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Calcite from
Sand pit, Rockenberg, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sand pit, Rockenberg, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:180010
Long-form Identifier:1:3:180010:4
GUID (UUID V4):0d04e7ad-d0a0-4681-b7d0-d870cf783fbf
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
13.3km (8.2 miles) Fernie open cut, Klein-Linden, Linden (Hesse), Giessen, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
13.4km (8.3 miles) Gerlach Quarry, Steinbach, Fernwald, Giessen, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
14.0km (8.7 miles) Schiffenberg quarry, Hausen, Pohlheim, Giessen, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
14.2km (8.8 miles) Bergwerkswald, Linden (Hesse), Giessen, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
14.3km (8.9 miles) Ober-Widdersheim quarry, Ober-Widdersheim, Nidda, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
16.7km (10.4 miles) Manganese mine, Ober-Rosbach (Oberrosbach), Rosbach vor der Höhe, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
20.0km (12.4 miles) Attenberg quarry, Großen-Buseck, Buseck, Giessen, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
21.2km (13.2 miles) Hohenstein quarry, Nidda, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
21.4km (13.3 miles) Michelnau quarry, Michelnau, Nidda, Wetteraukreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
22.6km (14.0 miles) Rotläufchen Mine, Waldgirmes, Lahnau, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Monitoring freshening and oxidation processes Iris R. Pit, Jasper Griffioen, Martin J. Wassen PII: S0883-2927(16)30358-4...Date: 3 February 2017 Please cite this article as: Pit, I.R., Griffioen, J., Wassen, M.J., Environmental...Netherlands adds an average of 12 million m3 of sand annually, but more is 11 needed to cope with the...nourishment of 21.5 million m3 of 13 sand: the Sand Engine – an artificial sand spit rising to 6 metres above...and social considerations. To 15 construct the Sand Engine, material was used from the seafloor, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Permian Yellow Sand Formation of eastern England. Although the Yellow Sand Formation has been investigated...-...-.'..,'.., -; P . ' . " °' "-" .¢', Yellow Sand I "-'. " "-" • ;--'l ~ r ,- ,-. M Coal a +--+....i~I • .- CtS-Sherburn I N: Omet~,s Yellow Sand F~X)k.-gendes • -2".. • o ".. o. .-,. , -...cross-stratified Yellow Sand, whose upper 30-50 cm are cemented by dolomite. The Yellow Sand then lies unconformably...absent. At exposure 4* 5, in the Sherburn Hill sand pit of the Durham area, the Magnesian limestone is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum, Richard-Wagner-Straße 10, D-80333 München, Germany; k.heissig@lrz.uni-muenchen.de d Czech Geological...traditionally linked with the Ries impact structure in Germany. They are supposed to be derived mainly from the...genetically linked to the Ries impact structure in Germany, are found in several areas of the Czech Republic...adjacent areas of Austria (Koeberl et al., 1988), Germany (Lange, 1995, 1996), and Poland (Brachaniec et...structure were mostly collected in man-made outcrops – sand pits and quarries. The sample set includes nine
Report (issue)
K-feldspar), carbonates (dolomite, siderite and calcite), ‘mica’, pyrite, gypsum and goethite while clay...the Low Countries, North France and North-west Germany. In Britain, the onshore London Clay Formation...Weir & Catt (1969) lacked appreciable quantities of sand and had average clay fraction compositions of 60%...5-10% kaolinite and 2-5% chlorite. The detrital sand and coarse silt minerals in the lower parts of the...increased. The main authigenic sand and silt minerals were glauconite, calcite, pyrite with siderite at some
Journal (issue)
C.M. (1997) Rutile from Wheal Remfrey china clay pit, Indian Queens, St. Enoder Cornwall 18:16 LAWTON...RUST, S. (1998) Bismuth minerals from Wheal Remfrey pit, Cornwall 19:11 RUST, S. (1996) Susannite and caledonite...sphaerocobaltite 19:24 Mount Elliott Mine augite 19:28 calcite 19:28 goethite 19:28 gypsum 19:28 quartz 19:28...wavellite 19:25 Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe azurite 17:15 calcite 17:15 copper 17:15 cuprite 17:15 cuprite 17:15...19:28 Iron Knob Mine variscite 16:7 Iron Monarch Pit, Iron Knob namibite 11:12 Mt. Gunson Mine atacamite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE SAND COLLECTOR CONDUCTED BY PETER. ZODAC PEEKSKILL, IM. Y . Downloaded by [University of Florida]...Florida] at 11:34 08 August 2017 Anhydrite Sand From Mcintosh, Ala. P. R. Cosminsky, 509 Timberlane, Falls...puzzler when he sent in the following "sand": "This may not qualify as sand, if not, call it a mineral specimen...grained gray sand— all colorless grains of amhydrite and dolomite. Shall we call it sand? Yes, It is not...not true sand to be sure for it occurs as tiny grains embedded in salt. It was set free when the salt
Journal (issue)
California GERMAN l\ltil.LER, University of Heidelberg, Germany LLOYD C. PRAY, University of Wisconsin, Madison...Bre)•. and John E. Sanders The Role of High Mg-Calcite in the Preservation of 1\ficrite Envelopes and...for Successive Determination of Fall Velocities of Sand Size Particles ................................... A. B. Dickas and W. Lunking Prin,ary Rhombic Calcite in SediJnentary Carbonates ......................and Paleosalinity in the Rheintalgraben (S\\' Germany). B y Dietrich Heling Devaluation of "Dedolomitization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upper Kimeridgian Thame Sand passes laterally into silty Hartwell Clay; the Thame Sand is lenticular, and...variations of the lowest Portland beds, Glauconitic sand and Rubbly Limestone, are described, the two succeeding...succeeding units of the Portland beds, the Crendon Sand and Creamy Limestone, being more uniform. The very...filled in, with the exception of one small working sand-pit at Stone. For this reason a soil auger was an...Creamy Limestone (Titanites giganteus Zone) Crendon Sand (Kerberites okusensis Zone) ... Rubbly Limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(not specified). ~r From the marine sands in a sand-pit at the S.E. corner of Goodwood Park, Susse x,...by Messrs. Jones and Parker. In the same bed of sand these addition al fossils occurred: Mvtilus edulis...good section of the Raised Beach exposed in a sand-pit between Hove and Portslade, I collected material...to the east, is also clearly seen in the various sand-pits and cliff-sections. The cliff section towards...Joseph Prestwich gave a diagram section of the brick-pit near Portslade Railway Station; t and this agrees
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from th e station westward for abo ut a mile to a pit close to the railway and on its northern side . T...the depth of abo ut 8 ft. Folkestone Beds. Brown sand to a co nsiderable depth. The junction shows th...heavy rain the walk was contin ued northward to a pit in U pper Gre ensa nd, just eastward of the Colley...in a shed , where one of th e produ cts of th e pit was studied (hearth-stone in th e form of po wder)...In October, 1897 , when the eastern face of this pit was fresh, one of the directors sketche d an interesting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
less persistent beds could be referred. In this pit about 12 feet of the Folkestone Basal Pebbly Sandswere...examined. The exposure showed a generally dark-brown sand with some lighter seams, very badly graded, very...A~D GODSTOXE. 323 characteristic medium to fine sand of various bright buff shades, and then 10-15 ft...the lane was further traversed through fine pale sand (which was better seen in the next sandpit), it...coarse gravel. The party then proceeded westward to a pit (24) in the Folkestone Sands north of the Priory
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Freiburg, Albertstrasse 23-b, 79104 Freiburg, Germany * Corresponding author. E-mail: alvaro@ige.unicamp...were also studied at the University of Freiburg, Germany, with a Leica polarizing microscope. Electron microscopy...decreasing abundance, quartz, plagioclase, and calcite. The shape of the fragments in the matrix is generally...basalt clasts and minor amounts of sandstone and calcite clasts set in a fine-grained red matrix (Fig. 11a)...lm-sized comminuted basalt, rhyodacite, quartz, and calcite clasts, as well as some unidentified fine-grained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geol. Ass., 92 (3), 189-196. Examination of some 70 sand grains from three exposures of Permian Yellow Sands...('upturned') plates, indistinguishable from those on sand grains now being blown about in large hot deserts...formation of generally incoherent to weakly-cemented sand that lies unconformably on reddened Westphalian...grains; his grain-size analyses indicated that the sand at his sample localities contained a smaller proportion...that the study of the surface textures of unaltered sand grains from different environments can provide strong
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A SURVEY OF THE SAND COLLECTOR By CALVIN B. SIMMONS 5541 W. 10 Ave., Denver, Colo. 80214 Recently I m...m a d e a rough statistical survey of t h e "Sand Collector" column in ROCKS AND MINERALS. The analysis...v - D e c 1964 issue, inclusive. A b o u t 1250 sand samples were described. They varied in locality...Creek ¡ 6% Road cut or roadside 4% Placer 2% Gravel pit 2% Dune 2% Desert 2% €66 each, All of the rest were...Gulch Esker Gorge Oil well Sand blow Back yard Dust storm Ant hill Sand pit Gopher hole Geode Fox hole
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
notably in the presence of preglacial gravel and sand at low levels, the tendency for valley heads to...the Cornbrash can be seen in them. The Northampton Sand Ironstone is known to have been worked in Roman...British output of iron ore-scame from the Northampton Sand seam. IV. JURASSIC ROCKS The solid geological formations...Lower Estuarine Series ... 0-25 Oolite Northampton Sand with Iron{ Series stone ... ... ... Q-4O Upper Lias...exposures locally afford evidence that the Northampton Sand rests directly on the bifrons zone. For example
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
workings in the Upper Greensand and the Folkestone Sand, which had been recently opened by Mr. Horace Fairall...After this discussion the party proceeded to a new pit in the Upper Greensand near the south gate of Marden...was being worked for hearthstone. The glauconitic sand was somewhat hard in places with a tendency to form...were strings of calcite and also of powdered Chalk from the Scarp Drift above the pit. The party then...Godstone Green, where an old pit in the Folkestone Sand had been re-opened. The sand showed the usual current
Report (issue)
Queenston Shale Whirlpool Sandstone Amabel Dolomite Sand and Gravel - Ill - • v 1 6 6 7 8 8 9 9 9 10 10...Caledon Sand and Gravel Limited Peel Construction Company Limited, Caledon Pit .. Consolidated Sand and Gravel...Gravel Company, Caledon Pit Peel Construction Company Limited, Mono Mills Pit Coyles pit Jas. Dick Construction...Crawford-Ontario Sand and Gravel Limited Pinewood Aggregates Limited J. Chefero Sand and Gravel Limited...Limited Connor Transport Limited Spragges Pit Schultz Pit Engineering Geology Selected References 35 35 36
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the marshes. Some of the spoil banks are buried in sand due to strong winds lately while others are just...that part of the pit for about three months for some reason. I believe the particular pit is located in...they have always yielded very fine specimens of calcite, marcasite and sometimes quartz. I will be unable...item: "I have just received news of a large solution pit being opened in one of the limestone quarries near...out. But as I understand the pit is 12' by 6' and is lined with calcite and quartz xls. It was "On Aug
Report (issue)
.................................. Interstadial Sand .............................................. Late...... .......... ...... .. ........ .. .. .. . .. Sand and Gravel ................................................................. Appendix B: Till and Sand Analyses .................................. - 111..... 15 3. Road cut exposing Leaside Till over sand. Dufferin Street, north of Maple Road and near Department...35 7. Leaside Till overlying fine sand. 41 4. 5. Sabiston pit, Thornhill. ....... Figures 1. Stratigraphic
Report (issue)
limestone in surface exposures and the only active sand pit in the Ohio River formation. The group will drive...proceed southward to the Sears sand pit (Stop 8), which is near Greenville. The pit is on the Floyd-Washington...In some places the gravels are interbedded with sand, silt, and clay. Although these gravels have often...south of Salem a discontinuous body of fine quartz sand as much as 55 to 60 feet thick overlies the St.... Louis, Salem, and Harrodsburg limestones. This sand occupies high ground but does not cap the highest
Book
LOWERMOTTLEDSANDSTONEONSANDSTONEINMIDDLEPERMIANMARLATGATEFORDSAND-PIT(L564) PLATE 1 (Frontispie Thefaceofredsandstonebeo...oftheMiddlePerma i nMarlandareworkedforbuilding sand. The Institute of Geological Sciences was formed...building sand, 237. Basic refractories, 237. Brick clay, 238. Building stone, 238. Glass sand, 239. Gypsum...Ironstone, 239. Lime and magnesia, 239. Moulding sand, 240. Peat, 240. Roadstone, 240. Water, 240. References...on sandstone in Middle Permian Marl at Gateford Sand-pit (L 564) • • • . . . Frontispiece PLATE II. PLATE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
generally, with only the name of the country, such as Germany or Austria." The clipping showed a picture of the...life—are found in only three places in the World, Germany, Austria, and Canon City. "Locally, Kessler said...feet in the ground by someone who was digging for sand. "Although it is in solid rock form, the annular...a stump in the sand pit that might weigh several tons; as a matter of fact, the sand diggers had to go...limestones, a cream colored calcite pseudo after coral, golden yellow xline calcite on grayish limestone, a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pieces are cut out. W e also find teeth in the sand pit -— some were found near the tusks. CALIFORNIA...MINERALS The specimen sent you was found in a sand pit east of Enid (Garfield Co.), Okla." — item and...vesuvianite, blue apatite, scapolite crystals, b l u e calcite, tourmaline, augite, m i c r o cline, f l . diopside
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Proceedings of the Dorset Field Club. The first pit (No. 8a) 2 was dug in the eastern flank of the summit...the solid geology to consist of a peculiar cakey sand, passing down into buff-coloured sands with vertical...about a foot thick, and lower still loose white sand, preceded by yellow sandy clay blotched with oxide...with an irregular surface passing downwards into sand with calcareous concretions, and this excavation...Whether this is the same as the layer in the lower pit one cannot say. Before proceeding to describe the
Journal (issue)
one of the early producers of the pink cobaltoan calcite specimens that have been found in significant numbers... 10 --------------------- Minerals Acanlhirc: Germany, Saxony, Freiberg, 34-11 :8 p Achalaite: Argenrina...Dara-i-Pioz. 34-3:6 Calcite: Mexico, SLP. Catorce, Concepcion, 34-2:13 p Calcite: Russia. Primorsl-y...Dalnegorsk. 34-11 :8 p Calcite: USA. Michigan. Keeweenaw, Copper Falls. 34-5:11 p Calcite: USA. Missouri. Reynolds...Reynolds, Viburnum trend. 34-5:7 p Calcite (Cobaltoan): DR Congo, Ka!anga. 34-12:l p Canosioite: Italy
 
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