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Plagioclase from
Amphibolite quarry, Wieściszowice, Gmina Marciszów, Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Amphibole Supergroup1 photo of Plagioclase associated with Amphibole Supergroup at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Amphibolite quarry, Wieściszowice, Gmina Marciszów, Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1251180
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1251180:0
GUID (UUID V4):b836c1af-a925-4715-905a-8228fe574ce4
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
1.5km (0.9 miles) Colourful Lakelets, Wieściszowice, Gmina Marciszów, Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
11.7km (7.3 miles) Borówno melaphyre quarry, Krzeszów, Gmina Kamienna Góra, Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
18.9km (11.7 miles) Borowice, Gmina Podgórzyn, Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
18.9km (11.7 miles) Cieplice-1 borehole, Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój, Jelenia Góra, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
19.6km (12.2 miles) Borowy Jar, Jelenia Góra, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
20.6km (12.8 miles) Owiecznik melaphyre quarry, Boguszów-Gorce, Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
22.7km (14.1 miles) Novátor mine, Bernartice, Benešov District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
23.7km (14.8 miles) Stibnite occurrence, Książ, Wałbrzych, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
26.7km (16.6 miles) Michałowice granite quarry, Piechowice, Karkonosze County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
27.6km (17.1 miles) Winna Góra quarry, Piotrowice, Gmina Męcinka, Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
References
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ional regime, the Kraków–Lubliniec Fault Zone, Poland Ewa Słaby a,⁎, Christoph Breitkreuz b, Jerzy Żaba...Centre in Warsaw, 00-818 Warszawa, Twarda 51/55, Poland Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, TU Bergakademie...University of Silesia, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Będzińska 60, Poland d Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology...University, 02-089 Warszawa, Żwirki i Wigury 93, Poland e Mineralogy Department GZG, Georg-August-University...(thinned marginal sector of Baltica) and the Upper Silesian Block (a sector of the Brunovistulia composite
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Instytut Geologiczny, ul. Jaworowa 19, 53–122 Wrocław, Poland † Department of Earth Sciences, Keele University...medium- to low-pressure granulite, and in turn by amphibolite facies metamorphism. All the terrane boundaries...unit; NRo – Nowa Ruda ophiolite; PG– Pyszczyńska Góra; Rud-Jan Mts – Rudawy Janowickie Mountains; SD –...complex polyphase sequence of movements under amphibolite to greenschist facies conditions, which may represent...metavolcanic rocks, ranging in age from Cambrian to Lower Carboniferous. The metasediments, largely slates
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i t h o s The Izera metabasites, West Sudetes, Poland: Geologic and isotopic U–Pb zircon evidence of...Geologicznych PAN, Podwale 75, PL-50449 Wrocław, Poland Instytut Geologii Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza...Mickiewicza, Maków Polnych 16, PL-61606 Poznań, Poland Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut der Johann-Wolfgang...Geologicznych PAN, Podwale 75, PL-50449 Wrocław, Poland. Tel.: + 48 71 3416344; fax: + 48 71 3376342. E-mail...MGCR (Mid-German Crystalline Rise); MSZ (Moravo-Silesian Zone, vertical ruling); RHZ (Rhenohercynian Zone);
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bottom to top and east to west: (1) the undeformed lower plate Brunia, the Brunian domain; (2) a zone of...deformation and metamorphism of the lower plate, the Moravo-Silesian domain; (3) the upper plate, consisting...(1994) for review). The NE-SW-trending Moravo-Silesian domain is a belt of sheared and metamorphosed...high-graderocks ~ Variscan metamorphosedrocks MORAVO-SILESIAN ~ Brunian b aofbasement ZONE Brunia s e m e ~#Z...N W - S E crosssection is shown in Fig. 3. The Silesian domain has traditionally been subdivided into
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in the Strzelin Massif, Fore-Sudetic Block, SW Poland: mutual relationships and implications for secular...University of Wrocław, 50-205 Wrocław, Plac M. Borna 9, Poland; teresa.oberc-dziedzic@ing.uni.wroc.pl Département...concern the nature of the lower continental crust. Our knowledge of the lower crust mainly comes from:...granites, largely produced by partial melting at lower crustal depths (e.g. Kemp and Hawkesworth 2005)...metamorphic rocks Viséan flysch of the Moravo–Silesian Basin mafic and ultramafic rocks of Central Sudetic
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Albian (Uppermost Lower Cretaceous) Sands of Miechów Synclinorium, Southern Poland Jakub Kotowski * ...of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland; knejbert@uw.edu.pl (K.N.); dolszews@uw.edu.pl...provenance; Bohemian Massif; Miechów Synclinorium; Poland 1. Introduction In the history of the Earth, the...Szczecin–Miechów Synclinorium [3], is located in southern Poland (Figure 1). That area, during the Middle and Late...dominated [7]. Today, the Albian sands occurring in Poland are intensively mined as raw material for the glass
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Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on...were later found to the northeast of town, in the lower Fanadinho Creek area. These, too, are still in full...quality, but much richer in epidote, was found in the lower Fanadinho Creek area, where mining operations began...base of the layer. In sharp contact with the two lower layers, there is a soil capping with a thickness...Macaúbas Group. He distinguished 318 between a “Lower Unit” (consisting of quartzites, micaceous quartzites
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M~nchberg Massif; MP, Moldanubian Pluton; M-SZ, Moravo-Silesian Zone; N-KC, Neukirchen-Kdyn~Complex; N-KZ, Ni...Massif (Fig. 1) comprising parts of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria and Germany. The block is truncated to...(SZ),Moldanubian (MZ) and Moravian (or Moravo-Silesian) Zones. Early nappe concepts developed to explain...applicable elsewhere in this orogenic belt. Moravo-Silesian Zone The Cadomian-consolidated Bruno-Vistulian...(Suess, 1897). This area is known as the Moravo-Silesian Zone (MSZ). The MSZ basement south of the Elbe
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and its metamorphic envelope (West Sudetes, SW Poland) ANDRZEJ KOZŁOWSKI, SŁAWOMIR ILNICKI*, WITOLD MATYSZCZAK...Warsaw, Al. Żwirki i Wigury, 93, PL-02-089 Warszawa, Poland. *E-mail: slawomir.ilnicki@uw.edu.pl ABSTRACT:...and its metamorphic envelope (West Sudetes, SW Poland) Acta Geologica Polonica, 66 (3), 451–471. Warszawa...322–312 Ma) and its surroundings in West Sudetes (SW Poland) have provided data on Nb-Ta-REE minerals from...cummingtonite + anorthite or the presence of Ca-rich plagioclase with actinolite seem to be reliable mineral proxies
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Jagiellonian University, Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Kraków, Poland Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts...Kraków Research Centre, Senacka 1, 31-002 Kraków, Poland A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Accepted...from the ca. 60 Ma Silesian Unit flysch rocks (Western Outer Carpathians, southern Poland) have been studied...considered to represent rocks derived from the Silesian Ridge, one of the internal source areas that supplied...improve knowledge concerning the evolution of the Silesian Ridge. Electron probe microanalysis Th–U–total
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eclogite-bearing orthogneiss nappe, with a structurally lower sequence without eclogite exposed in a tectonic...metapelites is garnet–staurolite–kyanite–biotite–plagioclase–muscovite–quartz–ilmenite ± rutile ± silli-manite...structurally lower metapelites (garnet–staurolite–biotite–muscovite–quartz ± plagioclase ± sillimanite...kyanite) and amphibolites (garnet–amphibole–plagioclase ± epidote) indicate a metamorphic peak of 10...33%) within plagioclase–clinopyroxene symplectites, epidote and late amphibole–plagioclase domains. Garnet
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MOLDAN UBIAN s. str. Gfohl unit < Ci MORAVO - SILESIAN (medium to high grade) D Drosendorf unit (low...Evolution S. VRANA, P. BLUMEL, and K. VIII Moravo-Silesian Zone VIII. A Introduction Z. MfsAR and M. X...Igneous Activity (Cadomian Plutonism in the Moravo-Silesian Basement) F. FINGER, G. FRASL, A. DUDEK, E. JELiNEK...and Metallurgy AI. Mickiewicza 30 30059 Krakow Poland P. BLilMEL Institut fur Mineralogie Technische...Geological Sciences Cybulskiego 30 50205 Wroclaw Poland E. JELINEK Department of Geology Charles University
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Orlica–Śnieżnik Massif Mid-German Crystalline Rise Moravo–Silesian Zone Staré Město & Zábřeh granitoid e om De ...Orlica–Śnieżnik Massif Cambro–Ordovician gneiss Moravo–Silesian Zone Neoproterozoic basement & Devonian metasedimentary...Kaczawa Complex Metasedimentary cover Leptyno–amphibolite complex Cambrian–L. Carboniferous metasediments...1980) facilitated the gravitydriven extrusion of lower crustal material accompanied with the emplacement...and references therein), known as the Moravo– Silesian Zone. This episode was characterized by the deposition
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Kraków Research Centre, Senacka 1, 31-002 Kraków, Poland Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University...Jagiellonian University, Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Kraków, Poland [Received 29 January 2010; Accepted 6 August 2010]...Rożnowskie Lake (Silesian Unit, SE Poland) are studied. They are considered to represent the Silesian Ridge, one...allanite breakdown and new monazite formation at amphibolite-facies conditions (Gieré and Sorensen, 2004;...~50 60 Ma Silesian Unit flysch rocks near Gródek at the Rożnowskie Lake (southern Poland) (Fig. 1).
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Centre in Wrocław, Podwale St. 75, PL-50449 Wrocław, Poland (Received 6 May 2011; accepted 5 January 2012;...in their respective P–T records. The upper and lower units form the respective margins of the hanging...footwall of the suture zone and are dominated by amphibolite grade metasedimentary successions. The middle...the Czech Republic to the Sudetes Mountains in SW Poland (Fig. 1b). In its southern part, the Moldanubian...Orlica–Śnieżnik Dome in the hinterland from the Silesian domain (Velké Vrbno Dome, Keprník and Branna units
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CAROLINE STONE QUARRY John D. Marr, Jr.' and Lauck W. Ward2 C i The Caroline Stone Quarry is located in...in southwestern Caroline County, Virginia approximately 1mile west of U. S. Highway 1 and 1 mile north...north of the North Anna River (Figure 1).The quarry is owned and operated by the Caroline Stone Company...Entrance to the quarry requires permission of the quarry supel-intendent. The Caroline Quarry is situated...mylonitized and fractured crystalline rocks. In the quarry these crystalline rocks are unconformably overlain
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pegmatite from Piława Górna, the Sowie Mts. block, SW Poland Adam PIECZKA1*, Adam SZUSZKIEWICZ2, Eligiusz SZEŁĘG3...and Geochemistry 30-059 Kraków, Mickiewicza 30, Poland; pieczka@agh.edu.pl University of Wrocław, Institute...Geological Sciences, 50-205 Wrocław, Cybulskiego 30, Poland University of Silesia, Faculty of Earth Sciences...and Petrography, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Będzińska 60, Poland University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology, Institute...Petrology, 02-089 Warszawa, Żwirki and Wigury 93, Poland AGH University of Science and Technology, Department
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extrusion and horizontal channel flow of orogenic lower crust: key exhumation mechanisms in large hot orogens...early sub-vertical fabric developed in the orogenic lower and middle crust during intracrustal folding followed...of the lower crustal rocks. These events were responsible for exhumation of the orogenic lower crust from...developed at medium to low pressure in the orogenic lower and middle crust during vertical shortening. Fabrics...a heterogeneous mixing of blocks and boudins of lower and middle crustal rocks and for their progressive
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that occur together with serpentinites within amphibolite facies gneisses in the Moldanubian Zone, east...the eclogites share a medium to low-pressure amphibolite facies metamorphism. P–T conditions estimated...eclogite facies and UHPM rocks that are hosted by amphibolite and granulite facies lithologies, respectively...eclogites that form lenses and boudins within amphibolite facies gneisses in the Moldanubian Zone. The...rocks that occur as lenses and boudins within amphibolite and granulite facies rocks, while the blocks
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retrograde metamorphism in the Niedźwiedź Amphibolite Massif (SW Poland): from incipient melting to pumpellyite...figures and 6 tables Abstract: The Niedźwiedź Amphibolite Massif (eastern part of the Fore Sudetic Block...Block, NE Bohemian Massif) consists of foliated amphibolite, which contains subordinate irregular nests and...epidote-bearing leucotonalite schlieren and clinopyroxene-plagioclase aggregates. The granofels records the peak metamorphic...produced leucotonalitic melts and clinopyroxene-plagioclase restite. The peak P/T conditions show that Niedźwiedź
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CROWLEY, Q. G. Review of geochemical variation in Lower Palaeozoic metabasites from the NE Bohemian Massif:...geodynamic concepts 337 HENK, A. Foreland-directed lower-crustal flow and its implications for the exhumation...VELLMER, C, KERN, H. & MENGEL, K. The Variscan lower continental crust: evidence for crustal delamination...Kroner et al. present evidence for this process from lower crustal rocks now exposed in the Stare Mesto Belt...and younger than the 456.1 + 1.8 Ma age of the lower Caradoc Llanwrtyd volcanic series (see Tucker &
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Geologicznych, Cybulskiego 30, 50-205 Wroctaw, Poland (e-mail: palex@ing, uni. wroc.pl) Abstract: A synthesis...the Variscides: the Sudetes area in southwestern Poland and northern Bohemia. Geologically, the area is...Crystalline High; MO, Moldanubian; MS, Moravo-Silesian, RH, Rhenohercynian: ST, Saxothuringian: TB, Tepla-Barrandian...Massif, together with the southern part of the Silesian-Lusatian Plain (in the geological sense collectively...documented Devonian and low-grade metamorphosed Lower Palaeozoic basement (Grad et al. 2002). The Variscan
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consist of several types of amphiboles, calcic plagioclase (andesine to labradorite) and ilmenite, variably...of charcoal taken from the base of the Neolithic quarry, where a large amount of waste from making of semi-finished...tool production Archaeological finds in Neolithic quarry sites in the Ji­ zera Mountains were discovered...contact metamorphism (geological hammer for scale – lower right quadrant). 4.1. Jistebsko The work done by...coarse tools made from metabasites are present. The quarry field No. 1 covers an area of 154 00 m2 and is
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and geochemistry of granitoid gneisses from SW Poland: evidence for an Avalonian affinity of the Brunian...University of Wrocław, Pl. Borna 9, 50-204 Wrocław, Poland ‡Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität...Variscan belt and the Brunian microcontinent in SW Poland have been dated by ion-microprobe and 207 Pb/206... Zircon ages and geochemistry of gneisses from SW Poland 509 Figure 1. Location of Brunia at the eastern...Crystalline High; MO – Moldanubian; MS – Moravo-Silesian; RH – Rhenohercynian; ST – Saxothuringian; SU
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dating of detrital zircon in the Cambrian of central Poland: implications for Gondwana versus Baltica provenance...Geological Institute, Rakowiecka 4, PL-00975 Warszawa, Poland Received 14 June 2000; received in revised form...Keywords: geochronology; zircon; Cambrian; Precambrian; Poland 1. Introduction The age spectra of detrital zircons...and the Eastern European Platform in Poland: the Upper Silesian Massif, the Malopolska Massif, and the...(Fig. 1; [8]). Trilobite faunas from the Upper Silesian [9] and the Malopolska [10] massifs indicate that
 
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