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Halite from
Vestfold Hills, Ingrid Christensen Coast, Princess Elizabeth Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Halite
Formula:NaCl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Halite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vestfold Hills, Ingrid Christensen Coast, Princess Elizabeth Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:142186
Long-form Identifier:1:3:142186:6
GUID (UUID V4):161300f1-859b-4e99-bd21-becc09c36f70
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PROTEROZOIC OF AUSTRALIA AND THE CAINOZOIC OF ANTARCTICA M.R. WALTER and J. BAULD Bass Becking Geobiological...Proterozoic of Australia and the Cainozoic of Antarctica. Precambrian Res., 21: 129--148. Carbonate sediments...occupy enclosed glacial basins in both the Vestfold Hills, and the Taylor and Wright Dry Valleys; Lake...n that a large number o f lakes and ponds in Antarctica support benthic mats constructed b y filamentous...\ VICTORIA LAND DRY+VALLEYS / ROSSI ,/ / //J 0 AN2/153 Fig. 5. Map of Antarctica showing the
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areas of the Soya Coast, the Vestfold Hills and the Southern Victoria Land of Antarctica have been analyzed...Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the Southern Victoria Land. The west and east lobes of this lake chemically...Pond in the Wright Valley of the Southern Victoria Land. Lake Vanda is strongly stratified in both the salinity...INTRODUCT!ON THE SOUTHERN Victoria Land, the Soya Coast and the Vestfold Hills (Fig. 1) are spotted by many...salts. The ice-free area of the Southern Victoria Land is situated in the Transantarctic Mountains to the
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COASTAL AND SUBGLACIALPOLAR CARBONATES, EAST ANTARCTICA C. PrasadaRao', I.D. Goodwin'and J.AB. Gibson'...Pleistocenepolar carbonates occurin East Antarcticain shelf, coast,lakes and marginalto underneath glaciers, associatedmainly...bivalves anddiatoms. Coastalcarbonates (in the Vestfold Hills) are calciticand contain faunal assemblagessimilarto...marginal to subglacial polar carbonates from East Antarctica and present preliminary results on·their sedimentology...of aragonitic carbonates inice-freeregions of Antarctica (Hendy et al, 1979;Aharon 1988; Bird et al. 1991;
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Kump L. R. Kunk M. J. Kurz M. D. Kyte F. T. Lal D. Land L. S. Landing W. M. Landis G. Lange R. A. Langmuir...HEINRICHD. HOLLAND:The analysis of fluid inclusions in halite 485 JIANGZHUSHENG,R. P. PHILP and C. A. LEWIS:Identification... Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues by Elizabeth Kay Bemer and Robert A. 59(1 591 Articles TZEN-FU...Froidevaux System” edited by K. Fuchs 797 LYNTONS. LAND:“Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures”...JEANDUBESSY,MAURICEPAGEL,JEAN-MICHELBENY, HILBERT CHRISTENSEN,BERNARD HICKEL, CHARLES KOSZTOLANYI and BERNARDPOTY:
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Kump L. R. Kunk M. J. Kurz M. D. Kyte F. T. lal D. Land L. S. Landing W. M. Landis G. Lange R. A. Langmuir...HEINRICHD. HOLLAND: The analysis of fluid inclusions in halite . . . . ..... JIANGZHUSHENG, R. P. PHILPand ...Water Cycle: Geochemistry and Environment” by Elizabeth Kay Berner and Robert A. 59cI Bemer ,,,..,_,....Froidevaux . System” edited by K. Fuchs _. LYNTONS. LAND: “Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures”...Consortium study of relationship to inclusions in Alian Hills 781 I3 aubrite ........... and ROD G. ZIKA: Measurement
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saline environments such as evaporites of gypsum, halite and other materials in the alkaline Wadi Natrun...cyanobacteria and other microorganisms within gypsum and halite evaporites in the lagoons of Baja California, Mexico...driest places on our planet. In certain sites, halite evaporites are found, which are inhabited by unicellular...hypersaline lakes in Antarctica. One of these, Deep Lake located in the Vestfold Hills, is the source of...Antarctic lake (Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, East Antarctica) with a salinity of 200 showed presence of a
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Quaternary glaciation in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica Mingyu Yang ⇑, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher R...the seafloor of the adjacent McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. The lack of reliable groundwater samples in...brine bodies along the continental margin of Antarctica. Given the propensity for cryogenic brine formation...ANDRILL; McMurdo Dry Valleys; McMurdo Sound; Antarctica 1. INTRODUCTION Despite the extremely cold and...conditions in the snow-free McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), Antarctica, liquid water exists at temperatures well below
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Introduction and overview 1.1. Antarctic desert habitats Antarctica is a remote continent whose ice-free desert regions...SiO2 , overlain by layers of gypsum, anhydrite halite and sulfates of Na and Mg, topped by an oxidized...vulnerable to another stress which is extreme in Antarctica and currently escalating — enhanced UVB radiation...geomorphology on Mars analogous to habitats found in Antarctica (Carr, 1996). These include an ocean (Head et...the McKay model draws on analogous habitats in Antarctica suitable for practical evaluation of hypotheses
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3390/min11050507 Academic Editors: Yasuhito Sekine, Elizabeth B. Rampe and Department of Earth and Planetary...sediments and soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), Antarctica to determine contributions of sulfate from bedrock...sulfate forming under dry polar conditions in Antarctica [7–9]. An additional difficulty is that previous...sulfate forming under dry polar conditions in Antarctica [7–9]. An additional difficulty is that previous...(iii) atmospheric deposition [11–13]. Antarctica is an 13]. Antarctica is an excellent geochemical analog
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basins (SIMBs), and have been documented 78 in Antarctica (Gibson, 1999) and the Canadian High Arctic (Hughen...Arctic Canada (Vincent et 91 al., 2000) and Antarctica (Brady and Batts, 1981; de Mora et al., 1994)...Peltier, 2004) 296 indicate that the Sachs Harbour coast is presently submerging at a rate of ~2.50 mm/a...ratio of ~1 observed in brines formed through 365 halite dissolution (Grasby and Chen, 2005) (Fig. 9a)....brine formation has been 17 380 observed in Antarctica where brines have depressed the freezing point
Report (chapter)
by chain lines. Sample suites: 1, subglacial~ Antarctica, Aharon (1988): 2, subglacial, Quebec (Hillaire-Marcel...7, lacustrine carbonates from Taylor Valley, Antarctica (Hendy et al. 1979); 8a 20000 years old, 8b 10000...lacustrine carbonates, Lake Fryxell, Taylor Valley, Antarctica (Lawrence & Hendy 1989); 9a modern cold-water...Tasmania (Rao & Green 1982; Rao 1988); 10 Permian, Antarctica authigenic lacustrine (Lord et al. 1988) and...diagenetic modification of Mg/Ca ratio and 6180 values (Land 1980), this was not found to be the case for the
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earth scientists in the scientific exploration of Antarctica can best be judged from the fact that 7 years...geology and solid earth geophysical literature of Antarctica. It is worth noting that two important differences...where earth scientists have but a fragment of Antarctica exposed to study and at times make, in some cases...parts of Antarctica, and the infuence of new plate tec¬ tonic thinking not only in Antarctica but in its...Adie freedom of the SCAR nations working in Antarctica, to give to SCAR his services, for the second
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Yukon Territory, Canada (Wilson et al. 2006) Antarctica (Jull et al. 1988) Orthoserpierite Ca(Cu,Zn)4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O...mines No. 44, 45, Kopeisk, Russia OK Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica (Chesnokov et al. 2008) (Gore et al...and most prolific slag localities are near the coast of Lavrion (also known as Laurion or Laurium), Attiki...example, calcite (CaCO3), gypsum (CaSO4·2H2O), and halite (NaCl) are phases that occur in the white efflorescence...clinocervantite fluorite wurtzite wurtzite wurtzite fluorite halite rutile sphalerite wurtzite sphalerite Laser crystals
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Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11.4 Singhbhum Craton of Singhbhum-Orissa...Antarctic Craton 2.13.1 Napier Complex of Enderby Land 116 118 120 121 3 Early Proterozoic crust 3.1...Structural Zone 3.6.4 Western Churchill Province 3.6.5 Eastern Churchill Province 3.6.6 Woprnay Orogen 3.6.7 Western...African Craton: Northern Africa 4.10.1 Darfur and Eastern Tchad Basement 4.10.2 Tuareg Shield 4.11 Indian...4.11.1 Cuddapah-Kaladgi-Godavari Region 4.11.2 Eastern Ghats Belt 4.12 Australian Craton 4.12.1 Carpentarian
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Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11.4 Singhbhum Craton of Singhbhum-Orissa...Antarctic Craton 2.13.1 Napier Complex of Enderby Land 116 118 120 121 3 Early Proterozoic crust 3.1...Structural Zone 3.6.4 Western Churchill Province 3.6.5 Eastern Churchill Province 3.6.6 Woprnay Orogen 3.6.7 Western...African Craton: Northern Africa 4.10.1 Darfur and Eastern Tchad Basement 4.10.2 Tuareg Shield 4.11 Indian...4.11.1 Cuddapah-Kaladgi-Godavari Region 4.11.2 Eastern Ghats Belt 4.12 Australian Craton 4.12.1 Carpentarian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz grains from the Harney Peak Granite, Black Hills, South Dakota 147 Contrcile des concentrations... 629 Oxygen and carbon isotope measurements of land snail shell carbonate 637 Water and magmas: clarification...of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: suboxic diagenesis DOUG CULLEN...lignin geochemistry of marine southern Washington coast 819 Bismuth drites DALE C. MANN LINDA BIES-HORN...chalk 144'1 bitumen, oil sand 1187 I 3 -7 Black Hills, S.D. Black Sea, stenols 471 BR Archean Geochemistry
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1985 with his map of the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. We are pleased to republish these paintings...tent camp in the Mesa Range of northern Victoria Land at the foot of Mt. Masley. Printed on acid-free...during the 1969/1970 field season. Prolog Antarctica! The very word brings to mind images of fierce...winds, bone-chilling cold, and utter desolation. Antarctica has the reputation of being a hostile place unfit...worked there have a very different impression of Antarctica. To us it is a place of unsurpassed beauty where
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evaporite salts. 22 Gypsum beds.â–ˇ 23 Halite beds (chevrons and crusts).26 Halite cumulates, rafts and coated grains...Lenticular mudcracks.42 Haloturbated and chaotic halite.43 Shallow mineralogic re-equilibration.43 Porosity...loss. 44 Deeper burial - mosaic halite?.45 Limpid dolomite in mosaic halite.46 Burial of sulphate evaporites...Evaporites as uplift indicators.51 Fibrous gypsum and halite (satinspar).52 Saline clay authigenesis 54 Textural...and northern Arabian Gulf.159 Coastal sabkhas of eastern Saudi Arabia.160 Sabkhas of coastal Kuwait.161
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changes of administrative divisions in central and eastern Europe during the last 60 years are the reason...Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica), then those of pegmatitic origin in the same...nephrite, asbestiform actinolite byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic...Taiwan. Green at Ospinskoye and Bartogolskoye, both eastern Sayan Mts., and at Kartashubinskoye, western Sayan...91°10·.103°-ff. 89°59',Z =4. d: 12.8(10)-65(7)- hills, Baden, Germany. Most common occurrences in 4.4
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1990), carbonates (Morse and Arvidson 2002) and halite (Bosworth 1981) all indicate enhanced, though non-linear...preliminary study of 200 randomly sampled Jack Hills zircons indicates that ~5% of the analyzed zircon...(1981) Strain-induced preferential dissolution of halite. Tectonophysics 78:509–525 Boullier AM (1980) A...of PanAfrican metamorphism in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Terra Nova 9:47–51 Fleming S, Rohl AL (2005)...Proterozoic geological history of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Contrib Mineral Petrol 115:184–203
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iron sulfate) occur in addition to the more usual halite and gypsum (Long et al. 1992a,b). This creates...for example, is a hypersaline lake saturated with halite, and it supports thriving populations of heterotrophic...life at the limit of salt saturation—even inside halite and mirabilite crystals (Wei-Dongyan et al. 1998)—is...with halite and imply high levels of ancient biological production at salinities exceeding halite saturation...saturation (Friedman 1980). Evaporitic rocks, including halite and potash salts, some over 500 Myr old, normally
Report (issue)
mirabilite deposits near Hobbs Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica...... C. J. Bowser, T. A. Rafter, and R. F...metamorphism at the unfaulted contact of the Red Hills ultramafic intrusion of New Zealand, which has long...High-temperature contact metamorphism at the Red Hills ultramafic intrusion—Wairau Valley, New Zealand...Mountain serpentinite extrusion in California coast ranges. ( eol. Soc. Amer. Bull. '77, 451-472. Dietz... 465-467. Watson, K. D. (1967) Kimberlites of eastern North America. Im P. J. Wyllie, (ed.), Ultramafic
Report (issue)
concentrates of the Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Eastern Bushveld Complex. The type locality is the Merensky...dunite pipes at Driekop, Mooihoek and Onverwacht, Eastern Bushveld Complex (in Ramdohr, 1980; Kinloch, 1982);...enstatite chondrite meteorites including St. Marks, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa and Kota Kota, Malawi...primitive chondrite inclusions in the Allan Hills (Antarctica) aubrite (Lipschutz et al., 1988). World Occurrences...Koegas 324, near Westerberg in the western Asbestos Hills, Northern Cape Province. This mineral is, in fact
Report (Issue volume)
in the northeast, Adelaide Geosyncline in the eastern third of the State, and basement inliers in the...metavolcanic successions, occurring mainly on the eastern Gawler Craton, include the Hutchison Group (~1900-1845...rocks of South Australia. Of primary concern is the land surface, sea bed of the adjacent continental shelf...for future research and a guide to discovery and land planning into the 21st Century. Included in The...south, prior to the break-up of Australia and Antarctica in the Late Cretaceous; these formed the Bight
Report (issue)
Giant Oil and Gas Fields.11 Bill St. John: Antarctica—Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential.55 A. R. Green...Robert A. Meneley: Oil and Gas Fields in the East Coast and Arctic Basins of Canada.143 A. C. Grant, K....McAlpineandJ. A. Wade: The Continental Margin of Eastern Canada—Geological Framework and Petroleum Potential...as yet unexplored and little-known continent, Antarctica. When asked about the philosophy of the Wallace...of its habitat, the disintegrating rocks of the land surface, the astounding record of its own evolution
 
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