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Diopside from Windhoek Rural, Khomas Region, Namibia

Namibia
 
  • Khomas Region
    • Windhoek Rural
      • Aris
Kolitsch, U., Blaß, G., Jahn, S., Cámara, F., von Bezing, L., Wartha, R. R., Tremmel, G., Sturla, M., Cerea, P., Skebo, M. and Ciriotti, M. E. (2016): Aris - mineralogy of the famous alkaline phonolite. AMI - Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, Cremona, Italy, 95 pp.
Joachim Esche collection (SEM-EDS-analysed by Vincent Bourgoin
contains only minor Na, Al, Fe)
      • Auas Mountains Occurrences
Von Knorring, O., & Franke, W. (1987). A preliminary note on the mineralogy and geochemistry of the Aris phonolite, SWA/Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of SW Africa/Namibia, 3, 61.
Fitch, F. J., & Miller, J. A. (1984). Dating Karoo igneous rocks by the conventional K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar age spectrum methods. In:Erlank, A.J. (ed.) Petrogenesis of the volcanic rocks of the Karoo Province. Geological Society of South Africa, Special Publication, 13, 247-266.
Ferreira, C. A. M., Jacob, R. E., Marsh, J. S. (1979) Base-Metal Mineralization in Alkaline Pyroclastics - the Regenstein Vent, South West Africa. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, 82.
Gevers, T. W. (1933). Alkali-rocks in the Auas Mountains, south of Windhoek, SWA. South African Journal of Geology, 36(1), 77-88. https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA10120750_1737
A. Wohlschläger, U. Kolitsch and E. Libowitzky (2001): Large "gahnites" from near Okahua, Namibia: only Fe- and Zn-bearing spinels. Mitt. Österr. Mineral. Ges. 146, 323.
 
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