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Alunite from
Valu Fa Ridge, Southern Lau Basin, Tonga


Locality type:Ridge
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Valu Fa Ridge, Southern Lau Basin, Tonga
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1208474
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1208474:0
GUID (UUID V4):2575d422-e983-4b0e-bee6-3fab7f4d8395
References
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composition of hydrothermal precipitates from the Lau back-arc: implications for magmatic contributions...hydrothermal deposits at the Valu Fa Ridge back-arc spreading center in the southern Lau Basin has been investigated...from the White Church area at the northern Valu Fa Ridge have d34S values averaging +3.8& (n ˆ 10) for...active Vai Lili hydrothermal ®eld at the central Valu Fa Ridge have much higher d34S ratios averaging +8.0&...samples from the Hine Hina area at the southern Valu Fa Ridge have d34S values that are considerably
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2182-2209 Gold-RichPolymetallicSulfidesfrom the Lau BackAre andImplicationsfor the Geochemistry of Gold...Polymetallicsulfidesrecoveredfromthe Valu Fa Ridgein the southernLau basin(southwestPacific)havegoldcontentsof...occurrenceof visiblegoldin sulfidechimneysfromthe Lau basinprovidesa unique opportunityto specifyin detailthe...0361-0128/93/1.526/2182-2854.00 2182 Au-RICH SULFIDES FROM LAU BACK ARC 9,183 H2S.Earlier,subsea-floor boilingandprecipitationof...ascending hydrothermalfluids. Sulfidedepositsin the Lau basinand elsewherein the southwestPacificare strikingly
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2154-2181 Metallogenesis in Back-ArcEnvironments' The Lau BasinExample YVESFOUQUET, IFREMER, Centre de Brest...hydrothermal activityon a modernback-arcvolcanicridge,the Valu Fa Ridge.Three majorhydrothermalfields(Hine Hina,...the developmentof sulfidemounds. Vent fluidsat Valu Fa havemuchhighermetalcontentsthanthoseat midoceanridges...54-2854.00 2154 BACK-ARC ENVIRONMENTS: LA U BASIN 215 5 17ø30'S and 19ø20' S, locatedat the centralpart...there have been a number of Sand22ø50' S (ValuFa Ridge),located75 km closer investigations of hydrothermalprocesses
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located at Volcano 19, which forms part of the Tonga arc (Stoffers et al., 2006). Focused, high-temperature...of polymetallic sulfides. At Kagoshima bay in southern Kyushu, Japan, barite, stibnite, realgar, and...is associated with the widespread formation of alunite as an alteration mineral (Esposito et al., 2006;...60°N A1,2 Aleutian arc ASIA Kurile arc Okinawa basin 30°N A3 R4 R5-8 R11 R9-10 A4 Ryukyu arc R12...2 A14 S3-6 Hawaii A13 A15 Andaman basin A16 A17 Manus basin 0° S10 S11-18 S7-9 R13-23 A18 A20 A21
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Influences of the Tonga Subduction Zone on Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits along the Eastern Lau Spreading...Spreading Center and Valu Fa Ridge Guy N. Evans, Margaret K. Tivey, Jeffrey S. Seewald, C. Geoff Wheat PII: DOI:...Influences of the Tonga Subduction Zone on Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits along the Eastern Lau Spreading...Spreading Center and Valu Fa Ridge, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2017), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca... Influences of the Tonga Subduction Zone on Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits along the Eastern Lau Spreading
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the transition between the northern end of the Tonga Trench and the North Fiji fracture zone, where tectonic...oriented volcanic graben and the N-S oriented Alofi ridge. In 2010, the active volcano Kulo Lasi, which represents...lava with no obvious geochemical affinity with the Tonga subduction that occurs 500 km to the east. The central...al. , 2001, Leybourne et al. , 2012a), in the Lau Basin (Baker et al. , 2010, Baker et al. , 2006, Bertine...2007, Von Stackelberg, 1988)}, in the North Fiji Basin (Auzende et al. , 1995, Bendel et al. , 1993, Halbach
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The SuSu Knolls Hydrothermal Field, Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea ELITSA HRISCHEVA,† S. D. SCOTT...hydrothermal field in the eastern Manus back-arc basin, Papua New Guinea, in order to explain the origin...shards, cristobalite, Si-rich amorphous material, alunite, pyrite, barite, and magnetite. The volcaniclastic...studied from the North Fiji basin (e.g., McMurtry et al., 1991), the Lau basin (e.g., Cronan et al., 1984;...peripheral to the PACMANUS area, eastern Manus basin (Ortega-Osorio, 1996; Sebastian et al., 1999, 2000;
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compared to mid ocean ridge (MOR) hydrothermal systems (e.g., Manus backarc basin: (Gamo et al., 1997;...Mariana arc: (Resing et al., 2007); Valu Fa ridge of the Lau Basin: (Herzig et al., 1998); Kermadec arc:...arc: (de Ronde et al., 2005); East Scotia Ridge: (James et al., 2014)). This is related to the increased...The Coriolis Troughs in the eastern part of the southern New Hebrides arc system (SW Pacific) are in a...and manganese anomalies above the Nifonea Ridge in the southern Vate Trough led to the discovery of the
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suggested by relationships in the TongaKermadec ridge and adjacent areas, where dacitic calderas in island-arc...setting, along with anomalously young Ar-Ar ages for alunite at Pueblo Viejo as explained further below, has...of the mineralization in the district, fills a basin in the upper part of the Los Ranchos Formation (Fig...fragments of intrusive rock fill the lower part of this basin (Fig. 4). These coarsely fragmental rocks grade...have been emplaced during filling of the basin (Fig. 4). The basin has been interpreted to be a diatreme-maar
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Valley at the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and in the TAG deposit at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Currently, mining of hydrothermal...The TAG hydrothermal mound at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 26◦ N, for example, has a diameter of ca. 200...A (1999) 30° 30° 60° 120° 150° 180° Southern Lau Basin 150° 17°S, EPR 18.5°S, EPR 20°S, EPR 21...Guaymas Basin Northern Lau Basin Conical Seamount Manus Basin Woodlark Basin N. Fiji Basin 180° Explorer...Explorer Ridge Co-Axial Northern Cleft S. Juan de Fuca Escanaba Trough 150° 18°N, Mariana Trough 13°N
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The SuSu Knolls Hydrothermal Field, Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: An Active Submarine High-Sulfidation...peaks, standing on a N-NW-trending ridge in the eastern Manus basin, a complex zone of convergence between...intense and which is characterized by natroalunite, alunite (North Su only), cristobalite, tridymite, and rare...eastern portion of the eastern Manus basin, an actively opening backarc basin in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New...the eastern Manus basin by the PACMANUS I (Papua New Guinea Australia Canada Manus basin) expedition with
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weathered silicate and amorphous silica phases. The alunite group minerals and acidic fluids indicate that...similar to those found along the global midocean ridge (MOR), suggesting that the source of the 3He and...in an increase in pH and the deposition of the alunite-phosphate-sulfate and other minerals close to the...presence of plumes greatly enriched in Al in the Manus basin (Gamo et al., 1993), from plumes with low pH combined...Plate Mariana Trough Philippine Plate ariana Ridge West M Mariana Volcanic Arc NW Rota-1 Guam na
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sulfates: Major and minor element systematics of alunite-jarosite from Goldfield, Nevada— J.J. Papike, J...Squire, I R. Stewart, and W.L. Zang Cambrian backarc-basin basalt in western Victoria related to evolution...applied to mapping mineral systems under the Murray basin cover—R.J. Smith and K. Frankcombe Significance...875 1094 INTERESTING PAPERS IN OTHER JOURNALS BASIN RESEARCH Vol. 18, No. 3, 2006 Submarine slope failure...hydrothermal fluids in sedimentary rocks of the Paraná basin, South America—L.G. Sant’Anna, N. Clauer, U.G. Cordani
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Tonopah are early-Miocene, high-sulfidation (quartz-alunite) and 58 intermediate-sulfidation (quartz-adularia)...Au-Ag deposits, respectively, located in the 59 southern ancestral Cascades arc in southwestern Nevada...intermediate to felsic volcanism within the 68 southern ancestral Cascades arc (henceforth “ancestral...noble gas data have been collected in the northern Basin and Range 70 Province and modern High Cascades...shallow depleted mantle, as observed in mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB); ~1 RA for air- 95 saturated meteoric
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........ .45 3.2.2 Neves-Corvo, Castro Verde, Southern Portugal.. ............................... 49...Brunswick, Canada .... 56 3.2.5 Kuroko, Hokuroku basin, Northeastern Honshu, Japan ......................Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Southern Urals, Russia ......................................................... 69 3.2.10.1 Southern Lau Back-Arc Basin, Southwest-Pacific ........................... 178 10.1.1 0 Broken Spur, Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...............................................
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is observed in the host dacites, resulting in alunite, gypsum and alunogen, associated with thick crusts...as having been intruded as a single dome. The southern part of the island is composed entirely of layers...an observation already reported for the whole southern Aegean Sea [5]. Moreover Fe and Mn are depleted...bay Yali, Southeast Bay Lau Basin southewest Pacific (HClSoluble)21 Lau Basin Spreading Center (HClSoluble)22...crater, Kagoshima bay, Japan23 Lau Basin ODP Sites 834 (HClsoluble)24 Lau Basin ODP Site 835 (HClsoluble)24
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Magmatic-Hydrothermal System: Brothers Volcano, Southern Kermadec Arc, New Zealand C. E. J. DE RONDE,†...caldera floor and partially coalesces with the southern caldera wall. Three hydrothermal sites have been...hydrothermal systems. The ~2,500-km-long Kermadec-Tonga arc northeast of New Zealand is one of the longest...10:39 AM Page 1099 BROTHERS HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM, SOUTHERN KERMADEC ARC, NEW ZEALAND 1099 continent-derived...et al., 1996; Haase et al., 2002). The Kermadec-Tonga arc hosts numerous submarine and subaerial hydrothermal
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the Upper Silesia. 1369 Two modes of change in Southern Ocean export production over the past million...from surface waters of the Antarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean decreased during the last ice age, coinciding...view that the combination of these two modes of Southern Ocean change determines the temporal structure...Abstracts Geochemical variations in the Central Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile (38-43°S): The role of fluids...and SrNd-Pb-Hf-O isotope data from the Central Southern Volcanic Zone in Chile (CSVZ; 38-43°S). The satellitic
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were discovered on the sea floor of the back-arc basin, back-arc rift, and island arc surrounding the Japanese...summary of active subaerial and submarine back-arc basin hydrothermal systems and mineralizations is given...deposits) are compared with those of midoceanic ridge deposits and Kuroko deposits. In Chapter 3, hydrothermal...estimated. These fluxes are compared with midoceanic ridge hydrothermal fluxes. Particularly, hydrothermal...relationships in Kuroko and vein-type deposits in southern Hokkaido, Japan ....................... 1S.4.
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region are dominated by the Izu–Bonin–Mariana and Tonga– Kermadec intraoceanic arcs to the north and south...hydrothermal emissions show that the Kermadec part of the Tonga–Kermadec arc is the most hydrothermally active segment...et al. 2007). Brothers caldera volcano, of the southern Kermadec arc (Figs. 1 and 2), is the most hydrothermally...(2011) 46:541–584 Fig. 1 Tectonic setting of the Tonga–Kermadec arc/back-arc system with the Australian...and Pacific plates located west and east of the Tonga–Kermadec Trench, respectively. Flanking the Havre
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Pacmanus subseafloor hydrothermal system, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea Received: 15 April 2002 / Accepted:...Pacmanus hydrothermal field in the eastern Manus Basin. Anhydrite is abundant in the drill core material...the TAG hydrothermal system at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which display uniform LREE-enriched patterns with...mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems. We use other hydrothermal fluids from the Manus Basin (Vienna Woods...Anhydrite Æ Submarine hydrothermal systems Æ Manus Basin 917 Introduction The behavior of rare-earth elements
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oceanic crust of the African plate beneath the southern edge of the active margin of the European plate...(Fytikas 1977; Fytikas 1989) and are exposed at the southern part of the island. Thus, the geology of Milos...silver, sulfur, obsidian, millstone, manganese, alunite, gypsum, and siamite (nano-sized material crystals...vents have common characteristics with mid-ocean ridge vents, despite the different tectonic setting and...hydrothermal systems (e.g., mid-ocean ridge and back-arc basin black smoker fluids with typical values
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precipitation, gangue and alteration mineralogy (alunite, dickite, kaolinite) and related to high sulphidation...representative of the San Dimas district as well as its southern extension. All samples display a more or less...2002. Noble gas isotope geochemistry of Mid-Ocean ridge and Ocean island basalts: characterization of mantle...volcanic-related hydrothermal systems in the circum-Pacific basin: Circum Pacific. Energy and Mineral Resource Conference...237-273. Henry, D., Fredrikson, G., 1987. Geology of southern Sinaloa adjacent to the Gulf of California. Geological
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Hydrothermal Sulfide Field, 13◦ 200 N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge Irina Melekestseva 1, *, Vasiliy Kotlyarov 1 , Gennadiy...hydrothermal sulfide field, 13◦ 200 N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Sulfide samples were studied using optical microscopy...sulfide fields. Field, 13◦ 200 N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Minerals 2022, 12, 1626. https:// doi.org/10.3390/min12121626...chimneys; hydrothermal sulfide fields; Mid-Atlantic Ridge Academic Editor: Pierfranco Lattanzi Received:...Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR), seafloor HSFs occur within mafic- or ultramaficrelated ridge segments and their
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his career, which has included work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest...5.3.7 Epithermal Systems in the Northern Great Basin, USA. 5.3.8 The Oldest Epithermal Systems, Archaean... . . . . 7.3 Birth, Life and Death of an Ocean Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 Oceanic... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 Basin Formation and Volcano-Sedimentary Successions in...Stratabound Cu-Ag Deposits of the Irumide Belt in Southern Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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