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Aragonite from
Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA


Locality type:Saline Lake
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Occurs in very fine-grained, nearly pure beds in the Parling mud, lower salt & mixed layers.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:686172
Long-form Identifier:1:3:686172:8
GUID (UUID V4):8c97f978-7f2c-4356-a245-3b96480fbd9c
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
48.4km (30.1 miles) Randsburg area occurrences, Randsburg, Kern County, California, USA
65.9km (40.9 miles) Christmas Gift Mine, Ophir Mountain, Darwin Mining District, Darwin Hills, Inyo County, California, USA
77.3km (48.0 miles) Badwater Spring Halite occurrence, Badwater, Inyo County, California, USA
81.7km (50.8 miles) Santa Rosa Mine (Lee-Santa Rosa Mine; Santa Rosa Mines), Malpais Mesa, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
82.6km (51.3 miles) Kramer Borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California, USA
85.7km (53.3 miles) Mammouth prospect (Mammoth prospect), Chuckwalla Mountain, Kern County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Lacustrine History of Searles Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California Professional Paper...Lacustrine History of Searles Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California By George I. Smith ... Detailed geologic maps of Searles Valley document a late Cenozoic, primarily Quaternary, sedimentation...include the 150-2 ka Searles Lake Formation, described and named herein. The Searles Lake Formation is divided...subsurface units known from drill cores in now-dry Searles Lake, in the center of the valley. Together, these
Report (volume)
of Nonclastic Minerals in the Searles Lake Evaporite Deposit California I By GEORGE I. SMITH and DAVID...1181-P Prepared in cooperation with the State of California, Resources Agency, ' Department of Conservation...___.__._-___.___--- 42 42 43 in IV CONTENTS Lake history indicated by character and distribution...location of Searles Lake, Calif_________ Subsurface stratigraphic units in the Searles Lake deposit- _...crystals showing habits most commonly noted in Searles Lake__--_-____-___-___------_--_----_.-_ 5. Elongated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF OWENS, CHINA, SEARLES. PANAMINT, BRISTOL, CADIZ, AND DANBY LAKE BASINS, CALIFORNIA JOHN B DROSTE Geological...OF OWENS, CHINA, SEARLES. PANAMINT, BRISTOL, CADIZ, AND DANBY LAKE BASINS, CALIFORNIA Abstract: Clay minerals...correlate basin-fill materials in Owens, China, and Searles lakes and in Bristol and Cadiz lakes. The U. S...large groups of intermontane basins in southern California as part of a project to study various aspects...diagenesis in continental sediments. Owens Lake, China Lake, Searles Lake, and two playas in Panamint Valley
Report (issue)
EVAPORATION POND CONSTRUCTION AT SEARLES LAKE, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By Joel L. Renner C ^r-p...evaporation at Searles Lake, Calif., by companies extracting saline minerals from lake brines has increased...prospective ponding sites at Searles Lake. Searles Lake lies near the southern end of Searles valley and is in the...southwestern part of the Basin and Range province. The lake is about 9 miles long and 7 miles wide and has...sedimentary deposits beneath the surface of the lake have been and continue to be a source of potash
Report (issue)
Geochemistry of Late Quaternary Evaporites, Searles Lake, California By GEORGE I. SMITH With a section on RADIOCARBON...deposited by closed-basin lakes that occupied Searles Valley during late Quaternary time UNITED STATES...geochemistry of late Quaternary evaporites, Searles Lake, California. (Geological Survey Professional Paper...Evaporites-California-Searles Lake. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Quaternary. 3. Geochemistry-California-Searles...es Lake. 4. Geology-California-Searles Lake. I. Title. II. Series: United States. Geological Survey.
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...mineral exhibit in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966)...Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines and Geology Francisco
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gaylussite. Trona precipitated subaqueously (in lake waters) and as interstitial phase in playa muds...proposed sedimentary model involves an alkaline lake in which water depth fluctuated from deep, perennial...(stratified) stages to shallow, ephemeral, playa lake stages. Lake margin clastic deposits are absent in the...concentrations of extreme organisms. In these settings, lake waters 2− are characterized by relative enrichment...ranging from perennial, meromictic lakes (e.g., Lake Bogoria, Kenya; Renaut and ⁎ Corresponding author
Report (issue)
Record of Late Cenozoic Sedimentation in Searles Valley, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Record of Late Cenozoic Sedimentation in Searles Valley, California By GEORGE I. SMITH, VIRGIL J. BARCZAK...1256 The basin sedimentation history of Searles (dry) Lake from Miocene or early Pliocene time to the...record of late Cenozoic sedimentation in Searles Valley, California. (Geological Survey professional paper...stratigraphic Cenozoic. 3. Geology California Searles Valley. 4. Borings California Searles Valley. I. Smith, George
Report (volume)
Core Logs from Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California By DAVID V. HAINES GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE MOJAVE DESERT AND ADJACENT REGION, CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 104S-E Detailed...Vincent, 1922Core logs from Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print...investigations in the Mojave Desert and adjacent region, California) Part of illustrative matter in pocket. Bibliography:...Bibliography: p. 152-153. 1. Borings California San Bernardino Co. i. Title. (Series: U. S. Geological Survey
Journal (issue)
Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by E... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey...Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diffraction data of pirssonite from Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California Athos Maria Callegari and Massimo...resolution X-ray diffraction data of pirssonite from Searles Lake 223 Table 3. Selected bond distances (Å),...resolution X-ray diffraction data of pirssonite from Searles Lake 225 Fig. 3. Projection along [0 0 1] of the...dolomite] as well as in the aragonite series [dmax = 0.03(1) Å for aragonite] having both series the O...resolution X-ray diffraction data of pirssonite from Searles Lake tion of hydrogen atoms obtained in the final
Report (issue)
decomposes in H2 O leaving CaCO3 as calcite or aragonite. Optical Properties: Transparent to translucent...Powder Pattern: John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1, Wyoming, USA. 6.403 (100), 3.18 (80), 2.70 (80), 2.61 (80), 1...93 30.41 Total 100.20 100.00 (1) Taboos-nor salt lake, Mongolia. (2) Na2 Ca(CO3 )2 • 5H2 O. Occurrence:...pirssonite, trona (Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA); thermonatrite, shortite, villiaumite, ferrian “biotite”...Venezuela. In the USA, in California, at Mono Lake, Mono Co., Borax Lake, Lake Co., Deep Spring Lake, Inyo Co
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Report (issue)
fvpplement to MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 Through 1957 California Division of Mines Supplement...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 through 1957 By JOSEPh t^4Ara^ % University of California, Los Ange...WEBB University of California, Santa (Barbara with INDEX TO MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA ARRANGED BY COUNTIES...ELIZABETH COLLINS California Division of Mines Supplement to Bulletin 173 California Division of Mines... LIBRARY LWIVERSITY OF CAUPORNI/. T~» A T7-TO San Francisco, 1960 OF ^^S^ !^< EDMUND G. BROWN
Book
^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T 5 w! balJ E...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF...DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF San Francisco P. 11 JENKINS, Chief BULLETIN...BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia, Los Angek...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
except in crystal form, much as calcite is to aragonite. It is monoclinic with perfect cleavage, which...Yale. PIRSONNITE is one of several fluorescent dry-lake minerals we will discuss in articles, such as borax...this in mind when reading about or working with dry-lake minerals, minerals that form as efflorescence, evaporation...lakes in California. The original find was in drill cores taken from Searles Lake, San Bernardino, Co.,...gravity and hardness. GAYLUSSITE — Another of the dry lake minerals, GAYLUSSITE is named for the great French
Catalog/List
yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 497 TELLURITE Te 0/2 good...brown metallic (Herbb £2 Mine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lcm £6 314 PYRARGYRITE Ag/3 SbS/3 pure crystalline...masses, well coating matrix. (Dooneen Mine Allihies, County Cork, S.Ireland) . lxl £3.50. 1x2 £6.50 2xl.5ins...matrix.(some + Micros! Monument 1 Mine, Navajo County,Arizona,USA) lxl.£3.50 1x2 £7.00 118 CONICHALCITE green
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 1952 136 SUPPLEMENT DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO...FRANCISCO 1952 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA SUPPLEMENT TO BULLETIN By Joseph Murdoch • and Robert W. Webb 136...Bulletin 136 and Supplement No. 1 Descriptions of California minerals and mineral localities Bibliography...Bulletin 136, the current revision of Minerals of California was published, it was planned to issue, from...inspection and use. The amount of new literature on California minerals, and the number of new-found occurrences
Catalog/List
maintained. ALL PRICES ARE F.O.B. SIERRA MADRE, CALIFORNIA AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE Being strictly...ENS - pos t office box 66 5 - sierra madre - california 91024 -1- BO XE D CO L LE CT I O NS Many...following state maps imprinted on the background: California Arizona Nevada New Mex i co Wyoming Alaska ...SPECI~IENS - post office box 66 5 - sie rra madre - california 91024 -3- S I UDE NI COL L E CT O N S -I...SPECIMENS - post office box 665 - sierra rnadre - california 91024 -5- r n tt T E ~ J s n F SS-12S SEnJ
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cortex of TE D radiating crystals of either aragonite or calcite. The microbes and their byproducts...composed of a radiating array of either calcite or aragonite crystals. As summarized by CE P Shtukenberg...performed to determine the mineralogies, i.e., aragonite vs calcite, of the modern and ancient deposits...Geyser adjacent to Firehole Lake (referred US to as part of the Firehole Lake Group or the Black Warrior...D waters are supersaturated with respect to aragonite and calcite and active precipitation is readily
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...Mineralogist OIAF GEOLOGIC BFL^NCH Ferry Building, San Francisco San Francisco P. JENKINS Chief Geologist ...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
26 August 2017 By R. F. HENLEY 4075 19th Street, San Francisco 14, Calif. They say the murderer always...Clarence wanted some more of that fluorescent aragonite from the Slate Range north of Trona, Calif., and...6:30 A. M. and headed straight for Trona on Searles Lake. W e camped one night on the desert about six...history of the "Jayhawker" emigrants enroute to California in the gold rush days, one hundred years ago...locations. W e made three trips to Oscar Wahlstrom's aragonite claim, with his consent, and secured an ample
Journal (issue)
Iron-Manganese Phosphates of the Williams Pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama........................64 by Peter B....and Forms of the Minerals of Searles Lake, San Bernadino County, California..............................The Kramer Borate Mineral Assemblage, Boron, California................................................lepidolite. T ourm aline Q ueen mine, Pala, San Diego County, California. T he overall size of the specim en...and associated minerals and rocks of Lan­ caster County; geology and mineralogy of the Corn­ wall, Pa.
Journal (issue)
printed." 1633 EAST WALNUT STREET ; • PASADENA 4. CALIFORNIA. OPEN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY (>:JOAM-5:3O...pueblo, New Mexico. Aug. 2-5—Sanpitch Pow Wow and County fair, Manti, Utah. Aug. A—Summer Corn dance and... 10—Corn dance and feast day at Picuris pueblo (San Lorenzo); Corn dances at Laguna and Acomita pueblos;...Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico. Aug. 11-12—Millard County fair and Days of the Old West, Deseret, Utah. Aug...dance, Zia pueblo, New Mexico. Aug. 17-19—Cache County fair, Logan, Utah. Aug. 17-30—Western Navajo Arts
 
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