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Opal from
Sima Aonda Superior, Auyán-tepui (Auyán-tepuy; Ayan Tepui), Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar, Venezuela


Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sima Aonda Superior, Auyán-tepui (Auyán-tepuy; Ayan Tepui), Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar, Venezuela
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13931
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13931:1
GUID (UUID V4):ae57a667-abda-493b-9717-a691d58e2301
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Jordá Cerdá, F. 1972. Las superposiciones en el gran techo de Altamira [Superimpositions on the great...las Cuevas Prehistóricas Jordá Cerdá, F. 1981. El gran techo de Altamira y sus santuarios superpuestos...karst (see Quartzite Caves of South America). Venezuela is second only to Brazil in the area covered by...the location of c. 95% of all caves recorded in Venezuela. In this area, karst is developed in carbonate...Depth (m) 1. Toca da Boa Vista Brazil 97000 1. Sima Pumacocha Peru 638 2. Toca da Barriguda Brazil
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Guatemala, Speleodesmoides raveloi at about 3200 m in Venezuela, and several species in highlands of New Guinea...distributed throughout northwest South America, in Venezuela, Col^ombia and Ecuador, and across Peru, thereby...Central Bolı́via, in the Guyana and Tepui mountains across Venezuela, and in north Brazil near the Venezuelan...Saman Cave, Sierra del Perijá, Northwestern (NW) Venezuela; coleopterans (e.g., carabids, staphylinids, tenebrionids...America (e.g., Physocyclus in Venezuela, Brazil, and Uruguay, Priscula in Venezuela and Brazil, Modisimus in
 
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