Locality type:

Valley

Classification

Species:

Forsterite

Formula:

Mg₂SiO₄

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

Click here to view Valle Guffari, Buscemi, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy

Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

1302922

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:1302922:7

GUID (UUID V4):

4da80b69-dda5-4e32-9561-9ceda8cae9ff

Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite

22.1km (13.7 miles)

ⓘ Mineo meteorite, Mineo, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy

24.0km (14.9 miles)

ⓘ Mount Caliella, Palagonia, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy

51.2km (31.8 miles)

ⓘ Contrada Maucini, Pachino, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy

53.8km (33.4 miles)

ⓘ Acqua Palomba, Pachino, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy

72.9km (45.3 miles)

ⓘ Mount Etna, Etna Volcanic Complex, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy

References

Manuella, F.C. (2011) Vein mineral assemblage in partially serpentinized peridotite xenoliths from Hyblean Plateau (south-eastern Sicily, Italy). Periodico di Mineralogia, 80, 2, 247-266

Correale, A., Scribano, V., and Paonita, A. (2019) A volcanological paradox in a thin-section: large explosive eruptions of high-Mg magmas explained through a vein of silicate glass in a serpentinized peridotite xenolith (Hyblean area, Sicily). Geosciences, 9(4), 150.

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	Correale, Alessandra, Scribano, Vittorio, Paonita, Antonio (2019) A Volcanological Paradox in a Thin-Section: Large Explosive Eruptions of High-Mg Magmas Explained Through a Vein of Silicate Glass in a Serpentinized Peridotite Xenolith (Hyblean Area, Sicily) Geosciences, 9 (4) 150 doi:10.3390/geosciences9040150	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	Serpentinized Peridotite Xenolith (Hyblean Area, Sicily) Alessandra Correale 1 , Vittorio Scribano 2, ...Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa, 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy; alessandra.correale@ingv.it (A.C.); antonio.paonita@ingv...Università di Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95129 Catania, Italy* Correspondence: scribano@unict.it Received: 17...harzburgite xenolith from the Valle Guffari nephelinite diatreme (Hyblean area, Sicily). The glass vein postdates...tephrostratigraphic investigations [4] on Mount Etna volcano (Sicily, central Mediterranean area) have led to the surprising
	*Manuella, F. C. (2013) Can nanodiamonds grow in serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal systems? A theoretical modelling study. Mineralogical Magazine, 77 (8) 3163-3174 doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.8.10*	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	MANUELLA* Via Dell’Oro 137, I-95123, Catania, Italy [Received 4 October 2013; Accepted 4 November 2013;...fossil oceanic lithosphere beneath south-eastern Sicily (Italy; Manuella et al., 2013). This comparison aims...corresponding to about 290 kJ per kg of consumed forsterite, can trigger and sustain the hydrothermal convection...xenoliths from the Hyblean Plateau (south-eastern Sicily, Italy; Manuella et al., 2013 and references therein)...xenoliths from the Hyblean diatremes (south-eastern Sicily) is in progress, and analyses by Raman spectroscopy
	*Coltori, M., Grégoire, M. - Eds.* (2008) Metasomatism in Oceanic and Continental Lithospheric Mantle. Special Publication Vol. 293. Geological Society of London**	Report (volume)
	(USA) ERIC BUFFETAUT (FRANCE ) JONATHAN CRAIG (ITALY ) RETO GIERÉ (GERMANY ) TOM MC CANN (GERMANY )...M. COLTORTI Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy and M. GREGOIRE Université Toulouse III, France...of the upper mantle beneath the Hyblean Plateau (Sicily): evidence from pyroxenes and glass in peridotite...University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, 44100 Ferrara, Italy (e-mail: clt@unife.it) 2 Laboratoire Dynamique...of the upper mantle beneath the Hyblean Plateau (Sicily) is the purpose of the first paper by Perinelli

Forsterite from Valle Guffari, Buscemi, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy

Forsterite from
Valle Guffari, Buscemi, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy