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Calcite from
Granulite outcrops, Etang de Lers, Col d'Agnès, Le Port, Saint-Girons, Ariège, Occitanie, France


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sapphirine10 photos of Calcite associated with Sapphirine at this locality.
Gedrite1 photo of Calcite associated with Gedrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Granulite outcrops, Etang de Lers, Col d'Agnès, Le Port, Saint-Girons, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1345425
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1345425:6
GUID (UUID V4):5dc40091-6363-4565-b96f-02c2d5fa48aa
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Daniel Vielzeuf and Jacques Kornprobst DOpartement de Gbologie et MinOralogie, L.A. 10 et L O.P. G., 5...5 rue Kessler, 63038 Clermont-Ferrand COdex (France) Received March 15, 1983 Revised version accepted...understand* The spelling of "Lherz" has been changed to "Lers" recently; the original spelling is retained here...e s " " ~ / / / / / ' ~ O , { 5 Ca,a . . . . Port de V icd e s sc If . . . . tions O' CasUlmon" ~...plagioclase, microcline, extensively recrystallized calcite, and sillimanite in some occurrences [14], all
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crust is exposed (SCHENIr 1984, 1985). These granulite facies rocks have not been penetratively deformed...former lower crust. R6sum6 Le Massif de la Serre Septentrionale en Calabre (Sud de l'Italie) repr6sente un...roches du faci6s granulite qui le constituent n'ont pas subi de ddformation pdndtrative lors de leur ascension...superficiels de la crofite. Leur 6tude permet donc de reconstruire les caractdristiques structurales de l'ancienne...seulement les feldspaths, le quartz et l'amphibole, mais encore l'orthopyrox6ne, le clinopyrox6ne et la cordidrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
perthite * The word granulite is used in this paper to denote rocks of the granulite metamorphic facies.... Minerals of local importance . Dolomite Calcite o o X . I r o n ore . . . . . . o ...Basic Granulite o o o X X X X X OligoclaseAndesine 0 X X Fine-grained Acid Granulite o o...OligoclaseAndesine o X X Porphyroblastic Acid Granulite T A B L E 1 — M I N E R A L ASSEMBLAGES O F T...are well exposed in the Koten Basic Complex, a granulite body measuring some 10 miles in diameter, and
Report (issue)
Banded granulites and associated rocks. Banded granulite gneisses __ Quartz mangeritic and other mangeritic...mangeritic rocks _____ Origin of the granulite unit ____________________ Stratigraphic equivalence _____________________...Grenville-age metamorphism ___________________ Granulite fades ________________________ Possible partial...banding in granulite _______________________________________ _ 7 5. Specimen of banded granulite and leucocharnockite...garnetiferous banded granulite __________________________ 7 8. Outcrop of foliated banded granulite __________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hartel' Instltute aJEarth Sciences, Free University, De Baelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam (The Netherlands)...eastern Indonesia. Garnet peridotite and associated granulite-facies contact rocks are described from two sites...fluid in a peridotite of oceanic affiliation. The granulite shows an increase in T and incipient melting at...suggesting rapid uplift. Trace element chemistry of granulite with basaltic to peraluminious rhyolitic composition...metamorphic aureole around the garnet peridotite outcrops. Introduction Garnet peridotite, stable at pressures
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Departement de Geologie, CNRS - URA 10, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France Kluwer Academic...and Geochemistry of Granulites Clermont-Ferrand, France September 5-9, 1988 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-7422-3...sapphirine + cordierite in a "high temperature" granulite from the Sutomsk Complex in the Aldan Shield.... Xl xiii List of Participants The NATO ARW granulite conference: a report by D. VIELZEUF and PH. VIDAL...RUFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The granulite - granite connexion. by J. D. CLEMENS . . . .
Report (issue)
covered by thick layers of residual soil where no outcrops and little float are found. In such areas boundaries...rocks form hills with steep grassy slopes and few outcrops. Areas of black cotton soil as well as all the...gneiss Hornblende gneiss Staurolitesillimanite granulite Kinzigite Biotite-garnet gneiss Plagioclase amphibolites...Dolomitic Crystalline limestone Calc-silicate granulite Calc-magnesian silicate rocks Calc-microcline...poikilitically enclosing grains of wollastonite, diopside, calcite, epidote. and sphene. The colourless wollastonite
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Australia FRANCE Pergamon Press SARL, 24 rue des Ecoles, 75240 Paris, Cedex 05, France FEDERAL REPUBLIC...to go into too much detail, but all important outcrops, contacts, structures and igneous intrusions...part of a kratogen and provide the only extensive outcrops of Archean and Lower Proterozoic rocks. These...j-mile (0.4 km) to the S.S.E. a good section of granulite facies gneisses, developed during the main (Badcallian)...hornblendeschist within a shear zone. The country rocks are granulite facies gneisses and a virtually planar contact
Report (issue)
fidipviesi J opecs — » ey 7 Ve Pee tienta> De PAwtote.-g. 9 > > 9m oil (ches! rca Vinee...= & ayy Wes Galea eeTae ELS Myst A L | APE Unt De eS) MOU Peay Ny OSses seen Eee eek Sree Aiea RIS...eoeeneseeneessuenass 200 Norman Herz The Goochland granulite terrane: Remobilized Grenville basement EVIE COSTCTTE...nuclei: Science, v. 164, p. 1229-1242. Hurley, P. M., de Almeida, F.F.M., Melcher, G. C., Cordani, V. G.,...Adirondack Mountains, New York, an amphibolite-granulite facies terrane in the 1.1-b.y.-old Grenville province
Report (volume)
ANOS Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, Regional Santa Cruz, Casilla 3015, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia ...feldspathisation 31 Petrogenesis 31 The Lomas Maneches Granulite Complex 31 Hypersthene granulites 32 Leptites...Rubidium-Strontiu,n Index the Lomas Maneches Granulite granitoid rocks of the San Ignacio Sunsas Orogeny... Serrania Huanchaca 4 LANDSAT image of the Nuflo de Chavez area 13 Sedimentary structures in very low-grade...Estancia Las Madres 29 Granulite pavement of the Lomas Maneches massif 36 Basic granulite at Las Rengas 36
Report (issue)
paragneiss 10 Cale-silicate paragneiss 11 Basic granulite, pyribolite and amphibolite Kanuku Granulites...Isotopic age determinations 103 Bibliography PLATES De Haviland 'Beaver', with aluminium canoe lashed onto...granophyre (I wokrama Subvolcanic Intrusive Suite) 51 Outcrops oftombstone -like slabs (cleavage fragments) of...Takutu Formation sandstone 78 38 Stalactite-like col umnar laterite (Nappi Laterite Formation) 83 39...river levels also rise and so obscure the best outcrops. The field season varies from year to year depending
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
we examine high-strain zones in the Pembroke Granulite, an otherwise low-strain outcrop of volcanic arc...in localities across the globe (e.g. Brittany, France (Brown & Solar, 1998; D’Lemos, Brown & Strachan...metre-thick high-strain zones in the Pembroke Granulite, Fiordland, New Zealand. Recent glaciation has...exposed flat, polished surfaces of the Pembroke Granulite in the Pembroke Valley. Near 100 % exposure allows...outcrop-scale. 2 REGIONAL GEOLOGY The Pembroke Granulite, Fiordland, New Zealand (Figure 1), is a relatively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1093/petrology/egr033 Petrology and Geochemistry of Granulite Xenoliths from Udachnaya and Komsomolskaya Kimberlite...conditions in the lower crust at the time of the last granulite-facies metamorphic event (800^8908C) followed...Archaean craton can be deduced from a study of granulite-facies rocks entrained as xenoliths by kimberlitic...attempt to infer the origin of kimberlite-hosted granulite xenoliths that represent the lower crust of the...account possible changes in their composition. Granulite xenoliths have been investigated from many cratonic
Book
authorities of the Centre Grégoire Fournier (Abbaye de Maredsous) Belgium (cast of Cratoselache C. Patterson...gneisses are mostly in amphibolite facies though granulite facies gneisses occur in the central part of ...domes which are often surrounded by rim blende granulite facies, are characteristic. The layered synclines...north central central North -East and | So anisad le NomheWen South-East Greenid| West Greenland | West...South Greenland. of the the Ketilidian The granulite facies mineral assemblages. K-Ar mineral ages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the sand fraction. They were collected from 8 outcrops of the GF located in Gogolin and its vicinity...mol% are typical of the eclogite-facies and HP granulite-facies rocks. On the other hand, the elevated...Moldanubian Zone (Tajčmanová et al., 2006), HP granulite clasts from the Culm deposits of the Moravo-Silesian...retrogression of the HP granulites, under either granulite-facies or amphibolite-facies conditions. The high-Grs...assumed that tourmalines rather rarely form under granulite-facies conditions (e.g. Thomson, 2006), it can
Book
common crustal rocks such as granodiorite, or granulite. Others, however, which are rather rare but...from a high-grade metamorphic rock termed granulite. Outcrops of these anhydrous rocks are found in deeply...metamorphic areas of all continents, and inclusions of granulite commonly occur in volcanic lavas. It is thought...(synthetic quartz and so on). Biogenic minerals Calcite (CaCO3) is the most common carbonate mineral and...environments. Calcium carbonate in the form of calcite is also the main constituent ofthe shells of several
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authorities of the Centre Grégoire Fournier (Abbaye de Maredsous) Belgium (cast of Cratoselache reproduced...assemblages, mainly in high amphibolite and hornblende granulite facies, are characteristic. The layered nature...gneisses are mostly in amphibolite facies though granulite facies gneisses occur in the central part of the...the granite and the adjacent gneisses contain granulite facies mineral assemblages. K-Ar mineral ages...to Late Proterozoic sandstones and quartzites outcrops in a narrow belt across North Greenland from Inglefield
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LochnerstraBe 4—20 5100 Aachen, FRG rt a ag Ry LE ey ISBN 3-540-50922-4 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg...Bender of BGR/NLfB) the project management responsib-—le for the technical performance should be installed...seismic network indicated. A Variscan basement outcrops in Middle Europe with zones after Kossmat (1927)...deformation polyphase experienced According orogeny. de- followed by late- to post-Variscan formation can...points to NW-directed tectonic transports. In some outcrops (Waidhaus, Zottbachtal) refolded F,-folds can
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metamorphic rocks (amphibolite or granulite facies) exposed in surface outcrops (Bohlen and Mezger, 1989) and...Miller and Christensen, 1994); (ii) studies of granulite-facies xenoliths (foreign rock fragments) that...samples from China, Spitsbergen, Argentina, and France (Gallet et al., 1998; Jahn et al., 2001). Chondrite...(1973) proposed that the deep crust is composed of granulite-facies rocks that are depleted in heatproducing...respectively, based on studies of amphibolite to granulite-facies rocks exposed in the Lewisian complex
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oceanic crustal rocks such as granodiorite, or granulite. Others, rather rare but widely distributed in...from a high-grade metamorphic rock termed granulite. Outcrops of these anhydrous rocks are found in deeply...metamorphic areas of all continents, and inclusions ot granulite commonly occur in volcanic lavas. It is thought...on). Biogenic minerals Calcite (CaC0 3 ) is the common most calcite is also the as oysters...formed, not inorganically produced. biogenic calcite to distinguish Erosion of rocks by the action
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were metamorphosed to high-amphibolite facies to granulite facies. Detrital zircons from the fuchsite quartzite...granite. All of these rocks were metamorphosed to granulite facies. The TTG gneisses have superimposed fold... The supracrustal rocks consist of BIF, mafic granulite, (pyroxene) amphibolite, felsic gneiss, biotite...zircon U–Pb ages, representing metamorphism of granulite facies. Another two Mesoarchean units are the...characteristic is that all rocks underwent amphibolite–granulite facies metamorphism and partly migmatization.
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Gabriel, N. Grevesse, and P. Demarque). Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, pp. 307 –325. Gallino R...Köln, Germany and A. Jones Université Paris Sud, France 1.03.1 ABUNDANCES OF THE ELEMENTS IN THE SOLAR...of image are vesicles. (e) Cumulate eucrite Serra de Magé. The rock consists of large crystals of plagioclase...pp. 771– 772. McKay G., Koizumi E., Mikouchi T., Le L., and Schwandt C. (2002) Crystallization of shergottite...phase, calcite Olivine, serpentine, saponite, minor magnetite, FeS, pentlandite, pyrrhotite, calcite Amorphous
 
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