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Limestone from
Limestone quarry, Zingel, Seewen, Schwyz, Schwyz, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Limestone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limestone quarry, Zingel, Seewen, Schwyz, Schwyz, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1084584
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1084584:6
GUID (UUID V4):1c2775db-ec1c-40ab-b006-769e7e3729d1
Nearest other occurrences of Limestone
56.3km (35.0 miles) ⓘLimestone quarries, Auenstein, Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland
56.5km (35.1 miles) ⓘTopaz occurrences, Renastga Valley, Ilanz/Glion, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
63.2km (39.2 miles) ⓘLimestone quarry, Mellikon, Zurzach, Aargau, Switzerland
64.5km (40.1 miles) ⓘSchollberg limestone quarry, Trübbach, Wartau, Werdenberg, St. Gallen, Switzerland
73.0km (45.3 miles) ⓘLimseneck Quarry, Ruggell, Liechtenstein
85.1km (52.9 miles) ⓘLimestone quarry, Grimmelshofen, Stühlingen, Waldshut, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
93.1km (57.8 miles) ⓘLimestone quarry, Münchenstein, Arlesheim, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
93.4km (58.0 miles) ⓘLimestone quarry, Lorüns, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(sandstone, limestone and marl), Cretaceous " seewen " limestone, Jurassic (malm and dogger) limestone, and...which rises in the Glarner Alps of the Canton of Schwyz, beyond the Convent of Einsiedeln, about thirty
Report (volume)
siltstone, quartzite, chert, and conglomerate_______ Limestone, dolomite, chalk, and marble_____________________...(1912) determined the porosity of many sandstone, limestone, and slate specimens of building stone by saturating...density of the building and roofing stones of Switzerland. Kessler (1919) determined the bulk density of...shale, 8.2 percent; sandstone, 14.8 percent; limestone, 5.3 percent; and all sedimentary rocks, 8.5 percent...Southern "Potsdam'' Wisconsin _______ ---------- Quarry _______ _ sandstone. Northern "Potsdam" ____ do
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1895. ON THE CLIFFS AND EXOTIC BLOCKS OF NORTH SWITZERLAND. cliffs and exotic blocks that occur along the...work of two summers along the cliff-belt in Switzerland, chiefly in the region of the Lake of Lucerne...terms.-A glance at a good geo- logical map of Switzerland' shows that the northernmostchains of the Alps...and marls with subordinately included banks of limestone, sandstone, brec'V. Geologische Uebersichts Karte...A brief tabular summary Sketch-map of North Switzerland showing the distribution of the cliffs and exotic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
circuit the highest Alps and lowest valleys in Switzerland), I am induced to think that a notice of some...With these two exceptions, I am not aware that Switzerland now possesses any native conchologist ; although... G. Jeffreys's Notes on Swiss Mol~usca. 2t limestone. But the difference of form is chiefly perceptible...Rare. This species had not been found before in Switzerland, and was supposed to be confined to the champaign...Shetland Isles to Algiers, is not indigenous to Switzerland or any part of Germany. It is said that the extreme
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wolves. Lapies are developed on surfaces of pure limestone and, as we have indicated, consist of narrow channels...appreciation of the association of lapies proper with limestone led to the classification of the lapies as karst...by pure limestone beds of considerable thickness or of limestone conglomerate with a limestone cemnent...observed and described in the limrestoneAlps in Switzerland, where in the cantons of German speech they are...in the glacier where water drips down upon the limestone from the glacier roof, they would nevertheless
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
masses of what was then termed tile " ' Alpine Limestone," the higher portion of which was considered by...thick outer coat of the subcrystalline alpine limestone, then considered to be of the age of the upper...representative of the chalk and the lowest nummulite limestone, there are beds, sometimes of considerable dimensions...which, whether marls, green sandstones, or impure limestone, exhibit that true transition I formerly insisted...and in defining the secondary boundary through Switzerland, the cretaceous system is omitted, the molasse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures...particular sulfosalt minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal-which, at least in part, are still valid...in several large natural history museums in Switzerland and abroad were assembled (for example, the outstanding...mineral locality in the Alps, namely, the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal. In 1958, due to the initiative of Prof
Book
Cover: View of Piz Tumpiv (Canton Graubünden, Switzerland) looking WSW. The steep gully with a string of...Cover: Cross-section through the Central Alps of Switzerland showing nappe structures in Mesozoic-Cenozoic...Anne-Marie I have been lecturing on the ‘Geology of Switzerland’ at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University...grateful to my colleagues at the Institute, in Switzerland and abroad, for numerous discussions and for...was produced for the Central Alps of western Switzerland, a classic area for nappe tectonics studied by
Book
Cover: View of Piz Tumpiv (Canton Graubünden, Switzerland) looking WSW. The steep gully with a string of...Cover: Cross-section through the Central Alps of Switzerland showing nappe structures in Mesozoic-Cenozoic...Anne-Marie I have been lecturing on the ‘Geology of Switzerland’ at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University...grateful to my colleagues at the Institute, in Switzerland and abroad, for numerous discussions and for...was produced for the Central Alps of western Switzerland, a classic area for nappe tectonics studied by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
~LUVIO-~LACIALDEPOSITS~ SWITZerLAND. 369 28. On FLUVIO-GLACIALand INTERGLACIAL])~P0SITS in SWITZERLAND. By C. S....where, perhaps more than in any other part of Switzerland, such deposits are laid open within a comparatively...the principal river-systems in the North of Switzerland admit of being classed in three distinct categories...similar deposits in other parts of Northern Switzerland, lead to the conclusion that they are part of...'cavernous' refers to the hollows formed by the limestone-pebbles leached out by percolating water, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Mediterranean to the eastern confines of Switzerland in the north-east, marked by a series of granite...composed of fragments of quartzite, crystalline limestone and metamorphic schists (generally already fairly...felspar, and shale, are quartz, felspar, and limestone. At both places the constituent fragments are...BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. (1) ALB. HEIM, Geologie der Schwyz, Leipzig, 1922. (2) E. HUGI, " Pneumatolytisch-hydrothermale...the Mediterranean to the eastern confines of Switzerland in the north-east, marked by a series of granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Conquest; A. Pichler on the Trias of the northern limestone Alps of the Tirol; C. W. C. Fuchs on the geology...and Jurassic fossils of the Mythenstocke, near Schwyz, the Buochserhorn, and Stanserhorn, in Unterwalden;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from a geotraverse through the Central Alps, Switzerland * JOSEFMULLIS, ’ JEAN DUBESSY,’ BERNARD POTY...Institut, Bernoullistrasse 30, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland 2CREGU-BP 2344501 Vand~uv~-tenancy Cedex, France...along a geotraverse through the Central Alps, Switzerland. The methods employed include microthermometry...nappes and North Helvetic 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 Zingel Unterschbnenbuch Sisikon N Sisikon S lsleten Grosstal-lsenthal...Mairengo Giornico ;lruc; Cava Cresciano Claro 1st.= limestone; Sst. = sandstone; talc. = calcareous. track
Report (chapter)
ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland 2 Present address: Orléans University – ISTO...ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland *Corresponding author (e-mail: luca.cardello@univ...November 29, 2015 AMS AND PALAEOMAGNETISM IN SW SWITZERLAND faulting and the incremental strain may help...fold axes. Previous magnetic studies in SW Switzerland Previous palaeomagnetic studies in the area are...November 29, 2015 AMS AND PALAEOMAGNETISM IN SW SWITZERLAND 2002), where P, B and T represent the principal
Report (issue)
pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON STALDER best of the AMERICAS ...stone by the ancients, objects made of fluorite, limestone", "calcareous flux", and "fluorspar"; the which...in his Mineralogie (1747), did not distinguish limestone or calcite from fluorite. He thus described nine...crystals of yellow-fluorescent fluorite on limestone from Pugh quarry, Custar, Wood county, Ohio Author :S...Fluorite (organic inclusions) For many years the limestone quarries of the midwestem United States, principally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Flysch sequences of central Switzerland 877 Wildflysch of central Switzerland 878 Flysch of the northern...formations of the Meclianes nappe in western Switzerland 3. Section at Mount Gondran, east of Briancon...formations in the Helvetic belt of eastern ^Switzerland. 9. "Embryonic geanticlines" in Mesozoic time...massif of the Berne and Uri Alps, in central Switzerland. The small, cylindrical Gastern massif to the...the Morcles or Doldenhorn nappe. In eastern Switzerland, where there are no anhydrite members in the
Book
Republic of Germany, Treland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom MER 1. de la Gj DE BARENTS...Republic of Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom @® Denmark, Finland, Iceland...Republic of Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom Published in cooperation with...salt ioc the cccd cc nadsadeae dura el RD UR 6 Limestone’... 5s... St AS SD Sa cays Diet 1 esha Ph ah Ae)...of Western Switzerland . .: 3.5 25. oo aa oe ee ee ; Helvetic-Zone.of Central Switzerland: ).6) 000 oooh
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Republic of Germany, . Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom • 1 DF • IV 0 I ' '~ \,...Republic of Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom • Denmark, Finland, Iceland...Republic of Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom Published in cooperation with..............· ............... . The Dachstein Limestone Facies ............................................................ . .................... . Limestone ................................ ...... .. ..
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reader with an insight to the wealth of caves and limestone regions around the 12 The Underground Atlas...yield water supplies for people living in some limestone areas, and they provide sport for the growing...paragraphs outline the broad distribution of limestone, karst and caves across the continents of the...second largest continent is poorly endowed with limestone and even less so with karst. Major regions, often...the exception of reasonably extensive areas of limestone in Namibia, most of the other karst is found in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
whether the mountain he is delineating is a limestone, or granite, or sandstone, or a slate mountain... of mica schist and slate, of sandstone, of limestone, and of the more modern volcanic rocks. The views...difficulties of rock-climbing in gneiss and in limestone, the former rock often looking easier, and the...Kinzig Kulm and penetrated into the valley of Schwyz. There he became again entangled in the lower
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
terrain,--and its lower, of the yellow compact limestone of the neighbourhood of Nice and the deposits... we can distinguish--I. The cretaceous marly limestone with Inocerami and Hamites; 2. Overlying nummulitic...from below upwards : - "-1. The bluish marly limestone with Inocerami and Hamites; without any trace...dismembered, nor united with the underlying cretaceous limestone [A.]. This order of the strata is repeated at...that the nummulitic terrain reposes on the marly limestone with Inoceramus quite unconformably,--a fact already
Report (chapter)
London, Special Publications Drenov Grič black limestone: A heritage stone from Slovenia Sabina Kramar...by guest on August 4, 2019 Drenov Grič black limestone: A heritage stone from Slovenia Sabina Kramar1*...EP T ED M A N Abstract Drenov Grič black limestone is considered one of the most beautiful Slovenian...micritic limestone occurs in 10- to 80-cm– thick beds with thin marl interlayers. The limestone occasionally...architectural elements have been constructed using this limestone, particularly during the baroque period, which
Report (issue)
DIRECTORY OF CRUSHED LIMESTONE PRODUCERS IN INDIANA by DUNCAN J. McGREGOR Indiana Department of Conservation...Bloomington Directory No. 4 DIRECTORY OF CRUSHED LIMESTONE PRODUCERS IN INDIANA by Duncan J. McGregor Printed...Production of crushed limestone - - - - - - - - - - - 10 Uses of crushed limestone - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - 10 Economics of crushed limestone - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 Distribution and stratigraphy...Producers of crushed limestone - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 Producers of crushed limestone listed by counties
Report (issue)
High-Calcium Limestone and High-Magnesium Dolomite Resources of Indiana BULLETIN 42 -B I I STATE OF...SCHULTZ, Sales and Records Clerk High-Calcium Limestone and High-Magnesium Dolomite Resources of Indiana...Acknowledgments / 3 Uses of high-calcium limestone / 3 Agricultural limestone / 3 Lime / 4 Uses of high-magnesium...6 Sources of high-calcium and high-carbonate limestone / 7 Black River and Trenton Limestones (Ordovician)...dolomite / 15 Salamonie Dolomite / 16 Louisville Limestone / 16 Wabash Formation / 17 Summary / 17 Literature
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Consulting Services •WorkshopsheldinLugano, Switzerlandoronsite •Trainingandconsulting servicesavailablefor...Afonso, José Teixeira and Liliana Freitas 26 Limestone quarries and a Portuguese karstic aquifer – A...Carrasco 54 Characterisation of karst aquifers in Switzerland: the KARSYS approach Arnauld Malard and Pierre-Yves...Regione Valle d’Aosta (Italy) and Canton Valais (Switzerland) Pierre Christe, Gianpiero Amanzio, Enrico Suozzi...in the Hellenic Republic comprises limestone, dolomitic limestone, marble, and mafic-ultramafic rocks
 
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