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Aragonite from
Nabi Musa, Jericho Governorate, West Bank, Palestine


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nabi Musa, Jericho Governorate, West Bank, Palestine
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1095680
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1095680:5
GUID (UUID V4):06b50a33-f0de-4af2-86ba-e9151c7ef921
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
62.2km (38.7 miles) ⓘArad Stone Quarry, Arad, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
68.8km (42.7 miles) ⓘDaba, Daba-Siwaqa complex, Transjordan Plateau, Amman Governorate, Jordan
70.1km (43.6 miles) ⓘHalamish wadi (áș”uq Tamrur), Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
74.9km (46.5 miles) ⓘUnnamed marble quarries, Tulul al Hammam, Siwaga, Lisdan-Siwaga Fault, Hashem region, Daba-Siwaqa complex, Transjordan Plateau, Amman Governorate, Jordan
76.2km (47.4 miles) ⓘMount Sodom, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Cr6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert Ella V. Sokol...This extremely rare mineral was found at the Nabi Musa locality (Judean Desert, Israel), in a peculiar...thermodynamic modeling, and mineralogical analyses of the Nabi Musa rocks (XRPD, EMPA, SEM, FTIR, and optical microscopy)...consequence of the highway construction across Nabi Musa hill in 2006, the buried veins filled by Cr6+-substituted...locality, newly discovered in the Mottled Zone: Nabi Musa hill 5 km southeast of the Maale Adummim area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chemistry of combustion metamorphic rocks in Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano E.V. Sokol a,*, O.A. Kozmenko...31 March 2011; accepted 15 July 2011 Abstract Nabi Musa located at the northern tip of the Dead Sea at...Melting foci have been discovered in two craters of Nabi Musa volcano, with numerous veins of paralavas having...The suggested mixing models predict that the Nabi Musa paralavas result from combustion metamorphism...quartz arenite. The history of mud volcanism at Nabi Musa began with small eruptions that mobilized gas
Report (issue)
NKVD) security clearance. In 1946 Shulamit moved west to Moscow State University, and re-started her Ph...Bentorite. A new mineral from the Hatrurim area, west of the Dead Sea, Israel. Isr. J. Earth Sci., 29:...Pseudo-wollastonite Apo Apophyllite Gp Gypsum Arg Aragonite Grs Grossolar Qtz/Qz Quartz Awf Afwillite...crust; mostly poikilitic gypsum with hexagonal aragonite twins. (Hatrurim Basin, SG 232) 29 Lrn Lrn...Weathering crust (?) mostly carbonatic (calcite, aragonite, vaterite), some gypsum and ettringite and several
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
They are significantly replaced by calcite, aragonite, hydrated calcium silicates and sulfates, zeolites...Later the same process was reconstructed for Nabi Musa, another locality in the Hatrurim Formation (Sokol...spurrite-merwinite facies. They occur in Israel, Jordan and Palestine. The Hatrurim Basin (approximately 5 km to southeast...identified in a melilite-larnite rock from the Nabi Musa combustion complex, Hatrurim Formation (Sokol...Bentorite, a new mineral from the Hatrurim area, West of the Dead Sea, Israel. Isr. J. Earth Sci., 29
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ettringite group from pyrometamorphic rocks of Nabi Musa, West Bank, reaches 0.36 atom per formula unit (apfu)...sides of the Dead Sea Transform Fault in Israel, West Bank, and Jordan (Fig. 1). They belong to the large...pyrometamorphic Mottled Zone complexes along the Israel-West Bank-Jordan borders (left, modified after Techer et...hydrocalumite, portlandite; and carbonates: calcite, aragonite, and vaterite (Techer et al. 2006; Khoury et al...CaFe2O4: A new mineral from the Jabel Harmun, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel. American Mineralogist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mainly replaced by Ca silicate hydrates, zeolites, aragonite, gypsum, hydrogarnets, and ettringite [18]. Minerals...at Ma’ale Adummim locality in the territory of Palestine. This location composed of high temperature rock...marble (b). View of Ma’ale Adummim locality, Palestine (c), and low temperature hydrothermal mineral...Bentorite-a new mineral from the Hatrurim area, west of the Dead Sea, Israel. Isr. J. Earth Sci. 1980...; Kozmenko, O. Combustion metamorphism in the Nabi Musa dome: New implications for a mud volcanic origin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chert, and marl) heavily cut by veins of calcite, aragonite, gypsum, zeolite, ettringite, and various Ca silicate...mainly found at the top of the Mesozoic sequence west of the Dead Sea rift, in Negev and Judean Deserts... hydrocarbon gases, and micro-oil mostly to the west, toward the Mediterranean Sea [72]. Consequently...matrix of secondary minerals (mainly calcite, aragonite, gypsum, and “pebbles” in a light-colored matrix...matrix of secondary minerals (mainly calcite, aragonite, gypsum, and ettringite, with lesser percentages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cut by abundant veinlets containing calcite, aragonite, gypsum, various hydrated Ca-silicates, zeolites...carbonation. The secondary products are mainly calcite, aragonite, gypsum, ettringite, and minor Ca silicate-hydrates...Gazeevite, BaCa 6(SiO4)2(SO4)2O, from Israel and the Palestine Autonomy, South Levant, and from South Ossetia...CaFe 2O4: A new mineral from the Jabel Harmun, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel. American Mineralogist...thiocuprate from Jabel Harmun, Judean Desert, Palestine Autonomy, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 81,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aqueous solutions and cut by veinlets of calcite, aragonite, gypsum, various Ca silicate hydrates (CSHs),...though found (­ CrO4)2−-bearing ettringite in the Nabi Musa area in Judean Desert (Sokol et al. 2011). Later...Bentorite. A new mineral from the Hatrurim area, west of the Dead Sea, Israel. Isr J Earth Sci 29:81–84...and 6+ ­Cr -bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert. Am Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and/or carbonation products (mainly calcite, aragonite, gypsum, and ettringite, with lesser amounts of...nite rock (Gross 1984) Larnite, Ye’elimite, Aragonite, Calcite, Cobbles from pseudoFluorapatite-Fluorellestaditess...southeastern Hatrurim Basin. Larnite, Brownmillerite, Aragonite, Calcite, Fluorellestadite, Ye’elimite Gypsum...and Cr6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert. American...chemistry of combustion metamorphic rocks in Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano. Russian Geology and Geophysics
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sampled in a road excavation along the Jerusalem–Jericho highway in Ma’aleh Adumim, one of the Mottled Zone...veins mainly composed of C ­ aCO 3 (calcite, aragonite, and rarely vaterite) and gypsum with CSHs, thaumasite...Bentorite. A new mineral from the Hatrurim area, west of the Dead Sea, Israel. Isr J Earth Sci 29:81–84...and ­C r 6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert. Am Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and the highlands overlooking the Dead Sea to the West (Fig. 1). Department of Geology, The University...along the Jordan Rift, which is located *60km to the West of the Daba – Siwaqa area (Bender 1968; Powell 1989;...minerals include fluorapatite, brushite, vaterite, aragonite, dolomite, hydrocalumite, clintonite, apophyllite...quartz Calcite, apatite, clintonite Calcite, aragonite, diopside Calcite, F-apatite Calcite, CO3-F-apatite...CO3-F-apatite Calcite, OH-apatite, spurrite, gypsum, aragonite Calcite, CO3-F-apatite, spurrite, brushite, gypsum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
conglomerates and sands (≄100 m thick) limits the the basin west. observed maximum thickness of lacustrine sediments...sediments thisranges area ranges basin to to thethe west. TheThe observed maximum thickness of lacustrine...however, characterized by the presence of calcite, aragonite and quartz with subsidiary clay minerals however...however, characterized by the presence of calcite, aragonite and quartz with subsidiary clay minerals (illite...the Southwestern Periphery of the Kuznetsk Basin, West Siberia, Russia: Geology and Geochronology. In Coal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recarbonation. We now dated carbonate (calcite, aragonite, vaterite) containing veins in both spurrite marbles...hydrates (CSHs), minerals of the ettringite group, aragonite, calcite, vaterite, all usually ïŹll veins, cracks...Bentorite Thaumasite Portlandite Volkonskoite Aragonite Vaterite Analcime Apophyllite Ca5Si6(O,OH)18·5H2O...including the two additional polymorphs of CaCO3 — aragonite and vaterite. Gypsum is always present in varying...cal— calcite, gyp—gypsum, bas—bassanite, ara—aragonite, dol—dolomite, q—quartz, f-apâ€”ïŹ‚ourapatite, tha—thaumasite
Journal (issue)
Mineralien-Welt 2/2014 33 Österreich 1. Bis 2 cm lange Aragonite auf Dolomit. Fund H. Löser und A. Bachmann. Foto...cm langen Aragoniten ausgekleidet waren. Die Aragonite sind innen hohl, durch Mangan dunkelbraun bis...kopfgroß und hĂ€ufig waren die schwertartigen Aragonite an beiden KluftwĂ€nden angewachsen. Nur wenige...von derTyplokalitĂ€t Jebel Harmun, Judea Desert, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel beschrieben und...anerkannt. TyplokalitĂ€t ist Jabel Harmun, Nabi Musa,Judea Desert, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel. Mittels
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
products are secondary Cacarbonate minerals, namely aragonite, CSHs, Sample/Rock Main phases U-enriched...KOZMENKO, O. (2010) Combustion metamorphism in the Nabi Musa dome: new implications for a mud volcanic origin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dead Sea-Jordanian Transform located ~60 km to the west of the Daba-Siwaqa area (Bender 1968; Powell and...products are secondary Ca-carbonates, namely aragonite, CSHs, hydrogarnets, including Cl-bearing varieties...and Cr6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert. American
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Peninsula, as far as the Kerch Peninsula in the west (Figure 1a). The sea basin currently undergoes enhanced...2up wtto%2pyrite 4 wt % 4biogenic calcite and aragonite; <1 wt %<1 Fe-rich Theymay alsocontain may contain...and/or pyrite and/or wt % biogenic calcite and aragonite; wt % carbonate restricted to a fewto layers;... R.; Kozmenko, O. Combustion metamorphism in Nabi Musa dome: New implications for a mud volcanic origin...Geochemistry of mud volcanic fluids in the southern West-Kuban Basin: A case study with implication for source
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Saxothuringian Zone extends towards the East into the West Sudetes and its western prolongation the Fichtelgebirge-Erzgebirge...an elongated basin extending from Belgium, in the West, through the Ruhr District, Germany, to the Upper...which is shaped like a horseshoe open towards the West (Fig. 5). The marly claystones and clayish marlstones...together with analcite, gmelinite, calcite, and aragonite in the temperature range 50°C to 20°C (Dill et...Different amounts of pedogenic palygorskite in South West African Cenozoic calcretes: geomorphological, paleoclimatical
Journal (volume)
that locates at Himeji Castle, Hyogo Prefecture, west of central Japan [2] (Fig. 1). The pond in the garden...organic material and higher manganese contents than aragonite. Most extreme values of ca. 3 wt% Mn are found...phreatomagmatic, maar-forming rift-edge eruption in west Ambrym. It appears that the eruption was initiated...zeolites from Bakony–Balaton Highland Volcanic Field (West Hungary) Kónya, P.1* & Szakáll, S.2 Geological Inst...natrolite group zeolites), carbonates (calcite and aragonite) and smectite (saponite and nontronite). Natrolite
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Locality: Qaqarssuk carbonatite complex, southern West Greenland (type locality). Description: Yellow-brown...in the spectrum arises from the admixture of aragonite. For the IR spectra of vaterite see also Sato...Locality: Loe Warren Zawn area, St Just district, West Penwith, Cornwall, UK. Description: Aggregates of...association with romĂ©ite-group minerals, sulfur, aragonite, gypsum, and sĂ©narmontite. ConïŹrmed by IR spectrum...association with serpentine, pyrope, talc, and aragonite. Holotype sample. Trigonal, space group R-3 m
 
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