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Scolecite from
Victoria Falls, Hwange District, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe


Classification
Species:Scolecite
Formula:CaAl2Si3O10 · 3H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified, XRD
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Scolecite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Victoria Falls, Hwange District, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1244330
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1244330:5
GUID (UUID V4):ad5126ee-cfee-40d8-8a93-442e3c1a965a
Nearest other occurrences of Scolecite
78.5km (48.8 miles) Matetsi River, Hwange District, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
however, and it is only in places, towards the north, that we find areas of crystalline schists, associated...probably as large and as interesting as that of North America itself. During the past eight years I have... few of the intensely sheared rocks of such a district, except very locally--a few yards, for instance...instance, Rifle Kopje, near Bulawayo; Red Hills, Victoria district). In other cases they occur as well-marked...along the easter1~ border of the province of Matabeleland, from Gwelo to the Umniati River. Each separate
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the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were powdered and analyzed...heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite...DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have the same...same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with different...STILBITE ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE
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the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were powdered and analyzed...heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite...DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have the same...same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with different...STILBITE ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
examine the country in the ncighbourhood of the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi l River before the meeting of...rapid traverses of the wild country eastward of the Falls I gleaned much information regarding the geology...particularly describe, extends from near the Victoria Falls eastward for about 75 miles to the confluence...with its tributary the Deka, and from the plateau north of the Zambezi southward for about 70 miles to the...and foremost. In his eastward march from the Victoria Falls in 1855, and in his later journeys of 1860
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outpourings of lavas, such as those seen at Victoria Falls, and known as the Karroo Basalts, took place...Occurrence: Star Zinc and Excelsior Prospects, 19 north and west of Lusaka; Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe. Use:...Nampundwe; at Nakambala and elsewhere in the Mumbwa District: at Kasumbalesa on the Copperbelt; and in the...Occurrence: At Nakambala and elsewherer in the Mumbwa District; numerous occurrences in N.W. Province. Uses:...Districts of the Central Province and in the Mansa District of the Luapula Province. At Mansa. for example
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
einschlieBlich Sfidafrikas, Swaziland, Mogambique und Zimbabwe. Es wird die Geschichte von frfiheren Arbeiten...including South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. A history of previous work done on Karoo volcanism...l'Afrique du Sud, le Swaziland, le Mozambique et le Zimbabwe. Un historique des travaux ant6rieurs effectu6s...Lebombo Monocline Karoo Volcanic Rocks of South-East Zimbabwe Karoo Volcanic Rocks in Namibia Geochronology...group of Cretaceous volcanic rocks are found in north-west Namibia. The best preserved and most voluminous
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beside a compass, they deflect the needle from the north. Magnetite, a particularly strong natural magnet...recent deposits of ice ages in northern Europe and North America, but also found in older rocks. grey clay...Cretaceous and younger rocks of southern England and North America have many greensand beds.  green colour...other sedimentary rocks, as in this example from Zimbabwe. BANDED  magnetite and chert layer GRAIN SIZE...dilute acid. Soapstone quarries of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe provide material for sculpture. SOAPSTONE A
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near Pretoria in the Transvaal, in the Bembezi district of Rhodesia, and near Bingara, New South Diamonds...Corundum FIG. 14. CORUNDUM-BEARING ROCK. Tuli district, X 25 diam. (From Geol. Mag.} Rhodesia. The...Balangfoda, Ceylon. (Crook & Jones.) Variety. Victoria. (Richards.) TiO2 .. ... FeO .. .. MnO...CRYSTAL OF ILMENITE. Porphyrite, Wood's Point, Victoria, Australia. Australia. X 60 diam. haematite,...FIG. 24. KYANITE, in Schist, Rhodesia. X North-Western 50 diam. When thick enough to be coloured
Journal (volume)
are found in the valley of the lrawaddy River, north of the country's capital , Rangoon . Sri Lanka is...completely spherical - it is slightly flattened at its North and South Poles. More than seven-tenths of its surface...Jewel ', created by a 16th-century goldsmith <Victoria and Albert Museum , Londonl. A 17th-century Italian...may, if steep enough, present the danger of rock falls or landslides. Electrical storms If you are caught...the mineral can be found in the Derbyshire Peak District, especially in the regions surrounding the towns
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in addition to the natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite into which k . F. Gehlen and J. N. Fachs, s and... 1883. North Table Mtn., Golden, Jefferson Co., Colorado. 79. W . F . Hillebrand, 1883. North Table Mtn...Hillebrand, 1883. North Table Mtn. A second generation. 81. W . F . Hillebrand, 1883. North Table ]~l'tn.... 82. W.F. Hillebrand, 1885. North Table Mtn. ~ Optics, E. T. Wherry(1923, 1925). 83. F . W . Clarke and... Patton, 1900. North Table Mtn. A second generation. 85. H . B . Patton, 1900. North Table Mtn. 2 A third
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1943) of multiple intrusions in the Aliwal North district. A detailed petrological account of a sill...Intensive examination of the dolerites of the Calvinia district in the Western Karroo, and a reconnaissance across...intensive examination of intrusions in the Kokstad district. 1946. Collecting traverses across the Karroo...by the sea between 33° 20' and 31° 30' S. Lat. North of this latitude it is folded down by an easterly...monoclinal flexure of Liassic age, giving rise in the north to the Lebombo chain. In Natal and Zululand the
Book (volume)
Embroidery, Lace and Egyptian Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum-, &c. A. S. P.-P. j Vulture;...Wolf, Friedrich August. Donald Francis Tovey. Victoria, Tommasso L. da; Wagner: Biography (in part) ...University of Pennsylvania. Formerly Worcester -j Zimbabwe. Reader in Egyptology, University of Oxford. Author...Campaign-, The Jena Campaign. Worth. r Victoria Falls; -j Victoria Nyanza (in l Zambezi; Zululand. Author...Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. Author of Text-Book of North Semitic Inscriptions-, &c. G. C. L. George Collins
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(1842-1910). Founder of the National Penny Bank. M.P. for North Islington, 1885-1906. I Sapphire; [ Serpentine...Department, 1868-1888. Formerly Curator of the Royal Victoria Museum, Netley. Author of Monograph of the Asiatic...Spencer, M.A. Linda Mary Villari. r Scapolite; Scolecite. ^ Savonarola. Luigi Villari. Italian Foreign...notice by M. de Lescure. ST FLORENTIN, a town of north-central France, in the depart¬ ment of Yonne, 37...ST GALL (Ger. St Gallen), one of the cantons of north¬ east Switzerland, on the border of the Austrian
 
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