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Shale from
Petrified Forest National Monument, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia


Locality type:National Monument
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Type:Shale
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Shale data
Locality Data:Click here to view Petrified Forest National Monument, Khorixas, Kunene Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1436493
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1436493:2
GUID (UUID V4):2439cb22-f383-4823-9b3b-bd93915afbc5
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Report (volume)
__-___ Petrified Forest area_______-_..___________-_____-_-_-__--__Petrified Forest National Monumen...examined the Orphan deposit in 1958 for the U.S. National Park Service. Summaries of these later investigations...COCONINO ' »3 APACHE 1 U i NAV AJO ' ! (T'?PETRIFIED| ( \ * \ V. 1.9 1 * Wikieupo ^ » 0»33 YAVAPAI...Morristown ( 'l-f' FOREST ' WinsJowo^ ,..n 16JJ; NATIONAL! Holt rooki/ MONUMENT i 17»15 j . 1__ i I...mine 14. 15. 16. 17. Anna Bernice claims Petrified Forest area Tract No. 1 Tract No. 2 Navajo County
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brushy Basin shale member of the Morrison formation. . . . . . . ....lapilli tuff from the Chinle formation, Petrified Forest National Monument...... Altered biotite of volcanic...Mineralogy of clay samples from the Brushy Basin shale member of the Morrison formation. . . . . 2. Mineralogy...formation above the Shinarump, and the Brushy Basin shale member above the Salt Wash sandstone member. Volcanic...recognized in the Salt Wash sandstone and Brushy Basin shale members of the Morrison formation and in the Shinarump
Book (edition)
essential to our future well-being. PETRI Fl ED FOREST THE STORY BEHIND THE SCENERY@ by Sidney R. Ash...Arizona Former Chief Park Naturalist, Petrified Forest National Park Dr. Ash received his Bachelor's...Southwest. Mr. May, a career employee with the National Park Service for over 10 years, served as editor...Jacobson PETRIFIED fOREST - THE STORY BEHIND THE SCENERY, PUBLISHED BY PETRIFIED FOREST MUSEUM ASSOCIATION...ASSOCIATION, PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, HOLBROOK, ARIZONA 86025 . L.C. NO. 70-91438. @ 1969 PETRIFIED
Report (issue)
____ Lower red member._____ _____________ Petrified Forest Member_______________ Chinle flora.______...-. Photograph of small pueblo constructed of petrified wood______________---__------_------. Sketch of...part of the Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle Formation in Petrified Forest National Park, Ariz-...1850 by Lt. James H. Simpson, who had discovered petrified wood in them in eastern Arizona on September 5...5, 1849. Subsequently, similar petrified wood was found in the same stratigraphic unit at many places
Book
fyosieAi. ^touli GUIDE TO THE PETRIFIED FORESTS OF AMERICA I PETRIFIED FOREST : ! DIVIDE WOODLAND IITOU... I; i “Sy i l / Petrified Forest Traits -1 1 A Guide to THE PETRIFIED FORESTS OF AMERICA A HANDBOOK...HANDBOOK FOR THE COLLECTOR OF PETRIFIED WOODS By JAY ELLIS RANSOM FIRST EDITION 1955 Price $2.00 Copyright...7 PART I. ORIGIN AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PETRIFIED WOOD CHAPTER Page I. GEOLOGICAL OCCURRENCES...WORM BORED, PETRIFIED WOODS 25 Agatization Stages of Worm Bored Wood 26 PART II. PETRIFIED FORESTS OF
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the septarian concretions found either in the shale or weathered out on the shores of the lake. Calcite...straight through Texas we arrived at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico on May 7th. These caverns were...the mountain and here the lava is very dense. Petrified wood was found at several places in northeastern...many souvenir shops along the highways sell much petrified wood mostly of the jasperized variety. Price locally...Arizona is not complete without seeing the Petrified Forest National Park. Here is a natural museum which took
Book
the Canyon Region BY EDWIN D. McKEE THE GEOLOGICAL STORY OF ZION, BRYCE, PETRIFIED FOREST, PAINTED DESERT...THE GRAND CANYON REGION THE GEOLOGY OF GRAND CANYON, ZION, BRYCE, PETRIFIED FOREST & PAINTED DESERT...in the United States of America ene Re BS NATIONAL Ps ‘ PARK SERVICE PHOTO THE GRAND CANYON—1...PERIOD 5. SUPAI SANDSTONE AND SHALE (PERMIAN PERIOD); 6. HERMIT SHALE (PERMIAN PERIOD); 7. COCONINO SANDSTONE...Frontispiece Diagrammatic Sections of Grand Canyon Region .02......0..2-2.0-00---0--- x Rocks of First Era
Journal (issue)
Craters. By W. Scott L ewis. The Petrified Forest National Monument. B y Fred W. 8chmeltz. A NON-TECHNICAL...relatives, children-see that they vote in the National Mineral Contest. Every ballot counts. BOW THE................................... The Petrified Forest National Monumtnt. B11 Fred W . Schmtlb.. . . ...and ~IINERALS the well known Oregon caves (National Monument Park). The caves are spectacular and worthy...specimens. At th • numerous other m ines in this region, specimens of galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chromite
Report (chapter)
horizontally from the wall, its end only sticking out, a petrified tree of about a foot in diameter' (Simpson 1850)...is unknown (much of this information on the Petrified Forest in Arizona comes from Ash 1969, 1972, which...the Petrified Forest National Park). On 28 September 1851 they found large deposits of petrified wood:...of what appeared to have been stumps of trees petrified into jasper, beautifully striped with bright shades...the trees: 'we passed the remains of a large petrified tree, the wood of which was agatized. It was broken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/journal/geosciences Article Late Tertiary Petrified Wood from Nevada, USA: Evidence of Multiple Silicification...Oligocene and Miocene caldera basins contain abundant petrified wood that ranges in composition from incipient...fairly common in Nevada specimens. Keywords: petrified wood; silica; opal; chalcedony; quartz; paleobotany;...strategy is based on petrographic observations of petrified wood, often from well-known fossil forests. Examples...[5,7,8], and Petrified Forest, Arizona, USA (Triassic) [9]. The study of very old petrified wood to infer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
locality. Illustration: 1, Tuffaceous breccia; 2, Shale; 3, Spilite; 4, Claystone; 5, Granite; 6, Spilite...the Upper Triassic (Chinle) of the petrified forest national monument, Arizona. American Journal of Science
Book
work; the National Park Service—especially Cecil D. Lewis, Jr., superintendent of Dinosaur National Monument...Sequence 67 22 31 57 Gorgosaurus 68 23 Petrified Forest Sequence of Triassic Bearing 58 Gorgosaurus...Camarasaurus Antrodemus 36 36 Dinosaur National Monument 30 31 66 Cretaceous 72 63 Tyrannosaurus...37 64 Tyrannosaurus Skull 74 Dinosaur National Monument 38 65 Tyrannosaurus Skeleton 74 Sketch...been preserved. The Petrified Forest of eastern Arizona has within its Chinle shale the agatized logs and
Report (volume)
Geology and U rani urnVanadium Deposits of the Monument Valley Area Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona...MINERALOGY AND PARAGENESIS OF THE ORE DEPOSIT AT THE MONUMENT NO. 2 AND CATO SELLS MINES By DONALD H. JOHNSON...Butte member_________________________________ Petrified Forest member________________________________ Owl...Mines--------------~----------------------------------------- Monument No. 2 mine_____________________________________...Geology______________________________________________ Monument No.2 channeL______________________________ Uranium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EROSIONAL PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS IN BADLANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, SOUTH DAKOTA Bv KENNETH G. SMITH ABSTRACT...Figure Page passes 994 1. Base map of Badlands National MonuPediment domes 995 ment, South Dakota 978...down-slope across the pediment. Badlands National Monument is in southwestern South Dakota, in Pennington...observations were made in the eastern part of the National Monument area, near Cedar Pass, Norbeck Pass, and Big...summer of 1951. Field work in the Badlands National Monument was made possible through the kind co-operation
Journal (issue)
on highway 89 someyoung children were selling petrified porcupine eggs at $1.00 each. I was told that...other reviews 34 MINING Briefs from the desert region 36 NEWS Here and There on the Desert WEATHER...colorbanded conical formations in Petrified Forest national monument, Arizona. Taken with a Kodak 620...dwellers—could have wandered off into this wild rugged region. As the sun rose higher a deep cleft became visible...for arrowheads in the West. Also metamorphosed shale, which was pretty gocd, and more obdurate stones
Report (issue)
as: the ores of the various metals, coal, oil, shale, hydro-carbons, oil, gas, industrial clays, cement................. Fault in Bowery-Pa rowan Canyon region...................................... Frost work...geologists, it is intended to meet the requests of the National Parks Service for interpretative descriptions...Richardson in 1907; map of the Dixie National Forest made by the Forest Service in 1929 and 1932; a map of...of the Cedar Breaks National Monument made for the United States Geological Survey by Richard T. Evans
Book
Prax, From JEMEZ Canyon (Forest Service, U.S.D.A., by John Whiteside) (Forest Service, U.S.D.A., by Robert...Mexico, Robert A. Bieberman 75 Our National Heritage 7) New 93 Forest lands above the desert, Ruth Bush...Bush Jones 104 Mexico's big share of the National H.V. Reeves, Jr. Park System, The State Also Preserves...written for the 1963 National Science Fair-International held in Albuquerque. The National Science Fair booklet... the U.S. Park Service, and the Forest Service, Southwestern Region, U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture
Journal (issue)
San Bernardino range. December 3—Palm Springs National Dog Show, Polo Grounds, Palm Springs, California...'Even had their own stores and observed their own national holidays. On Chinese New Year they always celebrated...bits of chalcedony, jasper, agate, chert and petrified wood may be found in the gravels. Never having...pictures or a story? HARRIET NARISS The Four Corners region has many things of interest, and we have printed...reached by a bad road, hasn't much except the monument. — R.H. Search for Fossils . . . Whittier, California
Book (edition)
occur the many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate is wood for...as occur in the — hollow, found geodes Iowa region, and from them weather the types of agates found...carried there by great gla- down from Canada. region it is the largest diamond field in the undoubtedly... advanced and retreated; the southern limit of region As the dumps along. is glaciers that this glaciated...50 diamonds have been found in the Great Lakes region, and only the difficulty of recognizing one in
Book
fifty states. Whether one hopes to unearth a petrified clam, find an imprint of an extinct fish skeleton...and invertebrate animals, and plants—including petrified wood. Jay Ellis Ransom, geologist and author of...across an obvious fossil. His “find” may be a petrified clam, an oyster shell, an imprint of part of a...were found. As an article of commerce, however, petrified animal remains had no observable useful place...the regional flora and fauna, both living and petrified. In fact, some of the very same fossils gathered
Journal (issue)
beautiful by Bob Jones regular columns Arizona’s Petrified Forest Fossils.......... 48 Chalcedony Park is a...Collins shared a photo of what he thought was a petrified wasp’s nest and was asking for help identifying...Mineral & Gem Society; Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival; Gem & Mineral Bldg., Bldg, #1,...both Nature and Science from several older, national and local businesses and a large contin- important...opal. It was a rather steep climb through a mixed forest of pine and fir trees to the top of a ridge that
Book (volume)
407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...gravel pits along the Cahaba R.gemmy minerals, petrified wood;  area limestone quarriesCalcite, Celestite...limestoneFluorite. CHILTON COUNTY AREA:  east-central region (W and SW of the Coosa R. and E of the Louisville
Journal (issue)
the saddle, like to explore that charming desert region which lies beyond the paved highways. This is the...vacationing in Monument Valley, Joyce and Josef Muench report a sequel to "When Tombstone Came to Monument Valley...monumental water supply paper, The Mohave Desert Region, published by the U. S. geological survey. But...passing through the typical desert vegetation of the region. There were healthy-looking catsclaws with well-developed...Cocohands where, after another period of nino national forest is rated from poor unrest, he submitted with
Book (volume)
407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite...limestone⎯Fluorite. CHILTON COUNTY AREA: c east-central region (W and SW of the Coosa R. and E of the Louisville
Book (volume)
407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite...limestone⎯Fluorite. CHILTON COUNTY AREA: c east-central region (W and SW of the Coosa R. and E of the Louisville
 
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