmaline, staurolite, andalusite and muscovite also occur
Report (issue)
HIGH-SILICA SAND POTENTIALITIES OF THE OHIO RIVER FORMATION by ARTHUR P. PINSAK Indiana Department...I S T BLOOMINGTON BU LLETI N NO. 9 HIGH-SILICA SAND POTE NTIALITIES OF THE OHIO RIVER FORMATION BY A.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previous use of the sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . Uses and r equirements for high-silica sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miller sand pit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
time of the impact by fluviatile sediments of the lower sequence of the Obere Süßwasser-Molasse (OSM) Formation...Danube, show chemical conformity of moldavites and sand samples with regard to the major parameters SiO2...impact produced at its encounter with the surficial sand formation at the impact site, and that the primary...Moravia and have been found also at localities in Austria (Koeberl, 1986) and in Lusatia, NW of Dresden,...0.2. Major oxide and trace element abundances of sand samples from drill holes south of the Danube were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
samples from Upstate New York. A Pleistocene glacial sand, whose source was granulite-facies rocks of the...temperatures for the metapelitic rutiles from the glacial sand are consistent with a predominantly granulite-facies...(Pober and Faupl, 1988; von Eynatten, 2003), tourmaline (von Eynatten and Gaupp, 1999), amphibole (Faupl...characteristics. Rutile is, together with zircon and tourmaline, among the most stable heavy minerals during...during retrograde metamorphism is possible at any lower temperature during the influx of external fluids
Book (volume)
Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia...line in a Hornblendegneiss exposureBeryl, black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the...shark teeth. CHATTOOGA COUNTY GORE, N 6 mi., along lower slopes of Taylor RidgeHalloysite. SUMMERVILLE:...left side of US 27N, on the Roland Hancock farm, a pitgemmy chert. CHEROKEE COUNTY BALL GROUND:  area:...Amethyst, Garnet, Smoky Quartz crystals, black Tourmaline, etc. (the accessory minerals of all mica mines
Field Trip Notes
which can be correlated in a general way with the lower Paleozoic stratigraphy of the Moosehead Lake area...central New Hampshire and the Mooshead Lake area the lower Paleozoic stratigraphic column may be generalized...quadrangle consist of a thick sequence of metamorphosed lower Paleozoic shales, sandstones, and calcareous sedimentary...and examine the more mafic layered rocks of the lower part (stop 8). A granite (stop 1) underlies the...underlain by the more mafic layered rocks in the lower part of the intrusion. For the next nine miles the
 
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