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Calcite from
Sisco, Bastia, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sisco, Bastia, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:605400
Long-form Identifier:1:3:605400:7
GUID (UUID V4):0d11ddaa-4db5-4ec6-82c2-b97d9377d1d9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
west of the little hamlet of Sisco, north of Bastia in the island of Corsica. The rock displays a chilled...richterite (closely related to the type magnophorite). Calcite and sphene are the most conspicuous accessories...to crystallize and is commonly associated with calcite. The usual dimensions of the plates are 0.04 X...Rohrbach solution to eliminate feldspar, quartz, calcite, phlogopite, and most of the amphibole; then through...in mineralogy is the absence of leucite in the Sisco minette, a feature that most likely reflects the
Report (issue)
olivine, titanite, anatase, ilmenite, calcite (Corsica, France). Distribution: From the Kimberley district... Arkansas. On the island of Corsica, France, near Sisco, north of Bastia. From the Sisimiut area, west
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism in the Schistes LustrĂ©s of Alpine Corsica: New Lu–Hf garnet and lawsonite ages Alberto Vitale...60, Place EugĂšne Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France Institut deMinĂ©ralogie et de Physique des Milieux...7590 CNRS-UPMC, 4 place Jussieu, F-75005, Paris, France-UPMC d Steinmann-Institut, UniversitĂ€t Bonn, Poppelsdorfer...Available online 29 March 2013 Keywords: Alpine Corsica Lu–Hf garnet and lawsonite geochronology Western...Mediterranean Lawsonite-eclogite a b s t r a c t Alpine Corsica is crucial in understanding Western Mediterranean
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
upon ten examples coming from various locations (France, Germany, Channel Islands and the United States)...jointe au m6moire de Knopf, 1936). La minette de Sisco (Velde, 1967) se pr6sente sous la forme d'nn sill...sill duns les schistes lustr6s du Nord-Est de la Corse, mais ce mode de gisement est exceptionnel. La composition...examinerons maintenant. L'amphibole de la minette de Sisco (Velde, 1967) est une richt6rite potassique, amphibole...Mackenzie, indiqueraient un changement structural. La haute teneur en fer montr4e par l'analyse (Tableau 5,
Book (volume)
l’Institut MusĂ©um d’histoire naturelle DE LA FRANCE ET SES COLONIES DK description physique et chimique...strĂŒvĂ©rite et la inonazite. MINÉHALÜGIE DE IA FRANCE 4 lima paru dĂšs le premier abord vraisemblable...Farafata, au N. de Tamatave, des veinules de calcite, pyrite, quartz, associĂ©s des plaquettes de xyloLile...0;09 1120 10,90 : ana- MlNKliALOGIK DK (i FRANCE ],A (>nOUPE DE L’APATÏTE APATITE Anjou. (T...0,3930 : 1 : 0,4339] 8 MINÉKALOGIE DE LA FRANCE Ces nouvelles donnĂ©es permettent de simplifier
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lamproite Shoshonite Calc-alkaline rocks Western Alps Corsica Murcia-Almeria Tuscany Western Mediterranean Basin...within the Western Alps (Northern Italy), in Corsica (France), in Murcia-Almeria (South-Eastern Spain),...Alps lamproites, between 0.71226 and 0.71230 for Corsica lamproite, between 0.71642 and 0.72259 for Murcia-Almeria...asthenospheric component is also recognised in Corsica. At least two different subduction-related metasomatic...concentrated in a vein network, in Tuscany and Corsica, time relationships ⁎ Corresponding author. Dipartimento
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpierite, 882. Mells quarry, Frome, Somerset, calcite, 70. Roughten Gill, Cumberland, carbonatian plumbogummite...manganoan grossular, 1032. France Jothwad Hill, Panchmahal, wol|astonite, Sisco, Corsica, priderite, 867. 616
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Fig. 1). A small mafic sill, occurring at Sisco (Corsica) and showing an older age of 14.5 Ma (Civetta...(2009, 2010) suggest a separate "Corsica Magmatic Province" for the Sisco sill, the Capraia volcano, and...southern Tyrrhenian Sea, very far away from Tuscany. Sisco shows some important compositional peculiarities...Capraia, Campiglia, central-eastern Elba, and at Sisco. Mafic-intermediate rocks also occur as enclaves...Alfina, Orciatico, Montecatini Val di Cecina, and Sisco, and have been classified as orendites or lamproites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eocene-Miocene igneous activity in Provence (SE France): 40 Ar/39 Ar data, geochemical-petrological constraints...Eocene-Miocene igneous activity in Provence (SE France): 40 Ar/39 Ar data, geochemical-petrological constraints...Eocene-Miocene igneous activity in Provence (SE France): 40 Ar/39Ar data, geochemical-petrological...geochronology, Sr-Nd-Pb systematic Abstract Provence (SE France) was affected by two main phases of sporadic igneous...SC R Lustrino et al., 2011). In Provence (SE France; Fig. 1) two different igneous phases developed
Book
Group Name: Murcia-Almeria 3.3.2. Group Name: Sisco 3.3.3. Group Name: Sesia-Lanzo and Combin 3.4. African...6.1.13. Yellow Water Butte, Montana 6.1.14. Sisco, Corsica 6.1.15. Majhgawan, India 6.1.16. Gaussberg...used the electron microprobe in a study of the Sisco lamproite, which at that time was termed a minette...International Kimberlite Conference in ClermontFerrand, France, and, together with an important isotopic study...et al. 1989). Priderite-bearing rocks from Sisco, Corsica (Velde 1965), originally described as minettes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ultrapotassic rocks Lamproite Leucitite Kamafugite Corsica Tuscany and Roman magmatic Provinces and Central... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1. Corsica and Tuscany magmatic provinces . . . . . . . ....evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1. Corsica magmatic event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....describe the scattered potassic rock cropping out in Corsica, in Tuscany Archipelago, . . . . . . . . . . ...so-called Corsica magmatic province (Fig. 1), along with igneous rocks of Cornacya, Sisco, and Capraia
Book (volume)
minĂ©ralogie au d’histoire naturelle MINERALOGIE DE LA FRANCE ET DE SES COLONIES DESCRIPTION PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIQUE...collections publiques tendent Ă  faire considĂ©rer la France comme fort pauvre en minĂ©raux. Le fait paraĂźt Ă©tiange...longtemps que ce a recueillir tous les gie de la France. J ai visitĂ© la ai fait m a frappĂ© et c|ue j’ai...Bulletin de la SociĂ©tĂ© minĂ©ralogique de France. MINÉRALOGIE DE LA FRANCE VI collections publiques ou particuliĂšres...depuis quatre ans au service de dĂ©taillĂ©e de la France, avec mission spĂ©ciale d’étudier les ter- rains
Report (issue)
bodies are sporadically distributed in veins of calcite and fluorite along the faults. INTRODUCTION The...widespread. In some places a small quantity of calcite cements the sand grains, but for the most part...Massive fossiliferous limestone beds crop out on the Sisco property in the northeastern part of the area, thinly...The" massive limestone beds that crop out on the Sisco property belong to the upper part of the Golconda...fault). A vein containing principally fluorite, calcite, and 5-15 perr cent .of zinc occurring as Sphalerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Paris VI, 4, place Jussieu, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France Abstract Lamproitedikes and plugs occurringnear...crystals of phlogopite, quartz grains, barite, calcite, and alkali amphiboles.The amphibole,for the most...fine-grainedgroundmassof the rock. The vugs are filled by calcite, barite, and quartz in variable proportions.Armalcolite...lamprophyrehyperalcalinpotassique: la minette de Sisco (ile de Corse). Bull. Soc. Franq. Mineral. Cristallogr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
groundmass phases include apatite, allanite, calcite, chalcopyrite, ilmenite, magnetite, pyrite, quartz...pyrite, quartz, rutile, titanite, and secondary calcite. Kersantite Only one of the samples, WA 106, fits...lamproites (Nelson et al. 1986), the Sisco lamproite in Corsica (Conticelli et al. 2002), Tuscan lamproites...Oligocene, later fragmented by the rotation of Corsica-Sardinia and the southeastward movement of Calabria...likely that the magmatic rocks from Spain, Tuscany, Corsica, and the Alps simply have a higher proportion of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phenocrysts in a groundmass of microcrystalline calcite of secondary origin (Baker, 1996) and melitite...melitite, and by ocelli also Âźlled up by secondary calcite (Stoppa and Wolley, 1997). LMP In the northernmost...with lamproitic afÂźnity are concentrated (i.e., Corsica, southern Tuscany and northern Latium, Fig. 1)...rocks Lamproite Corsica Lamproite Val d'Era Lamproite Val d'Era AfÂźnity Sisco (Corsica) Orciatico Village...Potassium Series. K-rich potassium richterite; Cal calcite Âźlling, others acronyms after Kretz (1983) ocelli
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Sardinia-Corsica block led to continental collision between Sardinia-Corsica and Apulia. The Tortonian...at 14 Ma with emplacement of lamproite at Sisco in Corsica, and ended at 0.18 Ma with the volcanism of... district-wide propylitic assemblage (quartz, calcite, chlorite, pyrite, subordinate epidote and sericite);...NNW-SSE (i.e., ``apennine'') direction, several calcite veins, and discontinuous siliciÂźcation zones (jasperoids)...southern Tuscany. Abbreviations: ba, barite; cc, calcite; n, number of measured inclusions; qz, quartz;
Report (chapter)
and in an isolated occurrence on the island of Corsica. Potassic to ultrapotassic nonlamproite rock suites...spinel, futile, hematite, ilmenite, zircon, quartz, calcite and sulphide. The mineral chemistry of the dykes...minerals of minettes than of lamproites. Sisco, Corsica, France (COR) (42 ~ 50' N, 9 ~ 25'E) A small lamproite...W of the hamlet of Sisco, N of Bastia on the northern part of the island of Corsica (Fig. 16) (Prime11963;...FIG. 16. Map of Corsica showing the generalized geology and the location of the Sisco lamproite, the size
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nine minerals in the Mohs scale: talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase, quartz, topaz,...Mohs minerals, excluding diamond: talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase (feldspar), quartz...77; Eichholz 1971). R.A.F. de RĂ©aumur (1722, see Sisco 1956), the French scientist who experimented with...divisions of hardness, using quartz, glass, and calcite as standards, and he described various testing...selecting the minerals in his scale: talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase, quartz, topaz,
Book (volume)
Emberger and the following national chapters: France and Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Spain by F. Vazquez...borates, potash, salt, diamond, graphite, quartz, calcite, mica, feldspar, asbestos, talc, barite, fluorite...Romania and Yugoslavia; and Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an.... Iberian Cordillera Pyreneo-Proven!yal chain Corsica and Sardinia . Mineralization in relation to tectonic...of large sedimentary basins Conclusions 30 31 France and Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Introduction 37
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolomite. No. 2 ls calcite. No. 31s coccollte. No. Us missing. No. 5 is a mixture of calcite with some siliceous...gilt edges. 4th e(llt1on. Tbe Old Reliable Heald & Sisco Pump carries olf tbe Feeder for thrasblng macblnes.... . . . . . . ‱ 184,229 d n es n tl O ïżœ HEALD, SISCO & CO., Baldwinsville. N. Y . Grain drill, J. C.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
continental crust of Sardinia – Corsica was in contact to that of southern France and Spain up to Oligocene...hinge (Doglioni et al., 1999). The Sardinia – Corsica block firstly moved toward SE and then suffered...Sardinia took place. The 15 Ma old Sisco lamproite in NE Corsica (Civetta et al., 1978) and f 12 Ma old...elements were determined by ICP-MS at CRPG (Nancy, France), Actlabs (Ontario, Canada) and Dipartimento di...LOI>2.3 wt.% and/or with interstitial secondary calcite and clear evidence of deuteric alteration have
Report (issue)
after the earthquake. Ionic concentrations and the calcite saturation index of the stream water also increased...waters are slightly oversaturated with respect to calcite (pre-quake saturation index was QA at both sites)...increase in bicarbonate and calcium caused the calcite saturation index to increase to 0.8. Water temperature...is oversaturated with respect to calcite, we speculate that calcite cementation would be a likely mechanism...544-B, 28 p. Whitehead, R. L., Harper, R. W., and Sisco, H. G., 1985, Hydrologic changes associated with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
groundmass that are replaced by chlorite, MA calcite and sometimes sericite, serpentine, clay minerals...phenocrysts are euhedral, sometimes replaced by calcite, chlorite and opaque minerals. 9 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT...dominantly apatite and opaque minerals. Chlorite, calcite and zeolite are abundant in the matrix. Phlogopite-bearing...isotopic field of Miocene lamproite from Corsica NU (Sisco; Conticelli et al., 2007, 2009b; Prelevid...related to either crystallisation of secondary calcite or alteration of glass within the groundmass. Alteration
Book
Production 6.6 Lead medallion from Lacours in France, depicting a silver smelting furnace (from Landes...Tinto 227 Zot Liquation hearth (from Ercker, Sisco and Smith, 1951, p. 244) 253 Hoover and Hoover...earliest brass coinage (British Museum) (from Ercker, Sisco and Smith, 1951, p. 274) 288 296 27% Furnace for...Metallurgists such as France-Lanord (Salin and France-Lanord, 1943) and Maréchal (1963) in France, Panseri (1963)...carbonates come out of solution variously as quartz, calcite etc, followed by such metal salts as are present
 
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