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Apatite from
Santiago Island, Sotavento Islands, Cape Verde


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3A
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Santiago Island, Sotavento Islands, Cape Verde
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1384792
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1384792:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Silva, L.C. 1976. Note on the occurrence of niobium-rich zirconolite in carbonatitic rocks of SĂŁo Tiago island (Cape Verde Republic). Garcia de Orta, Serte de Geologia, Revista da Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, Lisboa, 4, 106.
Silva, L. C., & Ubaldo, M. L. (1985). Consideraçoes geológicas e petrogenéticas sobre os tufos carbonatíticos globulares da estrutura alcalino-carbonatítica do Norte de Santiago, arquipélago de Cabo Verde. Garcia de Orta. Série de geologia, 8(1-2), 1-6.
Gerlach, D. C., Cliff, R. A., Davies, G. R., Norry, M., & Hodgson, N. (1988). Magma sources of the Cape Verdes archipelago: isotopic and trace element constraints. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52(12), 2979-2992. doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(88)90162-7
Kogarko, L. N. (1993). Geochemical characteristics of oceanic carbonatites from the Cape Verde Islands. South African journal of geology, 96(3), 119-125.
Hoernle, Kaj, Tilton, George, Le Bas, Mike J., Duggen, Svend, Garbe-Schönberg, Dieter (2002) Geochemistry of oceanic carbonatites compared with continental carbonatites: mantle recycling of oceanic crustal carbonate. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142 (5) 520-542 doi:10.1007/s004100100308
Barker, A. K., Holm, P. M., Peate, D. W., & Baker, J. A. (2009). Geochemical stratigraphy of submarine lavas (3–5 Ma) from the Flamengos Valley, Santiago, southern Cape Verde islands. Journal of Petrology, 50(1), 169-193. doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egn081
Martins, S., Mata, J., Munhá, J., Mendes, M. H., Maerschalk, C., Caldeira, R., & Mattielli, N. (2010). Chemical and mineralogical evidence of the occurrence of mantle metasomatism by carbonate-rich melts in an oceanic environment (Santiago Island, Cape Verde). Mineralogy and Petrology, 99(1-2), 43-65. doi.org/10.1007/s00710-009-0078-x
Barker, A. K., Holm, P. M., Peate, D. W., & Baker, J. A. (2010). A 5 million year record of compositional variations in mantle sources to magmatism on Santiago, southern Cape Verde archipelago. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 160(1), 133-154. doi.org/10.1007/s00410-009-0470-x
Doucelance, R., Hammouda, T., Moreira, M., & Martins, J. C. (2010). Geochemical constraints on depth of origin of oceanic carbonatites: the Cape Verde case. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(24), 7261-7282. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.09.024
Mata, J., Moreira, M., Doucelance, R., Ader, M., & Silva, L. C. (2010). Noble gas and carbon isotopic signatures of Cape Verde oceanic carbonatites: implications for carbon provenance. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 291(1-4), 70-83. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.052
M.M.S. Cabral Pinto, M.M.V. Silva,R. Hernandez and E.A. Ferreira Da Silva (2011) Mineralogy of stream sediments and soils of Santiago Island, Cape Verde. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts. Mineralogical Magazine 75:610
 
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