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Calcite from
Vanda Lake, Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Lake
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vanda Lake, Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:915390
Long-form Identifier:1:3:915390:5
GUID (UUID V4):05cad689-1a89-4c47-bb4b-a7aa9342c87d
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
28.1km (17.4 miles) Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
75.3km (46.8 miles) Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
87.4km (54.3 miles) Carapace Nunatak, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
88.5km (55.0 miles) Dismal Ridge & Radian Ridge, Pipecleaner Glacier Region, Victoria Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany 6 Department of Land and Natural Resources, Honolulu, HI, USA 7 Department...Berlin, Germany Surface sediments at Lakes Fryxell, Vanda and Brownworth in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (ADV)...Valleys (ADV) region (figure 1) with a focus on Wright and Taylor Valleys. The overall goal of this project...an 80 cm depth profile from Prospect Mesa, Wright Valley. That study links analyses to soil formation...indicating location of ADV in Antarctica, (b) ADV region showing Taylor and Wright Valleys and (c) locations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and geological salts in the Lake area, Vanda history Antarctica NOBUYUKI NAKAI, HIDEKI WADA, YASUHIRO...Abstract-Possible origins of lake water, salts dissolved in water of a saline lake , Lake Vanda, those contained...contained in cored sediments of the lake and those distributed on the ground surface in the adjacent area were...compositions, 13C/12C, 180/160 and 34S/325. The lake water is concluded to be neither marine nor volcanic...the other hand, sulfate in lake water and in cored sedimentsfrom Lake Vanda shows 834S values similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Halite and Hydrohalite from Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica James R. Craig ABSTRACT Halite (NaCl)...sediments of Lake Bonney. These salts are in contact with the hypersaline b o t t o m waters of the lake at depths...depths below 28 m and occur with gypsum and calcite; a porous algal m a t may be growing on at least a...investigation of t w o of these lakes, Lakes Bonney and Vanda; he discovered that these permanently ice-covered...monimolimnion is warm (22°C) in Lake Vanda b u t cold in Lake Figure 1. Lake Bonney and sampling sites. Salt
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Ca-Cl-rich groundwaters in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica: Field measurements and modeling of reactive...lakes, and ponds throughout the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. The apparent abundance of Ca-Cl-rich waters...icecemented soil developing on fluvial sediment in Taylor Valley also contains Ca-Cl-rich brine. The distribution...that by freezing soils in equilibrium with Dry Valley surface waters, a strong Ca-Mg enrichment of the...been found throughout the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, in shallow subsurface flows (Field, 1975; Wilson
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1985 with his map of the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. We are pleased to republish these paintings...illustration: A tent camp in the Mesa Range of northern Victoria Land at the foot of Mt. Masley. Printed on acid-free...during the 1969/1970 field season. Prolog Antarctica! The very word brings to mind images of fierce...winds, bone-chilling cold, and utter desolation. Antarctica has the reputation of being a hostile place unfit...worked there have a very different impression of Antarctica. To us it is a place of unsurpassed beauty where
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
potential Europan habitats are in the Arctic and Antarctica. The six factors likely to be most important...terrestrial environments include the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and Arctic polar deserts. Temperatures in the...Desert of northern Chile and the Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Dose et al. (2001) EXTREME P H TOLERANCES ...have been found growing at depths of 2.8–4.2 km on land (Pedersen, 1993; Fyfe, 1996; Kerr, 1997). Microbes...hypothetical Europan alkaline system is taken from Alkali Valley, Oregon (Marion, 2001) and represents the type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that suppressed oxidative weathering of pyrite on land (Canfield, 1998). Although it has been previously...carbonate-associated sulfate (CAS) in biogenic calcite or micritic rocks formed in surface waters and...sulfide data Lake Matano 0.03 Great Kichier 0.56 Black Kichier 1.0 Lago di Cadagno 2.0 Lake Vanda 6.4 Sakovo...Sakovo Lake 8.5 Green Lake – 1961 14.2 Green Lake – 2002 16.0 Green Lake – 2009 16.0 Green lake – 2008 16...Mogilnoye Lake 20.8 Cariaco Basin – 1986 28.0 Cariaco Basin – 2007 28.0 Cariaco Basin – 2008 28.0 Lake Rogoznica
Book (edition)
the number of terms beginning with “northern”, “eastern”, “northwestern”, “south-central”, etc., is limited...term, e.g., Oceanographic areas, and small areas on land. These coordinates were found in atlases, or obtained...broader terms are omitted. Examples are omission of Eastern U.S. and North America from the broader terms of... Aar Valley River valley in central and N Switzerland. Also search Aare Valley. UF Aare Valley BT Switzerland...Switzerland Aare Valley use Aar Valley Aberdeen City on North Sea. BT Scotland Great Britain United
Report (volume)
California 94301, USA 107 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia DISTRIBUTORS USA Blackwell Scientific...(Australia) Pty Ltd. 107 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053 (Orders : Tel. (03) 347 0300) British Library...Microbial and biogeochemical processes in Big Soda Lake, Nevada 59 SUMMERHAYES, C. P. Predicting palaeoclimates*...comparison (Green River Formation and East African lake sediments) VANDENBROUCKE, 81 M. & BEHAR, F. Geochemical...Palaeo-environment information from deep water siderite (Lake of Laach, West Germany) 153 JIANG DE-XIN. Spores
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the number of Terms beginning with "northern", "eastern", "northwestern", "southcentral", etc., is limited...Aar Valley River valley in central and N Swit¬ zerland. UF Aare Valley BT Switzerland Aare Valley use...use Aar Valley Aargau Canton in N Switzerland. BT Switzerland Abakan Town on Yenisei River SW of Kras¬...level 3 under mining geologyO). UF closed mines SA land subsidence SA mines SA mining geology SA reclamation... W Saskatchewan. IN Index Saskatchewan or Scot¬ land as applicable. BX Saskatchewan BX Scotland SA lead-zinc
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and northern Arabian Gulf.159 Coastal sabkhas of eastern Saudi Arabia.160 Sabkhas of coastal Kuwait.161...Western Nile delta coast, Mediterranean Egypt.168 Eastern Mediterranean Coast of the Nile Delta and Northern...sabkhas.181 Contents Alluvial fan-ephemeral saline lake.] 81 Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range...field-ephemeral saline lake.201 Lake Eyre, Australia.202 Lake Frome, Australia.208 Lake Callabonna, Australia...210 Perennial stream floodplain-perennial saline lake.210 Eolian sabkhas. 211 Sea-margins with elongate
 
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