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Limestone quarry, Ightem, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco


Locality type:Quarry
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Type:Limestone
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limestone quarry, Ightem, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1084464
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1084464:3
GUID (UUID V4):4fdddf1f-21d9-492c-b94e-838b99bfe5c3
References
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salinization of shallow aquifers in the sub-Saharan Drâa Basin, Morocco N. Warner a, Z. Lgourna b, L. Bouchaou b...Geo-Environment Laboratory, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Available...t r a c t In the arid sub-Saharan of southern Morocco, groundwater salinization poses a direct threat...shallow groundwater, springs and surface waters in the Drâa Basin, integrating major and trace element geochemistry...High Atlas Mountains to the Upper section of the Drâa Basin is characterized by both low and high salinity
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Malaysia, near the Thai border. The Lower Triassic limestone of this hill is riddled with karstic cavities... ============================================================ quarry, from whence the veszelyite comes. The Yanga Koubenza...mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet region, Morocco (nobody can accuse Jordi of skimping...mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet region, Morocco. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo...mineral countries: Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco. Here is the prettiest of the group: a cobalt-rich
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of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco): The Late Triassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Event Mohammed Ouchchen...of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco): The Late Triassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Event. Minerals 2023...Sciences, Ibnou Zohr University, Agadir 80000, Morocco Department of Geology, DLGR Laboratory, Faculty...Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, Morocco MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Center—Sedimentary...Paleozoic sedimentary cover of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco) is continually being revised not only to improve
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geochemistry of dolerite dykes in the Bas Drâa Inlier of the Anti-Atlas of Morocco: Newly identified 1380 Ma event...Ibnou Zohr University, P.O. Box 28/S, Agadir, Morocco Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund...Abdellah Boulevard, P.O. Box 2390, Marrakech, Morocco f National Centre for Studies and Research on the...Moulay Abdellah Boulevard, P.O. Box 511, Marrakech, Morocco g Centro de Geologia da Universidade de Lisboa...Abdelkarim El Khattabi Avenue, Guéliz, Marrakech, Morocco b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received
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at Urbana-Champaign] at 20:13 01 August 2013 Morocco T Tea and Minerals raveling with mineral photographer...Madagascar (Scovil 2010), and now it was time for Morocco. Morocco is one of those places I visit several times...Munich Mineral Show. We had only two weeks to visit Morocco, and I wanted to show them as much as possible...more important localities and attractions in the region, it left no time for real collecting, field research...with vodka. Marrakech is the most amazing city in Morocco, with an exotic and magical atmosphere. The best-known
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AFRICA 150 (a) Morocco 150 (b) Djerada 150 (c) Colomb-Bechar-Kenadsa 151 (d) Tafilalet (c) Sahara 153...Central Massif and the Montagne Noire-pyrenean region, is discussed. Further south, the development in...in the Asturias is related to the Moscovian province, while the faunas of the North African outcrops...and retreats of the seas from the Mediterranean region across the Massifs of West Europe is given. Similar...Carboniferous of the British Isles, i.e., the Mountain Limestone, the Y oredale Series and Millstone Grit, these
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Department de Géologie, BP. 20, 24 000, El Jadida, Morocco (e-mail: ezzouhairi_hassan@yahoo.fr) 2 INETI—Área...southwestern side (Kerdous region) and northeastern side (Ouarzazate-Agdz region), interbedded in the Early...spread later to the Western High Atlas of the Morocco northern WAC outboard areas. This magmatism changes...and an upper Limestone Member or (‘Calcaires inférieurs’), essentially composed of limestone and dolostones...al. 1998; Maalouf et al. 2005), and the Upper Limestone Formation (‘Calcaires supérieurs’ Fm) (or Igoudine
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groundwater geochemistry in the sub-desert area in Morocco: case of the Ziz-Ghris basins T. Bahaja*, I. Kacimi...Sciences Department, Morocco b University Mly Ismail, Morocco Abstract The Tafilalet region has very significant...between the different water systems. Keywords: Tafilalet, groundwater geochemistry, thermal waters, fossil...fossil waters, heavy metals. 1. Introduction Tafilalet lies in the southeastern Moroccan Atlas between...occupies approximately 8.44% of the surface of Morocco and located in arid and semi-arid regions. It is
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Cambrian of the Western and Central Antiatlas (Morocco) By WERNER BUGGISCH,Erlangen, and WERNER HEINITZ...mentioned by MONNINGER Marrakech Taroudant AOUlOL o Zagora ~ Eo-to Early-Cambrian Precambrian o Goulimine...Fig. 1. Location sketch of the Antiatlas (South Morocco). 810 basement Slumpfolds and other early deformations....'o','. sandstone ~1 =o~ conglomerate I [ limestone -- Precambrian IH 1000m.y. - / / • • dolomite...disrupted, folded and partly nappe-like imbricated limestone beds (Fig. 3). The carbonates must have been partly
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the Voskop Quarry (Konìprusy area, Prague Basin, central Bohemia) with Acanthopyge Limestone infill was...progress of mining at the Velkolom Èertovy schody Quarry (VÈS, Konìprusy Devonian, Barrandian area, central...the eastern wall of the Voskop Quarry (Figs 1, 2) The Suchomasty Limestone represents the dominant and the...the Acanthopyge Limestone a partial infill of this neptunian dyke (Chlupáè, 1996). The present study...aimed at dacryoconarid fauna from the Acanthopyge Limestone. Clasts of these darker grey and reddish bioclastic
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Abdellah Boulevard, P.O. Box 2390, Marrakech, Morocco Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan...Irfane, P.O. Box 8027, Nations Unies, 10102 Rabat, Morocco e Centro de Geologia da Universidade de Lisboa...Abdelkarim El Khattabi Avenue, Guéliz, Marrakech, Morocco i Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibnou...Ibnou Zohr University, P.O. Box 28/S, Agadir, Morocco j Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon et UCBL, Laboratoire...of the Anti-Atlas belt in the southern part of Morocco contain numerous dolerite dyke and sill swarms
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Département de Géologie, BP 5366, Mâarif, Casablanca, Morocco * Corresponding author. E-mail: meteorite@kingsborough...Asia, including Al Haggounia, from Al Haggounia, Morocco, which is projected to be on the order of 3 metric...deposit at NMBE. Boudreaux holds the main mass. Morocco The Meteoritical Bulletin announces a new name...from a dense collection area near Al Haggounia, Morocco (Chennaoui et al. 2007), comprising approximately...Al Haggounia 001 27°30′N, 12°30′W Al Haggounia, Morocco Find: 2006 Achondrite (aubrite) History: Several
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minerals Article Agates from Western Atlas (Morocco)—Constraints from Mineralogical and Microtextural...the vicinity of Asni and Agouim (Western Atlas, Morocco) were investigated using microscopic observations...found in Uruguay and Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul province). Less significant occurrences are found in nearly...nearly each country of the world [14]. Agates from Morocco, discovered in the 1940s, are considered quite...Middle Atlas Mts. (e.g., Kerrouchen and Ahouli region). Agate mineralization is pervasively accompanied
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of detrital zircons of Cambrian sandstones from Morocco and Sardinia: Implications for provenance and Precambrian...detrital zircons from diverse Cambrian units in Morocco and Sardinia were investigated in order to clarify...which is concealed below Phanerozoic sediments. In Morocco, the detrital signal of Lower Cambrian arkose records...while 0.99–0.95 Ga detrital zircons (abundant in Morocco) possess positive εHf(t), attesting for two pe...detrital zircons in the quartz-rich sandstones of Morocco (and a double proportion in Sardinia) display positive
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Aguelmous Syncline in the southern Maïder, from the region around Fezzou, have become worldfamous because...first Upper Devonian ammonoids from the Himalaya region of India (GUPTA & ERBEN 1983; TALENT 1989, 1990;...for an upper Famennian goniatite of the Fezzou region that made it to many rock shops throughout the...al. (1984) assigned the Famennian of the Fezzou region to his Mader Basin, which is characterized by thick...including an upper Famennian specimen from the Fezzou region, which was later selected as the lectotype of the
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Ordovician subpolar platform, eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco J O R G E C O L M E N A R ∗ † & J. JAV I E R Á...cool-waters (Webby, 2002). In the Anti-Atlas of Morocco (Fig. 1), the Upper Ordovician consists of mixed...sketch of the southern High Atlas and Anti-Atlas, Morocco. (a) Precambrian and Cambrian outcrops. (b) Ordovician...Hirnantian glaciation (Fig. 2). In the Tafilalt region, the Katian Ktaoua Group, subdivided into the Lower...sandstone/shale contacts close to orange-stained limestone marker beds. Four measured logs and fossiliferous
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dealing with the present state of knowledge in each region, with the exception of the Mediterranean area of...dealing with the present state of knowledge in each region. The Mediterranean domain of North Africa (‘Outer...Mauritania. 106 EASTERN 135 SAHARA 1. The Depressed region between the Hoggar Tibesti. 2. The Tibesti, Borkou...series in many places but fewer metamorphic rocks. Morocco: Kerdous Series; Sahara: Lower Pharusian and Akjoujt...Pre-Cambrian (Pr III) (between 1,000 and 2,000 m.y.): Morocco: Zenaga Series (1,860 m.y.); West Africa: Tarkwaian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterized by the occurrence of a black bituminous limestone (Upper ~>Kellwasserkalk~<) embedded between various...of organisms is observed within the Kellwasser limestone horizons. The timing of the FrasnianfFamennian...the Montagne Noire (France) and in the Antiatlas/Morocco (BUGGISCH & CLAUSEN,1972; this paper). In these...chronology (at the base of the Lower Kellwasser limestone: RABIEN, 1954, 1970; KRH3S & RABmN, 1964; BUG6ISCH...to cold water organisms to the Malvinokaffric province which were only slightly affected (COPPER, 1977
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comm. Ophara Reported as a clast in Ordovician limestone (of age about 480 my.). The meteoritic nature...Stone. Ordinary chondrite (L6). Naiman Osterplana quarry, Kinnekulle, Skaraborg, Sweden Found 1987 Stone...Blocks station, County Yancowinna, Broken Hill region, New South Wales, Australia Found 1983, October...Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 53, 735. Zagora Zagora, Ouarzazate, Morocco Found 1987 Iron. Iron with silicate...found, the largest weighing 20 kg, 20 miles S. of Zagora (J. Schwade, 969 S. Chicago Avenue, Kankakee, Illinois
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sequence of the Jerada Massif (Carboniferous, NE Morocco) MARKUS ARETZ* and HANS-GEORG HERBIG Universität...September 2007; accepted 3 April 2008 KEY WORDS Morocco; Jerada Basin; Carboniferous; Viséan; microbial-sponge...carbonate microfacies 1. INTRODUCTION Southern Morocco and Algeria are well known for the abundance of...the easternmost Moroccan Anti-Atlas in the Erfoud region (Wendt et al. 2001) and Waulsortian-like bioherms...have been described in the Variscan domain of Morocco from the Jebilet, north of Marrakech (André 1986)
Journal (issue)
illustrated in his 1972 article on the Fairfax quarry in the Mineralogical Record, and on page 255 of...midwestern collectors for his constant visits to limestone quarries of the Findlay Arch and elsewhere in...favorite collecting spots was the famous Auglaize quarry in Paulding County, Ohio. He kept meticulous records...large quarry hundreds of specimens were found and how their habits varied. His report on the quarry, coauthored...last minute that they needed to go to the Portage quarry on Jay’s birthday in 2001. Jay feared his mother
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dealing with the present state of knowledge in each region. The Mediterranean domain of North Africa ("Outer...Mauritania. 106 xv EASTERN SAHARA " r. The Depressed region between the Hoggar and the Tibcsti. " 2. The Tibesti...series in many places but fewer metamorphic rocks. Morocco: Kerdous Series; Sahara: Lower Pharusian and Akjoujt...Pre-Cambrian (Pr III) (between 1,000 and 2,000 m.y.): Morocco: Zenaga Series (1,860 m.y.); West Africa: Tarkwaian...Pre-Cambrian and the fossiliferous Cambrian. It includes: Morocco: Ouarzazate Series; West Africa: "Falemian", Rokell
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coral assemblages from the Khenifra area, Central Morocco: Biostratigraphy, biofacies, palaeoecology and...2012 Handling Editor: P.G. Eriksson Keywords: Morocco Khenifra Mississippian Mounds Reefs Corals a b...Mississippian coral assemblages from the Khenifra region of Central Morocco together with data from foraminiferal/algal...and that all belong to the same biogeographic province. © 2012 International Association for Gondwana... 1. Introduction In North Africa, especially Morocco and Algeria, coral-bearing mounds, bioherms and
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Santa Maria do Jetiba, Espirito Santo, Southeast Region, Brazil Smokey scepter Quartz with extreme development...$1500-$2000 53005   QUARTZ SCEPTER St Johnsville Quarry, St Johnsville, Montgomery Co., New York, USA A...QUARTZ ON QUARTZ Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil Double-terminated, water clear Quartz crystal...TWIN Pentadora, Capilla District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru Over 14 colorless...Blanca, Castrovirreyna District, Castrovirreyna Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru An unusual association:
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Courtesy M. Ihmadi (Ihmadi Trilobite Center, Alnif, Morocco) André Michard · Omar Saddiqi · Ahmed Chalouan...(Eds.) Continental Evolution: The Geology of Morocco Structure, Stratigraphy, and Tectonics of the ...Faculty of Sciences B.P. 5366 Maârif Casablanca Morocco o.saddiqi@fsac.ac ma Prof. Dr. Ahmed Chalouan...University avenue Ibn Batouta Rabat B.P. 1014 Morocco chalouan@fsr.ac.ma Prof. Dr. Dominique Frizon...including the major Pan-African and Variscan cycles, Morocco has always been characterized by intense mining
 
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