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Apatite from
Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:303817
Long-form Identifier:1:3:303817:8
GUID (UUID V4):b53d4805-6879-4050-b838-4eedc8d828bf
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
65.2km (40.5 miles) Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Number 52 The petrology of Nevis, Leeward Islands, West Indies Overseas Geology and Mineral Resources C....Abstract Introduction The main eruptive centres and their petrography Windy Hill centre 2 Hurricane Hill...volcanics 15 Nevis Peak volcano 15 Cognate xenoliths Notes on the mineralogy of the rocks of Nevis Plagioclase...Amphibole 24 Tridymite and cristobalite 25 Opaque oxides 26 The highly altered rocks of Nevis Farrn Estate 28...I The late Professor C. 0. Hutton iv 2 View of Nevis Peak from Clay Ghaut iv FIGURES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Crystallization of Intermediate and Acid Magmas at Ben Nevis, Scotland by H. W. HASLAM Mineral Resources...INTRODUCTION THE Ben Nevis igneous complex occupies an area of about fifteen square miles and is roughly circular...including the summit of Ben Nevis itself, consists of a series of lavas and agglomerates. This is completely...outer margin of this, there is a group of diorites and granodiorites of variable composition, which are...to represent two distinct intrusions, the Inner and Outer Quartz Diorites. They are closely related to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
halogen (F, Cl) content in igneous and detrital apatite by SEM-EDS and LA-Q-ICPMS: A potential new provenance...halogen (F, Cl) content in igneous and detrital apatite by SEM-EDS and LA-Q-ICPMS: A potential new provenance...manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published...may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain...halogen (F, Cl) content in igneous and detrital apatite by SEM-EDS and LA-Q-ICPMS: a potential new provenance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Britain. 341 Appinite xenoliths and associated rocks from the Ben Nevis igneous complex H. W.HASLAM Summary...quartz-diorite magma. It contains xenoliths of pyroxenite and appinite. The latter consist largely of hornblende...some diopside, quartz, orthoclase microperthite and oligoclase. They are considered to be the reaction...reaction products of the outer margin of a magma and the adjacent calcareous country rock. 1. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION In the north-western part of the Ben Nevis complex there is a small area of rocks which differ from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
St. Kitts, West Indies. Lithos 1, 124-150. Mt. Misery, a recent volcano on the island of St. Kitts in...andesites, and andesites of calcalkali type. Nearly all the lavas are strongly porphyritic and zoned calcic...small percenta g e of olivine occurs in the basalts and occasionally appears in the andesites. Augite is...pyroclastics and is very abundant in the ejected blocks. Quartz features occasionally in the andesites and cristobalite...anorthitebearing blocks, hornblende-eucrites and quartz gabbros. Petrographic and mineralogical data are given for
Journal (issue)
SCIENCES .. . • -< ·. . OVERSEAS GEOLOGY , ..AND INER AL , . RESOURCES -; VOLUME .. 10, NUMBER...Europe's most comprehensive stocks of new, second-hand and ex-government instruments for the Geologist. Illustrated...Kuz'menko and E M Es'kova Edited by S I Tomkeietf and M H Battey Translated by D G Fry and K Syers ''This...alkaline province, but it is also the most complete and comprehensive study of an alkaline pro·vince yet...development use is made of both world literature and the results of extensive investigations carried out
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Relationship between the Major and Trace Elements of Igneous Rocks and their Minerals. By S. R. Nockolds...S. (Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge), and R. L. Mitchell, Ph.D. (Macaulay...Potash Felspars 566 567 567 568 569 573 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 573 . 574 REFERENCES...form intrusions of varying size, usually composite and frequently, at least, having the habit of ring complexes...rock types include peridotites and pyroxenites, gabbros, hornblendite and appinite, appinitic diorites
Report (issue)
Geological Survey on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry. The information contained herein must not...5DU No. 80 Mineral investigations in the Ben Nevis and Ballachulish areas of the Scottish Highlands ...Report No. 80 Mineral investigations in the Ben Nevis and Ballachulish areas of the Scottish Highlands ...1986 A report prepared for tt,e Department of Trade and Industry Keyworth, Nottinghamshire 1986 --------------------·...Carboniferous Limestone areas south of Kendal (south Cumbria and north Lancashire) 72 A geochemical drainage survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from West Otago, New Zealand comprises monchiquites and camptonites. Dykes are compositionally similar to...nephelinite or nepheline basanite, and contain leucocratic ocelli and irregular vein segregations of nepheline...or centrally disposed core of analcime—carbonate and an alkali feldspar-kaersutite-rich lining. Virtually...lamprophyre host and ocellus. Kaersutite is progressively enriched in Fe, Mn, Alvl, and Na + K, and depleted...depleted in Mg, and Ti towards the rim. Titanaugite is concentrically zoned to aegirine-augite, and is sector
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Kawano one Manuscript early from 500km or and is 75 to intrusion about Ueda to received, MESOZOIC...granites other represented Chubu, a maximum the and JAPAN Kyushu with (1966,1967) million EARLY...specimens various The of analysed by orthoclase to and tion biotite. with Commonly, increasing (0r ...axial of with coarse pegmatitic angle to with and often of The comparatively to It quartz porphyry...to or analysed, are albitic microcline The and and of relation porphyritic chemically aplitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Diorites and Associated Rocks of the Glen Tilt Complex, Perthshire. II. Diorites and Appinites By...yariation in mineralogical and chemical composition. Associated with, and enclosed within, the diorites...contacts between the various rock types of the complex and a hybrid origin is suggested to account for the mineralogical...consists of biotite and biotite-muscovite granites bounded on the south-west and south-east by an earlier...earlier series of intermediate and basic rocks. The intrusion of the biotite granite was accompanied by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
E , DECEMBER 1986, VOL. 50, PP. 671 4 Pyroxenes and coexisting minerals in the Cheviot granite H. W....Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5DU ABSTRACT. Orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene, with biotite, are widespread in the...close to (Mg,Fe)~Si206 and Ca(Mg,Fe)SizO6. Biotite compositions, with low Si and A1, are characteristic...pyroxenes. Geothermometric estimates based on oxide and pyroxene compositions show that present mineral compositions...emplaced under tensional conditions (Read, 1961; Brown and Locke, 1979). It is associated with a negative residual
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universityof Alberta,Edmonton,T6G 2E1, Alberta,Canada and JAMES G~EIWILLE HOLL~D Department of ~010~~1 Sciences... metamorphic and sedimentary rock series, due to its incorporation in a predictable and uniform manner... plagioclase, kaersutite, augitic clinopyroxene and calcite have low Y for their CaO contents; whereas...whereas hornblende, garnet, orthopyroxene, apatite, sphene, zircon and most K, Na rioh minerals other than plagio&se...sedimentary processes, Cc/Y becomes lower in shales and sandstones, but higher in limestones than their source
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
64 Christman, N k EXPLANATION Recent alluvium and sand Miocene (?) limestone IGNEOUS ROCKS Anse du.... . Andesite and andesite porphyry Point Toiny LEGEND FOR CROSS SECTIONS Basalt and olivine basalt...basalt m Andesite and basalt L > Andesite dikes m Dacite and felsite rn m Basalt dike Agglomerate...agglomerate rq Mongeant limestone member Tuff and t u f f breccia, dotted where silicified Single...+ - C .- ._.--._. Pointe des Negres T u f f and t u f f breccia -.-. Contact, dashed where approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1576-4 (2019) 174:39 ORIGINAL...plutonic xenoliths for magma differentiation, mixing and storage in a volatile‑rich crystal mush beneath St...2019 Abstract Quantifying the storage conditions and evolution of different magmatic components within...is key to our understanding of igneous processes and products. Whereas erupted magmas represent a portion...system that cannot be mobilised easily to form lavas and consequently offer a unique record of magma diversity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1904. " The Geology of Cambridgeshire," in Marr and Shipley's Natural History of Cambridgeshire, 9. LAHUSEN... Russie, i, 1. LAMPLUGH, G. W., KITCHIN, F. L., and PBINOLE, J., 1923. " The Concealed Mesozoic Rocks...the Corallian Rocks of St. Ives (Huntingdonshire) and Elswortb," ibid., Ivii, 73. Intrusions of the Glen...(Scotland) contain rocks belonging to the kentallenite and appinite suites. As these intrusions have not been... about 4J miles west-south-west of Crianlarich, and (b) that to the south-east of Glen Falloch, including
Report (issue)
Geology of Ben Nevis and Glen Coe (Me111. Ceo/. Sun•.) PLATE I (Frontispiece) BEN N1:v1s WITH HANGING...CORRIE, /\ND RIVER NEVIS DISAPPEARING INTO NEVIS GORGE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH...SURVEY SCOTLAND The Geology of I Ben Nevis and Glen Coe and the Surrounding Country (EXPLANATION OF...OF SHEET 53) By E. B. Bailey, B.A. and H. B. Maufe, M.A. with contributions by C. T. Clough, M.A. ; J...Great Britain, and several peaks in the ea stem part of the area rise to heights of 3000 ft and over. Between
Book
alluvium and alluvial gravel; lacustrine and Scree; debris cone deposits; Igneous rocks Tectonic and thermal...glaciofluvial gravel; sand and silt, glaciolacustrine laminated clay and silt; till; sand and gravel PERMO- CaRBONIFEROUS...Camptonite and monchiquite dykes Sandstone, breccia and Felsite, feldspar shattered and locally microdiorite...conglomerate, commonly porphyry and brecciated including Etive and Ben Nevis dyke swarms Granite, granodiorite...granodiorite, diorite including Corrieyairack and PALAEOZOIC Strath Ossian granitic complexes. ‘SILURIAN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DYKE-SWARM, SOUTH WESTLAND, NEW ZEALAND Alan F. COOPER§ and Lorraine A. PATERSON Geology Department, University...rocks comprise ultramafic and feldspathic lamprophyres, tinguaites, trachytes and carbonatites, the evolved...siderite- and norsethite-rich varieties. Carbonates and phosphocarbonates of Sr, Ca–Sr, Ca–Ba and REE occur...in accessory amounts. Ratios of Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes and nodule petrology indicate magma derivation...component. Very restricted ranges in radiogenic and stable isotope values indicate that all members of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Georgia on June 14, 2015 The stratigraphy and structure o f north-eastern Morar, Inverness-shire...Morar is composed of a complex of high grade Moine and Lewisian rocks. The succession is closely comparable...folding of Moine and Lewisian, followed by the development of an antiform in the west, and later a complex...of the area and given a steep southerly plunge to the earlier north-south trending folds and their associated...Morar lies between the Morar Antiform on the west, and the north-south belt of vertically inclined Moinian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
332‑344, 1972 COEXISTING BIOTITES GRANITIC AND HORNBLENDES ROCKS IN SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS, JAPAN SATOSHI...KANISAWA Department of Earth Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai Coexisting were...hornblendes Most the those the of the pairs and 0.67, these of in granitic rocks have composition...are 0.79, 0.69, 0.70 contents and analyzed. Tono Hirota three from and mass masses. the respectively...masses poorer The the near are and similar in Na+K composi and distribution richer in coefficients
Report (issue)
• a} t[ • DJ�I>AI{'f!vII�NT OF SCIENTIFIC AND lNDUS1'RIAL RESEAilCH MElVIOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL...authority to appoint Richard Phillips as Analyst and Curator of the 1\1:useum. SubsequentlJr, in 1846...1846, the position of Chemist to the Museum, and Professor of Chemistry in the Royal School of Mines, was...position, with such able assistants as Allan Dick and Charles Tookey, till 1872, when the Royal School...analysis of metallic ores, metals and natural� economic substances, and it was not until many years later
Report (volume)
____ This revised and expanded classification system is a tool for classifying and retrieving geoscience...this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii Map and Non-Map Material Call Numbers . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Section 2. Mineralogy and Petrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . 8 Section 3. General, Structural, and Dynamic Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 103, pp. 1243–1268 Synvolcanic and Younger Plutonic Rocks from the Blake River Group:...Geological Survey, Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada P2N 1A8 A...Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B1 AND ROBERT A. CREASER Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University...intrusive rocks are younger (2686.9 ± 1.2 and 2688.5 ± 2.3 Ma) and are associated with porphyry-style Cu-Mo-Au...The intrusions are also smaller in areal extent and do not have a temporally extended, polyphase history
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Sandstone, breccia and conglon1crale, commonly shattered and locally brecciated Tectonic and thermal events...deposits; peat; alluviu1n and alluvial gravel; lacuslrine and glaciofluvial gravel; sand and silt, glaciolacustrine...lc:1n1inaled clay and silt; till; sand and gravel Palaeoseis1n ici ty j Faulting Can1ptonite and 1nonchiquite...Felsite, feldspar porphyry and rn icrodioritc dykes, including Etive and Ben Nevis dyke swarms Rapid regional...granoclio,ite, diori te including Corrieyairack and Strath Ossian granitic complexes. Ve in complexes
 
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