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Montmorillonite from
Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:123316
Long-form Identifier:1:3:123316:2
GUID (UUID V4):d49cb4f1-11d4-405a-ad87-b1e3d393d4d2
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
6.1km (3.8 miles) Carlsbad Caverns (Carlsbad Cavern), Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
53.8km (33.4 miles) Hodges Potash Property, Carlsbad Potash Mining District, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
76.2km (47.3 miles) Kerr McGee Mine (Kermac Mine; Kerr McGee Mine; Vertac Mine; Fermetia Mine; New Mexico Potash Mine; Mississippi Potash East Mine; Intrepid Potash East Mine; Hobbs Potash facility), Carlsbad Potash Mining District, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
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ORIGIN OF A SEDIMENTARY FILL, LECHUGUILLA CAVE, GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO ANNABELLE M. FOOS,1 IRA...Akron, Ohio 44325-4101, USA 24148 E, 19th Ave" Denver, Colorado 80220, USA 'Cave Research Foundation, RR...Rutland, Illinois 61358-9801, USA Abstract-Lechuguilla Cave is a hypogene cave formed by oxidation of ascending...(oldest to youngest) was: bedrock floor (limestone), cave clouds (secondary calcite), calcite-cemented silstone...emplaced after the sulfuric-acid dissolution stage of cave formation. Fossil evidence also suggests a previously
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S B A D C A V E R N A N D L E C H U G U I L L A CAVE, N E W M E X I C O VICTOR J. POLYAK AND NECIP GOVEN...the Guadalupe Mountains, namely Carlsbad Cavern and Lechuguilla Cave. The alunite and natroalunite crystals...residues. Sulfur stable isotope values (~345, CTD) for cave alunite and natroalunite are negative [+0.1 to -28...12 and mean = 16.8%~] and are comparable to the cave gypsum and native sulfur values reported by other...with hydrated halloysite in these cave deposits suggests that the cave-forming waters contained significant
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Bulletin 117 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING...TECHNOLOGY Geology of Carlsbad Cavern and other caves in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas by Carol...Carol A. Hill Albuquerque, New Mexico SOCORRO 1987 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Laurence...Laurence H. Lattman, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES Charles E. Chapin, Director...OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Alan Morgan, Superintendent of Public Instruction
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chapters entitled Gypsum Caves, Krubera (Voronja) Cave, and Ukranian Giant Gypsum Caves. Copyright © 2005...Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA 84 Theobald’s Road...to Darkness Crustacea 1 Databases Castleguard Cave, Canada Adaptation to Low Food 10 Frédéric Hervant...Boris Sket Diversity Patterns in the Tropics 166 Cave Dwellers in the Middle East 85 Paul Goldberg and...Susan W. Murray and Thomas H. Kunz Contamination of Cave Waters by Heavy Metals 127 Beetles Dorothy J.
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White The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States David C. Culver American University...practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding...evolution in other light-insulated environments Cave-adaptive evolution in nonanimal clades Bibliography...Introduction Behavioral evolution in the cave—how behaviors differ between cave species and their epigean relatives...relatives How and why do behaviors evolve in the cave? Bibliography 24 24 28 32 5. Adaptation: Morphological
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University AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO •...of Elsevier 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford...B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA First edition 2005 Second edition 2012 Copyright...Encycloped ia xiii 99 Eco:.yl>tt!ms /o:, .,, 5 S•m<"' Cave, Dcfmition of l'rdacc xv \'\'J//:.JI/1 A Adnptation...An~a!' 140 155 F i\.1_vtwir Contnmination of Cave Waters by Heavy ~eta ls l)(rrr•tl•l( 1 v.~.,~·r
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Studies of Cave Sediments Physical and Chemical Records of Paleoclimate Studies of Cave Sediments Physical...of Akron, Ohio, USA and John Mylroie Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA o) Springer AC...Insert photo: Stalactites in Poor Farm Cave, Pocohantas County, West Virginia. Photo by Ira D. Sasowsky...Kluwer Academic Publishers / Plenum Publishers, New York Reprinted with corrections 2007 Printed on acid-free...oldest records of modern human culture are the vivid cave paintings from southern France and northern Spain
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Studies of Cave Sediments Physical and Chemical Records of Paleoclimate Studies of Cave Sediments Physical...Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York in 2004 Softcover...oldest records of modem human culture are the vivid cave paintings from southern France and northern Spain...drawn to and mortified by caves. Written records of cave exploration exist from as early as 852 BC (Shaw...the entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky, USA . This was surpassed only by Lindbergh's
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of the booming White Oaks gold district, Lincoln County, N. Mex. Gold was probably the first metallic commodity...commodity to be commercially mined in the Lincoln County porphyry belt and has the highest production value...Resources of the Roswell Resource Area, East-Central New Mexico By SUSAN BARTSCH-WINKLER and ALESSANDRO J. DONATICH...resources of the Roswell resource area, east-central New Mexico I by Swan Bartsch-Winkler and Alessandro J. Donatich...resources-New Mexico-Roswell Region. 2. PetroleumNew Mexico-Roswell Region. 3. Natural gas-New Mexico-Roswell
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of the BLM Roswell Resource Area, East-central New Mexico by Susan Bartsch-Winkleri, editor Open-File...OF THE BLM ROSWELL RESOURCE AREA, EAST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO Summary....................................................... 4 Geology of east-central New Mexico, by Susan Bartsch-Winkler, with a section on...Intrusive and extrusive alkaline rocks of the Lincoln County porphyry belt by Theodore J. Armbrustmacher 4...Buckles and northeast-trending faults Roosevelt County fault Alamosa Creek fault Karst...............
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Landcare Research, Private Bag 11052, Palmerston North, New Zealand, and 4 Universite Catholique de Louvain...halloysite (Fig. 2) a number of halloysites from New Zealand. Since appears to be related to crystallization...similar observations for spheroidal halloysite from New Zealand where, in many cases, the cores of the cylinders...of the three main morphologies of halloysite from New Zealand: (a) spheroidal (Opotiki); (b) short-tubes...glass in marine environment, (e.g. Guatemala soils, New Zealand) Platy or tabular Volcanic ash soils, weathered
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Characterization of the Clay-Rich Sediments from Ases Cave (Cova Dets Ases, Mallorca, Spain): Origin and Classification...Characterization of the Clay-Rich Sediments from Ases Cave (Cova Dets Ases, Mallorca, Spain): Origin and Classification...deposits, specifically the ones found in the Ases cave. These deposits are formed by clay minerals (illitic...deposits outside [1–3] among others. The study of cave sediments from a mineralogical and sedimentological...the local scale [4–6]. The first classification of cave sediments was proposed by Ford and Williams [7]
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