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Calcite from
Marble quarry, Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Pines; Island of Youth), Isla de la Juventud special municipality, Cuba


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Chrystals can be found (the largest foun By Andresen was 4 x 5 x 2 cm.)
Abundance at site:Extremely common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarry, Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Pines; Island of Youth), Isla de la Juventud special municipality, Cuba
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:199591
Long-form Identifier:1:3:199591:6
GUID (UUID V4):7ee63df6-d4da-4537-ac55-ee439a772cda
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AGE AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF HIGHPRESSURE METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF CUBA M. L. Somin , M. M. Arakelyants...AGE AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF CUBA, International Geology Review...12 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline...[University of California Santa Barbara] Date: 13 June 2016, At: 02:08 AGE AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF HIGH-PRESSURE...HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF CUBA Downloaded by [University of California Santa Barbara] at 02:08
Report (issue)
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands By Frederic H. Wilson, Greta...2019 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior DAVID BERNHARDT...usgs.gov or call 1–888–ASK–USGS. For an overview of USGS information products, including maps, imagery...publications, visit https://store.usgs.gov. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive...G., and Gray, F., 2019, Preliminary geologic map of the Greater Antilles and the Virgin Islands: U.S
Report (issue)
PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND GREATER GEOLOGICAL ANTILLES HISTORY OF are pa = yi] a - ms if S*Ea(,. BRT A TA...Geological Society of America, Inc. Memoir 129 Paleogeography and Geological History of Greater Antilles...Antilles K. M. KHUDOLEY All-Union Institute of Geological Researches Leningrad, USSR AND A. A. MEYERHOFF (VSEGEI)...American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 197] The printing of this volume is made...Memoir Fund of The Geological Society of America Copyright 1971 by The Geological Society of America, Inc
Report (issue)
Data Set of World Phosphate Mines, Deposits, and Occurrences—Part A. Geologic Data By Carlotta B. Chernoff1...Orris2 Open-File Report 02–156–A 2002 Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive...Government. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona...Arizona USGS, Tucson, Arizona 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………..…… 3 DATA SOURCES................. 38 2 INTRODUCTION An inventory of more than 1,600 world phosphate mines, deposits,
Report (issue)
rubidium-strontium; Re/Os, rhenium-osmium; U/Pb, uranium-lead (LA-ICP-MS, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma...British Virgin Islands The diorite phase of the Peter Island suite yields two concordant and two normally...206Pb/238U weighted average of 30.6 Ma. This age is corroborated by LA-ICP-MS analysis of 11 grains giving weighted...weighted mean age of 30.64±0.46 Ma (MSWD = 1.09; C. Allen, personal commun., 2010). One concordant fraction...fraction gives an older age of 32.5 Ma, interpreted to reflect inheritance of zircon cores from earlier
Report (issue)
TITLE START Petroleum Systems in the Southern Gulf of Mexico Edited by C. Bartolini and J. R. Román Ramos...Memoir 90 Published by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Copyright... Copyright © 2009 By the American Association of Petroleum Geologists All Rights Reserved ISBN13: 978-0-89181-371-2...photocopy of an item from this publication for personal use. Authorization for additional photocopies of items...For circumstances occurring outside authorization of Copyright Clearance Center contact permissions@aapg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of California-San Diego on April 14, 2017 440 DR....THE [vol. lxxxv, 13. The BASAL COMPLEX of JAMAICA, with special reference to the K]:~GSTON DISTRICT. B..... II. History of Previous Research ........................ III. The Stratigraphy of the Basal Complex...Complex Pebbles in Later Rocks ............ IV. Summary of the Basal Complex ..................... V. Comparison...history, and m u c h remains to be learned of the course of events, even in Tertiary t i m e s ; but the
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horizon of these fossils was unknown, as several seams are worked at Ifton, but the officials of the colliery...facility for a search underground, and after a number of fruitless visits a marine band was located in a main...collected. This seam is not now worked in any part of the coalfield ; a ventilation return was examined...worked the Four Foot, and no other, and good specimens of Buxtonia were found in the ironstones on the tip...700 feet below the Euabon Marl, the lowest group of the Upper Coal Measures, and about 300 feet above
Report (issue)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A Partial Glossary of Spanish Geological Terms...Terms Exclusive of Most Cognates by Keith R. Long Open-File Report 91-0579 This report is preliminary...with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive...favorable investment climate has spurred a new wave of North American investment in Latin American mineral...cooperative mineral resource investigations with a number of countries in Latin America. These activities are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic event recorded in the marble of the Tandilia System basement, Río de la Plata Craton, Argentina ⁎...Instituto de Recursos Minerales, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata..., 64 N°3, (CP1900), Argentina b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, Godoy...CABA, Argentina c Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la provincia de Buenos Aires, CICBA, 526 e/10...e/10 y 11 (CP 1900), La Plata, Argentina d Universidad de Salamanca, Patio de Escuelas 1, 37008 Salamanca
Report (issue)
STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PRELIMINARY DEPOSIT-TYPE MAP OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO...standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Any use of trade, product, firm, or industry names in this publication...the U.S. Government. Menlo Park, CA 1989 Table of Contents Page Introduction........................................................... i Explanation of Data Fields.................................................................. 1-330 Appendix I List of Deposits Sorted by Deposit Type.................
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Springer-Verlag1992 Origin of ultramafie-hosted magnesite on Margarita Island, Venezuela N.S. Abu-Jaber...Abu-Jaber * and M.M. Kimberley Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University...Ultramafic-hosted deposits of magnesite (MgCO3) have been studied on Margarita Island, Venezuela, to elucidate...elucidate the source of carbon and conditions of formation for this type of ore. Petrographic, mineralogic...-8 to -10%o PDB within some calcite and dolomite elsewhere on the island. The isotopically light dolomite
Report (issue)
Some Tropical Landforms of Puerto Rico By WATSON H. MONROE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...PAPER 1159 Landforms on a tropical island in the belt of the easterly tradewinds UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1980 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...Director Library of Congress Catalog-card No. 80-600071 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S...Geology of Puerto Rico ________________. The physiographic divisions of Puerto Rico ____. Rivers of Puerto
Report (issue)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-INGEOMINAS MINERAL...MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF COLOMBIA: ORE DEPOSIT MODELS By Dennis P. Cox, Editor Open-File Report 83-423...Park, California 1983 PREFACE This compendium of ore deposits models was assembled for the Colombia...Mineral Resource Assessment Project. The objectives of the compendium are: (1) to define mineral deposit...related; (2) to provide data on the environments of ore deposition so that favorable rocks, structures
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY VOLUME 38 NUMBER 1 PAGES 65–83 1997 High-Pressure (~2000 MPa) Kyanite- and...Glaucophane-bearing Pelitic Schist and Eclogite from Cordillera de la Costa Belt, Venezuela VIRGINIA B. SISSON∗, INCI...EVREN ERTAN AND HANS G. AVÉ LALLEMANT DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, RICE UNIVERSITY, MS-126,...Cretaceous melange of the Cordillera de la Costa belt, north–central Venezuela, there are knockers of eclogite...metamorphic melange matrix that locally consists of marble, serpentinite, amphibolite, actinolite schist
Report (edition)
\. • DEPARTMENT • .... .. OF SCIENTIFIC GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN • • • • • •... 13 ' • .. • • • • • ., • • .LIMESTONES OF SCOTLAND • AREAV ' I , • • -CENTRAL GRAMPIANS...SURVEY - - SHETLAND ISLAN OS - SHEETS OF THE • MAP OF SCOTLAND, - 128 VIlI .... COUNTY BOUNDARIES...ANO BOUNDARIES AREAS I ...;.._vm \ 130 129 I - Of. \ 126 I 125" • - • ' .... • -- I 124...(CAITHNESS 10a 106 104 ·- ,as,;_ 110 ' S U T H E R LA N D '"',_"' , ft ) t 100 "'tiJ98 I • .....
Catalog/List
OTHER CURRENT CATALOGUES ti catalogl'.e ~cpsr,ate of Educa.tional Rocks and Minerals is also available...lots after you receive the minerals of minerals Just send a list of the minerals and price for each piece...CRVSTALS PAGE 15 lfQ· 16 MICROMIHERALS . ~ ' "irierals of Particular Interest in this Catalogue:CLINOHUMITE...ALLA~HTE tCe Y Fe Sil icate) masses, showingareas of blue schiller whenwet.(0ntario Canada) lx1 !1.20...Omphacite. An attractive Eclogite rock.(West Coast of Norway) lx2 90p 2x2 ll,80 2x4 t3.70 218 ALMAND!NE
Report (edition)
Industrial Research **************** STAFF LOAN COPY of Great Britain **************** FOR STAFFLOAN ...1'Varti1ne Pamphlet • Iio. 1 3 • LIMEST0~1ES OF SCOTLA.l\ID • AREAV CENTRALGRAMPIANS By . J...SHE'l'LAND ISLAN OS 129 OF THE SHEETS MAP 128 O F SCOT LAN D, AND BOUNDARIES vm OF 125 I-VIII AREAS...7 • Scale 3020100 of Miles so 2 • • 5ZZ3Z·I • 13. - LII\liESTONES OF SCOTLI\.ND AREA V CENTRALGRAMPIANS...Figures 2 - l+ List of Wartime Pamphlets • Introduction For the convenient description of its limestones
Report (Issue volume)
I DEPARTMENT ', .OF SCIENTIFIC GEOLOGICAL & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN • '...' • ' Wartime Pamphle . No. 13 I LIMESTONES OF SCOTLAND -- • · AREA IV . SOUTH - WEST HIGHLANDS...MAP SHEETS OF THE SHOWING ONE-INCH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 129 MAP 128 • 0 F S COT LA N D , • BOUNDARIES...BOUNDARIES AND BOUNDARIES OF AREAS I-VIlI COUNTY °,,..., 127 126 125 124 • • I 21 • 118 ~0 ...20 JO of Miles • so 0 · 14 • 2 I • , • • • • • • ' 13. • - LTivIESTONES OF SCOI'LAND
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Caribbean: construction of the Escambray nappe stack, central Cuba. A review Klaus P. STANEK1,*...für Mineralogie, 48149 Münster, Germany 4 Centre of Isotopic Research, Karpinsky Russian Geological Research...Faculty of Geoscience, Auburn, AL 36849, USA Abstract: The Escambray Massif of central Cuba is the largest...metamorphic complex exposed in the Greater Antilles of the northern Caribbean area. It can be viewed as...subsequent eastward passage of the intra-oceanic subduction-zone and island-arc complex of the ‘‘Great Caribbean
Report (issue)
[fiM^iii^m^;ii?nuiiiuii:^iiii;i;ja^^ TJIK (ill'T OF" 'V v.-» :^Ji^itt»i!il'^^Jili'lli!fi... Department of the Interior ^ The Bureau op Science Manila THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE PHILIPPINE...PHILIPPINE ISLANDS WITH A STATEMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF COMMERCIAL MINERAL PRODUCTS DURING THE YEAR 1»07 issued...SMITH CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND MINES, BUREAU OF SCIENCE MANILA bureau of printing 1908...1908 68546 THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE. Paul Freer, Director. C. THE DIVISION OF MINES Warhkn D. Smith,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
xl—crystal xled—crystallized ALABAMA: A nice specimen of calrite (onyx), a white and brownish mass, 4 x 6...donated recently to R & M by Sgt. Edward Bourne, of the Peekskill, N. Y., Armory. The specimen comes...from a large cave located about 5 or 6 miles south of Talladega, Talladega Co., Ala., and was collected...by little Patricia Foran, the 10 year old daughter of Sgt. and Mrs. James Foran, while vacationing in that...that area with her father and mother. Sgt. Foran, of the U. S. Army, is at present stationed at the Peekskill
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, sends in this bit of information: "Here is an account of a fine occurrence of turquoise which due to...able to visit. "An engineer with the U. S. Bureau of Mines.gave me a specimen for identification. I found...Kunz had seen this material and stated that it was of fine quality. A reference was also found in the U...856-857. Specimen of fine blue color which I identified in 1943 was found on the property of George Hobbs...Hobbs close to the north line of Sec. 3, T 2 0 S , R7E. (a little south of Pleasant Grove Church). Another
Report (issue)
Government of the Philippine Islands Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources f^'y .. Bureau OF Science...RESOURCES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS FOR THE YEARS 1921, 1922, AND 1923 ISSUED BY THE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY...BUREAU OF SCIENCE MANILA BUREAU OF PRINTING 1925 212023 THE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE BUREAU...BUREAU OF SCIENCE William H. Brown, B.S., Ph.D., Director of the ViCTORiANO Elicano, B.S., Geologist...Geologist, Assistant Director, Bureau. and Chief of the Division. Leopoldo a. Faustino, B.E., E.M., M.Sc
Report (issue)
Ann P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 75-36...ISLANDS, QUEBEC, AND THE ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND Ann. P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES...Islands: Cap-aux-Meules to Grande-Entree Grindstone Island (Ile du Cap aux Meules) . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fatima quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alright Island (Ile du Havre aux Maisons) . . . . . . . . . .
 
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