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Gabbro from
Lille Kufjord, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway


Locality type:Fjord
Classification
Type:Gabbro
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gabbro data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lille Kufjord, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1225312
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1225312:8
GUID (UUID V4):18becf1a-fcb1-4ce3-8b9f-81a46ba9aaaa
Nearest other occurrences of Gabbro
4.9km (3.0 miles) Pollen carbonatite, Stjernøya Island, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
11.8km (7.3 miles) Søre Bumannsfjord, Hammerfest, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
31.1km (19.3 miles) Hasvikneset, Sørøya, Hasvik, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
55.2km (34.3 miles) Reinfjorden, Kvænangen, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
85.3km (53.0 miles) Porsvann PGE Occurence, Porsanger, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
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Some notes on the Lille Kufjord layered gabbro, Seiland, Finnmark, northern Norway BY M. G. OOSTEROM...Barth, was sent to the coastal district of Vest-Finnmark. As a member of the team I spent a fortnight on...investigation of the layered basic rocks of Lille Kufjord in the southwestern part of the island of Seiland...my stay in Norway. 74 General geology The basic petrological province of Vest Finnmark shows a great...origin. This is also the case at Lille Kufjord. The gabbro of the Lille Kufjord area is well exposed, showing
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NORTHERN NORWAY B. ROBINS and P.M. GARDNER Geologisk Institutt, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen (Norway) Received...Palaeozoic allochthon [3] in northern and central Norway, and restrict possible destructive plate margins...submarine basaltic lavas widely represented in southern Norway, varied from tholeiitic in the Solund area to calc-alkaline...Ramsay [6] has traced the evolution of northern Norway from a continental margin, first thinned by rift...emphasised the contrast between centralsouthern Norway, where expansion of a marginal basin and uninterrupted
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Finger Structures in the Lille Kufjord Layered Intrusion, Finnmark, Northern Norway B. Robins Geologisk Institutt...Institutt Avd. A, University of Bergen, Norway Abstract. Highly irregular contacts are developed between...transition zone between two of the cyclic units of the Lille Kutjord intrusion. The upwardly-directed peridotite...basaltic liquid. Introduction The Lille Kufjord layered gabbro is a synorogenic intrusion emplaced...transition zone developed at one locality above Lille Kufjord itself between the upper leucocratic cumulates
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Turku, Finland. ^Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway. Geological Survey of Sweden, Uppsala...University of Turku Rognvald Boyd, Geological Survey of Norway Gunnar Nilsson, Geological Survey of Sweden These...ultrabasic or dunite or perioditite or harzburgite gabbro or anorthosite or norite economic geology a geographic...on by Rognvald Boyd of the Geological Survey of Norway, Gunnar Nilsson of the Geological Survey of Sweden...undersdkelse over Ertelien nikkelgruver og mineraidifferensiasjon i og utenfor norittpluggen [A gravimetric
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Petroleum, Sem Sælands vei 1, 7491 Trondheim, Norway ED 2) Aarhus University, Earth System Petrology...PT The Seiland Igneous Province (SIP), Northern Norway, contains >5000 km2 of mafic, CE ultramafic intrusions...emplaced into the still hot and unconsolidated gabbro (no dating available) SC RI PT and are regarded...and transitions CE gradually from olivine-mela-gabbro over pyroxenites that grades in to an olivineclinopyroxenite...short duration of time. Here, at 70o N in northern Norway (Fig. 1), we have an CE unparalleled opportunity
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(1982) for describing similar structures in the Lille Kufjord intrusion. Finger structures are commonly developed...Rhum Complex POST-ELS INTRUSIONS Hybrid rocks Gabbro plugs, dykes and sheets EASTERN LAYERED SERIES...by intrusive ultrabasic breccia zones and a late gabbro (J. E. McClurg, unpub. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Edinburgh...an origin for the finger structures in the Lille Kufjord and Rhum intrusions. His conclusion is that... Robins explained finger structures in the Lille Kufjord and Rhum intrusions as the result of metasomatic
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biotite. The CABBROS AND PARACNEISSES, NORTHERN NORWAY hydration of cordierite and garnet indicates that...0.74 0.01 CABBROS AND PARAGNEISSES, NORTHERN NORWAY 549 Table 3. Garnet composition data. Sample...orthopyroxene was limited. The intrusion temperature of the gabbro magma was probably in the range of 1000-1100" C...high-grade rocks before their incorporation into the gabbro. The preservation of a peak temperature composition...and the + GABBROS AND PARAGNEISSES, NORTHERN NORWAY 10, I - a)M1 h L2 Y, Ha - 10, I - -
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reactions in the Honningsv _g Intrusive Suite, northern Norway CHRISTIAN TEGNER Danish Lithosphere Centre, ~ster...of Geology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway Abstract Field relations in the upper part of Intrusion...reactions, picrite, cumulates, sills, Honningsv~g, Norway. Introduction LAYERED intrusions consisting of...II of the Honningsv~tg Intrusive Suite, northern Norway (Fig. 1, see Fig. 1 of companion paper by Tegner...of peridotite (ocC), troctolite (pocC), olivine gabbro (paoC) and gabbronorite (pahC) that has been subdivided
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4 of the Honningsvåg Intrusive Suite, northern Norway $ K.L. Lundgaard a,*, B. Robins b, C. Tegner a...Geology, Allégt. 41, 5007 Bergen University, Bergen, Norway Received 23 July 2001; accepted 14 December 2001...melagabbro (olivine-rich olivine gabbro) and 13 – 15% olivine gabbro. The cumulate sequence can be divided...melagabbro (olivine-rich troctolite and olivine-rich gabbro, respectively). These cannot be explained by simple...Intrusive Suite, located on Magerøy in northernmost Norway (71jN, 26jE; Fig. 1a), consists of seven successive
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Intraplutonic Quench Zones in the Kap Edvard Holm Layered Gabbro Complex, East Greenland by CHRISTIAN TEGNER 1 ...ABSTRACT The Kap Edvard Holm Layered Gabbro Complex is a large layered gabbro intrusion (> 300 km2) situated...into medium-grained (> 1 mm) poikilitic, olivine gabbro with smallscale modal layering. Eachfine-grainedbasaltic...transition to the overlying poikilitic olivine gabbro reflects a decreasing degree of supercooling. Compositional...zones and more evolved compositions in the olivine gabbro; plagioclase cores show the opposite trend. Although
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University of Bergen, Allégt. 41 N-5007 Bergen, Norway Received 5 December 2003; accepted 18 February...Xenoliths; Hasvik; Fongen–Hyllingen; Bjerkreim–Sokndal, Norway Concurrent crustal assimilation and fractional...and Wilson, 1995), and Hasvik layered intrusions, Norway. Modified from Tegner et al. (1999). C. Tegner...in the Upper Zone of the Lille Kufjord Intrusion, a mid-crustal layered gabbro that is assumed to have...mid-crustal Hasvik Layered Intrusion, Northern Norway, a 1200-m-thick sequence of cumulates crystallised
Report (chapter)
The Layered Gabbro Series at Seiland, Northern Norway. By Tom. F. W. Barth With 4 text-figures. Seiland...Seiland is a large island on the northern coast of Norway, covering about 600 km2 . It lies within the zone...number of rock types occur: Anorthosite, gabbro, norite, olivine gabbro, tilaite, pyroxenite, ariégite, amphilobite...are all in non-orogenic areas, while the Seiland gabbro is in the zone of Caledonian orogeny. Other intrusives...Geol. Unders. Nr. 184. 13 194 Profile at Lille Kufjord, Seiland. (Abbrevations: Plag. = plagioclase
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The Husfjord Plutonic Complex, Sørøy, Northern Norway DAVID L. SPEEDYMAN Speedyman, D.L. 1983: The Husfjord...Husfjord plutonic complex, Sørøy, northern Norway. Norges geol. Unders, 378, 1-48. The Husfjord area of...latest members of the igneous complex were the Vatna gabbro and a number of minor intrusions including perthosite...Introduction Sørøy is an island off the coast of West Finnmark, near the town of Hammerfest (Fig. 1). The Husfjord...1980). The geology of neighbouring parts of West Finnmark has been described 2 DAVID L. SPEEDYMAN Fig
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during the late Finnmarkian deformation in northern Norway. E of the Iapetus suture in N America, southern...Metadiabase)4 Bryant & Reed, 19701 A1kalic granite, gabbro, mafic and felsic dikes in crystalline basement...rootless pods commonly associated with metamorphosed gabbro and basalt. They occur as large far-travelled allochthons...as oceanic crust. Mafic plutonic rock including gabbro, norite and diorite--the Rich Acres Formation--crops..._AK~Ec.]~C~h] , 0 50 100 )./ 1S0km k) t "~,NORWAY . . . .. F I'hl[Al~ D SWEDEN " ; STE~ENJOKK~b~TZ
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Poldervaart, 1960) and in a lardalite intrusion, Norway (Petersen, 1985). Well within intrusive bodies...also in the lherzolite, as: "a foliated olivine gabbro ..... olivine with a length of from 10 to 15 times...and Brown (1968) documented a strongly laminated gabbro where the texture was defined by plagioclase crystals...specifically noted that in certain horizons of the Lille Kufjord Intrusion olivine blades were aligned in the...unusual. Such textures have been reported in the Lille Kul]ord Intrusion by Robins et al. (1991) where
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northern Norway BRIAN ROBINS Department of Geology, Allégaten 41, 5007 University of Bergen, Norway (Received...mafic/ultramafic Honningsvåg Intrusive Suite in northern Norway is unusually well exposed in a cross-section representing...metamorphosed country rocks. Coarse-grained olivine gabbro occurs along the northern and northeastern margin...blocks of coarse-grained to pegmatitic olivine gabbro similar to that found along the northern margin...cumulate) and in some instances by subordinate olivine gabbro (plagioclase–diopside–olivine cumulate). The peridotites
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structures" have been described recently from the Lille Kufjord [31] and Rhum [30] Intrusions, in which upward...at the contacts between peridotite and overlying gabbro or troctolite layers. These fingers are filled...Finger structures in the Lille Kufjord Layered Intrusion, Finmark, northern Norway. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol
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magmas in the Honningsv{tg Intrusive Suite, northern Norway: a reappraisal CHRISTIAN TEGNER Danish Lithosphere...of Geology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway AND HENNING S. SORENSEN Department of Earth Sciences...thick) consists of a distally-thinning olivine gabbro (denoted paoC) macrolayer overlain by a distally-thickening...double-diffusive convection, cyclic unit, Honningsv~tg, Norway. Introduction MAGMAstratification and bottom crystallization...located on the island of MagerCy, northernmost Norway (71~ DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE MAGMA LAYERS pocC CRYSTALLIZATION
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the FongenHyllingen Layered Intrusion, central Norway Mohamed M. ABU EL − RUS*,**, J. Richard WILSON***...University of Oslo, PO Box 1048 Blindern, N − 0316 Oslo, Norway ** Present address: Geology Department, Assiut...− Hyllingen intrusion, southeast of Trondheim, Norway, comprises a ~ 1800 m thick sequence of cumulates...(A) Location of the Fongen − Hyllingen complex in Norway. (B) Simplified geological map after Wilson and...cover a wide range of compositions from the peridot gabbro field with 43.8% SiO2, through the fields of gabbros
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Investigation of the Fongen-Hyllingen Layered Intrusion, Norway features such as modal layering, texture and mineral...fountaining influx entrained resident, relaTrondheim, Norway, is a synorogenic layered mafic intrusion of tively...Intrusion (FHI) is situated 60 km SE of Trondheim in Norway (Fig. la). It was intruded synorogenically into...dominated by plagioclase-rich olivine gabbros or gabbro-norites, with or without cumulus magnetite, ilmenite...1990) and in the Bjerkreim-Sokndal Intrusion, South Norway (Jensen etal., 1993). In this paper we present
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discordant bodies of ultramafic rock and magnetite gabbro that formed by late-magmatic metasomatic replacement...semi-conformable sheet-like bodies within the layered gabbro sequence. Replacive bodies of all sizes are spatially...gabbroic cumulates to produce bodies of magnetite-rich gabbro. The most evolved pore liquids segregated to form...thick, semi-conformable layers within the layered gabbro sequence, where they appear to be largely replacive...edu  Oxford University Press 1999 KEY WORDS: gabbro; Kap Edvard Holm; metasomatism; postcumulus; xenolith
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2010), Stillwater (Czamanske and Zientek 1985), Lille Kufjord (Robins 1982), Fongen Hyllingen (Wilson and...23 Mafic: magnetite rich gabbro, & diorite, magnetitite Mafic: norite-gabbro-(chr-px) Ultramafic: dunite-hz-px-chr...Finger structures in the Lille Kufjord layered intrusion, Finnmark, Northern Norway. Cont Min Petrol 81:290–295...Intraplutonic quench zones in the Kap Edvard Holm layered gabbro Complex, east Greenland. J Petrol 34:681–710 Tegner...The Fongen–Hyllingen layered intrusive complex, Norway. In: Cawthorn RG (ed) Layered intrusions. Elsevier
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intrusion, layers of fine-grained, equigranular "gabbro" are thought to have formed by "intraplutonic quench"...the Skaergaard intrusion, intervals of massive gabbro separating modally-graded rhythmic layers have...layers in the Imilik gabbro (Brown and Farmer, 1971), and in the Vesturhorn eucritic gabbro (Roobol, 1972)...individual graded layers are separated by unlayered gabbro. Some graded layers are associated with sedimentary-like...troughs are surrounded by halos of anorthositic gabbro. These features suggest that some process other
 
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