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Amethyst from
Rhyolitic lava flows, Reyran valley, Fréjus, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rhyolitic lava flows, Reyran valley, Fréjus, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1033509
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1033509:3
GUID (UUID V4):8cdfe60f-3f80-4674-bdd0-bc74faddc1f2
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
0.5km (0.3 miles) Basaltics lava flows, Reyran valley, Fréjus, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
6.8km (4.2 miles) Le Petit-Défends area, Saint-Raphaël, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
8.7km (5.4 miles) Grands Caous quarry, Saint-Raphaël, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
9.0km (5.6 miles) Rhyolitic outcrop, Boulouris area, Saint-Raphaël, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
9.5km (5.9 miles) Les Ferrières d'Agay area, Agay, Saint-Raphaël, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
88.3km (54.9 miles) Cima del Piano della Casa, Terme di Valdieri, Valdieri, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
______________________________ . Quartz latite neck and flows north of Nelson Mountain ________________________________________...Bulldog Mountain fault ___________ _ Ancestral Amethyst fault ___________________ _ Ancestral Solomon-Holy...-------------Alpha-Corsair fault zone ___ -----------------Amethyst fault zone ______ -----------------Bulldog Mountain...----------------Ore deposits along the Amethyst fault zone_------Amethyst vein _________ ---------- ---------Vein...ns for prospecting _________________ ---------Amethyst and related veins ______________________ _ Bulldog
Journal (issue)
elationsliip to the nining districts o f the l u n z a Valley and iadakhshan. Artwork Christine Wilson. of several...Pass (5,290 m ) in order to reach Sumjam, in the valley of Paddar, these merchants were at first skeptical...the mine. This sentiment persists still in the valley, where the authors had the opportunity to talk...placers, which lie below the scree and talus , on the valley floor. In the process, the last great sapphire...cross section through the northeast wall of Kudi Valley shows pegmatite lenses distributed through the
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Eagle sandstone, Telegraph Cree 58 =| Tertiary valley fill a olite, welded ash, basalt of 2nd rd volcanic...cycles Tertiary SKK <9 Se0 eotets SS Rhyolite flows Names of rocks exposed in the Yellowstone Country...Representative formation Lu : 1.6 peas Basalt flows GY, Rhyolite welded-ash 2 x Hot springs, landslides...Basalt (flow at Sheepeater Cliff) Falls River Basalt LAVA CREEK TUFF Undine Falls Basalt Mount Jackson Rhyolite...0.6 0.7 0.8 io 1.3 0.6 -1.2 0.9 IO 2.0 a) * Lava flows outside the caldera Stratigraphic list of selected
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2.6 Quartz veins py, el Propylitic Rhyolite flows and tuffs Andesite 2.3 Quartz veins py, el, (hes...Propylitic Andesite breccias and flows Andesite breccias and flows Andesite 1.5 Quartz veins Propylitic...gn, sl, cp, el Propylitic Rhyolite tuffs and flows Andesite 2.2 Quartz veins py, el Propylitic...Kuaotunu Kuaotunu Andesite flows and breccias Andesite Kuaotunu Andesite flows and breccias Rhyolite Kuaotunu...Whitianga 0.66 Quartz veins py, el Adularia Rhyolitic pyroclastics Andesite Quartz veins py, el Adularia
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catalogue of the physical volcanology of the huge lava flows and intrusions that make up these provinces....Chapters range from landscapes and geomorphology, lava v vi Foreword flow structures related to emplacement...Morphology and Architecture of Flood Basalt Lava Flows and Sequences . . . .   33 4 Structures Formed...Volcanism, Volcanosedimentary Associations, and Lava-Sediment Interaction. . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Supérieure de Lyon et Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France e-mail: herve.bertrand@ens-lyon.fr Benjamin Black
Report (volume)
by the Virgin River to the southeast and Meadow Valley Wash to the west, all in Nevada. The northwestern... and east of that, Dry Lake Valley. Clouds cover much of the Bull Valley Mountains and the eastern end...of the Kane Springs Wash caldera in the Meadow Valley Mountains, southeastern Nevada By Anne E. Harding...System; Basin and Range, Colorado Plateau, and High Lava Plains, in Pakiser, L.C., and Mooney, W.D., eds................................. Rhyolitic Lava Flows of Delamar Valley...............................
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ascribe to the jasper family a large amount of rhyolitic rocks, the volcanic counterpart of granites, which...Srratiform jaspers - Massiveblocky jaspers - Rhyolitic jaspers JASPERSPSEUDOMORPHIC ON FOSSIL (silicification...boudinage in the limestone of Dieppe, Normandy, France (picture courtesy of Bob Morley, www.lougs.org...involved in the orogenesis. The top of the sequence of lava beds is almost always composed of a thick unit of...by lava bodies as lava domes or lava flows, in the form of glassyobsidians that formed when lava bodies
Report (issue)
overlain by lower to middle Miocene mafic flows, felsic flows with associated proximal tuffs, and syntectonic...being constructed on a foundation of Tertiary mafic flows, tuff, and clastic rocks. Additional geologic features...complex sequence of basalt and andesite flows, latite and rhyolite flows and lithic tuffs, and lesser amounts...are interlayered with areally restricted rhyolite flows and associated lithic tuffs. Stratigraphic relationships...phenocryst-rich basalt, phenocryst-poor basalt, andesite flows, tuff, and volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks. Overlying
Journal (issue)
materials, and treated and synthetic gems. A native of France, h e has a n advanced degree in geological engineering...engineering from the Geology School in Nancy, France, and his Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in Paris. P L A C...belt is located in the center of the Great Rift Valley region, which has undergone extensive regional...Pan-African tectonothermal event and before the Rift Valley movements. During the GEMS 8: GEMOLOGY Spring...help explain the rare occurrence of this type of rhyolitic opal deposit. T h e Querktaro area, about 200
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EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE KENYA RIFT VALLEY B.H. Baker, R. Crossley and G.G. Goles SOME ASPECTS...MOJE ACTIVE VOLCANIC AREA (ARUSSI: ETHIOPIAN RIFT VALLEY) H. Bizouard and G.M. Di Paola 87 THE VOLCANOLOGICAL... CONTENTS vii ORIGIN OF THE MAGMAS OF THE VESTFOLD LAVA PLATEAU C. Oftedahl 193 PETROLOGY OF THE SKIEN...Mueller THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF RIFTS AND RIFT VALLEY STRUCTURES: A MECHANISTIC INTERPRETATION S. Battacharji...and H. Koide EXPERIMENTAL MODEL STUDIES OF RIFT VALLEY SYSTEMS H. Ramberg RATES OF SEDIMENTATION AND VERTICAL
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University of Manitoba * * Kevin Cole, Grand Valley State University Patrick M. Colgan, Northeastern...Illinois State University Ginny Peterson, Grand Valley State University Stephen Piercey, Laurentian University...Colorado State University Jeffrey Schaffer, Napa Valley Community College Roy Schlische, Rutgers University...you heat the end of an iron bar in a flame. Heat flows from the hot region toward the cold region as vibrating...a hot liquid (such as molten way, heat slowly flows along the bar until you rock) rises into cooler
Journal (issue)
Petershausen, Germany Emmanuel Fritsch Nantes, France Robert E. Kane Helena, Montana James E. Shigley... Emmanuel Fritsch of the University of Nantes, France. HPHT annealing of the CVD synthetic diamonds was...pezzottaite, was created by Francis Bonnet of Polychrome France Co., Chambray-lès-Tours. Courtesy of Laurent Thomas...Colorado; Laurent Thomas of Polychrome France Co., Chambray-lès-Tours, France; Denis Gravier and Fabrice Danet...Saint-Jean-le-Vieux, France; Tom Cushman of Allerton Cushman & Co., Sun Valley, Idaho; Marc Jobin and
Report (issue)
Pb-Zn-Cu-Ba-F-Sr deposits in México: A Mississippi Valley–type classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...epigenetic stratabound deposits of the Mississippi Valley type and related deposits in México. Previous authors...presents the first thorough description of Mississippi Valley–type deposits in México. Valencia-Moreno et al...INTRODUCTION Large volcano-plutonic belts dominated by rhyolitic and/or granitic rocks are common features of most...Bryan (2005a). All provinces are dominated by rhyolitic igneous compositions and ignimbrite. *Magma flux
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tllis level pennits the da.tjng of individual lava. -flows, enabling geochronology to resolve co1nplex...for billions of years. Because individual rhyolitic lava flows can be precisely dated, several volcaitic... " Base 1netal 1nineralisation in tl1e Clogher Valley is being searched for by Ivernia West plc, largely...produced topaz, beryl, caimgorm (citrine) and amethyst, together with ge1n-quality garnet, tourmaline...Whisky and the BGS Inspired by Terroirs et vins de France (Wines and winelands of Frdnce geological journeys)
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power plants as the alternative sources of energy. France, for instance, would generate 90 percent of its...the La Angostura reservoir to the possible over¬ flows from its spillway and inflow from its own basin...involved in its surface manifestations. This heat flows directly through the rocks or is transported by...high-temperature energy stored in the interior flows toward the surface at a rate of 1 to 2 HFU (Heat...Indonesia Kenya Soviet Union China Portugal Turkey France Total Expected 1986 June 1984 Number of Units
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mountain, most of the avalanche channeled into a valley and thickened into a moving sheet as high as a...in less than four minutes, At the mouth of the valley, most of the mass overran the village of Ranrahica...River. But part of it shot up the sides of the valley and became airborne for several seconds, flying...ancient volcano at Shiprock, New Mexico, ash and lava flows have eroded away, leaving a “volcanic neck” (the...droplets of lava Into the alr, atid these cool haa —— _ 180 kin volcano to make a lava flow, Lava lows evexitually
Report (issue)
Donald 0. Capstick . . . . . . . . . . Desolation Valley Wilderness, California, by F.C.W. Dodge . .......fold and thrust belt of sedimentary rocks in the Valley and Ridge Province along a low-angle fault which...marine rocks. The Parkwood Formation crops out along valley walls and the Pottsville Formation forms the upland...Deposits of locally derived colluvium mantle the valley walls. Alluvium, consisting of unconsolidated clay...sand , gravel, and large boulders, lies along the valley floors. The strata of the western part of the study
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(“Wild Coast”), on the south side of Brittany, France (Lat 47°30’36.11”N, Long 3°9'1.17”W) DEDICATION...University of Southern Florida Kevin Cole, Grand Valley State University H. Karlsson, Texas Tech Patrick...Greer, Wilham & Mary College Ginny Peterson, Grand Valley State University Steve Guggenheim, University...Kansas State University Jeffrey Schaffer, Napa Valley Community College Roy Schlische, Rutgers University...Polar Plateau. To the left we could see numerous valley glaciers, rivers of ice, that slowly carry ice
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granite plutons Siluro-Devonian Gaspeé-Connecticut Valley Synclinorium and Lake Memphremagog/Sargent Bay...those in Nevada and Arkansas in the USA; Chaillac, France; and Andhra Pradesh, India. Because of apparently...Tennessee; Deming, New Mexico; Missoula, Montana; Sun Valley, Idaho; and Petersburgh, southeastern Alaska. ...oilwell drilling. France About 60% of the 200,000 tons/year of barite production in France is derived from...fluorite, lead, and zinc miner- alization in France and several other European countries are described
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REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA COLOMBIA CONGO COSTA RICA CÔTE D’IVOIRE CROATIA CUBA CYPRUS CZECH REPUBLIC DEMOCRATIC...SALVADOR ERITREA ESTONIA ETHIOPIA FIJI FINLAND FRANCE GABON GEORGIA GERMANY GHANA GREECE GUATEMALA GUYANA...Jachymov (former Czechoslovakia); Limousin district (France)); (ii) Deposits associated with ‘old’ sediments...Subtype 2.1. Endogranitic (La Crouzille district, France; Xiazhuang district, China); Subtype 2.2. Perigranitic...Subtype 9.4. Tectonic-lithologic (Lodève Basin, France; Franceville Basin, Gabon); Subtype 9.5. Mafic
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of Molten Rock e 146 6.5 Transforming Magma and Lava into Rock « 147 6.6 How Do Extrusive and Intrusive...Clark, University of Manitoba Kevin Cole, Grand Valley State University layout. Andrew Troutt, Rebecca...Polar Plateau. To the left we could see numerous valley glaciers, rivers of ice, that slowly carry ice...Earth ten rock beneath the Earth’s surface, and lava, molten rock that has flowed out onto the Earth’s...simmering pot (see Box 2.3); warm mantle gradually flows upward, while cooler, denser mantle sinks. The
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Trachyte Among the ornamental stones, we find Agate Amethyst Augite Carnelian Chalcedony Chrysophrase Haematite...lies 310 km northeast of the lake. There are other flows nearer to Lake Urmia in Iran (Moorey 1999; Wright...stone in the mountains north and west of the Soghun Valley in the southern Zagros Mountains. This research...obtained from the radiolarian chert- OIB-type pillow lava associations within the accretionary mélange is...zones. The radiolarian ages obtained from pillow-lava – chert assemblages range between Middle Triassic
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Temple of the Sun (sandstone monolith), Cathedral Valley- Capitol Reef Tarbuck, Edward J. The earth an...252 Cycle of Landscape Evolution 255 Stages of Valley 11 Groundwater Underground Water The Water Table...• THE ROCK CYCLE Opposite: This lava fountain and river of lava were produced by a recent eruption...an earthquake, spectacular nery of a mountain valley, created by a landslide are gist (Figure many...these striking rock masses in Arizona's Monument Valley. Geologic processes often act so slowly that changes
Report (issue)
________________________________ _ 83. Drowned valley topography at beginning of Middle Ordovician deposition...Significance of loess deposits along the Ohio River valley, by Louis L. Ray ____________________________________...99. The late Quaternary age of obsidian-rhyolite flows in the western part of Yellowstone National Park...unconformities and early growth of the Paradox Valley and Gypsum Valley salt anticlines, Colorado, by D. P. Elston...121. Origin of the Amargosa thrust fault, Death Valley area, California: a result of strike-slip faulting
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volcanoes of central France, they realized that basalt is similar to modern lava and must like¬ wise have...England and, at about the same time, Cuvier in France were the first to show that particular fossils...into a valley ‘V up the valley’ and that a valleywards dip makes the beds ‘V down the valley’. is scarcely...Concordant masses include sills and the sheets of lava and ash extruded from volcanoes. Sills are formed...pyroclastic material, thrown out by explosions, and lava flows. Note that the coarsest material fell nearest
 
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