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Montmorillonite from
West Head, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, Australia


Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite1 photo of Montmorillonite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view West Head, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:89514
Long-form Identifier:1:3:89514:3
GUID (UUID V4):c3af631e-b085-4273-9651-0dbb6e7871b9
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
3.5km (2.2 miles) Little Bird Rock, Flinders area, Victoria, Australia
5.5km (3.4 miles) Cairns Bay, Flinders area, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Victoria, Australia
12.3km (7.6 miles) Kennon Head, Kitty Miller Bay, Phillip Island, Bass Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia
62.4km (38.8 miles) Pioneer quarry, Narre Warren North, City of Casey, Victoria, Australia
91.6km (56.9 miles) Basalt quarry, Jindivick, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria, Australia
98.5km (61.2 miles) Parwan lava caves, Parwan, Moorabool Shire, Victoria, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
ZEOLITES OF VICTORIA Editor: W. D. Birch The ralogical Society of Victoria Special Publication No...BENDIGO I ARARAT 1 2 3 4 7 Melbourne Mornington Peninsula Phillip Island South Gippsland 6 5 6 7...Northern Central Western THE ZEOLITE REGIONS OF VICTORIA CONTENTS Foreword Editorial Introduction. By...Henry 1. Melbourne. By David Vince 2. The Mornington Peninsula. By Peter Hall 3. Phillip Island. By Jack...5. Eastern Victoria. By John Haupt 6. Northern Victoria. By Bernard Day 7. Central Victoria. By Derrnot
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500 meters thick) containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20...thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters thick) containing...and Little Bird Rock areas, near Flinders, Victoria, Australia, are believed to have formed near the surface...Chabazite, phillipsite, pyrite, siderite, and montmorillonite are found on sandstone breccia and in the vesicular...basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed to have formed when
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500 meters thick) containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20...thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters thick) containing...and Little Bird Rock areas, near Flinders, Victoria, Australia, are believed to have formed near the surface...Chabazite, phillipsite, pyrite, siderite, and montmorillonite are found on sandstone breccia and in the vesicular...basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed to have formed when
Journal (issue)
the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................Robinson Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria ..................... 451 by W. D. Birch The...University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land...minerals and mines in their plans to establish Australia as a new colony in the late 18th century. The
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Diamonds from [the Argyle mine,] Kimberley, Western Australia (by J. D. Grice & G. L. Boxer) 21:559-564 AR1STARAIN...Secondary minerals from Ashburton Downs, Western Australia [Australia) (by E. H. Nickel & B. J. Gartrell) 24:203-216...Colorado (by J. E Taggart & E. E. Fooro) 11:37-38 AUSTRALIA On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide...Western Australia (by B. Mason & P. J. Dunn) 5:265 Famous mineral localities: Broken Hill, Australia (by...Hunter Valley, Australia] (by B. M. England) 7:60-68 Crocoite [from Tasmania., Australia] and its increasing
Report (issue)
Wormingford Mere Swindon• Harders Road, Peckham West Lavington• 132 145 145 145 159 159 159 173 173...Trial Boreholes: Institute of Geological Sciences, West Granton Road, Edinburgh EH5 IJA Boreholes drilled...Institute of Geological Sciences, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW tDrilled as part...wedge of boulder clay cropping out to the south-west, beneath the gravel was not present. Although the...boreholes were drilled along an almost horizontal east-west line of 120 m length.The boreholes suggest that
Report (volume)
of the North American continent, Greenland, the West Indies and adjacent islands, Hawaii, Guam, and other...of Mines and Petroleum Resources Annual Report. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. British Columbia Dept...Bulletin. Columbia, Canada. X British Columbia Victoria, British SERIAL LIST British Jour. Appl. Physics-...journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club. West Virginia University. Morgantown, W.Va. Caves and...of Jamaica [formerly Geonotes]. University of the West Indies, Department of Geology. Kingston, Jamaica
Journal (entire run)
293 Wattletree Road, East Malvern, Vic., 3145. Australia. Phone: (03) 509 1666 Fax: (03) 500 9475 All rights...Library of Australia ISBN 0 909223 64 5 Design by Gemcraft Pty. Ltd. Printed in Australia by Ramsay Ware...cover is from the Coober Pedy opal fields, South Australia. The 10-ounce gold crystal on the back cover was...was found at Mosquito Gully, Wedderburn, Victoria. LIST OF ARTICLES VOLUME 1, NOS. 1 -51 The Contribution...or Gmelinite (or both) in Basalt From Flinders, Victoria - W.D. Birch Apophyllite in Tasmania - FL. Swherland
Report (issue)
Point Lavinia is at the north end of the Inian Peninsula on Chichagof Island. The location was taken from...location is at sea level on the west coast of Yakobi Island about 1.5 miles west of Hoktaheen Lake (Rossman...Reserves: Additional comments: The gabbro body is in the West Chichagof-Yakobi Island Wilderness Area of the Tongass...about 0.6 miles west-southwest of the location point. The deposit may extend further west, possibly northwest...deposit appears to thicken and become richer to the west, suggesting that resources identified to date by
Book (volume)
breccia, White Rocks 35 21 Portrush and Ramore Head 22 Layered sill, Large Skerries 23 Basalt dyke,...White Limestone, Oweynamuck 102 27 Chalk cliffs, west end of White Park Bay 28 Chalk cliffs near Portbraddan...White Park Bay 104 30 Cliff section: Larry Bane Head, west side 104 31 Aerial view of Chalk cliffs, White...Bay 105 32 Chalk cliffs, east side of Larry Bane Head 163 Appendix 3 Records of boreholes Corbally Reservoir...Rock—sea-weathered White Limestone Ballintoy Port 19 Bengore Head 20 10 The Grand Causeway 22 11 Spaniard Rock and
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in Alaska-Northern Alaska______________________ West-central Alaska__________________. East-central Alaska-...Alaska Kenai Peninsula. Studies by D. H. Richter in the Nuka Bay area of the Kenai Peninsula show that folded...concentrated in an area of northwest-trending shear zones west of a fault that parallels the upper reaches of Big...oc2 C. P. Ross, 1933, Mineral deposits near the West Fork of the Chulitna RLver, Alaska : U.S. Geol....Seward Peninsula. Heavy-metals investigr/tions under C. L. Sainsbury on the Seward Peninsula have shown
 
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