Merwinite from
NW slope, Shadil-Khokh volcano, Kel’ volcanic area, Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, South Ossetia, Georgia

Locality type:

Slope

Classification

Species:

Merwinite

Formula:

Ca₃Mg(SiO₄)₂

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

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Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

947155

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:947155:9

GUID (UUID V4):

3bd7b823-f125-4c83-b825-2e3c0ea06a07

References

Galuskina, Irina O., Krüger, Biljana, Galuskin, Evgeny V., Armbruster, Thomas, Gazeev, Viktor M., Włodyka, Roman, Dulski, Mateusz, Dzierżanowski, Piotr (2015) Fluorchegemite, Ca₇(SiO4)₃F₂, a new mineral from the edgrewite-bearing endoskarn zone of an altered xenolith in ignimbrites from upper Chegem caldera, Northern Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia: occurrence, crystal structure, and new data on the mineral assemblages. The Canadian Mineralogist, 53 (2) 325-344 doi:10.3749/canmin.1400084

Środek, Dorota, Juroszek, Rafał, Krüger, Hannes, Krüger, Biljana, Galuskina, Irina, Gazeev, Viktor (2018) New Occurrence of Rusinovite, Ca10(Si2O7)3Cl2: Composition, Structure and Raman Data of Rusinovite from Shadil-Khokh Volcano, South Ossetia and Bellerberg Volcano, Germany. Minerals, 8 (9) 399 doi:10.3390/min8090399

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Merwinite from NW slope, Shadil-Khokh volcano, Kel’ volcanic area, Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, South Ossetia, Georgia

Merwinite from
NW slope, Shadil-Khokh volcano, Kel’ volcanic area, Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, South Ossetia, Georgia