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Sapphirine from
Munwatte, Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province, Sri Lanka


Classification
Species:Sapphirine
Formula:Mg4(Mg3Al9)O4[Si3Al9O36]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sapphirine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Munwatte, Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province, Sri Lanka
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:150288
Long-form Identifier:1:3:150288:6
GUID (UUID V4):1f00ea3e-b8e1-447c-9f9e-2b72022f3a35
Nearest other occurrences of Sapphirine
9.3km (5.8 miles) ā“˜Hakurutale, Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province, Sri Lanka
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1999 Petrology of Sapphirine-bearing and Associated Granulites from Central Sri Lanka LEO M. KRIEGSMAN1āˆ—...and dropping to nearly 7Ā·5 kbar at about 810Ā°C. Sapphirine appears to have developed at several points along...in central Sri Lanka contain a rich variety of assemblages composed of combinations of sapphirine (Spr)...gedrite are present in some assemblages at the Munwatte locality. Rocks from both localities display diverse...inclusions suggest that the earliest assemblage at Munwatte was orthopyroxene + spinel + corundum. Garnet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonate/CO inclusions in sapphirine-bearing granulites 2 from central Sri Lanka L . J. A. B O L D ER -...fluid inclusions from a sapphirine-bearing granulite (Hakurutale, Sri Lanka) have 2 been studied by microthermometry...words: carbonates; fluid inclusions; granulites; Sri Lanka. I N T R O D U C T IO N While most authors now...A L S ET T I N G The metamorphic basement of Sri Lanka (Fig. 1) consists of four units (KroĢˆner, 1991;...locally retrogressed to amphibolite facies. In the central part of the HC (Fig. 1), granulite facies metabasites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphic Pā€“Tā€“t evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: insights from mafic granulites Xiao-Fang He,...metamorphic Pā€“Tā€“t evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: insights from mafic granulites, Precambrian Research...metamorphic Pā€“Tā€“t evolution of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: insights from mafic granulites Xiao-Fang He1...Geosciences Beijing, No. 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100083, China 2 Department of Earth...Tel.: +86-13436391699. 1|P a g e ABSTRACT Sri Lanka is composed of four major tectonic units known
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 UHT granulites of the Highland Complex, Sri Lanka I: Geological and petrological background Yasuhito...Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka The ultrahighā€“temperature (UHT) regional metamorphism of Sri Lanka has a signiļ¬cant...Gondwana supercontinent. Sri Lanka is speciļ¬cally important because of its central position in Gondwana,...experienced UHT metamorphism. The central Highland Complex of Sri Lanka consists of Sprā€“bearing Mgā€“Al rich...Pā€“T path NTRODUCTION The metamorphic rocks of Sri Lanka provide vital information for understanding the
Journal (issue)
Spinels of Mogok ā€“ A Brief Overview Spinels from Sri Lanka 54 The Spinels of Mahenge, Tanzania In Search...Responsibility 94 Book Review Discovering the Gems of Sri Lanka 98 100 108 113 Members 14 Saurabh Bansal Damien...Shirley Xue Li Zhang, Hong Kong E. Gamini Zoysa, Sri Lanka Advisors Jean Claude Michelou, Colombia Ruben...countries, as well as Ilakaka in Madagascar and Sri Lanka (Langerwey, 1974; Gorghinian et al., 2013). Until...Myanmar with the Mogok mining districts in the north-central part of the country. Spinel is occasionally extracted
 
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