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Calcite from
Kitum Cave, Mount Elgon, Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kitum Cave, Mount Elgon, Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1222146
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1222146:6
GUID (UUID V4):7732a3a0-30c5-42c8-9553-eedeebf47c29
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
11.9km (7.4 miles) Sipi caves, Kween, Eastern Region, Uganda
27.7km (17.2 miles) Budeda complex, Bududa, Eastern Region, Uganda
59.5km (37.0 miles) Tororo complex, Tororo, Eastern Region, Uganda
66.5km (41.3 miles) Sukulu complex (Sekululu complex), Tororo, Eastern Region, Uganda
82.3km (51.1 miles) Tira mine, Busia, Eastern Region, Uganda
References
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Report (chapter)
re-established by Saether (1957), demonstrated that calcite-rich rocks could have all the characteristics of...metasomatic products of fenitization and that the calcite-rich carbonatite was the residue of the intrusive...carbonate minerals. If the carbonate is calcite, the rock is a calcite carbonatite which is called a s6vite...alvikite, which typically has a texture of small calcite rhombs packed together and is enriched in incompatible...ppm REE. The calcite of alvikite is slightly ferroan. Ferrocarbonatite is a ferroan calcite to ankeritic
Report (volume)
concentrations in dry 39 season pastures in western Kenya Maska tt, J. & THornToN, I. The distribution of... Formation of cave salts and utilization by elephants in the Mount Elgon Region, Kenya 63 Seiinus,...range of developing countries including India, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Sri Lanka. Of the 34 papers...Zimbabwe (Fordyce et al.), Kenya (Jumba et al; Maskall & Thornton) and the Kenya-Uganda border area (Bowell...particularly grateful to JAGID, SEGH, the British Council (Kenya) and the Overseas Development Administration who
Report (volume)
273 BAKER, B. H. Outline of the petroIogy of the Kenya rift alkaline province 293 MACDONALD,R. Quaternary...peralkaline silicic rocks and caldera volcanoes of Kenya 313 WOOLLEY, A. R. & JONES, G. C. The petrochemistry...403 BARKER, D. S. Tertiary alkaline magmatism in Trans-Pecos Texas 415 EBY, G. N. The Monteregian Hills...on the peralkaline silicic central volcanoes of Kenya and also favours an origin by crystal fractionation...erupted under a compressive regime is provided by the Trans-Pecos province of west Texas (Barker). The alkaline
Book (edition)
Lahman, and Wayne E. Moore. Troy G. Cochrane, a Mount Pleasant High School student; Mary Jane Dockeray...recognizable fragments of or even complete speleothems (cave deposits of chemical origin) such as stalactites...obvious between low and half tide. Wall Lake in Sac County, Iowa is said to have been so named because of...folklore holds that the thunder spirit of Mount Jefferson and Mount Hood threw the masses at each other during...than they are in the surrounding materials are calcite, quartz (either macro- or microcrystallir1e), hematite
Book
Hamilton-Smith, Chair IUCN/WCPA Working Group on Cave and Karst Protection Alexander Klimchouk, Institute...the 100 m deep “Lost World” entrance to Mangapu Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand. (Photo by John Gunn) Stalactites...and stalagmites in “Castle Grotto”, Hollow Hill Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand. (Photo by John Gunn) A fine...(Photo by John Gunn) Classic hand silhouettes in the cave of Ujung Bulo in Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by...(continent, country, region, or individual site or cave) reflecting the Advisory Board’s opinions as to
 
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