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Dolomite from
Green River Formation, USA


Locality type:Formation
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Green River Formation, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:189477
Long-form Identifier:1:3:189477:6
GUID (UUID V4):a3368f38-e04e-470b-a3b1-e2a6f5e1a224
References
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depositional environment interpretation, Green River Formation, Wyoming, U.S.A. Glenn M. Mason a and Ronald...7150, USA bDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA (Revised...depositional environment interpretation, Green River Formation, Wyoming, U.S.A. In: S.A. Macko and M.H...isotopic composition from core holes in the Green River Formation, Wyoming, an ancient lake complex. Mineral...Mineral distribution data suggest dolomite genesis on a carbonate mudflat surrounding a central lake facies
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com/locate/gca The influence of authigenic clay formation on the mineralogy and stable isotopic record of...NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA School of Earth and Environmental Science, University...AZ 85287, USA d Department of Earth Sciences, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA 91789, USA b Received...lacustrine oil-shale deposits of the Eocene Green River Formation from the Uinta Basin (NE Utah). In the studied...siliciclastic phases. An inverse relation between dolomite percentage of carbonate and trioctahedral smectite
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almost exhausted during calcite, magnesite, and dolomite precipitation, Na-carbonate rich waters form....maturation of microbial organic matter and also in formation of evaporite minerals (Renaut and Tiercelin, 1994;...al., 2005). The Eocene Green River Formation (Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, USA) is the largest and best...preserved Na-carbonate deposit. This giant lacustrine formation occurs in several sedimentary basins with large...Based on primary nahcolite textures in the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin (Colorado), and assuming
Book
Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA Syntheses in Limnogeology Volume...Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch Department of Geological...Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA Aims and Scope The aim of this book series is to...Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA Editors Michael Elliot Smith School...AZ, USA Alan R. Carroll Department of Geoscience University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI, USA Additional
Report (issue)
PAGE The 50 million year old rocks of the Green River Formation are exposed on Fossil Butte (front cover)...Paleogene (Eocene) Paleontological Resources of the Green River and Wasatch Formations ........................................... 15 Green River Formation Paleontological Resources ................................................................. 15 Wasatch Formation Fossils.............................................. 23 Stratigraphic Features of the Green River Formation .......................................
Report (chapter)
western USA) and the geological record (Eocene Green River Formation in Utah and Wyoming, USA; Miocene...from Great Salt Lake; 11 and 19 from the Green River Formation in Utah and Wyoming, respectively; four...from Great Salt Lake; one from the Wyoming Green River Formation; four from the Ries Crater; eight each from...(1, 11) Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah (1) Bradley (1929); (2) Green River Formation, Sanborn...(2012) Green River Formation Lake Gosiute, Wyoming (1) Surdam & Parker (1972); Green River Formation (2)
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Na2Mg(CO3)2, was first described from the Green River Formation, USA (Milton et al., 1955). Eitelite is rhombohedral...structure of this alkaline carbonate is related to dolomite but with an extra cation in the formula (Pabst...sediments from Uinta Basin of the Green River Formation in Utah, USA (Milton et al., 1955; Milton & Fahey...West pipe, emplaced in Ordovician to Cambrian dolomite and limestone sedimentary rocks (Kharkiv et al...rocks Locality (Reference) Uinta Basin, Utah, USA (Milton et al., 1955; Milton & Fahey, 1960; Pabst
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Salt Lake and Uinta Basin’s Eocene Green River Formation in Utah, USA THOMAS C. CHIDSEY JR1*, MICHAEL D...84114-6100, USA 2 Eby Petrography & Consulting Inc., 2830 West 9th Ave, Denver, CO 80204, USA *Corresponding...Great Salt Lake and the lacustrine Eocene Green River Formation within the Uinta Basin. Characteristics...temperature that were ideal for microbial growth and formation/deposition of associated carbonate grains. Thus...microbialites in Great Salt Lake and cores from the Green River Formation exhibit similarities in terms of microbial
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alkaline shales and coal-bearing rocks (Green River Formation, USA; Sydney Basin, Australia); in saline...Fluorite, calcite, dolomite, aragonite, pyrite, quartz (Quebec, Canada); analcime, dolomite, quartz, calcite... albite, cryolite, halite, fluorite (Green River Formation, USA). Distribution: In Canada, in Quebec... Ontario. Abundant in the Green River Formation, Colorado and Wyoming, USA. At Pian Castagnaio and Santa...Dawsonite and nordstrandite in the Permian Berry Formation of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales. Amer. Mineral
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I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords: Fengcheng Formation Boron isotopes Temperature control Boron reservoirs...over the world. In the Late Paleozoic Fengcheng Formation of the NW Junggar Basin, NW China, the two borates...different reedmergnerite occurrences in the Fengcheng Formation were systematically studied to explore its enrichment...sedimentary rocks. Reedmergnerite in the Fengcheng Formation is a temperature-controlled (crystallizing at...In the lake center deposits of the Fengcheng Formation, reedmergnerite is confined within sodium carbonate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution in lacustrine systems: Eocene green river formation, wyoming Amalia C. Doebbert, Clark M. Johnson...evolution in lacustrine systems: Eocene green river formation, wyoming, Chemical Geology (2014), doi:...EVOLUTION IN LACUSTRINE SYSTEMS: EOCENE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, WYOMING AC CE P DOEBBERT, AMALIA C.1...that Sr/86Sr and 18O datasets from the Green River Formation in order to identify environmental factors...and is applied to the Laney Member of the Green River Formation. The second model focuses on lacustrine
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nahcolite, and dawsonite in the Paleogene Green River Formation ( 9, 29), fossil soda manifestations in...juvenile. The most favorable conditions for the formation of soda waters are c r e ated during weathering...the fundamental distribution patterns in the formation of deposits and manifestations of natural soda...regional or local distribution of the surface (river and lake) waters of this same composition, and under...are the most important prerequisites for the formation of evaporites of the soda type. The specific nature
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PEAK PHOSPHATIC SHALE MEMBER OF THE PHOSPHORIA FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO i By1 01 George A. Desborough...units of the Meade Peak Member of the Phosphoria Formation in measured section WPSB at Enoch Valley mine...Peak Phosphatic Shale Member of the Phosphoria Formation in southeastern Idaho. Quantitative X-ray diffraction...precipitated as carbonate fluorapatite, calcite, or dolomite, although calcite is very sparse or absent in...is uncertain. Dolomite beds have calcite dispersed as tiny grains throughout dolomite crystals, indicating
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= 7.299(15) X-ray Powder Pattern: Green River Formation, Utah, USA. 10.9 (100), 3.77 (80), 7.63 (50)...51 (35), 6.63 (30) Chemistry: (1) Green River Formation, Utah, USA; electron microprobe analysis gave...orthoclase, pyrite, quartz, mica, dolomite, analcime. Distribution: In the USA, in a drill core from Wosco...localities in or near the Mahogany Zone, Green River Formation, Uintah Co., Utah, and in the Piceance Creek...of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., USA, and Editor of Science. Type Material: The Natural
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Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Westvaco mine, Wyoming, USA. 2.655 (100), 3.312 (71), 8.85 (50), 2.576 (35),...00] 100.00 (1) John Hay, Jr. Well No.1, Wyoming, USA; recalculated to 100% after deduction 0.36% and clay...mineral in oil shale in the Green River formation. Association: Shortite, dolomite, quartz. clay minerals...km west of Green River, and in the Westvaco mine, Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. Name: Honoring...Wilmot Hyde Bradley (1899-1979), studied the Green River formation. Type Material: geologist, U.S. Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
caddisf ly-dominated bioherms from the Eocene Green River Formation V. Leroy Leggitt*, Rober t A. Cushman Jr...Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA Received 24 June 2000; accepted 15 May 2001 Abstract...mounds. The base of the Laney Member of the Green River Formation records a freshwater lacustrine transgression...of the Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of the Wasatch Formation. In nearshore areas of the lake’s northern margin...rights reserved. Keywords: Trichoptera; Green River Formation; Wyoming; Caddisfly; Lacustrine; Tufa; Bioherms
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132 W. Ellendale Estates Drive, Houma, LA 70360, USA 4 bg Group, 100 Thames Valley Park Drive, Reading...diagenetically robust, evidence for their mode of formation. Despite this, the scientific study of microbial...as having papers on the processes involved in formation of both modern and ancient microbialites and the...equate to the three main processes of microbialite formation. Most growth forms show evidence of two or three...illustrating the three main processes involved in the formation of microbialites, together with the corresponding
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hydrocarbons. The situation is perhaps similar to the Dolomite Problem in the 1960s. Very skimpy data are available...lakes, karst sink-holes, groundwater lakes and river meanders. Paralic lake basins include cut-off marine...Germany; L. Toba & Maninjau, Sumatra; Crater Lake, USA; Nyos, Cameroon; Cretaceous Kimberlite pipes, S....L. Victoria, E. Africa; L. Chad; Eocene Green River Fm., USA; Permian Gondwana Karoo Caspian Sea; Aral...Great Basin; Salt Lake Urmia, Iran; Great Salt Lake, USA Walker Lake,Nev. ; Dead Sea; Plio. Ridge Basin, Calif
Report (volume)
Diagenetic· Carbonates in the Lacustljne Green · ~iver .Formation.(J3,ocene), ... \ Coloraifo and Utili...Diagenetic Carbonates in the Lacustrine Green River Formation (Eocene), Colorado and Utah By Janet K....diagenetic carbonates in the lacustrine Green River Formation (Eocene), Colorado and Utah I by Pitman...Carbonate-Utah. 3. Geology, Stratigraphic-Eocene. 4. Green River Formation. I. l'itle. II. Series. QE75B9 no. 2157...Generalized stratigraphy of the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado and Utah.....................
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Arlington, TX 76019, USA Hamilton College, Department of Geosciences, Clinton, NY 13323, USA Johns Hopkins University...Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...b s t r a c t The timing and mechanism of the formation of the high elevations of the central Rocky Mountains...BH: Bighorn Mountains, BHs: Black Hills; WR: Wind River Range, OM: Owl Creek Mountains. (For interpretation...(Huntington et al., 2011), seasonality of carbonate formation (Peters et al., 2013; Hough et al., 2014), and
Report (issue)
Trioctahedral Smectite in the Green River Formation, Duchesne County, Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...PAPER 967 Trioctahedral Smectite in the Green River Formation, Duchesne County, Utah By JOHN R. DYNI ... John R. Trioctahedral smectite in the Green River Formation, Duchesne County, Utah. (Geological Survey...Composite measured section of part ofthe Green River Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....the eastward increase in resistivity of some Green River rocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Mineralogy of the Parachute Creek Member, Green River Formation, in the Northern Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado...Mineralogy of the Parachute Creek Member, Green River Formation, in the Northern Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado...stratigraphy Older Tertiary rocks- Wasatch Formation -- Green River Formation Douglas Creek Member -Garden Gulch...sections of the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek basin ----- - - -... X-RAY MINERALOGY, PARACHUTE CREEK MEMBER, GREEN RIVER FORMATION, COLORADO 109 C 108' MOFFAT CO RIO BLANCO
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phase of Eocene Lake Gosiute, Wyoming (Green River Formation) R O N A L D C. SURD A M Department of Geology...During deposition of the Laney Member of the Green River Formation, Eocene Lake Gosiute evolved from a saline...calcium-rich inflow and saline-alkaline lake waters. Dolomite formed as a result of periodic flooding and drying...mud-flat sediments. INTRODUCTION The Eocene Green River Formation of southwestern Wyoming was deposited in...Eocene time. It was characterized by two WIND RIVER GRANITE MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS Figure 1. Map showing
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sulfur geochemistry of the Paleogene Green River Formation, western USA: Implications for interpreting depositional...25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA (Received June 25, 1992; accepted in revisedform...the lacustrine Paleogene Green River Formation (Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, USA) is unlike that of most...isotopic, and mineralogical characteristics of the formation are pyrrhotite and marcasite, high contents of...depositional and early diagenetic conditions in the Green River lakes. When the lakes were brackish, dissimilatory
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0016.7037 Dolomite X0 IX-204530200'0 and nahcolite formation in organic rich sediments: isotopically...high organic carbon contents. Nahcolites in the Green River oil shales have carbon isotopic ratios up to...Some samples of organic rich Monterey and Pismo Formation dolomites also are 13C-rich (6’% to + 14”,,,,)...organic richness has led to proposed mechanisms of formation of nahcolites and dolomites. Bacterial fermentation...leads to chemical reasons for the occurrence of dolomite rather than calcite and nahcolite rather than
 
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