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Mirabilite from
Mono Lake, Mono County, California, USA


Locality type:Saline Lake
Classification
Species:Mirabilite
Formula:Na2SO4 · 10H2O
Comments:Dissolved in large quantity in the lake waters.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mirabilite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mono Lake, Mono County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:467019
Long-form Identifier:1:3:467019:3
GUID (UUID V4):1a4878ed-f5f3-472b-b68a-af885bcaf75b
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chemical marketMap showing alkali flat in Dona Ana County, N. Mex____ Schematic outline of the sulphate process...Glauber's salt, which is known mineralogically as mirabilite, and as the anhydrous sulphate, thenardite, and...OF PRINCIPAL COMPOUNDS OF SODIUM SULPHATES * Mirabilite. Hydrated sodium sulphate, Na2S04.10H20. Composition...(somewhat resembling borax). Cleavage, a FIGURE 1. Mirabilite. perfect. Hardness, 1.5-2. Specific gravity...soluble in water. The long prismatic crystals of mirabilite shown in Figure 1 are very characteristic; they
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lakes and Mono Lake in California; Big Soda, Pyramid, and Walker Lakes in Nevada; Abert Lake, Oregon;...Oregon; and Great Salt Lake, Utah. Tributary streams and springs have also been sampled and are reported upon...irrigation upon the chemical composition of the lake waters. The present note gives the results of recent...collection of Clarke's (1924) data. Most of the lake waters reported on by Clarke were collected and...by evaporation in some lakes, such as Great Salt Lake, and the amount and composition of influent waters
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thenardite, to simple hydrous salts such as gypsum, mirabilite and a series of variably hydrated Mg sulfates...CaSO4 2H2O Na4Ca(SO4)3 2H2O 1.927 268.50 Mirabilite mi Na2SO4 .10H2O Na2SO4 .10H2O 1.940 273...same amount of water. The Na and Mg sulfates mirabilite and epsomite are even more soluble. The solubility...the Na corner. The primary stability field for mirabilite is along the Na-Mg join, and blödite, picromerite...field remains). The primary stability field for mirabilite occupies the region near the Na corner. Primary
Report (volume)
........ The Grand Gulch mining region, Mohave County, Ariz., by J. M. Hill (published June 12; 1914).... ........... Some cerusite deposits in Custer County, Colo., by J. F. Hunter (published May 5, 1914)...Owens, Searles, and Panamint basins, southeastern California, byH. S. Gale (published January 26,1915)......Owens-SearlesPanamint Lake system, Cal................................... VI. Map of Owens Lake, Cal., showing...showing contours of lake bottom.-........ VII. Map of the former Owens, Searles, and Panamint lakes, Cal..
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gaylussite. Trona precipitated subaqueously (in lake waters) and as interstitial phase in playa muds...proposed sedimentary model involves an alkaline lake in which water depth fluctuated from deep, perennial...(stratified) stages to shallow, ephemeral, playa lake stages. Lake margin clastic deposits are absent in the...concentrations of extreme organisms. In these settings, lake waters 2− are characterized by relative enrichment...ranging from perennial, meromictic lakes (e.g., Lake Bogoria, Kenya; Renaut and ⁎ Corresponding author
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with reference to saline deposits may be deduced. LAKE HISTORY OF THE DESERT BASINS. It is well known...referred to in the literature on this region as showing lake history or epochs preceding the. 400 CONTRIBUTIONS...classification of the desert basins based on theii lake history is suggested in the following descriptions...on the Quaternary Lakes Bonneville, Lahontan, and Mono have reviewed in detail the evidence by which the...in the Owens basin, the former Searles Lake, and a deep lake that occupied the Panamint Valley. Although
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signature but also by some comparable features. Lake margin bioherms form continuous belts for hundreds...hydrothermal, karstic freshwater and evaporative lake carbonates. Carbonate precipitation results from...settings excludes lake marls, lake reefs (e.g. biogenic/ abiotic bioherms and mounds at lake margins) and...and hydrothermal spring-derived water mixing with lake water, or in evaporative lakes where water is ambient...carbonates precipitated from thermal waters at the saline lake water –spring interface, whereas precipitates within
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lakes exist on all continents except E urope. Saline lake deposits, however, are usually restricted and ephemeral...Green River Formation of Wyoming and Searles Lake of California being the exceptions. This neglect is unfortunate...perennial rivers are the Great Salt l,ake of Utah, Lake Chad of Central Africa, the Dead Sea, the Caspian...mud flat; 4. saline mud flat; 5. perennial salt lake; 6. ephemeral salt pan; 7. perennial stream flood...(Na2C03 ' CaC03 ' 5HzO), gypsum (CaS04' 2HzO), and mirabilite (NazS04 ':1 QH2 0), growing interstitially in
Report (Issue volume)
LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS GtULlAil pplement 2 to INERALS OF CALIFORNIA r 1958 through 1961...1961 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS SEP 1 5 1PM Ui=JKAKY STATE OF CALIFORNIA THE RESOURCES AGENCY...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1958 Through 1961' By JOSEPH MulbodH ^%^j; \> University of California, Los... Angele0 And ROBERT W. WE^B ^ Supplement 2 California Division of Mines Ferry Building, LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Francisco, 1964 of' .STATE )5#MUND ^^^ OF CALIFORNIA G. BROWN, Governor PIhe resources agency FISJHER/
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arid climate conditions. Chemical evolution of the lake waters has resulted in the development of residual...are oxyanions. It was established that the salt lake sediments are significantly enriched in B, Ba, Mo...rights reserved. Keywords: Salt lakes; Geochemistry; Lake sediments; Trace elements; Rare earths; Evaporation...areas, for exam- ple: Sasykkul Lake—7.02, Tuzkul Lake—1.63, Chukurkul Lake—25 km2 . These lakes are of Na–Cl–CO...occur along or near faulted zones beside Chukurkul Lake. Some of the springs are thermal, their discharge
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The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford...area in Antarctica and include several terminal lake basins. These include Lakes Hoare, Fryxell, Bonney...isotopic composition of glacial snow, stream water, and lake water to better understand the role of these sources...sources of lithium to the lakes: streamwater in Lake Hoare; seawater in the monimolimnia (i.e. the dense...dense bottom water in a permanently stratified lake) of Lakes Bonney and Fryxell, a diffusional mixture
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fan-ephemeral saline lake.] 81 Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range playas, USA.182 Salars of South...field-ephemeral saline lake.201 Lake Eyre, Australia.202 Lake Frome, Australia.208 Lake Callabonna, Australia...210 Perennial stream floodplain-perennial saline lake.210 Eolian sabkhas. 211 Sea-margins with elongate...230 Coastal salinas of the Middle East.231 Solar Lake. Gulf of Elat.231 Ras Muhammad Pool, Southern Sinai...saline lakes.238 Great Salt Lake, Utah.239 Mono Lake, California.243 Lake levels and conditions.244 Tufa
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Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/01 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...MARION* Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada 89512, USA (Received June 7, 2000; accepted in revised form...(tachyhydrite) Na2SO4(cr) (thenardite) Na2SO4 䡠 10H2O(cr) (mirabilite) K2SO4(cr) (arcanite) MgSO4 䡠 6H2O(cr) (hexahydrite)...model estimate of the equilibrium, nahcolite–mirabilite, at 25°C (Fig. 6) slightly overestimates the...model estimate of the eutectic for nahcolite–mirabilite–ice has a temperature of ⫺2.9°C with 0.157 m
Report (issue)
Geochemistry of Late Quaternary Evaporites, Searles Lake, California By GEORGE I. SMITH With a section on RADIOCARBON...geochemistry of late Quaternary evaporites, Searles Lake, California. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1043)...Evaporites-California-Searles Lake. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Quaternary. 3. Geochemistry-California-Searles...es Lake. 4. Geology-California-Searles Lake. I. Title. II. Series: United States. Geological Survey....development of Searles Lake _ Geologic environment and history of Searles Lake _ _ Previous geologic studies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yellowstone National Park and the tufa towers at Mono Lake, California (Ford and Pedley, 1996). These deposits...previously, in Siberia (Dzens-Litovskii, 1966) and in Lake Bonney, Antarctica (Craig et al., 1974). Hydrohalite...the dehydrated form of mirabilite (Na2 SO4 ∗ 10H2 O), and forms when mirabilite becomes exposed to air...into thernadite (Sonnenfeld, 1984). The lack of mirabilite or thernadite within the upper portion of the...halite and brine mixture (D at 120 min). tion of mirabilite removes sulfate ions from solution after the
Report (issue)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
Report (issue)
OWENS, SEARLES, AND PANAMINT BASINS, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA. By HOYT S. GALE. INTRODUCTION. The salt-incrusted...valley floor commonly known as Searles Lake, in southeastern California, has lately come into prominence through...features of the lake history and the deposition of the salines through the drying up of the lake waters are...what is now the desert region of southeastern California. These flood waters passed from Owens Valley...CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1913, PART I. sive lake. Finally the waters are believed to have overflowed
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date through...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
more than 0.6 million-yearold lacu~~ne sediment (Lake Biwa, Japan) . . . . . . . . ,. _ . . ., 321 A...South Platte gmnitepegmatite system, Jefferson County, Colorado 455 C. K. SNARER,J. J. PAPIKEand J. C...salt solutionand cation processesin OwensLake, California,19691971 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....biogenic silica and carbon . in two southern California borderland basins 1345 MITSUGUNISHIMUIUand...Mercury ores from the New Idria Mining District, California: Geochemical and stable isotope studies ERNSTFERNICKA
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
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environments (glaciers, MARION ET AL. snow, sea ice, lake ice, permafrost) has been the subject of many reviews...dynamics are probably best studied with sea-ice, lake-ice, and deep-ice cores. The relationship between...saline lakes in Antarctica such as Lake Vanda, Lake Bonney, and Lake Vida (Matsumoto, 1993)]. The best...microbial adaptations to cold are probably seaice and lake-ice. For long-term microbial survival or preservation...perennial ice-covered lakes such as Lake Vostok, Lake Vanda, Lake Bonney, and Lake Vida. Desiccation is much less
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Copyright© 1997 ElsevierScienceLtd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/97 $17.00 + .00 Pergamon...University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0338, USA (Received July 29, 1996; accepted in revised form...concentrations were measured in a series of stream and lake samples from a cold, dry desert, the McMurdo Dry...values determined for the streams and the dilute lake waters in this polar desert environment are similar...stream channels. The hypersaline hypolimnion of Lake Bonney has extremely high concentrations of Li ÷
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
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America (MSA) November 11-12, 2000 in Tahoe City, California, prior to the Annual Meeting of MSA, the Geological...cations; this mechanism is also common in minerals. Mono- and di-valent cations have bond valences in the...framework via (SO4) tetrahedra (Fig. 42b). In mirabilite, Na2(SO4)(H2O)10, edge-sharing of {Na(H2O)6}...octahedra, respectively; (c,d) the structure of mirabilite projected along (c) [100] and (d) [001]; (e)...mineevite-(Y) (14) poughite (11) ternesite (13) mirabilite (14) queitite (16) thaumasite (6) mohrite
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2003 Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Grasby, 2003), as well as in low temperature saline lake waters (Bischoff et al., 1993a,b). Mineral precipitation...present experiment, e.g., ⬍ ⫺6.3°C for sulfate by mirabilite precipitation (Marion and Farren, 1999). The...temperatures lower than ⫺6.3°C that marks the onset of mirabilite (Na2SO4.10H2O) precipitation during the freezing...mixing of shoreline springs and lake water, Mono Lake, California, USA. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57, 3855–3865
 
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