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Augite from
Oasis Valley, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oasis Valley, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1382878
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1382878:9
GUID (UUID V4):46f4678e-c10c-4048-ae2d-4572e798dc95
References
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Cauldrons of Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley Caldera Complex, Southern Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Prepared...CAULDRONS OF TIMBER MOUNTAIN-OASIS VALLEY CALDERA COMPLEX, SOUTHERN NEVADA Panorarmc v1ew of Timber Mountain...Cauldrons of Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley Caldera Complex, Southern Nevada By F. M. BYERS, JR., W. J. CARR...relations of igneous rocks of Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley caldera complex, including calc-alkalic rocks...rocks from Silent Canyon caldera, southwestern Nevada volcanic field UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nuclear waste repository within Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA Elizabeth Warner Holt  Cooperative Institute...(CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA Received 18 July 2001; received in revised form 25...other locations in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, suggest that the uppermost 5^20 m of the 12.8...Bishop Tuff and in the 1912 ash-flow sheet in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska. The remarkable...9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakers¢eld, CA 93311-1099, USA. Tel.: +1-661-398-2153. E-mail address: ewholt_liz@yahoo
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Accepted Manuscript The Gold Flat Tuff, Nevada: Insights into the evolution of peralkaline silicic magmas...Belkin, J.C. White, D.C. Noble , The Gold Flat Tuff, Nevada: Insights into the evolution of peralkaline silicic...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT The Gold Flat Tuff, Nevada: insights into the evolution of peralkaline silicic...11142 Forest Edge Drive, Reston, VA 20190-4026, USA d e SC c Environment Centre, Lancaster University...University, Richmond, KY 40475, USA PO Box 8077, Reno, NV 89507, USA * RI Institute of Mineralogy
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the Lathrop Wells Volcanic Center, Southwestern Nevada: An Evaluation of Polycyclic Volcanism by Brent...eruptive units at the Lathrop Wells volcanic center, Nevada. The measured directions of remanent magnetization...Mountain, located near the southwest boundary of the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is being evaluated to determine...located in the southern part of the Great Basin in Nevada, approximately 140 km northwest of Las Vegas, Nev...1985b; and Turrin and Gillespie, 1986). Locally, the Nevada Test Site area consists of a number of coalesced
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silicic appearance contain small plagioclase and augite phenocrysts, and ubiquitous opaque minHUDOV ,W...Ignimbrite is more phenocryst-rich and contains more augite. Overlying this unit is a sequence of dacitic and... 1941) types. The concept of Valley-type caldera is clear. Many Valley-type calderas of Oligocene to...EHHQ FODUL¿HG e.g. Valley Caldera (Smith and Bailey, 1968), Timber-Mountain-Oasis Valley Caldera Complex...1977), and Long Valley Caldera (Bailey et al. 1976). Subvolcanic equivalent of the Valley-type caldera has
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA SYDNEY H. BALL WASHINGTON...Lime________________________________ Lida-Goldfleld Valley.. __________________________ Mount Jackson and..._____________________,_________ Economic geology _____ _ __ _ _ Valley north of Slate Ridge.__________.____________ Goldfleld...___ Iron ores.________________________ Ralston Valley...______________________________ Stonewall Flat_____________...______ Biotite andesite__________________.____ Augite andesite____________ _.________ Later rhyolite
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Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0395, USA Received 5 December 1997; revised version received...Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0871, USA. fractional crystallization (AFC) during differentiation...erupted: Iceland [12,13], Oasis Valley–Timber Mountain caldera complex, Nevada [14], the Yellowstone Plateau...of phenocrysts from ignimbrites of the central Nevada and San Juan caldera complexes in an attempt to...oxygen isotope ratios were measured on biotite, augite and hornblende phenocrysts. All mineral separates
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chevkinite-group minerals in the rhyolitic Joe Lott Tuff, Utah, USA J. Galanciak, B. Bagiński, R. Macdonald, H.E. Belkin...chevkinite-group minerals in the rhyolitic Joe Lott Tuff, Utah, USA, LITHOS(2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019...chevkinite-group minerals in the rhyolitic Joe Lott Tuff, Utah, USA J. Galanciaka, B. Bagińskia,*, R. Macdonalda,b, H...11142 Forest Edge Drive, Reston, VA 20190-4026, USA ro of ° Corresponding author: e-mail B.Baginski1@uw...Ma from the Mount Belknap lP caldera in Utah, USA. Despite having a volume of ~150 km3 it is compositionally
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Extensional Tectonics Near the Latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada Edited by Brian P. Wernicke Department of Earth...extensional tectonics near the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada / edited by Brian P. Wernicke. p. cm.— (Memoir...index. ISBN 0-8137-1176-2 1. Geology, Structural—Nevada—Las Vegas Region. I. Wernicke, Brian P., 1958-...and faulting in the Castle Mountains, southern Nevada and eastern California .......0... 00 ccc Ryan...Range Province, northwestern Arizona and southern Nevada; Implications for kinematic models DE CONnUNCHIOL
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ANALYSES OF VOLCANIC ROCKS FROM THE NEVADA TEST SITE AREA, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA by William R. Page Open-File...Report 90-87 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency............in pocket Figure 1. Map showing the Nevada Test Site and surrounding 2. 3. Standard card...Yucca 4. Map showing calderas of the southwestern Nevada volcanic field...................................rock samples collected from the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, between 1960 and 1985 were analyzed
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901775-7320, USA 4 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 1272 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OR 97403, USA RECEIVED...work at Okmok has focused on parental magmas (Nye, 1983; Nye & Reid, 1986), evolutionary trends (Miller...of this hotter material with slab-derived fluids (Nye & Reid,1986; Johnston & Draper,1992). The calculated...ppm), and has a liquidus temperature of 14098C (Nye & Reid,1986). Experimental data on another magnesian...between NBS 610 and the plagioclase standard, Lake County Plagioclase, to give final values. Typical error
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University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Abstract. Since the late Pleistocene, eleven cinder...alkalic suite contain Mg-olivine (Fo75_94), chromite, augite, and late plagioclase and titanomagnetite. The...crystallized in the sequence olivine-spinel, plagioclase, augite to a total crystal content of 34% (Table 2). Sample...mafic dike rocks characterized by phenocrysts of augite + / - olivine, and either amphibole or biotite...mica lamprophyre, with phenocrysts of Mg-biotite, augite, and sometimes olivine in a groundmass of potassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Survey, 956 National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192, USA ABSTR ACT The composition of chevkinite and perrierite...analyses of chevkinite-group minerals from the western USA, Virginia, Russia, Malawi, Mali and Madagascar are...middle member of the Harpole Mesa Formation in Grand County, Utah (Izett and Wilcox, 1968, Table 1), a formation...Mitchell, 1966) from unspecified localities in Bedford County, Virginia. To these we add USNM 78512 from the...came from the original (but unspecified) Bedford County collection of Eakins (1891). The history of research
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Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich...New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA d CODES Center of excellence and School of Physical...high-T rhyolites of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: jawolff@mail...central role occupied by the Bishop Tuff (Long Valley, eastern California), the subject of many studies...caldera, USA). B. Tshirege Member of the Bandelier Tuff (high-silica rhyolite, Valles caldera, USA). C. Bishop
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rocks isotopically similar to parts of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. 1. Introduction A large number of...single eruption from the Long Valley Caldera in Quaternary times. The Long Valley Caldera (like Yellowstone...granodiorites and granites (representing part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith), and Palaeozoic and Mesozoic metamorphic...evolution of the Bishop Tuff magma in the Long Valley chamber. However they were probably formed prior...thought to represent early eruptions from the Long Valley magma chamber, between 1.9 and 0.9 Ma. The Bishop
Report (volume)
147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico...structures in the San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 5...Mountains, 10. sees. 33-35, T. 4 S., R. 6 W., Socorro County, N.Mex. Anapra Sandstone 1. Early Cretaceous 2...6. 7. 9. 10. at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dofta Ana County, New Mexico, Appendix 2 in Lovejoy, E. M. P., Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Abstract. The late Pleistocene caldera complex of...Bailey 1966), and a number of ash-flow tufts in Nevada, including the Grouse Canyon Member of the Belted...documented in several large silieic systems: Long Valley, California (Bailey et al. 1976), the Valles caldera...Volcanism, structure, and geochronology of Long Valley caldera, Mono Country, California. J Geophys Res...cauldrons of Timber Mountain Oasis Valley caldera complex, southern Nevada. US Geol Surv Prof Pap 919:1
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Report (volume)
............................. 69 72 Southern Nevada.............................................. Pompeii...Quartette mine.......... 70 FIG. 1. Index map of Nevada ............................................. 9...67 15. Sketch plan and section of the southern Nevada blanket deposit..... 73 5 PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT...BULLFROG, AND OTHER MINING DISTRICTS IN SOUTHERN NEVADA. By FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The...topographic map, covering 8,500 square miles of southern Nevada and including the Goldfield and Bullfrog districts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geography, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration...University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...matrix consisting mostly of plagioclase, olivine, augite, and volcanic glass. This sample contains euhedral...International 147, 677–687. Bindeman, I.N., Schmitt, A.K., Valley, J.W., 2006. U–Pb zircon geochronology of silicic...silicic tuffs from the Timber Mountain/Oasis Valley caldera complex, Nevada: rapid generation of large volume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
site of an Fe-rich chevkinite-(Ce) from Mianning County, Sichuan, China, was given 2+ 2+ by Yang et al...the Gold Flat Member of the Thirsty Canyon Tuff, Nevada; although he did not present an analysis we have...assesses equilibrium among T-magnetite, ilmenite, augite, pigeonite, orthopyroxene, olivine, and quartz...latites (e.g., Mills et al. 1997; Bindeman and Valley 2003) to ~700 °C in rhyolites (Mills et al. 1997;...1997; Scaillet and Macdonald 2001; Bindeman and Valley 2003; Troll et al. 2003; Macdonald et al. 2015a)
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ALLUVIAL BASINS OF ARIZONA AND ADJACENT PARTS OF NEVADA, NEW MEXICO, AND CALIFORNIA NEW MEXICO .___1...Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...Alluvial Basins of Arizona and Adjacent Parts of Nevada, New Mexico, and California By FREDERICK N. ROBERTSON...alluvial basins of Arizona and adjacent parts of Nevada, New Mexico, and California. (Geological Survey... Vekol Valley........................................................ Lower San Pedro Valley........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and ranges from salite in felsic rocks to high Mg augite and Cr-rich diopside in lamprophyres. Less common...porphyritic texture. Clinopyroxene occurs as discrete augite phenocrysts that are partially resorbed and altered...common and are mostly dominated by fine-grained augite and apatite, with enclaves of clinopyroxene-pl...sulfide inclusions. Pyroxene-bearing minettes contain augite macrocrysts and pale brown biotite and/or phlogopite...rocks, to Cr diopside in spessartites, and Mg-rich augite in minettes. Elongate clinopyroxene laths in monzogranite
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University of Colorado CB-399, Boulder, CO 80309-0399 USA Department of Geological Sciences, Mashad Branch...University of Colorado CB-399, Boulder, CO 80309-0399 USA. Tel.: +1 303 4927170. E-mail addresses: saeed.saadat@colorado...embedded in subhedral and anhedral phenocrysts of augite clinopyroxene resulting in subophitic texture....present in the matrix are predominantly diopside and augite (Wo40–44, En42–48, Fs12–14; Appendix B2). The amount...dissertation at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Financial supports were provided by the Society
 
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