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Augite from
Basalt quarry, Troulloi (Troulli), Larnaca District, Cyprus


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarry, Troulloi (Troulli), Larnaca District, Cyprus
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:816244
Long-form Identifier:1:3:816244:1
GUID (UUID V4):2b7fd45d-5650-4d96-99f7-5ef51b986642
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Notices of Memoirs—Bellamy's Map of Cyprus. 117 interesting deposit, the second instance of the ore...GEOLOGY OF CYPBUS TO ACCOMPANY A GEOLOGICAL MAP OF CYPRUS. Compiled by C. V. BELLAMY, F.G.S., M.I.C.E., ... F.E.M.S., late Director of Public Works in Cyprus. Small 8vo; pp. 16. (London: Edward Stanford, 12,...the island :— 1. Physical Features.—The Island of Cyprus lies in the extreme eastern basin of the Mediterranean...1017/S0016756800129498 118 Notices of Memoirs—Bellamy's Map of Cyprus. The coastline is very irregular and indented
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evidence of co-genesis of the Troodos Lavas, Cyprus A. P . D E S M E T Summary. Petrological and geochemical...recently discovered basalts of the Troodos Massif, Cyprus - a dyke in the Basal Group and altered pillow... (ii) The Lower Pillow Lavas: these are mostly augite basalts in the form of massive or columnar jointed...The Picritic Dyke Four km N of Pano Lefkara (Larnaca District), near Delikipo (36 SWD 289621), a picritic...otherwise unaltered, range in composition from augite (2V = 70°), diopside (2V = 55°), and pigeonite
Report (chapter)
the Upper Pillow Lava suite, Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus J. Maipas & G. Langdon SUMMARY: The recently redefined...Upper Pillow Lava suite of the Troodos ophiolite in Cyprus is composed of a series of related rock types:...suite. The remainder of the section comprises a basalt-basaltic andesite assemblage having a characteristic...(i) picrite basalt and ultrabasic rocks; (ii) basaltic komatiites; (iii) olivine basalt; and (iv) aphyric......_.., ~g fZ. E o o Y= eat) 8 ,..4 t5 Cyprus Upper Pillow Lavas basalts, based primarily on
Journal (issue)
Telegrams: GRYFFYDD,AVE, LONDON Branch Office: Lefka, Cyprus. Also: Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool...Territories in Borneo . • • • • • • 76 Cyprus • Nigeria • Gold Coast . Sierra Leone Federation...increased by 1 • 2 EDITORIAL £7 million, and in Cyprus by £2·4 million, largely because of the demand...massive flows. The parent magma consists of olivine-basalt, usually aphyric or microphyric, but differentiation...abruptly from the surrounding lava plains. Olivine-basalt is the parent magma of both Early and Late Lavas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Engineering, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos Street, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus; rea.fournari@gmail...different mineralogical composition quarried in Cyprus. From these results, it is evident that the mineralogical...different mineralogical composition quarried in Cyprus. These results are further used to investigate...carbonate and diabasic/basaltic aggregates quarried in Cyprus [28,29]. 2.1.3. Magnesium Sulphate Soundness and...worth noting that in many countries, including Cyprus, the quality of aggregates is currently judged
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
XXIV.—The Igneous Geology of the Burntisland District. By Douglas A. Allan, B.Sc, Ph.D., Falconer Fellow...497 498 499 500 501 496 I. INTRODUCTION. The district examined in the course of the research embodied...are abundant bombs and fragments of compact blue basalt carrying small olivine phenocrysts. Associated...vicinity are several intrusions of a compact olivine basalt. Among the sediments they appear as sills, but...with ash carrying basalt bombs and some THE IGNEOUS GEOLOGY OF TJIE BURNTISLAND DISTRICT. 481 fragments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
361 ) XVIII.—The Igneous Geology of the Dalmeny District. By Frederick Walker, B.A., Ph.D. Communicated...These ridges, which form conspicuous AN DALMENY DISTRICT X>OLCRIT£ TC&CHEMITE, ANAUCITE DOULRlTE LTC....height of 387 ft., which is the maximum for the district. Other conspicuous ridges occur at Craigie, Dundas...cultivation. At the west edge of the road-metal quarry at Dickson's Craigs the thin covering of boulder-clay...FREDERICK WALKER ON The southern portion of the district is drained by the river Almond, which reaches
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recently , Fukudome et al. (1990) found an alkali basalt yielding K - Ar age of 3.32 Ma from Kyuroku-shima...within Japan Sea from the chemical study of the basalt. The locations of the Pliocene volcanic rocks investigated...olivine-hypersthene-augite basalt, augite-olivine olivine basalt, basalt with minor hypersthene-augite and hypersthene-augite...hypersthene-augite augite-hypersthene andesite, basalt, all of K-Arages of volcanic rocks P series...plagioclase, The followingK-Ar ages have been report augite and pigeonite, with a minor amount of ed for the
Report (issue)
by its quotation in the memoir dealing with the district concerned and in H. S. Wasl1ington's 'Chemical...03 - 100.16 - I00.20 Probably Lower O.R.S.. Quarry¼ m. S.E. of Weets, Insch, Aberdeenshire. 1 11 Geol...'Banff,' 1923, p. 124. Probably Lower O.R.S.. Strone Quarry, N. of Banavie, Inverness-shire. I" Geol. Sheet...granophyric. Tertiary. Quarry in bank of Allt nan Dris, 5. Granite. Corrennie Quarry, at Tillyfourie Railway...biotite; ,vith subordinate muscovite. 1\1.G.S. ' Lake District,' 1876, p. 30. Q.J.G.S., vol. LI, 1895, p. 14
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
389 The R luetic strata of the Birm ingham District are everywhere present at the base of the Lias...width, ranging along the south-east edge of the district from Leicester to Stratford, and prolonged in...Lias, and attaining its highest elevation in the district at Ed ge Hill. Some of its strata are locally...PETROLOGY OF THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT. By W. W. WATTS, M.A., SEC.G.S. The Midland District will always be classic...the South Staffordshire Coalfield. THE NUNEATON DISTRICT. (a) The Caldecote Rocks (Pre-Cambrian). 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PAGE Introduction : Physical Features of the District, Part I. The Lower, Basic Lavas, „ I I . The Upper...122 125 INTRODUCTION: PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE DISTRICT. The rich agricultural tract of country that...more acid, strongly felspathic type (labradomte-basalt). In this series the percentages of silica and...silica and 12 per cent, of magnesia; the olivine-basalt of Kippie Law, 46 per cent, of silica and 6*8 per...cent, of magnesia; while the labradorite-basalt of Markle Quarry contains 49'5 per cent, of silica and only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusions and the volcanic vents of the Misty Law district. As the last named should more properly be con­...a number of dykes in the Gourock and Kilmacolm district. The field evidence indicates that these are later...fresh Markle basalt is well exposed at the northern end of Lunderston Bay, and in a quarry on the hillside... greenish material is seen in the midst of the basalt. This seems to be of the nature of a fumerole,...considerable alteration and decomposition of the basalt in the immediate neighbourhood. The material of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
There are several smaller " whangies in the same district. The regularity of the terracing is broken by...piles of Scotland. The gap between trachyte and basalt is bridged, not by andesite as in a calcic series...the Kilpatrick Hills he described the Dunsapie basalt of the Hill of Dun, near Bowling. The first systematic...divided the volcanic rocks into (1) augite-felspar rocks, (2) olivine-augite serpentine rocks, (3) felspar-magnetite...be ultrabasic modifications of teschenites. The augite-felspar rocks are divided into (1) diabases, (2)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
their greatest development in the Corston Hill district. Along the whole of the southern limb of the syncline...quartz-dolerites and teschenites of the Edinburgh district, and which form the subject of the present communication...and described them as consisting of plagioclase, augite, magnetite, and yellowish-green pseudomorphs of...any other rock of that group in the Edinburgh district. T. CUTHBERT DAY discovered the presence of selvages...|| at the base of the Dalmahoy sill at Ravelrig Quarry and along the margins of an offshoot from the main
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distribution. The significance of augite textures and their relationship to augite content in the basalts is...Text-fig. 1. The district is readily accessible by road and there are numerous quarry exposures all disused...disused with the exception of Collace roadstone quarry. Good natural exposures occur in scarp faces on...f\Felsparphyric olivine basalt. \\sApnyric oil fine basalt X/AFine-qrained basalt with olivine insets....Andesite basalt. W$$ko/ivine-free 2-pyro. \\\\\W\Mixedandesite basalt IJJjJiil! olivine basalt. I Andesite
Report (chapter)
numbers: 1. TekirovaAntalya (Turkey), 2. Troodos (Cyprus); 3. Mersin (Turkey), 4. Kizildag (Turkey), 5......... Cover Units ~ Altuvium(Quaternary) ~ Basalt(Quaternary) ~ Sandstone,argillite,evaporites...contains irregular basaltic dykes and swirls of basalt intrusions. NE-striking, SE-dipping sheeted dykes...Contour interval. (~An77; Piskin et al. 1990) and augite grains. Mineralized oceanic faults transect the...are composed mainly of finegrained, dominantly augite- and plagioclasephyric pillow lavas and breccias
Book
complexes The ultrabasic volcanic assemblage of the Cyprus A. B. C. D. By I.G. Gass Introduction The geology...geology of the Troodos massif Gravity anomalies in Cyprus Conclusions 97 97 99 107 ttt 118 Thoodos massif... J. WYLLiE 135 Serpentinites of the Roxbury district, Vermont By RicHarp H. JAHNs III. A. Introduction...associations, and of various approaches picrites, augite-picrites, and panied by accessory feldspathoids...composed essentially of nepheline and aegirine-augite; the ultramafic members of the series, jacupirangite
Journal (issue)
discovered in what was considered to be a variety of basalt (Kirwan 1799). Although Playfair (1802) pointed...supporting the Neptunistic view of the origin of basalt. The controversy continued until 1843 (Griffith...of Portrush, recorded a total of about 90 m of 'basalt' in a series of apparently intrusive sheets in...dolerite. Chilled contact, fine-grained olivine-basalt .. Fine-grained olivine-dolerite . . . .. .. {...(1937, p. I 11) the greenish pyroxene is diopsidic augite, while the pale brown crystals are probably similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sediments is well seen in the western portion of the district, where the finely shaped massif of the Lomond...etc., p o s e d at S e e f a r and escarpment N. Quarry. and E. of massif. Crags along whole Very fresh...fresh in places. jj length. Nepheline- Crags and quarry near summit of hill. basanite. Quarries N. and S...Horizon. JJ • • O-Oiente. j ) Teschenite Quarry at Pitcairn. Q u a r t z - In burn at paper-mills...and at Rameldry Den, Chapel, etc. d* Teschenite Quarry near Carriston Cotton. Q u a r t z - Quarries at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1969 pp. 515-628 Layered ultrabasic lavas from Cyprus D. L. SEARLE & F. M. VOKES SUMMARY. Ultrabasic...Pillow Lava member of the Troodos Volcanic Series in Cyprus. Recent work reveals layering of olivine crystals...Upper Pillow Lavas of the PoliticoPhilani area of Cyprus during 1964/65, the authors observed instances...and non-pillowed, in other parts of east-central Cyprus, a fact which has not been previously recognized...settling of olivines in pillow lavas from Iceland. The Cyprus examples to be described, where the olivines are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus; kyratsi@ucy.ac.cy Department of Civil...Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus; ioannis@ucy.ac.cy Department of Mechanical...Heterogeneous Catalysis Lab, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus; efstath@ucy.ac.cy Correspondence: rigopoulos...Samples of dunite, pyroxenite, olivine basalt and of a dolerite quarry waste material were previously subjected...CO2 uptake is the dunite, followed by the olivine basalt, the pyroxenite and the dolerite. The increased
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archibald Geikie over some typical parts of the district. He pointed out that some of the toadstones were...the toadstones, careful re-mapping of the whole district would be necessary. In 1897, in his ' Ancient...and palveontological characters over the whole district, it will be easy to allocate each outcrop of toadstone...in his endeavours to zone the limestones. The district over which the toadstones are seen may be divided...lava is the thicker and extends over a greater district than the lower, while in the latter the lower
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
field-relations of the basic intrusion of Lowe's-llill Quarry near ]3artestree were fully described by Murchison...however, the only exposures are at Lowe's-Hill Quarry and for a short space immediately to the south-west...the intrusion, a fault passes obliquely up the quarry-face and is marked by a band of breccia. The presence...fault-plane apparently forms t:he northern fac:e of the quarry for some 40 yards, but the exposures are very bad...this ill-exposed portion the northern face of the quarry has been cut back some ]0 feet from the fault-line
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and chemistry of the basic igneous rocks of this district and therefore only slightly overlaps the work...the Geological Survey. I began working in this district many years ago, but delayed publication in order...com­ pany I have examined certain parts of this district and who have put at my disposal much valuable...published with Sheets 17 and 25, and the rocks of this district have not been studied in great detail. Although...working in this district I have come to the conclusion that many masses of dolerite and basalt mapped as lavas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microscope-section from the rock at the bottom of Wilson's quarry, Barrwood, Kilsyth. It is an ophitic dolerite composed...microscope-section from the uppermost rock in the same quarry the felspar is still well preserved, but the crystals...mineral. In another microscope-section, from the quarry close to the railway at Kilsyth, I noticed a crystal...attention to some sections from Sir James Maitland's quarry at ~ilnholm, 3 Sauchie. The rock is much the same...little hornblende intimately associated with the augite. At several of the localities mentioned there are
 
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