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Mirabilite from
Kentucky, USA


Locality type:State
Classification
Species:Mirabilite
Formula:Na2SO4 · 10H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mirabilite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kentucky, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:113775
Long-form Identifier:1:3:113775:0
GUID (UUID V4):db700a8e-4c04-4137-94cc-32bf09a188e4
Localities for Mirabilite in this Region
Mammoth Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmonson County, Kentucky, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PA 16802, USA ABSTR ACT Tausoare Cave is renowned in Romania for its gypsum and mirabilite speleothems...that were previously described as consisting of mirabilite. The samples we collected reveal crystals of...different habits. One shows the characteristic mirabilite fibrous crystals (cotton-like speleothem) while...microprobe. Beside thenardite (dehydration product of mirabilite) we also identified three sulphate minerals:...geographical and geological settings of the cave and mirabilite deposit may be found in Viehmann and Serban (1962-1963)
Report (issue)
Mirabilite Na2 SO4 • 10H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...and at Chuquicamata, Antofagasta, Chile. In the USA, at Soda Lake, San Luis Obispo Co., and in Searles..., Wyoming; in Mammoth Cave, southwest central Kentucky. Name: From the Latin sal mirable, for miracle... M.E. Mrose, and J.J. Fahey (1970) Ice-clear mirabilite from Salar de Pintados, northern Chile. Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in some cases. The provenance of a sample of mirabilite is harder to determine since its composition...from sulphate-bearing solutions. In contrast, mirabilite may have formed in a highly evaporative environment...evaporation may have led to the formation of mirabilite. 1. Introduction Castleguard Cave, which has...are the sulphate minerals gypsum,epsomite and mirabilite - which have formed on the walls of the cave...concentrates on two of the sulphate minerals, gypsum and mirabilite. We have attempted to resolve their origins with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kentucky Caves JAMES C. CURRENS Kentucky Geological Survey Lexington, Kentucky 40506 Nature's Mineral...The extensive light in exploring cave system in Kentucky annually attracts the state's eerie labyrinth...stratigraphic column for rocks exposed at the surface in Kentucky and their relationship to caves. PENNSYLVANIAN...threedimensional maze. © | W # Newman in eastern Kentucky Lower MISSISSIPPIAN Upper 1 Formations supporting...Geological Survey in Kentucky Lexington. PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIAGRAM OF KENTUCKY x J A C K S O N P U R C
Report (issue)
pickeringite, alunogen, rozenite (efflorescences); mirabilite (lacustrine evaporites). Distribution: Widespread...Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. In the USA, large masses in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky; at the Mt. Princeton hot spring
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS KENTUCKY DENNIS COSKREN 849 L y n n Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40504 T o those interested in... Left: Calcite scalenohedrons from Danville, Kentucky. Right: Fluorite on sphalerite from Danville,... Cave Minerals Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District The Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district, straddling...doctoral candidate in geology at the University of Kentucky. He worked for several years as a geologist for...for the United States Geological Survey in Kentucky. Cave minerals make up another distinctive group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quantities of feldspar, dolomite, siderite, and mirabilite; and trace amounts of aragonite, magnesite, salt...quantities of feldspar, dolomite, siderite, and mirabilite, and trace amounts of aragonite, magnesite, salt...(Continues) 14.3 19.0 7.5 6.7 12.2 7.7 2.4 3.4 3.2 Mirabilite X. FU ET AL. Geol. J. (2017) DOI: 10.1002/gj...Zeolite Barite Amphibole Gypsum Anhydrite Mirabilite Clay minerals MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITION AND...quantities of feldspar, dolomite, siderite, and mirabilite, and trace amounts of aragonite, magnesite, salt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Arizona, 1040 E 4th St., Tucson AZ 85721 USA *Corresponding author: benjamin.walter@uni-tuebingen...(Tm,ice), hydrohalite (Tm,hh), halite (Tm,hal), mirabilite (Tm,mir) as well as an additional sulfate phase...3.9 wt% Na2SO4 coexisting with ice plus mirabilite. Mirabilite decomposes to thenardite (anhydrous Na2SO4)...CaCl2 (Fig. 5), is the large stability field of mirabilite and the concomitant collapse of the ice-liquidus...in this system (at which ice, hydrohalite and mirabilite are in equilibrium) is located very close to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
considered, it seems best for the present to regard the Kentucky medusle as a form of C. sowerbyi. HARRISON GARMAN...DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY SCIENTIFIC BOOKS With Scott: The Silver Lining...At one point was discovered a huge deposit of mirabilite (sodium sulphate) about 10 by 50 feet in surface
Report (issue)
geology problems at Mammoth Cave rational Perk, Kentucky by Frank W. Osterwald INTRODUCTTON The U.S. Geological...May 22-26, 1967, at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. This symposium, held by the rational Park Service...selected rocks from Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky [Analyst: A. F. Chleborad, U.S. Geological Survey]... ) Remarks Damage to buildings in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Felt from Canada to New Orleans. Intensity...wry dry parts, oth-:r sulfate minerals such as mirabilite (Glauber's salt) are found. re evidence was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kentucky Kentucky Mineral Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [Dalhousie University] at 18:01 27 December...near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy...eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden and Livingston counties in western Kentucky. Neither...Neither is known for its collectible minerals. Kentucky is the largest state in the country for which the...quadrangle maps are available for purchase through the Kentucky Geological Survey, for examination in most state
Book
for example, are almost entirely derived from the USA and Tur- key, a situation too narrowly based comfort...Minerals International Congress took place in Boston, USA, in April 1988. 4| a) envi at wererieryre' humus...(4) Serpentinized dolomitic limestone (Arizona, USA; the Transvaal). The Minerals About 95% of world...Africa Amosite Crocidolite Chrysotile Italy Greece USA India Amphibole Swaziland Chrysotile with cigarette...will be ready to start production (Figure 2). USA Vermont About 15 miles south of the Canadian border
Report (chapter)
minerals anhydrite, gypsum, barite, cha1canthite, mirabilite, alunite, and jarosite. Oxygen and hydrogen isotope...are also available for gypsum (CaSO4-2H2O) and mirabilite (Na2SO4·10H2O). To improve internal consistency...hydrate water in mirabilite and solution (1000 1nα mirabilite− H 2 O ≈ Δ mirabilite− H 2 O ) is 2.0 ‰...experimental solutions were saturated with respect to mirabilite. On the basis of the data presented by Horita...Na2SO4 on the oxygen isotope fractionation between mirabilite and water should be less than the analytical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
halite and the above gypsum but also glauberite, mirabilite, and thenardite, reports Mr. Thacker. xline—crystalline..., made a 10-day trip through Ohio - Indiana - Kentucky. Many localities were visited, a number of collectors... Kans., but the exact locality was not given. KENTUCKY: E. H. Sarles, 2026 Elm Avenue, Norwood 12, Ohio...went on a 10-day trip touring Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, the first night, Saturday, October 7, 1950, was
Journal (volume)
halotrichite, of which S., easy in descent and mirabilite, kalinite, museums. 1 the Pit ladders,...occasionally produce of soda.” per Blackstone. Mirabilite F. F. & SIDE. cent. per '55 1 - - from... Horn- Augite, Heulandite, Thom- Barite, Mirabilite, Halotrichite, Asphaltum, Ozo- cerite. 1858...Natrolite, Mesolite, Thomsonite, Serpentine, Barite, Mirabilite, Gypsum, Melanterite, Halotrichite, Asphaltum...Lev3'nite, Analcite, Glottalite, Natrolite, Mirabilite, Epsomite, trichite, 1911. Asphaltum, Survey
Book (edition)
Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA 84 Theobald’s Road...Cosmogenic Isotope Dating CHRIS GROVES Western Kentucky University Flooding PHILIPP HÄUSELMANN CAROLINE...Cave Ukrainian Giant Gypsum Caves JOSEPH A. RAY Kentucky Division of Water Sinking Streams and Loosing...Ecological studies in the Mammoth Cave system of Kentucky. II. The Ecosystem. Annls. Spéol. 26(1): 47–96...sections of Mammoth Cave located in south-central Kentucky. Most of the observations for folded-limestone
Report (volume)
Bulletin, vol. 10, nos. 1-15. Lawrence, Kans. Kentucky Geological Survey: Supplementary Report, Harlan...pp. 685-720, 8 figs., September 21, 1917. 365. Kentucky as an oil state: Science, new ser., vol. 46, pp...of Clover Fork and Poor Fork in Harlan County: Kentucky Geol. Survey, 64 pp., map, 1916. BIBLIOGRAPHY...port., March 31, 1917. 607. The origin of the mirabilite from the Isle Royale mine [Houghton, Michigan]:...M.. 727. Table of geological .formations for. Kentucky. 7 pp., Lexington, Ky., March, 1917. Miller, Benjamin
Book (volume)
Cumberland Gap in northern Clairborne Co. on the Kentucky line, is the broad Valley and Ridge Province....(shores) Aragonite, Bloedite, Glauberite, Halite, Mirabilite, Thenardite. GROUSE CREEK RANGE area – Epidote...(shores) Aragonite, Bloedite, Glauberite, Halite, Mirabilite, Thenardite. KAYSVILLE, area Co., minesAzurite...Sphalerite. (l) Kennebec mine – Cerussite, Galena. (m) Kentucky-Utah mine – Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrite. (n)...Aragonite, Bloedite, Glauberite, Gypsum, Halite, Mirabilite, Thenardite. HOT SPRINGS (ADAMS) Dist. (Wasatch
Journal (issue)
many clay specimens o~ tained from California, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, and Wyoming. Several of these..... .... ........ Mimetite .................. Mirabilite ................ Mixi te ......................interesting specimen in this group, kimberlite from Kentucky, is the same rock type as the kimberli tes of
Book
238 Main Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of...events Karst Hydrology of the Mammoth Cave Plateau, Kentucky Contents THREE Processes of Cave Development...solution Réseau Jean-Bernard, France; Mammoth Cave, USA evaporites, e.g., gypsum, halite, anhydrite dissolution...evacuation of glacier caves, e.g., Paradise Ice Caves, USA; Nilgardsbreen, Norway Kenya melt water soil, especially...Wales; Onesquethaw Cave, Cave, Tasmania movements USA sandstones granular disintegration and wind transport
Report (volume)
Erasmus Haworth, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Kentucky........Mr. J. B. Hoeing, Frankfort. Mr. J. H....County, associated with thenardite, halite, and mirabilite, Verde Valley. Gold (lode). Principal producers...Verde Valley associated with glauberite, gypsum, mirabilite, and thenardite; used to a small extent for cattle;...northeast from Quartzsite, and at Bouse's Well. Mirabilite. Yavapai County, associated with thenardite,...in large beds with rock salt, glauberite, and mirabilite. Tungsten minerals. See Hiibnerite, Scheelite
Book
Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range playas, USA.182 Salars of South America.187 Ephemeral stream...300 Lacustrine evaporites.301 Eocene Lake Gosuite, USA.304 Oligo-Miocene lake, Calatayud Basin, Spain.306...seals.716 Ordovician Red River Fm., Williston Basin, USA and Canada.716 Platform carbonates with saltern seals...Albania and Romania.784 Rocky Mountain fold belt, USA.784 Evaporite Solution . 786 Chapter 11: Evaporites...potash.815 Boulby potash, UK.815 New Mexico potash, USA.817 West Canadian potash (Devonian).818 Potash geology
Book (edition)
665 666 666 667 668 80. Mammoth Cave System, Kentucky Patricia Kambesis Physical setting Geologic setting...Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico Mammoth Cave system, Kentucky Mulu Caves, Malaysia Nullarbor Caves, Australia...Australia George Crothers (65), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States David C. Culver...Center for Human Geoenvironmental Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States ...most different classes” found in “Carniolia and Kentucky”. He cleverly pointed to the link between environmental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(mainly meteoric) alkaline-earth carbonates, mirabilite, thenardite, trona, nahcolite, natron, thermonatrite...alkaline-earth carbonates, gypsum, anhydrite, mirabilite, thenardite, glauberite polyhalite, epsomite...and an evaporite mineral assemblage of halite-mirabilite-borate (Lakes Daqaidam and Xiaoqaidam). (2) Inflow...sediments in the Basin and Range of the southwest USA, and the continental side of the Abu Dhabi sabkhat...carbonates, Bear Island, Svalbard Mississippian strata, Kentucky & Tennessee Permian Park City Fm, Wyoming Folk
Book (edition)
of Elsevier 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford...B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA First edition 2005 Second edition 2012 Copyright...Cave, Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico, USA Mammoth Cave system, Kentucky Mulu Caves, Malaysia Nullarbor Caves...A. Ray Crawford Hydrology Laboratory, Western Kentucky University James R. Reddell The University of...reserved. 26 A Cave System in west central Kentucky in the United States. Beginning about 4000 years
 
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