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Biotite from
La Gomera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view La Gomera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1418299
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1418299:4
GUID (UUID V4):9dd9cd2a-3bcc-47d3-95de-3ec5941b6c4f
Localities for Biotite in this Region
Vallehermoso beach dykes, Vallehermoso, La Gomera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain
Vallehermoso dykes, Vallehermoso, La Gomera, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain
References
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The Geology of the Canary Islands The Geology of the Canary Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo Honorary...Honorary Emeritus Professor, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Valentin R. Troll Chair in Petrology...MPS Limited, Chennai, India Foreword The Canary Islands are highly popular with tourists, yet relatively...brings up to date and extends the earlier “Canary Islands” publication by Carracedo and Day, which appeared...growth, and erosion of these fascinating volcanic islands. The opening chapter provides an overview of the
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sulphide-mineralization in the islands of Tenerife and La Gomera (Canary Archipelago, Spain) Received: 29 January...alkaline intrusive complexes of Tenerife and La Gomera (Canary Archipelago, Spain) are formed by nepheline syenites...represent part of the oldest magmatic episodes in both islands. This work presents new studies of the petrographic...(magmatic and hydrothermal) in La Gomera and only one (magmatic) in Tenerife. The migration of the sulphide-bearing...hydrothermal ÂŻuids far from the intrusive complex in Tenerife, and/or possible re-melting process could explain
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interactions in the basal complex of La Gomera, Canary Islands A. DemĂ©ny & R. Casillas & E. Hegner &...plutonic rocks of the Basal Complex of La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain, were studied by means of major and...studies on the plutonic rocks of Fuerteventura and La Palma. Late-stage alteration took place during the...Departamento de Edafologia y Geologia, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. SĂĄnchez, 38206 La Laguna...Laguna, Tenerife, Spain E. Hegner Department fĂŒr Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Ludwig Maximilians UniversitĂ€t
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isotope studies on the basal complexes of the Canary Islands: implications on the conditions of their genesis...Laboratoire de G6ochimie des Isotopes Stables, CNRS LA196, Contrib N ~ IPG et UER des Sciences de la Terre...from the basal complexes of Fuerteventura, Gomera and La Palma. These complexes comprise alkali plutonic...samples from the basal complex of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, showed evidence of interaction with low 6~80...concerning the nature and origin of the rocks. The Canary Islands, situated on the West African continental rise
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shield stage lavas from the central and western Canary Islands: Insights into mantle and crustal processes...January 2006; accepted 14 February 2006 Abstract The Canary plume is one of the few plumes that can be traced...stage lavas erupted on Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera and La Palma because these rocks are believed...elements ([La/Sm]n = 2.1–4.6), strongly enriched in Nb and Ta ([Nb/La]n = 0.8–1.5, [Ta/La]n = 1.3–1.8)...8) and depleted in K and Pb ([K/ La]n = 0.2–0.7; [Pb/La]n = 0.2–0.3), resembling HIMU-type magmas. Fractional
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Iceland Thor Thordarson & Armann Hoskuldsson . Canary Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day . The north...Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: Mount Pelée and the destruction of Saint-Pierre...Livingstone & Andrew Warren Canary Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas...Composition of magmas 5; Morphology 1 of the islands and subsidence histories 6; Controls on volcano...flora and fauna 12; Getting to and around the islands 14; Practicalities in the field 16 Fuerteventura
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SAGA Canary island-hopping holiday in February 2007, spending 4 or 5 nights on each of Tenerife, La Palma...Palma and La Gomera, before flying onto Lanzarote for three weeks. We have been visiting Lanzarote on-and-off...it with some of the other Canarian islands. We flew into Tenerife (south), then several days later we...hydrofoil ferry to La Palma (2 hours), another express hydrofoil from Palma back to Tenerife then straight...straight on to La Gomera (35mins). After returning from La Gomera we took a taxi in Tenerife to the northern
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Fuerteventura, Canary Islands: A model of submarine growth and emergence of tectonic volcanic islands Margarita...38390 Santa Úrsula, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Ramón Casillas‡ Departamento de Edafología...Facultad de Biología, Universidad de La Laguna, C/Astrofísico Sánchez, s/n, 38206 La Laguna, Santa Cruz de...de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Carlos Fernández§ Departamento de Geodinámica y Paleontología, Universidad...Universidad de Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, 21071 Huelva, Spain Kadosa Balogh# Institute of Nuclear Research
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FĂ­sica-GeologĂ­a University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain Managing Editor Sebastian...Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface The Canary Islands Archipelago, offshore of the northwestern coast...of 20 million years. This 600-km-long chain of islands (total population *2 million), with their beautiful...destination is Teide Volcano on the Island of Tenerife, the centerpiece of Teide National Park and the...the central part of Tenerife, reaching the highest elevation in the Canaries and Spain. Moreover, if its
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OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, 35017 LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN 4 DEPARTMENT...differentiation models for magmas erupted on oceanic islands and is increasingly recognized (e.g. Thirlwall...Harris et al., 2000; Troll & Schmincke, 2002). In Tenerife, too, fractional crystallization was long considered...contribute to the evolution of felsic magmas in Tenerife (Wolff & Palacz, 1989; Wolff et al., 2000). Major...Viejo stratovolcano (the most recent succession in Tenerife, 5200 ka) have been explored in great detail by
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in a Nepheline-Syenite Inclusion From Tenerife, Canary Islands A.K. F e r g u s o n Department of Geology...inclusion found in an ignimbritic sequence f r o m Tenerife has revealed a variety of minerals which indicate...alkali feldspar, encloses earlier crystallized biotite, Mn-rich magnetite, sphene and perovskite. The...lavas. Introduction Syenitic inclusions f r o m Tenerife have been observed by m a n y workers (Jbr~mine...volcanology, geology and petrology of lavas on Tenerife has been published by Ffister etal. (1968). The
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isotope heterogeneity of the mantle beneath the Canary Islands: a discussion of the paper of Gurenko et al...olivine grains from the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro. As...As with prior studies of oxygen isotopes in Canary Island lavas (e.g. Thirlwall et al. Chem Geol 135:233–262...Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244, USA e-mail: jmdday@ucsd.edu...University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2E3, Canada La Palma olivine grains measured by LF (Day et al. Geology
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Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain Mercedes Muñoza,*, Juana Sagredob, Cristina de Ignacioc, Javier...Fernández-Suáreza, Teresa E. Jeffriesd a Departamento de Petrologı́a y Geoquı́mica, Fac. CC. Geológicas,...Madrid, Spain b Instituto de Geologı́a Económica, CSIC, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain c Departamento...Departamento de Matemáticas, Fı́sica aplicada y Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos...Carlos, C/Tulipán s/n, 28933, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain d Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum
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U-series disequilibria in volcanic rocks from the Canary Islands: Plume versus lithospheric melting CRAIG C...Sciences Dept., University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 2 (Received March 15,...are presented for Holocene samples from the Canary Islands and interpreted with special emphasis on the...alkali basalts and tholeiites from the eastern Canary Islands whereas lower ratios are exclusively found...found in differentiated rocks from the western Canary Islands. Those with ordinary Nb/U ratios are attributed
Report (chapter)
processes in the Basal Complex of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain A. DEMÉNY1, R. CASILLAS2, T. W. VENNEMANN3...VENNEMANN3, E. HEGNER4, G. NAGY1, A. AHIJADO2, J. DE LA NUEZ2, P. SIPOS1, S. PILET3 & J. MILTON5 1 Institute...Dpto. de Edafologia y Geologia, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. Sánchez, 38206 La Laguna...Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 3 Institut de Minéralogie et Géochimie, Université de Lausanne, L’Anthropole...feldspars from gabbros and basalts of La Palma, Canary Islands, were studied to determine primary, plumerelated
Book
Gillen Mars: the mystery unfolds Peter Cattermole La catastropl1e: 1vlontagne Pelee and the destruction...GEOLOGY IN EUROPE Auvergne Peter Cattermole Canary Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day Iceland Thor...Jean-Claude Tanguy Universite de Paris et Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris , U.W.E.L. LEARNING...PART 3 2 Spain: Canary Islands 6 Tenerife Lanzarote Fuerteventura Gran Canaria E l Hierro La Paln1a La...La Gomera Bibliography THE MEDITERRANEAN Italy Canipania Vesuvius The Phlegraean Fields Ischia Aeolian
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Petrology of the Las Canadas Volcanoes, Tenerife, Canary Islands WILLIA1V[IA~ffI~IDLEY Department of Geology...1969 Abstract. Tenerife is the largest of the seven Tertiary to Recent volcanic islands that make up the...the Canary Archipelago. The island is composed of volcanics belonging to the basanitetrachyte-phonolite...e assemblage that eharacterises many Atlantic islands. The most voluminous development of intermediate...t i o n has focussed on the oceanic islands. Most of these islands are composed of volcanic rocks derived
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Jean-Claude Tanguy Universite de Paris et Institut de Physique diz Globe de Paris OXFORD University Press...PART 3 2 Spain: Canary Islands 6 Tenerife Lanzarote Fuerteventura Gran Canaria El Hierro La Palma La...The Phlegraean Fields Ischia 10 22 30 Aeolian Islands Stromboli LlpMi Alicudi Filicudi Salina Seamounts...Portugal: the Azores 35 39 42 43 43 44 44 Sao Migt1el Santa Maria Terceira Graciosa Sao Jorge Pico Faial Flores...inclt1ded, for instance, tl1e Ca11ary Islands and the mid-Atlantic islands of Jan Mayen, Iceland, and the Azores
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Post-Caldera, Tejeda Intrusive Complex, Gran Canaria (Canary Islands): Insights from Mineralogy, and O- and H-Isotope...T I NG The Canary Archipelago is a NE^SW-trending alignment of seven volcanic ocean islands located 100^700...Canaria (28800’N, 15835’W), one of the central islands of the archipelago, comprises a Miocene basaltic...& Taylor, 1986; Larson & Taylor, 1986a). In the Canary Archipelago, hydrothermal and metamorphic processes...the intrusive rocks of Fuerteventura, Tenerife, La Gomera, and La Palma (e.g. Javoy et al., 1986; Schiffman
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New Insights from Fuerteventura Carbonatites (Canary Islands) Gabriele Carnevale 1, * , Antonio Caracausi...having been reported only in Cape Verde and Canary Islands. This paper provides an overview of the main...clinopyroxene from Fuerteventura carbonatites (Canary Islands). Trace elements show a similar trend as Cape...New Insights from Fuerteventura Carbonatites (Canary Islands). Minerals 2021, 11, 203. https://doi.org/10...Cape Verde Archipelago and Fuerteventura Island (Canary Archipelago). Carbonatite petrogenesis is still
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are irregularly distributed, with selvedges of biotite at the contact with the melanosome (grey arrow)...inclusion-rich portion of the garnet contain large residual biotite and ïŹbrolite needles. (c) Close up of the internal...melt inclusions in mantle xenoliths (La Gomera, Canary Islands; Frezzotti et al., 2002). Under near-surface...cordierite, with a schistosity deïŹned by iso-oriented biotite and sillimanite (Fig. 1a), locally overgrown by...ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) using a GeoLas system (Coherent, Germany)
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insight into sector zoning of a melanite crystal. G. DE GIUDICI, M. VOLTOLINI , M. MORET.– Microscopic surface...SHATSKY , N.V. SOBOLEV, A.A. ZAYACHKOVSKY.– Garnet-biotite-clinozoisite gneisses: a new type of diamondiferous...inclusions within spinel peridotite xenoliths, La Gomera, Canary Islands. M. GAST, H. SEIGEL , G. PANCZER, R. REISFELD
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SHATSKY , N.V. SOBOLEV, A.A. ZAYACHKOVSKY.– Garnet-biotite-clinozoisite gneisses: a new type of diamondiferous...inclusions within spinel peridotite xenoliths, La Gomera, Canary Islands. M. GAST, H. SEIGEL , G. PANCZER, R. REISFELD
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pyroclastic breccia of the Cabezo Negro de Tallante (SE Spain): The ïŹrst ïŹnding of carbonatite volcanism...Available online xxx The Cabezo Negro de Tallante volcano (SE Spain) is well known in literature for the...high-energy explosive eruption at the Cabezo Negro de Tallante volcano. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights...melting Liquid immiscibility Cabezo Negro de Tallante SE Spain 1. Introduction Carbonatites are deïŹned...Carbonatites are found on all continents and some oceanic islands, with ages ranging from Archean to present-day
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geo-community I think that we have to put up with a lot. La t ovembcr. Colin and I had a bncf visit 10 Norway...volunteer . All of our geoparks are strapped for cash. La t year the 1onhwest Highland Geopark in cotland was...places where significant damage has been caused in the la I few months. At Redcar, the beach has been stripped...replaced by calcite, involving a volume loss during de-dolomitisation, (see below). Thanks to Brian, we...definite internal radiating crystalline structure. de cribed a '"spherulitic concretions". Development
 
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