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


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Illite
Formula:K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Illite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:123313
Long-form Identifier:1:3:123313:1
GUID (UUID V4):09b5d4a7-52ce-40aa-aeb2-144149afb392
Nearest other occurrences of Illite
25.3km (15.7 miles) ⓘCottonwood Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, 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...diffraction analysis and consist of interstratified illite-smectite, kaolinite, iIlite, goethite, and quartz
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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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......................................... I The New Geologic Map of North America Reed, J.C., Jr. ...... 22 Work Sheets for Seismotectonic Map of the New Madrid 2° X 2° Area Rhea, Susan, Wheeler, R.L. &...Petroleum-assisted Speleogenesis, Lechuguilla Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico Cunningham, K.L & Takahashi...Merchants Exchange, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Messerich, J.A., Coe, J.A., Pillmore, C.L., Sherwood...Breccia of the Isom Formation Near Cedar Breaks National Monument, Markagunt Plateau, Southwestern Utah
Report (issue)
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 FrĂ©dĂ©ric 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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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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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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and oil shale. Our studies encompass the entire National domain. Presentations in this year's forum include...Gautier, presiding 9:40 Field growth in the Gulf of Mexico-A progress report Lawrence J. Drew and Gary L.... Department of the Interior: A perspective on national energy policy Thomas S. FEATURING: An hour with...Eocene Brunner Coal Measures, Buller coal field, New Zealand Laura RH. Biewick, Margaret S. Ellis, Dorsey...Sykes, and Carol L. Molnia Sagavanirktok Formation-A new look with seismic data in the Prudhoe Bay-Kuparuk
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238 Main Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of...Acknowledgements ONE The Cave System and Karst What is Karst? What is a Cave? Where are the Deepest and...Caves as Geomorphic Systems Now the Details... TWO Cave Hydrology Basic Concepts in Karst Drainage Systems...Karst Drainage System Defining the Catchment of a Cave Hydraulics of Groundwater Flow in Karst Diffuse...Hydrology of the Mammoth Cave Plateau, Kentucky Contents THREE Processes of Cave Development Introduction
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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy...Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, United States New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, 801 Leroy...experiments, pure hypogene jarosite from Peña Blanca Mexico (PB; 9.42 ± 0.22 Ma) and a mixture of 85% PB:15%...jarosite from the Red River Valley (RRV) in Northern New Mexico. RRV jarosite is mixed with Oligocene (~ 24.86...images show that silicates, including sanidine and illite, continued to comprise approximately 30% of HF-treated
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of the BLM Roswell Resource Area, eastcentral New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-261...Newsletter, v. 4, no. 1, p. 3. (P) Barker, C.E., 1992, New plastic material for mounting polished coal pellets...International Symposium, November 8-20, 1991, Auckland, New Zealand]. (A) Barker, C.E., Bone, Y., and Dalgarno...and distribution: American Chemical Society 203 National Meeting, Abstracts of Papers, Part E, no. 107...and Collett, T.S., 1992, Sagavanirktok Formation~A new look with seismic data in the Prudhoe Bay-Kuparuk
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Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand 4 Landcare Research, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand 2 3 (Received...Hillier) A B S T R AC T : New insights from the recent literature are summarized and new data presented concerning...(2005) and Guggenheim (2015). In addition, some new data are presented. F O R M AT I O N Like kaolinite...extensive deposits of halloysite at Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico (Polyak & GĂŒven, 1996), Djebel Debbagh...hydrothermal, as in occurrences of halloysite in Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Thailand and China as well as of the commercial
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formation of the APS minerals predated the quartz and illite cements, and that they resulted from the destabilisation...albite grains embedded in a matrix composed of illite and hematite (Alonso-AzcĂĄrate et al., 1997; Benito...samples, the full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of the illite 10 Å reïŹ‚ection (the so-called KĂŒbler index, KI)...frequently xenotime within a clay matrix formed by illite, hematite and kaolinite in some samples. Quartz...secondary porosity is ïŹlled with kaolinite, quartz, illite and iron oxide cements. K-feldspars are frequently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals clearly predate diagenetic quartz and illite cementation. APS minerals are stable under rather...dominant lithology (about 70%) comprised of quartz, illite and kaolinite (Alonso-AzcĂĄrate et al., 1997) and...quartz and albite grains embedded in a matrix of illite and hematite (Alonso-AzcĂĄrate et al., 1997; Benito...matrix. The clay mineral assemblage is dominated by illite, with minor proportions of kaolinite or pyrophyllite...precipitated after feldspar alteration. Quartz and illite cement ïŹll the remaining porosity and postdate
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in and near NP lands: National Park Service/U.S. Department of the Interior Park Science Bulletin, v....chronologic analysis of the Opal Dune Field, Lincoln County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report...K.J., and Mast, R.F., 1993, Economics and the National oil and gas assessment The case of onshore Alaska:...resources of the Roswell Resource Area, east-central New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2063,327 p....peak temperature Cerro Prieto geothermal system, Mexico; reply: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
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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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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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Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-26011-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress...methods and pitfalls in dealing with evaporites in National Centre of Petroleum Geology at Adelaide University...community but now other chapters are completely new. perhaps superceded by Google Earth. John K. Warren...Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range playas, USA.182 Salars of South America.187 Ephemeral stream...300 Lacustrine evaporites.301 Eocene Lake Gosuite, USA.304 Oligo-Miocene lake, Calatayud Basin, Spain.306
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applications mainly on low-temperature K-bearing illite-type clay minerals. This review includes a presentation...raised, together with the new potential of Ar-dating of nanometric illite crystals. Weakness of the K–Ar...diagenetic clay processes such as glauconitization, illite crystal nucleation and growth, or low-temperature... and in detailing mixtures of multi-generation illite. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Contents...applied soon to dating low-temperature, ïŹne-grained illite-type separates (Wasserburg et al., 1956), and then
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Inc. A Simon & Schuster Company Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 All rights reserved. No part of this...Prentice-Hall Hispanoamericana, S.A., Mexico Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi Prentice-Hall of Japan...so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them. Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, 161-180...Continental Drift 265 A New Theory 266 Why Continental Drift Didn't Catch On 269 New Observations and Interpretations...first course cannot. We undertook to write this new textbook for the first college-level course in physical
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1007/978-94-007-0397-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011922137...Western Australia. Photo by J. William Schopf, UCLA, USA Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media.................................................. Cave Geomicrobiology in India: Status and Prospects [Baskar...A.R. et al.]................................... New Representations on the Nature of Stromatolites [Sumina...Ocean, ­various places in the USA (such as in Yellowstone National Park), Laguna Salgada (Brazil), the
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R Routledge Taylor f* Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK International Association of Geomorphologists...Fellows 1989: 1993: 1997: 2001: Harley J. Walker (USA) Hanna Bremer (Germany), Ross Mackay (Canada), Anders...Richard Chorley (UK), Luna Leopold (USA) Stanley A. Schumm (USA), Torao Yoshikawa (Japan) First published...by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge...Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
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(SME) 8307 Shaffer Parkway Littleton, Colorado, USA 80127 (303) 948-4200 / (800) 763-3132 www.smenet...of the previous editions while adding significant new content to ensure utility and relevance to readers...o perates. At t he sam e ti me, d evelopment of new technologies and globalization of the customer base...Georgia New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Division of New Mexico Tech Socorro, New Mexico...Stanley T. Krukowski Minerals Technologies Inc. New York, New York Oklahoma Geological Survey Norman, Oklahoma
 
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