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Diopside from
Basalt quarry, Racoş (Racoşul de Jos), Brașov County, Romania


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarry, Racoş (Racoşul de Jos), Brașov County, Romania
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:644809
Long-form Identifier:1:3:644809:7
GUID (UUID V4):446ae074-fdc6-4559-902d-f409188fcf9c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin of basaltic magmas of Perşani volcanic field, Romania: A combined whole rock and mineral scale investigation...19-21. str. Jean-Luis Calderon, 020032 Bucharest, Romania d Department of Lithospheric Research, University...Available online 9 September 2013 Keywords: Alkaline basalt Olivine Chromian spinel Monogenetic volcanic field...Perşani magmas is akin to that of many other alkaline basalt volcanic fields in the Mediterranean close to orogenic...region during the Late Miocene–Quaternary alkaline basalt volcanism (Downes et al., 1995; Embey-Isztin et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wollastonite, 649; lithian tourmaline, 747 Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire, vesigni6ite, 533 Cornwall...glauconite, 753 SCOTLAND France Auchinstarry quarry, Kil~yth, Stirlingshire, julgoldite, 761 Blackcraig... 59 Portsoy, Banffshire, migmatites, 66r Ratho quarry, Edinburgh, julgoldite, 761 Champagnac, Cantal...Montboissier, Puy-de-Dome, basalt, ultrabasic xenoliths, r53 Mont Dore, Puy-de-Dome, zircon, 79o Plan de la Tour...Maures, Var, zircon, 79o Puy Beaunit, Puy-de-Dome, basalt, ultrabasic xenoliths-, 153 A berdeenshire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
biotite, 606. Acmite, synthesis, solid solution with diopside and hedenbergite, opt., cell-dimensions, 216;...mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489... 974 ALPHABETICAL Baia Mare (= Nagybanya), Romania, fiJll6ppite, 442. BAIN (D. C.), Plumbogummite-group...I45. Baryte, synthetic, growth spirals on, 296. Basalt, electroylsis of, 568. Basaluminite, Wales, opt...South Wales, strained, grain-growth in, 852. Bokkos, Jos, Nigeria, trachyte with inclusions, lherzolite, anorthoclase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ATKtN (D.), see LIVINGSTONE(A.), 441 Auchinstarry quarry, Kilsyth, Scotland, julgoldite, 76I Avondale, Auckland...Queenslaaad, 853 CARSWELL (D. A.), see JAVAWARDENA(D. E. de S.), 54I Cassagna mine, Liguria, Italy, volborthite...Ardnamurehan, anal., opt., 335; and see Sahlite, Diopside, Aegirine, Omphacite, Titanaugite Clinozoisite...Wales, anal., X-ray, 765 Cookstove Mtn., El Paso County, Colorado, genthelvite, danalite, 627 Coordination...G.), 481 DE SOUZA(J. V.), see BRINDLEY(G. W.), I41 Diaspore, New South Wales, 765 Diopside, Jagersfontein
Book
Udubaşa (1938, Ocnele Mari, Romania) Director of the Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest; President...President of the Mineralogical Society of Romania; Member of the Commission for New Minerals and Mineral Names...and about 100 articles - one-third outside of Romania. Rudolf Duda (1944, Vojany, Slovakia) Head of the...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll) Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska) Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa) Slovakia (Rudolf Duda) Ukraine...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll), Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska). Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa), Slovakia (Rudolf Duda). Ukraine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
t h o s The Eastern Carpathians “ophiolites” (Romania): Remnants of a Triassic ocean Volker Hoeck a,b...Department, 1 Kogălniceanu Str., RO-400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania University of Vienna, Department of Lithospheric...2008 Available online 16 August 2008 Keywords: Romania Eastern Carpathians Southern Apuseni Mountains...also described from the Dobrogea area in eastern Romania (Savu et al., 1980; Seghedi and Szakacs, 1994;...Department, 1 Kogălniceanu Str., RO-400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Tel.: +40 264405358; fax: +40 264591906. E-mail
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
late Tertiary/Quaternary alkaline volcanism in Romania mafic H. Downesa, I. Seghedib, A. Szakacsb, G...Geophysics, Caransebes str 1, 78344, Bucharest 32, Romania CLaboratotyfor Geochemical Research, Hungarian...and Banat (eastern Pannonian Basin) regions of Romania between 2.5 Ma and 0.7 Ma. This volcanism followed...Pannonian and Transylvanian Basins of Hungary and Romania (eastern central Europe), sporadic but widespread...Pliocene to Quatemary in the Eastern Carpathians of Romania (Lexa and Konecny, 1974; Szabo et al., 1992). The
Journal (issue)
Institute of Romania Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Damian, President of the Society of Economic Geology of Romania Editor...University, Iaşi Anne-Sylvie Andre-Mayer, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Ferenc Molnar, Geological...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Ioan Pintea, Geological Institute of Romania Mircea Ţicleanu, Geological...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Nicolae Buzgar, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi Marian...Marian Munteanu, Geological Institute of Romania Ioan Seghedi, Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Diopside MERELANI, ARUSHA REGION, TANZANIA Most silicates...ignore. W. D. Nesse (2012, p. 211) T he origin of basalt is one of the more intriguing problems that have...since it began as a science. There was a time when basalt was considered a sedimentary rock, a concept that...them was James Hutton (1726–1797) who argued that basalt was of igneous origin. The sedimentary versus igneous...until 1816 when one of the key discoveries that basalt is indeed of igneous origin was made by Pierre-Louis-Antoine
Catalog/List
matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0 ) SiO...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 497 TELLURITE Te...pure dark brown metallic (Herbb £2 Mine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lcm £6 314 PYRARGYRITE Ag/3 SbS/3...masses, well coating matrix. (Dooneen Mine Allihies, County Cork, S.Ireland) . lxl £3.50. 1x2 £6.50 2xl.5ins...matrix.(some + Micros! Monument 1 Mine, Navajo County,Arizona,USA) lxl.£3.50 1x2 £7.00 118 CONICHALCITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
available for several decades from the famous Deccan basalt quarries of India, and, in keeping with the zeolite...Falls, Windham, Maine, and at the Dexter quarry, Lincoln County, Rhode Island. A historical occurrence...occurrence is with prehnite in gneiss at Ward’s quarry, Pelham, Massachusetts. It has been reported from the traprock...including those at Edgewater, Bergen County; Bergen Hill, Hudson County; and Great Notch, Upper Montclair...Passaic County. Scolecite has been collected in the diabase quarry at Manassas, Prince William County, and
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety... About 7mm mass (Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County,Colorado U.S.A) £4 439 STRACZEKITE Ca K Ba V 0...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 396 TORBERNITE...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good...metallic mass in ■ matrix. (Mohawk Mine,Keenaw County Michigan USA) 1x1 £3 095 CALCIOVOLBORTHITE Ca Cu...matrix.(some + Micros> Monument 1 Mine, Navajo County,Arizona,USA) lxl £3.50 1x2 £7.00 118 CONICHALCITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clinopyroxenes from the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Romania Anikó Batki, Elemér Pál-Molnár, M. Éva Jankovics...clinopyroxenes from the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Romania. The address for the corresponding author was captured...clinopyroxenes from the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Romania Anikó Batkia,b,*,1, Elemér Pál-Molnára,b,1, M...the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Phenocryst and antecryst populations have been...types including primitive high-Cr Fe-diopside, intermediate Na-diopside-hedenbergite and evolved high-Zr
Catalog/List
THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...-·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE Outokumpu Finland Pure...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...near Kragero,Norway Many small silvery flakes in Diopside lxl£1.50 lx2£3 2x2£6 C - - -- - - -- - -- - -·...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal
Book (edition)
"Dana's System of Mineralogy•· ( 1944, I 951, 1962). de Fourestier (1999) and Strunz and Nickel (2001). Mi11eral...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...ASG -Archives de Science Geneve BM - Bulletin de la Societe fram;aise de mineralogie et de cristallographie...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
Catalog/List
quartz about Icm £7 (Gold Bluff Prospect Maquette County Michigan, USA) 42. KAMMERERITE pale pinkish mauve...scattered over flat lxl.5 inch matrix Eibenthal Banat Romania £15 45. NATIVE BISMUTH two water-worn pebbles about...calcite, about half and half. Canaan, Lichfield County Connecticut USA large 3x4 inch £25 48. HYDROZINClTE...small 2x3 matrix. I mile east of Camp Verde Yavapai County Arizona USA £10 lx2 £5 lxl £3 SO. STIBNITE rich...52. CHABAZITE sharp micro crystals in vughs. in basalt Ix½ £6 b) ½" £3 La Reunion Island, Indian Ocean
Catalog/List
--··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...colourless to white crystals , quite well covering Basalt. ½" £4 ____ lx! _£_6_. __________ ____ 5_Na 5=u~~<...------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...- -- ·- -37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish...rich variety) ½ x ½ £5 Ni AsO H/20 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate
Catalog/List
2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near...colourless to white crystals , quite well covering Basalt. lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 Feldspar Ix I £1.50 lx2...ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...with minor calcite or matrix ½" £4 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...about 1cm size £4 FeAsS 1085 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Quarry, Cornwall Small silvery crystals groups, Crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tschermakite-Bearing Calc-Silicate Xenoliths Ejected in Alkali Basalt Luca Reato 1 , Monika Huraiová 1 , Patrik Konečný...Tschermakite-Bearing Calc-Silicate Xenoliths Ejected in Alkali Basalt. Minerals 2022, 12, 156. https://doi.org/10.3390/...continuous mixing line extending from nearly pure diopside-augite towards a Ca(Fe3+ Al)AlSiO6 endmember with...AlFe3+ -rich pyroxenes originated at the expense of diopside-augite during the interaction with carbonate-aluminosilicate...Columnar habit of neoformed olivine growing across diopside-augite layers indicates rapid crystallization
Catalog/List
teaching Rocks and Ivlinerals NAME =fcrcncc ==::::,de -o 2 LOCATION Cl ACANTHITE AgS AEGIRINE Pure...massive 17 ANALCITE White crystals well covering Basalt. Taliska Bay. Skye. Scotland lxl 70p 26 ANATASE...APATITE Ca P0/4 F n rnm nirt Ca P0/4/ F F Saga Quarry, Tvedalcn near Larvik. Norway Loch Scridain Mull...Scotland mixture wilhChrysotile, pale grey-green ✓ County Bridge Quarry.Lizard C . ornwall massive. Stitchtitc...silvery masses with Chalcopyrite ✓ Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,England Ashanti Mine, level 8, Obuasi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ultramafic cumulates from the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Romania Elemér Pál-Molnár, Anikó Batki, Enikő Almási...ultramafic cumulates from the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Romania, LITHOS (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.09.022...ULTRAMAFIC CUMULATES FROM THE DITRĂU ALKALINE MASSIF, ROMANIA T Elemér Pál-Molnára,b,+, Anikó Batkib,*, Enikő...Ditrău Alkaline Massif in the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. The poikilitic olivine-and AC pyroxene-rich...textures with early crystallised olivine (Fo75–73), diopside and augite. In the early stages of their genesis
Book
canadien de la nature Text copyright © 1994 by Canadian Museum of Nature/ Musee canadien de la nature...volcanos in Iceland, or black smokers along the Juan de Fuca ridge beneath the Pacific Ocean, also provide...average density of granite is less than that of basalt. Peridotite, which is one of the most common rocks...density greater than that of either granite or basalt. Thus, considering only differences in density... P L A T E .4. Calcite. Herja, Transylvania, Romania. s x 7 cm. Calciteisstableoverabroadrange of t
Catalog/List
Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with...TaliskerBay, Skye, Scotland White crystals well covering Basalt. Zeolitc Ix! £1.50 lx2 £3 -----------'-----------------...£5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained mass in...with minor calcite or matrix ½"£4 7 ANNITE Snga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate
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Debrece n. HUN; CG= Constantin Gruescu Collection, Ocna de Fier. ROM : CHTU = ChemistryTechnology Univer ity...eum. Kosice. SLK; GIR = Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest, ROM; GM= Gold Museum, Brad, ROM : GYV...Unfortunatel y, mo t of the old collections have been de troyed and/or dispersed during the "sto rmy'' centuries...Marinescu (Geological lnstilllte of Romania): Necolai Terteleac (De. ign-Art-Foto. Bucharest): Victor Gorduza...State University. [viv). for advice concerning the de criptions of 1he minerals and for help in the preparation
 
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