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Aragonite from
Great Salt Lake, Davis County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Lake
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Salt Lake, Davis County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:182631
Long-form Identifier:1:3:182631:9
GUID (UUID V4):5d98ef81-05be-4c3d-9138-7f7ce81791a9
References
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paleohydrologic change in the Bonneville Basin (Utah, USA) David McGee a,b,n,1, Jay Quade c, R. Lawrence...55455, USA Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA c Department...Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences...Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA e Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong...G. Henderson Records of past changes in lake levels and lake water isotopic composition in closed basins
Report (chapter)
signature but also by some comparable features. Lake margin bioherms form continuous belts for hundreds...hydrothermal, karstic freshwater and evaporative lake carbonates. Carbonate precipitation results from...settings excludes lake marls, lake reefs (e.g. biogenic/ abiotic bioherms and mounds at lake margins) and...and hydrothermal spring-derived water mixing with lake water, or in evaporative lakes where water is ambient...carbonates precipitated from thermal waters at the saline lake water –spring interface, whereas precipitates within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
86:321-334 9 Springer-Verlag 1984 Great Salt Lake, and precursors, Utah: the last 30,000 years Ronald J...22092, USA; 3 Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. 21218, USA; 4 U...U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO. 80225, USA; 5 E.T.H. Geologisches Institut, Ziirich, Switzerland;...300 Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT 8410t,USA; 7 Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Abstract. Sediment...to 6.5 m in length from the South Arm of Great Salt Lake, Utah, have been correlated. Radiocarbon ages
Report (chapter)
from modern Great Salt Lake and Uinta Basin’s Eocene Green River Formation in Utah, USA THOMAS C. CHIDSEY...DAVID E. EBY2 1 Utah Geological Survey, PO Box 146100, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6100, USA 2 Eby Petrography...Denver, CO 80204, USA *Corresponding author (e-mail: tomchidsey@utah.gov) Abstract: Utah contains unique...microbial hydrocarbon reservoirs in the modern Great Salt Lake and the lacustrine Eocene Green River Formation...within the Uinta Basin. Characteristics of both lake environments include shallow-water, ramp margins
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most...State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings.... . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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SEDIMENTOLOGY EVAPORITE TYPE DOLOMITE I N SALT FLATS OF WESTERN UTAH H. J . B I S S E L L and G. v. CHILINGAR...CHILINGAR Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cat$...throughout a large part of the Salt Flats of the Great Salt Lake Desert in Western Utah. Most of the sediments...of years (as dated by C14 methods), during late Lake Bonneville and Recent time. Alternating dark and...absorption through a saltcrust “window” over the salt pans. Results of this study indicate that the dolomite
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SPECIAL PAPER 450 Paleoenvironments of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, and Its Catchment edited by Joseph...25046 MS 980 Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 USA Darrell S. Kaufman Department of Geology, Box 4099...Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona 86011 USA THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA® Special Paper...Place, RO. Box 9140 ■ Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140 USA 2009 Copyright © 2009, The Geological Society...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. GSA provides this and other fomms for the presentation
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STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LAKE BONNEVILLE: SELECTED FEATURES OF RELEVANCE TO NEOTECTONIC...the USGS, INTRODUCTION Lake Bonneville, the largest late Pleistocene lake of nonglacial origin in the...years ago. At high stages, Lake Bonneville inundated much of northwestern Utah, and parts of southeastern...regarding Lake Bonneville. Shoreline delineation and hypsometry are among the many aspects of the lake that...fundamental importance to neotectonic analysis of the Lake Bonneville region. It is also anticipated that this
Book
MINING INDUSTRY By Utah Mining Association 918 Kearns Building Salt Lake City, Utah MILES P. ROMNEY Manager...made to find what material was available to give Utah citizens an account of their mining industry. Most...the mineral deposits and of the mining activity in Utah as time and effort permit. In the writing, we have...part of our natural resource industries. It is of great basic importance, however, for it furnishes to our...I presents the history of mining developments in Utah and deals principally with events that made mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lakes exist on all continents except E urope. Saline lake deposits, however, are usually restricted and ephemeral...the Green River Formation of Wyoming and Searles Lake of California being the exceptions. This neglect...chains. Good examples are the salt pans and playas of the Western Great Basin (US), the salars of Bolivia...Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, the salt lakes of Afghanistan, India, and China, and the Rift Valley lakes...springs. Examples of salt lakes with perennial rivers are the Great Salt l,ake of Utah, Lake Chad of Central
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
atmospheric deposition along the Wasatch Front (Utah, USA) reflects regional playa dust and local urban aerosols...atmospheric deposition along the Wasatch Front (Utah, USA) reflects regional playa dust and local urban aerosols...atmospheric deposition along the Wasatch Front (Utah, USA) reflects regional playa dust and local urban...Provo, UT, USA b. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA ro c. Geology...Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA -p * corresponding author email address: greg.carling@byu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Evergreen Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507...84408-2507 PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material;...an irregular basis. Beaver County MINERAL COLLECTING IN THE STATE of Utah has undergone a resurgence...many more species new to Utah. Here we present a list of localities in Utah that have either been historically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in U.S.A. i .oo Geochemistry of Great Salt Lake, Utah II: Pleistocene-Holocene evolution R. J...is uti to develop a ge~hemi~l model for Great Salt Lake, Utah, extending back some 30,000 yrs. B.P. Hydrologic...the water budget equation are characterized by a lake initially at a low, saline stage, rising by about...are significant solute sources. This evolution in lake composition to NaCl domination is illustrated by...concentration curves with time for each major solute in the lake. Calcium concentrations before the drawdown were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
............................ Oolites from Great Salt Lake, U tah.......................................body, to make them subservient and use­ ful to the great Work or Function they are to perform” (ibid., page...oolites now forming along the shore of Great Salt Lake, Utah. He found that oolites obtained below the...of this, Seeley was inclined to believe that the great majority of the oolite grains were formed by direct...consist of calcium carbonate in the mineral form aragonite and not in the more common and stable form of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Triple oxygen isotope signatures of evaporation in lake waters and carbonates: A case study from the western...Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns...Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 16...t Evaporation can increase the δ 18 O values of lake waters and carbonates by several per mil. If not...United States (Bear Lake, Great Salt Lake, Lake Tahoe, Mono Lake, and Pyramid Lake). Consistent with predictions
Report (chapter)
those from the Eocene Green River Formation of the USA, are extremely rare (Osmond 2005). More interest...example, extreme lake level oscillations are typical of closed lake basins; the current lake level in the...the Great Salt Lake in Utah is the result of a more than 280 m fall in just 14 ka. Diagenetic processes...processes are far less well understood in lake carbonates and a range of unfamiliar minerals, both primary and...facies models are also currently lacking and whether lake carbonate factories are capable of producing the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the shoreface zone and developed a radial aragonite microstructure. The ooids grew to 0.80 mm in diameter...deposition, the ooids were subjected to widespread aragonite dissolution followed by dolomitization. The lack...fabric-selective dolomitization of micritic fabrics, suggest aragonite dissolution by dolomitizing ¯uids. Copyright #...ooids have been recognized in a variety of modern lake systems (Eardley 1938; Halley 1977; * Correspondence...(Audley-Charles 1970; Tucker 1978; Leslie 1989). Lake shoreline features, of probable Norian age, have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bulk isotopiccomposition of inflow waters to the lake. Suitesof carbonateswhich display covatying 613Cand...However, other types of carbonate are often present in lake sediments; it is thus not an absenceof suitable...problems this causes in interpreting isotopic data from lake carbonates (see also Cerling et al, 1988). No two...comprise the dominant component of the sediment (lake marl, “Seekreide”, mitrite, of various authors)...oscillate between calcite, high-Mg calcite or aragonite precipitation, depending upon salinity (Miiller
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the result of Philip Sandberg'swork on the Great Salt Lake ooids. Sandberg (1975) comparedthe mineralogy...altered to" coarseneomorphic calcite, often with aragonite relics still included in the calcite. 'Present...favoring the precipitation of aragonite over calcite. This change of aragonite dominance over calcite is...Guinier) for supportive evidence. Identiftcation of aragonite with the TEM The identification of aragonitewith...confirmed by comparingthem to the SADs taken of aragonite single crystals. Some caremust be taken becausehOl
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...trends in the primary mineralogy (calcite vs. aragonite) of ooid cortices provided key evidence of oscillations...ooid cortices form via abiotic precipitation of aragonite or calcite from fluids supersaturated with respect...slower than ooid growth rates calculated using aragonite precipitation rates from experiments (Ferguson...h and n = 2.26, as determined empirically for aragonite precipitation in artificial seawater (Zhong and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1985. Printi in U.S.A. Geochemistry of Great Salt Lake, Utah I: Hydrochemistry since 1850 R. J. SPENCER...3, 1984) Abstract-The hydrochemistry of Great Salt Lake, Utah, has been defined for the historic period...river inflow, atmospheric precipitation onto the lake surface and evaporation. Input of the major solutes...hydrothermal springs. Prior to 1930, lake concentrations fluctuated inversely with lake volume in response to small...variations. Since then, salt precipitation and dissolution have signiticantly modified lake brine compositions
Book (volume)
the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to...Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains, and bent the broken edges sharply upward...with extraordinary homogeneity. Throughout the Great Plains, wells drilled deep into this unit provide...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a systematic modern Great Bahama Bank (GBB‒marine) and Great Salt Lake RI the PT multi-technique...under similar aqueous alkalinity conditions in Great Salt Lake and Bahamian waters. In summary, MA ooids...elements; Ce anomaly; LA-ICP-MS; Great Bahama Bank; Great AC CE Salt Lake; carbonate REE+Y compositions...Baar et al., 1985). Some alkaline river and lake waters support similar carbonate-complexation...from the Great Bahama Bank (GBB; Bahamas) and lacustrine ooids from the Great Salt Lake (GSL; Utah, western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crozaz L. Cullers Curry Dahm M. Davidson M. Davis Davis J. De Paolo ;,iXtr;liro J: M. J. H. D. R. H...TESXER, F. RAPINand R. CARICNAN:Trace metals in oxic lake sediments: possible adsorption onto iron oxyhydroxides...JONESand S. L. RE'ITIG: Geochemistry ofGreat Salt Lake, Utah I: Hydmchemistry since 1850 ,_,.__,._,. 727...EUGSTERand B. F. JONES:Geochemistry of Great Salt Lake, Utah II: Pleistocene-Holocene evolution ~~~~~~~~~...ultramafic rocks in the Coyote Peak diatreme, Humboldt County, California 149 STEVENJ. FRITZ and CRAIGD. E
Report (chapter)
132 W. Ellendale Estates Drive, Houma, LA 70360, USA 4 bg Group, 100 Thames Valley Park Drive, Reading...of the Salt Basin of Oman and, more recently, the discoveries in the Lower Cretaceous pre-salt, Santos...Brazil (Figs 1 & 2). Here, production from the pre-salt reservoirs surpassed 500 000 BOPD in June 2014,...series of scientific papers on the remarkable pre-salt plays of Brazil. This Special Publication provides...between hydrothermal, fresh water and evaporative lake waters. Neoproterozoic The Proterozoic includes
 
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