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Hypersthene from
Christmas Island, Australia


Locality type:Territory
Classification
Species:'Hypersthene' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hypersthene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Christmas Island, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1419453
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1419453:7
GUID (UUID V4):dfc8f952-346d-4cf7-9388-e389857f455b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Andesite, Hypersthene, from Pitcullo, Fifeshire, 346. Andrews, C. W., A Visit to Christmas Island, 422 ;...Zealand, 516. Obituary of, 426. Artesian Waters of Australia, 177. Arthropods, Fossil, from Carboniferous,...377. Bmichardia (Brachiopoda) and Age of Seymour Island Beds, 258. Boulenger, G. A., Eocene Lizards in...73. Brachiopoda, Bouchardia, and Age of Seymour Island Beds, 258. British Museum Return, 474. Bromehead...Foraminifera, W. Australia, 83. Chilton, Charles, Triassic Isopod Crustacean, 277. Christmas Island, a Visit
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limestone-soils from Java, Madura, Timor and the Christmas-Isle, S. of Java. Those from Java were collected...from Timor by Prof. JONKER (f 1906); those from Christmas-Isle by Dr. J. VOUTE, astronomer (Lembang). Finally...little calcite, very little epidote, little hypersthene, rather much. ilmenite, much. kyanite, partly...absent. calcite, very little epidote, little hypersthene, rather much ilmenite, rather much limonite...little epidote garnet glauconite 0.00% 20 hypersthene ilmenite, little magnetite, much plagioclase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
P.G.S., exhibited Devonian fish-remains from Australia and the Antarctic regions, and discussed our present...forms occur in Victoria and New South Wales (Australia). A Coccostean related to Phlyctanaspis from Gippsland...similar age in other Pacific regions, such as Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Formosa, the Philippines,... Borneo, Celebes, Sumatra, Nias, Timor, Australia, besides indicating a Miocene origin. It was pointed...limestones nor to corresponding rocks from Christmas Island, as both large and small species occurred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
l E 4. "F]~¢~VOLC~NI(~ ROCKS o f C[[ICIST~[:~S ISLAND (INDIAN OCEItN). 1 By WAI,TEI¢ CAM~nEr, L SMITH...distant on the south-east. The greatest length of the island is 12 miles, and its greatest width 9. I t forms...feet, heing within 20 miles of the coast of the island. T h e slope,~ of the upper part are nearly alike...~1, p. 2i}5~.~ A scientific exploration of the island was made by the late Dr. C. W. Andrews in 1897-98...of the island is taken. Dr. Andrews showed t h a t the oldest sedimentary rocks in t h e island were limestones
Book (volume)
University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria, Australia Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla...University of Sydney Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Contributors vi Charles S. Hutchison Russel...Macquarie University North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Douglas F. Williams Department of Geology and...501 503 505 Western and Northwestern Margin of Australia J. J. Veevers I. Introduction ................. Structural Units along Southern Continental Australia ........... III. Southern Continental Margin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
O. Box 3300 South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia c Department of Earth Sciences, University of...Queensland 4072, Australia d ACQUIRE, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia e Centre...Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79 Hobart Tasmania 7001, Australia Received 18 March 2004; received in revised form...sea-rafted pumice reached the eastern coast of Australia in October 2002, approximately 1 year after a...systems disturbed the drift of pumice to eastern Australia, as well as the importance of the combined wave
Book (edition)
crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. The name hypersthene is given to those richP.r in iron. Group B. The...Orthoclase Diop side Albite Wollastonite Anorthite Hypersthene Leucite Olivine N epheline Akermanite Kaliophilite...ROCKS molecules like diopside, wollastonite and hypersthene. For most rocksJ however, the norm reproduces...minerals are ortho- and clino-pyroxenes. The hypersthene-granite or "charnockite" of St. Thomas' Mount...(Ab 5 An 1 ) and three or four per cent. of hypersthene in little colourless gra.ins. ERUPTIVE ROCKS:
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United States, Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Australia and other countries. In May 1964, the Upper...order to avoid a typhoon generated in the Luzon Island area. On 11 October, when the typhoon had already...shifted north- westward, the ''Vityaz'' passed Luzon Island and entered the South China Sea. The bottom seas...the Coco Channel but still short includes which Island Arc, the ship traversed a submarine volcanic ridge...5305 on Investigations were performed near Barren Island at station No. oys. 26 October in order to tune
Report (issue)
$iate> in; ^(mpfmn wth the D of Indonesia, the Australia qgy- and (Geophysicst and the Tectonics of the...with the Geological Survey of Indonesia, the Australia Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics............................................... Australia Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology, and Geophysics............................................ Christmas Island .......................................................................... Separation of Australia from East Antarctica ................... Mesozoic
Report (volume)
.._.______._._..._...____.._....____.... Burnt Island Conglomerate.________________________________ Cornwallis...___--------Hamilton Island Limestone.__________-_____--_____--------Hound Island Volcanics__________...Island____ Geologic map of the northwest tip of Hamilton Island-... Diagram showing stratigraphic relations of..._____ Photographs showing features of the Hound Island Volcanics: 9. Basaltic pillow flQW-----------___-_--_----___...percentages of various rock types in the Hound Island Volcanics _______________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
along the magmatic front of the Mariana Central Island Province (CIP), and have moderate L R E E enrichments...transitional, ranging from slightly nepheline- to hypersthene-normative. Even though some of these samples...Ocean mantle is defined by data on OIB from Christmas Island [27] and the Southeast Indian Ridge [27,28]...Volatiles in submarine volcanic rocks from the Mariana Island arc and trough, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 43, 305-312...volcanism: The case of the Volcano Arc and the Marianas Island Arc, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 76, 312-320, 1986
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is also poorly known. More sampling of the outer island arcs or ocean-side regions of the trenches is necessary...alteration. Hypersthene is usually less abundant (8-17%) than the clinopyroxene. The hypersthene is usually...usually altered into antigorite. Laminated hypersthene-bearing gabbros with parallel oriented cumulates of...of gabbro in which the orthopyroxene, usually hypersthene, is a constituent dominant over the clinopyroxene...consists essentially of calcic plagioclase and hypersthene. The secondary minerals are chlorite, antophyllite
Book (edition)
migration curve determined by measurements in Australia is again widely different from either. Such results...the Pacific Solutions from guano layers (Christmas Island, Nauru, and others). have reacted with the...following derived normative minerals are used: hypersthene (hy) = (Mg,Fe)O-SiO2 diopside (di) = CaO-(Mg...mineral composition of the olivine basalt from Gough Island, as shown below. Norm Mode Or aAn =Feldspar...It should be remembered that the composition hypersthene-basalts). of the pyroxenes in these diagrams
Report (issue)
done under the auspices of the forn1er South Sea Island Department of Japan. CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT....................................... 32 Kusaie Island .................................................in Saipan Island, 11:ariana Islands} 40. Map showing foss il localities in T inian Island, Mariana Islands...cover 41. Map showing fossil localities in Rota Island, Mariana Islands..... FIGURES Figure Page l...collecteu by Otsuki ( 1915) from Garapan on Saipan Island, Mariana group, and first confirmed the presence
Report (volume)
Eyre expedition of 1901–2: ‘The Dead Heart of Australia’ The start of geography textbook writing ‘The...geography; insights into Gregory’s appreciation of Australia General geography Climate variations in the past...Expedition to Cyrenaica (Libya) Third visit to Australia (1909) Book reviews Dent’s scientific primer ‘Geology’...the iron ore resources of the world More on ‘Australia’ Visit to Dalmatia in 1911 Continued contributions...BA involvement and Gregory’s fourth visit to Australia Other activities ‘The First Inhabitants of the
Report (issue)
Acknowledgments Geotectonics Origin of Lithosphere behind Island Arcs, with Reference to the Western Pacific .Ralph...Harvey Deep-Water, Shallow-Water, and Subaerial Island-Arc Volcanism: An Example from the Virgin Islands...basalt; he not only brought out the elegant order of island-arc geology but proposed a dynamic mechanism to...grapple with the other fields (gravity anomalies and island arcs, pyroxenes, plagioclases, layered complexes...field experience. The intense con¬ centration on island arcs in the 1930s and early 1940s gradually broadened
Journal (volume)
Guadalcanal Coloured Geological Sketch Map of Malaita Island Plate I Photomicrographs of San Jorge Rocks 1.... Selefer, San Jorge. 4. Micro -syeno -diorite, Island Point, Buena Vista . Photomicrographs of Rocks...stream section, Buena Vista . 4. Metamorphosed hypersthene-gabbro, Suva , Santa Ysabel. Photomicrographs...Vista 1. Albitised and chloritised basalt, Rocky Island Point, Rongovali, San Jorge. 2. Albitised basalt...basalt, Buena Vista . 3. Albitised basalt, Island Point, Buena Vista . 4. Albitised and chloritised dolerite
Book
Yorkshire stone which fell in 1881 (olivine-hypersthene chondrite) showing typical flow lines on the...creates \new crust rapid sedimentation oceanic island volcano slow sedimentation on \ocean floor mountain-building...named after places, anglesite (from Anglesey, an island off the north-west coast of Wales); some after...characterized by the presence of plagioclase, hypersthene and diopside. Charnockites are the most widespread...granulite-type rocks formed from basic igneous rocks. Hypersthene is the characteristic mineral present. Eclogites
Book
Yorkshire stone which fell in 1881 (olivine-hypersthene chondrite) showing typical flow lines on the...volcanicity and intrusion creates \new crust oceanic island volcano rapid sedimentation in ocean trench...named after places, anglesite (from Anglesey, an island off the north-west coast of Wales); some after...leavape plates: Brazil. . its plagioclase, hypersthene and diopside. Charnockites are the most widespread...mineral present. from et basic igneous rocks. Hypersthene is the Eclogites are coarse-grained rocks composed
Journal (issue)
0 ,._, • HO " _,, 20MILE. 13• Bansna Island~ SCALE OF MILES 0 • I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...(with or without considerable proportions of hypersthene) coarse- I THE ANORTHOSITES IN THE COLONY...be present are augite (a diallage variety), hypersthene, olivine and iron ores (ilmenite and titanomagnetite)...after olivines. Incomplete reaction rims of hypersthene are quite common around olivine. The relationship...with euhedral aligned felspar crystals in giant hypersthene. From the point of view of origin, two of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxford; the Rev. John Bufton, Bunbnry (Western Australia); Hervie l~ugent Grahame Cobbe, Esq., Burbank...111 Grand Junction Ltd., Coolgardie (Western Australia) ; John R. Don, Esq., Head Master of Waitaki High...Graptolites and other Invertebrate Fossils of Australia, and to aid him in the further study of the Palmontology...following: Dr. C. W. Andrews's 'Monograph of Christmas Island' and Prof. J. W. Gregory's Catalogue of the...of South Australia in 4 sheets; 3 sheets of the Geological Survey Map of Western Australia ; 244 sheets
Book
4.3.2 The continents 4.3.3 Mountain chains and island arcs The prediction of volcanic eruptions Geothermal...are distributed between the continental rises, island arcs and trench structures, volcanic and other...Such trenches occur in association with off-shore island arc structures round the north and western margins...Trenches are also associated with the South Sandwich Island arc, the Caribbean arc and the Banda arc. The Philippine...Paul’s Rock, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island. At Bouvet Island the system turns east
Journal (issue)
YORKSHIRE also in: U.S.A. · SOUTH AFRICA · AUSTRALIA RHODESIA& SWITZERLAND 1 • J .. LIQUIDPRISMATIC.... . . . . . . 127 The Geology of Mf"\vanganu Island, Whitworth, M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.) Western . ...facing p. 148 • • • • • The Geologyof Mfwanganu Island, Western Kenya . Plate I 1. 2. 3. Fig. I...I Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 Mfwanganu Island, showing the northward-facing dip-slope and the steep.... . ,, of the . . . Sketch map of Mfwanganu Island and neighbouring small islands, Lake Victoria
Book
CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY, 4 Australia 14. G. BÁRDOSSY KARSTIC BAUXITES 1 5. A. W. ROSE... igneous rocks are generated which build up an island arc. The alkali-calcic rocks represent the characteristic...characteristic association of volcanics of the island arcs and active continental margins. Andésites or...the collision of continents or of continents with island arcs, and this in turn in an increased thickness...gases (e»g. the Siretoko-losan volcano on Hokkaido Island, Japan). Sassollte together with ammonium-borates
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138 Alcyonaria, Fossil from New Zealand and Australia, 75, 424 and Corals, of Sind, 80, 526 Alder,...Skeleton of ALpyornis, 97, 241 Expedition to Christmas Island, 99, 19 Complete Skeleton of Dmornis maxinnis...yEgyptiaca, Monograph 00, 2>2)^ ; Island, ; ; 00, of Christmas Fossil Mam- malia of Egypt, 00, 401... 96, 494 Anglo-Belgian Basin, 70, 158 Anguilla Island, W. Indies, Geological and Physical Development...New South Wales, 01, 573 Glossopteris, Flora of Australia, 02, 173,346; Fossil Flora of Cumberland Coalfields
 
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