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Travertine from
Travertine quarry, Geoagiu, Hunedoara County, Romania


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Travertine
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Travertine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Travertine quarry, Geoagiu, Hunedoara County, Romania
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1499143
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1499143:5
GUID (UUID V4):8d3e73e0-a68c-43cd-bd3c-c28864485244
References
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Journal (issue)
Zacaminte) Founded 1910 by the Geological Institute of Romania VOL. ISSN 1220-5648 85 No. 1 CONTENT page...some Neogene magmatites of |Metaliferi Mts. – Romania ………………………… 1 Gheorghe C. POPESCU, Antonela NEACŞU...porphyry copper deposits from Metaliferi Mountains (Romania) …..…………….……. 7 Essaid BILAL, Fernando Machado...Cireşata porphyry deposit, Metaliferi Mountains, Romania ….……………… 19 S. MIHAI, M. ZLĂGNEAN, S. HALGA Mining...porphyry Cu-Au systems at Voia, Metaliferi Mts., Romania ……………………………………………………………………………………………......… 38 Ion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
building stone 55 Cil Alla dykes swarm 341 Clare, County 348, 349 classification of igneous rocks 7 clay...Wolverson, obituary 375 Corallian facies 97 Cork. County 348, 349, 363 Corrin gham church building stone...324 Ballygiblin (Ireland) 364, 366 Ballymagarry Quarry (N. Ireland) 325, 326 Barking church building stone...Bedfordshire, travertine deposits 64 bees brood cells 173 beetles see Coleoptera Berkshire. travertine deposits...Brough ton Bay (South Wales) 147 Buckinghamshire, travertine deposits 64 building stones, in churches 55 --~
Journal (issue)
- Vol. 31 February 1985 No. 1 TRAVERTINE-MARL DEPOSITS OF THE VALLEY AND RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA...William F. Gianninil and Michelle M. Lorah2 The travertine and marl deposits of Virginia's Valley and Ridge...carbonate from fresh water streams and springs. Travertine is white to light yellowish brown and has a massive...visitation of American Indians to Frederick and Augusta county sites. Thomas Jefferson (1825) wrote an account...Figure 1. Travertine waterfall and cascade series on Falling Springs Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia
Journal (issue)
(CaCO2) rock. At times this “onyx” is really banded travertine formed around springs or caves or waterfalls...carved) in Pakistan or Mexico and usually is travertine. But rarely are “raw” specimens labeled as to...and noted a huge hunk of what appeared to be travertine but was labeled Cave Creek Onyx. So, I was off...Arizona Geological Survey had produced a photo of the quarry for one web site and an obscure publication, Stone:...go in search of the “onyx.” I did locate the old quarry by heading north from Carefree, Arizona, on the
Journal (issue)
Institute of Romania Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Damian, President of the Society of Economic Geology of Romania Editor...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Ioan Pintea, Geological Institute of Romania Mircea Ţicleanu, Geological...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Nicolae Buzgar, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi Marian...Marian Munteanu, Geological Institute of Romania Ioan Seghedi, Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian...Cluj-Napoca George Tudor, Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Rom . J. Mineral Deposits is also the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The occurrence of travertine in churches of the London Basin John F. Potter POTIER, J. F. 2000. The occurrence...occurrence of travertine in churches of the London B.asin. P:oceedings of the Geologists' Association...Association, 111, 55-70. Travertine is one of a number of matenals which have b~en incorporated into the fabric...been quamed initially from naturally deposited travertine/calcare?us tufa. SItes wI~llln and close to the...lichen and moss encrustation, all being typical. Travertine, being relatively soft an~ cavernous, attr~cts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo....Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey. in Crittenden County has one major shaft called the “Rock shaft.” The
Report (issue)
Frasch sulfur production in adjacent Culberson County, west Texas. Halite, gypsum, and barite have also...sedimentary rocks host Frasch sulfur mining in Culberson County, Texas (Fig. 2), and the evaporitic facies in the...elsewhere. Cinder block is produced at the Bermudez quarry and plant in western Ciudad Juarez, from sand and...Kline Mountain in the Black Range uplift, Sierra County, New Mexico (Fig. 1). The deposit was discovered...New Mexico, potash was discovered in 1925 in Eddy County, in the Snowden and McSweeny Oil Company well No
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with the travertine sequence. Australopithecus occurs in the youngest part of the oldest travertine. Other...Australopithecus africanus Dart in 1948 681 4. Quarry face in Thabaseek travertine showing Hrdlicka site 682 5. Black...Norlim travertine.... 685 6. Section in southwest wall of canyon cut through Norlim travertine 687 ?•...through apron of Oxland travertine 689 8. South half of Witkrans travertine 691 9. Diagrammatic cross...Kaap escarpment 698 INTRODUCTION this way the travertine at Gaap is being rapidly consumed by large scale
Report (issue)
field season of 1907. The hot sulphur springs and travertine deposits near Cody were described by George H...gravel plains are covered near the mountains by travertine terraces, upon the surface of which there occur...Within and above these gravels heavy layers of travertine have been deposited throughout a narrow zone...bordering the base of the uplift. That portion of the travertine flat which lies north of Shoshone Eiver has a...tubes extending down into their interior. The travertine is composed in part of crystals of selenite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Matlock Bath at zo-e. Two springs deposit travertine (calcareous tufa) which covers an area of about...We'! 7 AH. 1. INTRODUCTION Spring-deposited travertine (calcareous tufa) occurs in limestone areas throughout...deposits are forming as carbonate crusts in streams. Travertine is formed when a CO 2-rich groundwater discharges...the spring. Water temperature also influences travertine deposition. If the springwater is above air temperature...Association. 110,217··232. currently deposit travertine, namely Bath Spa and Matlock Bath. In the former
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and cost effective transport not only across the county but also for stone from quarries elsewhere in Britain...erroneously. 4. Distribution study The historic county boundary of West Sussex, including the area now...was broadly coterminous with the Kingdom, later County, of Sussex. The locations of stone-built churches...Calcrete Lavant Stone Beer Stone (and similar) Quarry Flint I I L L L L L L I L L L L L L L L L I I...pebbles Exotic stones Sarsen Stone Ferricrete Travertine L L L L L L L L 114 89 92 8 58 31 18 19 5
Report (issue)
----------------Utilization of waste ---------------Travertine deposits- --------------------- 6 6 6 6 T ...----Big Boulder quarry -----------------Travertine cliffs of Scott Gulch ---------Northeast quarry -----------------East...-----------------East quarry- -------------------Roadside and old quarries- ------------White quarry -------------------Red...-------------------Red quarry --------------------Pink quarry- -------------------Sienna quarry- ------------------Summary...*-««» Grant shaft group- ----------------Sienna quarry group- ---------------Other openings- --------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kola Superdeep Drillhole (SG-3) and the dolostone quarry are marked by a solid circle, star, and arrow,...Samples obtained from drillhole X (DH X) and from the quarry (Fig. 1) underwent low-grade greenschist facies...dolomitic travertine; (5) micritic dolostone with a thick travertine crust; (6) travertine mound; (7)...a thin travertine crust, DH X, 326.4 m (Fig. 2) The sample is represented by a thin travertine crust covered...covered by sandy dolostone. The travertine crust is composed of several bands of fibrous dolomite (Fig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydroxides, decrease along the strike of the travertine dome. At the same time, δ13C and 18O values in...isotopically heavy calcite (δ13ë up to 16.3‰) near the travertine dome base. Concentrations of other elements (Mg...processes (Disler, 1971). Therefore, the findings of travertine domes or their fragments in ancient sediments...mark the periods of tectonomagmatic activation. Travertine accumulations can also be considered a source...fractures and displacements appear on the surface of travertine cones. After the earthquake, mineral spring vents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variety of similar fabrics, including hot spring travertine shrubs and calcified microfossils such as Cambrian...abiotic, such as crystal shrubs in hot spring travertine deposits (Pentecost, 1990; Chafetz and Guidry...present day, carbonate shrubs occur in hot water travertine deposits (e.g. Chafetz and Guidry, 1999; Della...Erthal et al., 2017) and in ambient temperature travertine systems (e.g. Anzalone et al., 2007; Golubić...in all these environments, and some hot spring travertine shrubs have long been interpreted as bacterial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/epsl Dating the Homo erectus bearing travertine from Kocabaş (Denizli, Turkey) at at least 1...s t r a c t Since its discovery within a travertine quarry, the fragmentary cranium of the only known...chronological framework for the Upper fossiliferous Travertine unit where the Kocabaş hominid and fauna were...conglomeratic levels framing the Upper fossiliferous Travertine unit, which exhibits an inverse polarity, constrains...match of the normal polarity recorded above the travertine with the Jaramillo subchron (lower limit 1.07
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
travertines so far reported in the literature. The travertine-hosting succession is composed of flat-laminated...thermal, autochtonous, spring travertine crust and spring orifice travertine mounds formed from hot water...from 11‰ to 19‰ ŽV-SMOW.. Microcored samples of travertine dolomite exhibit d13C and d18 O values ranging...contributed to carbon and oxygen isotope composition of travertine dolomite: Ži. an initial CO 2 loss at the spring...reserved. Keywords: Palaeoroterozoic; Lacustrine; Travertine; Dolostone; Carbon and oxygen isotopes 1. Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
   Depositional architecture of a mixed travertine-terrigenous system in a fault-controlled continental...Enrico, Depositional architecture of a mixed travertine-terrigenous system in a fault-controlled continental...MANUSCRIPT Depositional architecture of a mixed travertine–terrigenous system in a fault-controlled Andrea...(Southern Tuscany, Italy) includes several thermogene travertine units dating from the Miocene to Holocene time...nearly 500-km2 width) was filled by precipitated travertine and detrital terrigenous strata, characterized
Journal (issue)
creeks, mountains, and even towns (Sodaville in linn County). These names owe their origin to the presence...or bedding trend. Deposits of calcareous tufa {travertine} occur at most springs, but are absent at others...Rock Creek in sec. 16, T. 6 S., R. 2 E., Clackamas County. Very light discharge of free C02 occurs sporadically...center of the SW! sec. 5, T. 7 S., R. 1 W., Marion County. Consists of a solitary spring enclosed in a concrete...in the SE! NE~ sec. 36, T. 12 S., R. 2 W., Linn County. It is housed in the basement of an establishment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry to complement stable isotope data of fossil travertine: Importance of digestion method and statistics...geochemistry to complement stable isotope data of fossil travertine: Importance of digestion method and statistics...geochemistry to complement stable isotope data of fossil travertine: Importance of digestion method and statistics...statistical element analyses, PT after multiple travertine digestion methods, demonstrate the link between...geochemical variables for comparison of different travertine geobodies. Geochemical data analysis (elemental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pseudomorphed by chert and dolomite. Hot-water spring travertine crusts are abundant throughout the carbonate...al. / Precambrian Research 133 (2004) 75–103 travertine (Fig. 3e) or filled with unsorted dolarenites...erosion surfaces are covered with the travertine, they appear as travertine-supported dolomite microbreccia...Such erosion surfaces are commonly covered by travertine crusts and filled with dolomitecemented sandstones...subaqueous environment. In this case, the hot-water travertine crust covering different-scale erosion surfaces
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(REE þ Y) patterns may support the origin of travertine-bearing fluids from marine rocks. Traver­ tines...indicating an unchanged rock source throughout the travertine depositional time (from about >350 to 26 ka)...Introduction Unlike the large number of Quaternary travertine deposits in the western (Tyrrhenian) side of...et al. (2020). All these authors asserted that travertine-depositing fluids were mainly derived from the...Sr isotopic composition of several samples of travertine from three different depositional terraces of
Report (chapter)
is also discussed in terms of sandstones and travertine in the Czech Republic and Hungary as a typical...Recultivation and/or renaturalization of ancient quarry sites and conversion of the land for other purposes...(Drozd & Přikryl 2003; Drozd et al. 2005), seven quarry areas that provided two major rock types, Carboniferous...major quarry areas at a distance of 20 – 50 km Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian, mostly abandoned quarry areas...30 km) Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian, abandoned quarry areas NW, N and E from Prague (distance up to 30
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
endogenic travertine sequence (De Filippis et al. 2013). Because of the large use of travertine for architecture...al. 2013). The dewatering process due to the travertine mining operations at the pit floor, coupled with...remarkable effects on the water table level in the travertine aquifer and on the discharge of the above-mentioned...buildings in the urbanized area surrounding the travertine quarries, due to land subsidence beginning in...occurrence of subsidence (Fig. 1). Initially only travertine lying above the water table was extracted and
 
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