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Labradorite from
Akrotiri, Santorini Island, Thira, South Aegean, Greece


Locality type:Slag Locality
Classification
Species:Anorthite var: Labradorite
Formula:(Ca,Na)[Al(Al,Si)Si2O8]
Formation:Post-mining/Anthropogenic
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Labradorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Akrotiri, Santorini Island, Thira, South Aegean, Greece
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1210478
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1210478:9
GUID (UUID V4):18da16ad-eb1d-4539-b527-6fad95f5ec90
References
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Petrology of Santorini Volcano, Cyclades, Greece by I. A. NICHOLLS Department of Mineralogy and Petrology...and western Aegean may be subdivided into a parallel series of north-north-west south-south-east trending...and later times remained a tectonic 'high'. The south-eastern portion of the Pelagonian Zone, termed the...lavas, dyke rocks, and cognate xenoliths of Santorini island group belong to four distinct series, each...that of lavas of volcanic centres north-west of Santorini, is of 'calc-alkali' type. The second and third
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Evolution of Two Shield Volcanoes from Santorini, Aegean Sea, Greece: Evidence for Zoned Magma Chambers from...from two of the major shield volcanoes of the Santorini volcanic complex (Skaros and Micro Profitis Ilias)...crystallization. Some of the primitive lavas erupted on Santorini preserve phenocryst and xenocryst evidence for...INTRODUCTION The volcanic complex of Santorini, Aegean Sea, Greece provides an excellent opportunity to...study temporal variations in magma evolution. Santorini consists of five islands (Fig. 1) • Present address:
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Composition of pigments of Santorini frescoes: The Rietveld method as an aid in qualitative phase analysis...the Greek group of volcanic islands known as Santorini have been examined by powder X-ray diffraction...ANALYSIS Excavations at Akrotiri on the Greek volcanic island Thera, the main island of the group of islands...islands known as Santorini, revealed a bronze age settlement that had been covered by a thick layer of pumice...The excavations showed that the islanders of Santorini had attained a high cultural and technical level
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Pleistocene Basaltic Rocks in Volos Region (Central Greece) Nikolaos Koukouzas 1, *, Petros Koutsovitis 2...Research and Technology, 15125 Hellas (CERTH), Greece; tyrologou@certh.gr (P.T.); karkalis@certh.gr (C...Geology, University of Patras, GR-265 00 Patras, Greece; pkoutsovitis@upatras.gr Department of Mineralogy...Athens, Greece Hellenic Survey of Geology and Mineral Exploration (HSGME), 13677 Attica, Greece; arvanitis@igme...(Iceland; CarbFix project) [10]. throughout mainland Greece [10]. Main areas of basalt appearance are located
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Article The Skaros effusive sequence at Santorini (Greece): Petrological and geochemical constraints...2020 Available online 23 March 2020 Keywords: Santorini Feeding system Lava textures Thermobarometry Crystal...microtomography a b s t r a c t Santorini volcanic complex (Greece) is the result of a long evolutionary...turn to provide new insights on the behaviour of Santorini feeding system during interplinian stages. The... as in case of the major explosive events at Santorini. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1
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ferromagnesian phase in contrast to the early Akrotiri centre, which contain nodules with abundant hornblende...recognized in Santorini lavas (Fouqu6 1879; Nicholls 1971a). Previous studies of Santorini volcanic rocks...processes that have influenced the evolution of Santorini magmas. Their petrology is documented in this...fractional crystallization in the petrogenesis of Santorini magmas. They also demonstrate that mafic plutonic...range from Ans0 to An94 and are overgrown by labradorite margins. The calcic cores of these crystals are
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Y. Savascin . Neogene backarc volcanism of the Aegean: New insights into the relationship between BLO...isotopic traverse along the volcanism of the Aeolian Island arc, southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy: Inferences...intraplate Neogene magmatism in the Western Anatolia and Aegean area : Samuele Agostini Istituto di Geoscienze...Miocene to Pleistocene, Western Anatolia and the Aegean area were affected by scattered alkali basaltic...subduction of Africa beneath the Anatolian and Aegean plates. On the basis of geochemical and isotopic
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desert by Loran E. Perry 10 A JOURNEY TO THE ISLAND OF SANTORINI Rock collecting, sightseeing and ancient...Treasurer 4401 S W. Htll Street, Seattle, WA 98116 SOUTH CENTRAL FEDERATION Of MINERAL SOCIETIES d, E ...For additional Information and requeats to the South C.ntral Federation th 1E to fti ch fo A1 -...Faceting Books, 2232 78th Ave ., S .E. , Mercer Island, WA 98040. Now, to continue with our series of...and Jim Roush and Ralph Walter, members of North Island Gem and Mineral Society of Chula Vista, California
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Foerstner Bank Bibliography 51 70 72 73 Greece 81 Santorini Milos K6s Methana Nisyros Bibliography ...Iceland Subglacial volcanoes I-Iydrothermal eruptions Island volcanoes Bibliography 92 92 93 100 102 111...structural control 011 the growth of large oceanic island volca11oes. 60: fig. 1 , p. 226. ! t3: Carracedo...geochronological constraints for the volcanic history of the island of Ischia (Italy) over the last 5000 years. 71:...the world includi11g solfatara fields, part XIII: Greece: fig. 5, p . 22 . . lX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Nature
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limits of the studied area and in particular to the south-east of Lake Van, where it comes in contact with...it is characterized by a summit caldera, whose south-eastern rim is discontinued by an obsidian dome...NNE of So~iitlii; AG 85: Dacite lava flow, 5 km South of Pathos; AG 109: Ignimbrite, I km of Harabesor;...pyroxene phenoerysts in Akrotiri Thira and Main Series lavas from Santorini Volcano, Greece (NrcnoLLs, 1971)...largely outcropping on Nemrut central volcano, to the south of the studied area, can be assumed as the most
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years during which Mr. Bellamy was stationed in the island. He acknowledges the assistance he has received...Bellamy's description of the island :— 1. Physical Features.—The Island of Cyprus lies in the extreme...about 140 miles from south-west to north-east, and about 60 miles from north to south; it contains some...which are those of Famagusta, Larnaca, Limassol, Akrotiri, Krysokhou, and Morphou. About midway along the...of Akrotiri, on which is situated the Limassol Salt Lake; this promontory culminates to the south-east
the Natural History Museum, London Obsidian Labradorite Nephrite "tiki" PUBLIC LIBRARY SAN MATEO CALIFORNIA...Feldspar 2 FELDSPAR Flat or polished crystals of labradorite, a plagioclase feldspar from Labrador, Canada...chromiumrich mineral chromite. In this specimen from South Africa, the dark and light minerals have separated...Scratches caused by a glacier PARTHENON, ATHENS, GREECE Chemicals in the air can react with stone and...This left specimen is from the Flinders Range in South Australia, which was Glaciers are a major cause
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analyses of young volcanic rocks of the south-Aegean region, Greece (from H. PICHLER and R. STENGELIN, 1968...areas of 181 young volcanic rocks of the Aegean Sea region/ Greece. (After H. PICHLER and R. STENGELIN, personal...containing about 60 % glass and phenocrysts of labradorite (20 %), augite and some grains of olivine, would...field B those of volcanoes in orogenic belts and island arcs. In field C enter the alkaline derivatives...coordinates X B = 8, ZB = 61, hence YB = 31 i.e. labradorite = OrgAb31An61' Interpolating along the curves
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Bank and Foerstner Bank Bibliography 70 72 73 Greece 81 Santorfni Milos K6s M8thana Nfsyros Bibliography...Iceland Subglacial volcanoes Hydrothern1al eruptions Island volcanoes Bibliography 92 93 94 96 V 100 102...structural control on the growth of large oceanic island volcanoes. 60: fig. 1, p. 226, Carracedo, J. C...gcochronological constraints for the volcanic history of the island of lschia (Italy) over the lasl 5000 years. 71:...the world including solfatara fields, part Xlll: Greece: fig. 5, p. 22. ,x ACKN OW LED GEMENT S Nature
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.. __, ' ·, Flat or polished crystals of labradorite, a plagioclase feldspar from Labrador, Canada...tillile. Thi~ specimen is from the Flinders Range in South Australic1, which war, covered with glaciers s01ne...the magnetite-bearing sand is fro1n Tenerife, an island off the northwest coast of Africa. Dark olivine...Black volcanic ash beach on north coast of Santorini, Greece Finest pebbles Small, fine pebqles Quartz...spectacular s tructures are the Need le on St. Helena, an island in the Atlantic, and the Giant's Causeway in Ireland
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PLAGIOCLASE FELDSPAR Flat or polished c1ystals of labradorite, a plagioclase feldspar from Labrador, Canada...iumrich mineral chromite. In t his specimen from South Africa, the dark ,md ligh t minerals have ~eparated...erosion Large rock fragment PARTHENON, ATHENS, GREECE Chemicals in the air can react wit h stone and...the magnetite-beating sand is from Tenerife, an island off the no1t hwest coa5t of Africa. Dark olivine...Black volcanic ash beach on no1th coast of Santorini, Greece ~ -- ' . Small, fine pebbles .• Finest
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analcime, orthoelase, albit,e, oligoclase, labradorite (including gnbbm) , titanite ;-Anthracite, lignite...18:00:18. 5SviSi301z 5WYiSi3O9 Newly analysed : (1.) South Royalston, Massachusetts ; broadly laminar, grey...Gulf of Pracchio. It consists of diallage and labradorite, the latter being in the larger proportion. Analysis...Analysis gave : (1.) Diallage. (2.) Labradorite :SiO2. (1.) 49.60 (2.) 50.63 (3.) 50.68 CaO. MgO....Tschermak’s theory, on the limit between the labradorite and bytownite series, aud answers nearly, so
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in trachytic agglomerate and tuff on Ascension Island, remarkable for the abundance, of fluid inclusions...averages about An9 (13). The granites of Lundy Island are British examples. Here, an Upper Granite, ...Portions of the ‘Old Granite’ of the Vredefort region, South Africa, are made up of a rock of this kind with...batholiths such as the Coast Range batholith in south-eastern Alaska, and the Sierra Nevada batholith... The tonalite of Baranof Granitic rocks 29 Island, west of the main batholith, is somewhat richer
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Special Paper...shoulder of the sinistral Ecemis fault zone in south-central Turkey. The Tauride platform collided with...contractional and extensional deformation in the Aegean region. Sotirios Kokkalas, Paraskevas Xypolias...Doutsos 97 7. Tertiary and Quaternary tectonics of Greece. Demosthenis Mountrakis 125 8. Paleomagnetism...tectonic evolution of the Ionian zone, northwestern Greece . Lena Broadley, E. Platzman, J. Platt, M. Papanikolaou
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Pleistocene Basaltic Rocks in Volos Region (Central Greece) Reprinted from: Minerals 2019, 9, 627, doi:10...storage potential of selected areas in Croatia, Greece and Norway. In particular, Saftić et al. [10]...geological formations in the Volos area, Central Greece. The investigated lithologies are volcanic rocks...during the Pleistocene back-arc extension of the Aegean Sea. Based on their high porosity, low alteration...Pleistocene Basaltic Rocks in Volos Region (Central Greece). Minerals 2019, 9, 627. [CrossRef] Sundal, A.;
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that potash contents of andesites increase across island arcs. By temperament VI Preface and age I prefer...active continental margin plate boundary ARC island arc plate boundary ATL Atlantic of passive continental...were three fundamentally different magma series in island arcs: tholeiitic, high-alumina, and alkalic. To...alkali content issues in their definition of the island arc tholeiitic series. They argued that differences... Magma Series Containing Orogenic Andesites 11 "island arc tholeiitic series" to denote those suites which
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12.8 12.6 12.4 12.2 12.0 11.8 11.6 dolomite labradorite microcline orthoclase tremolite adularia sanidine...slackwater deposition in the Flinders Ranges, semi-arid South Australia. Quat Sci Rev 29:2 673–2693 Haluzová E...(QEMSCAN®): a pilot study on LB I pottery from Akrotiri, Thera. J Archaeolog Sci 38: 219–232 Kwitko-Ribeiro
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each inspection. While work was in progress the south wall of the tunnel was logged and later the north...Tunnel The portal is sited at I I 0.6 m OD at the south-west corner of Camlough Reservoir (Irish Grid J...separated from the higher level outcrops by a north-south fault now obscured by intrusive granophyre.) Bailey...McCallien (1956) believed all this ground to be the south-eastern extension of the Lislea Granophyre, an intrusive...compositioq(An7 0 _7 2), zoned marginally to labradorite. Pyroxene is granular or in variolitic inte rgrowth
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extended beyond this area and are designated from the south-west corner of the latitude and longitude rectangle...indicating that three minerals in the specimen, labradorite, augite and olivine have been investigated. A...Geophysics Abyssinia · lJ S E Ethiopia Aden lJSE South Yemen Admiraltv, Is. Afars & lssas U F French Somal...Gilbert & Ell ice Is. Gold Coast - USE Ghana Gozo Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe • U F Guadel oupe...Tome ls. Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of South Africa - USE South Africa Reunion Rhodes Rhodesia - U F Southern
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ectite, gabbro inclusion in alkali basalt, lki Island, Japan (Aoki, 1968). Anal. K. Aoki. . 12 Broozite...hypersthenc-hornblende dacite, Hudson, Gosfonh area. New South Wales (Wilkinson, l 971). Anal. G . L Z. Kalocsai...Howie. Eulite, granulite, Broken Hill district, New South Wales (Binns, 1962). Anal. R. A. Binns. 46. Single-Chain...-0rthopyroxenc-quart2 rock, Pond Inlet, NE. Baffin Island (Howie, 1963). Anal. R. A. Howie. 27 Eulite, pyroxene-...gruoerite--siderite rock., Wabush lron Formatlon, south-western Labrador (Klem, 1966). (Cl 18-385, b 9·020
 
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