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Calcite from
Chokier, Flémalle-Haute, Flémalle, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Crystals up to 10cm, often with highly reflective faces.
Habit:rhombohedra, pseudocubic, scalenohedra, prisms etc.
Colour:yellowish to brownish, more or less translucent
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chokier, Flémalle-Haute, Flémalle, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2642
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2642:0
GUID (UUID V4):265ebdd8-3821-433f-9b55-131ffb8a48e5
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Ivoz-Ramet, Flémalle, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
1.1km (0.7 miles) Ramioul, Ivoz-Ramet, Flémalle, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
1.4km (0.8 miles) Flémalle-Haute, Flémalle, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
2.3km (1.4 miles) Baldaz-Lalore coal dump, Flémalle-Haute, Flémalle, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
2.7km (1.7 miles) Engihoul-Antinne, Engis, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
3.9km (2.4 miles) Concorde colliery, Jemeppe-sur-Meuse, Seraing, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
4.6km (2.9 miles) La Mallieue, Engis, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
5.0km (3.1 miles) Hozémont, Horion-Hozémont, Grâce-Hollogne, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
5.1km (3.1 miles) Valentin-Cocq, Grâce-Hollogne, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
5.3km (3.3 miles) Jemeppe-sur-Meuse, Seraing, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
compared with the " phtanites " of the Assise de Chokier of Belgium, which are of the same age and similarly...described from the Arnsbergian " Assise de Chokier" of Belgium (Belliere, 1922, Cayeux, 1929). It is the...Silurian of the Armorican peninsula. Whereas in Belgium it has been customary to retain the term in its...that the constituent spicules were originally of calcite. There is, on the contrary, evidence of removal...Malonne of the Assise de Chokier (Nm lb ( = E2) of Demanet 1941) of Belgium. The middle part of this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were several type specimens of calcite from Rhisnes and Chokier, Belgium, with the original labels in the...original locality, Moresnet, Belgium, and destinezite from Argenteau, Belgium, having the labels signed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were several type specimens of calcite from Rhisnes and Chokier, Belgium, with the original labels in the...original locality, Moresnet, Belgium, and destinezite from Argenteau, Belgium, having the labels signed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Province is entirely out of place. In regard to Belgium, Prof. Delepine's recent and exhaustive treatise...CORRELATION [voL ]xxi, Lithologieal stratigraphy i n Belgium.--Correlation w i t h i n the Franco-Belgian Prov~nce.... - - The pal~eontological method employed in Belgium to determine the age of a given fauna consisted...field-workers in Carboniferous rocks. M y work in Belgium has been particularly airected to a full study...y first visit was very p a t c h y ; parts of Belgium had been studied with great care a n d success
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fysico-chemischegeologie, Celestqnenlaan200C, B-3030 Heverlee, Belgium and L. GARVIE Department of Geology, Wills Memorial...exposure horizons containing fibrous columnar calcite crystals are described from the (early Chadian)...correlate with similar subaerial exposure horizons in Belgium and southern Germany, and may be the product of...Eustacy Palaeokarst Speleothem Fibrous columnar calcite 1. INTRODUCTION The classic Dinantian sections...Lower Carboniferous outcrops in southwest Britain, Belgium, and southern Germany. within other sequences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variety which is characteristic of th e Chokier beds of Belgium, a nd of beds of the same horizon at Lisdoonvarna...assemblage of fossils. This series is well shown at Chokier, and is represented in the West of Ireland; Dr...Pendleside series of the Midlands, the Namurian of Belgium, rather than to the true Millstone Grit series...succeeds the Visean conformably. The Namurian in Belgium is classed with the Lower Coal Measures. * Geol...them being filled up, generally completely, with calcite, or with stalagmite coloured red by material brought
Report (issue)
Corbeau-Tapeu Dickenbusch Eschbroich Eupen Fossey Haute-Saurée Heggelsbrück Hof Honthem Kinkempois La Bruyère...du Synclinorium de Verviers, de la Province de Liège et de la Belgique III.l.l. Observations III.1.2...14.- Honthem. Production annuelle. Tableau 15.- Haute-Saurée. Production annuelle. Tableau 16.- Kinkempois...(tous les gisements sont situés dans la Province de Liège), l'âge des roches encaissantes ou encore d'autres... 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 11. 18. 19. 20. Stembert Haute-Saurée Corbeau- Tapeu Rocheux-Oneux Theux Sasserotte
Conference Proceedings
) et absence locale des quartzites vosgiens Haute Savoie l' de , île l' ' en témoigne Valais...Belgique une assise Chokier présente types lithologiques répartition de ceux Comme Chokier . assise l'... . 10 m .à 5 , 65 - . m ; rasses une haute terrasse vers dessus niveau eau dans les vallées...sulfurés presque surface trouve Katanga les sulfures haute teneur tandis cuivre de grandes profondeurs disséminés... , . et la son altitude dessus niveau marée haute présentent nulle part gravier intercalé leur faune
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Millstone Grit and the Lower Coal Measures In Belgium. In the area extending on both sides of the Franco-Belgian...limestone, marl; Kalk = hmestone, Kalk-Konkretlon = calcite-concretion, Sldent-Konkretlon = siderite-concretion...des Gebletes yon Andenne geh6rt zur Facies von Chokier, die VAN LECKWlJCK et STOCKMANS (1956) folgendermassen...SIJDBELGISCHENNAMUR 337 feste dans l'asslse de Chokier, solt plus ou molns dlss6mm6 au sein de schistes...M~ichtigkelt ist also sxcher grosset als lm Geblete der Chokier-Facaes Dabel 1st dxese Schlchtfolge wohl durchgehend
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such as brachiopod secondary and tertiary layer calcite (e.g. Grossman et al., 1991; Casella et al., 2018;...shown to be less effective in avoiding diagenetic calcite with low δ 13 C and δ 18 O values than the methods...alteration in modern and fossil brachiopod shell calcite: a multi-analytical screening approach (CL, FE-SEM...2018. Cenozoic record of δ 34 S in foraminiferal calcite implies an early Eocene shift to deep-ocean sulfide...A., 2019c. The source of sulfate in brachiopod calcite: insights from μXRF imaging and XANES spectroscopy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fig. 1) was found to have thin linings of clear calcite to the septa, still retaining traces of an organic...organic structure, just as the similar calcite of the siphuncle does (PI. IV, fig. 6). The specimen has...of calcite grown perpendicularly to the internal surfaces of the conch. Layers of fibrous calcite adjacent...filled on one side with light-coloured crystalline calcite, it is full of dark limestone-mud on the other...the other camerse are filled with light-coloured calcite, as also are the siphuncular segments. The actinoceroid
Journal (issue)
North Staffordshire and for floral continuity in Belgium and Silesia, suggested that " temporary marine...recorded by Professor A. Renier (1906) from the Chokier flora of the Belgian Millstone Grit (where almost...specimens named by Hind from thr; Coal Measures in Belgium as Anthracomya laevis, var. scotica are young crushed...preserved in granular calcite and the cavities are usually filled with crystalline calcite. On the whole, the...filled with a secondary deposit of crystalline calcite, arguing a considerable rigidity for the ambulacral
Report (issue)
camerae and in the orad part of the third. The calcite-filled endosiphuncle appears distorted, possibly...siphuncular segments are filled with crystalline calcite. The paratypes are smaller shells than the holotype...the holotype the siphuncle is filled with impure calcite grains and the chambers outside of the siphuncle...and its filling are composed of recrystallized calcite and, as other septa may have been destroyed by...The shell is filled with grains of crystalline calcite, but well-developed mural deposits are visible
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
P. Lacm·dai1·eanus, P. Verneuileanus (found in Belgium in Stage III Visean). The distribution of the species...occur in all stages of growth. The fossils are in calcite covered by a deposit of iron pyrites, a condition...beds thin out, but at Clavier, near Dinant in Belgium, beds of similar lithological character to the...Lamellibranchs as common to the Carboniferous Limestone of Belgium and Great Britain and Ireland than de Koninck thought...as occurring in the Carboniferous Limestone of Belgium ; of these he stated that 35 species were found
Book
Bauxite Deposits in Karst Bear Rock Karst, Canada Belgium: Archaeological Caves Belize River Caves Biodiversity...Australia: Archaeological and Paleontological Caves Belgium: Archaeological Caves Britain and Ireland: Archaeological...where they have produced caves with cupolas and calcite and gypsum encrustations (especially when water...neige dans l’évolution des formes karstiques de haute montagne du Haut Atlas central (Maroc). Phénomènes...1999). As Mason blasted his way down through the calcite-hardened breccias he uncovered hearth-like structures
Report (issue)
two species from the Visean and Waulsortian of Belgium. Finally, Beyrichoceras hornerae Miller, from a...1619, near Marshall, Searcy County, Ark. ondary calcite crystals within the camerae may have SYSTEMATIC...position. He interpreted several thin bands of calcite in the camerae as calcified remnants of the partly...the genus for want of calcified siphimcles. In Belgium, Rayonnoceras has been reported in Lower Namurian...Mississippian occurrences include Visean rocks of Belgium and Germany, and Upper Mississippian beds in Kentucky
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
F.G.S. A spficimen of Silver Glance incrusting Calcite, from Rabbit Mountain, Lake Superior, exhibited...petrographical researches among the older formations of Belgium, and his studies of the nature and origin of Deep-sea...eoticule, the phyllltes, and other altered rocks of Belgium, and on the deep-sea deposits are too well known...Daubrge, Fouqud and Ldvy, in France, to Renard in Belgium, to u Rosenbuseh, and Zirkel, in Germany, to many...botryoidal ore, or contain a group of crystals of calcite, or a kernel of soft pea-ore ; have sometimes an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
interested in marine biology. On returning to Belgium, after an appointment at Ghent which led to nothing...generally occupied by a quantity of calcite. Ill this case the original calcite of the limestone can easily be...production of lime-silicates at the expense of calcite, and conclude that somewhere about ~ ir~ch would...metamorphic aureole, it is only the most finely-divided calcite which has been decomposed:. In addition to the...varieties of hornblende with some felspar, serpentine, calcite, and other minerals. The Author remarks that it
Journal (volume)
of Elephas primigenius, Blum., found at Lierre, Belgium . . 193 - - - - - W. Coalbrook-dale Coalfield...crystals. Ame thyst. Jasper and Lydite, waterworn. Calcite, fragments. Selenite, crystals. Garnet (Pyrope)...amygdaloid, having its cavities mostly filled with Calcite, a few with Chalcedony, and still fewer with Greenearth...and transparent; Amphibole; Hornblende ; Garnet; Calcite and Arragonite; Specular Iron-ore and Haematites;...Koninck's Description des Animaux Fossiles, etc. Liège, 1842, 4to., pl. vi., fig. 6, p. 139). The valve
Journal (issue)
to be A. atratum (Goldfuss) which occurs at Chokier, Belgium, in association with Homoceras diadema (horizon...Text-fig. 4g Remarks. Solid, wire-like coils of calcite wound in a plane spiral about 0 ·5 mm wide have...only as internal moulds consisting of wire-like calcite wound in milioline coils to form an elongate, rounded
Report (volume)
exceptional feature. The original carbonate of lime (calcite or aragonite), of which most Carboniferous fossils...1848-49.) Lower Carboniferous limestone of Vise", of Chokier, and of Ratingen; in the shales of the median e"tage... Carboniferous limestone and shales: Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland, Spain, Russia, North America...Mayen Wais, Bolland, Kendal, England; Tournay, Belgium. Athyris subtilita. Salter, Geol. Soc. London Quart...47-56. Carboniferous limestone: Lives and Nameche, Belgium. 1888. Athyris subtilita. Eeyes, Acad. Nat. Sci
Journal (volume)
uncertain. on are chiefly the following 1. Human Belgium, in work in all its bearings, : remains found...Schmerling, he only observed one cave, namely that of Chokier, where there were two regular layers of stalagmite... exception, this from the cave of Engis, in Belgium, supposed to be the oldest known, is in the judgment...which are coated with minute crystals of quartz, calcite, and specular iron. The great increase in bulk...Castle Hodgkinson in Manchester... Einzeau in Belgium Gordier near Ganneaux It will '..... " 115
Report (issue)
layers of 1 foot thickness, with cross seams of calcite, 15 feet; 6. Red calcareous sandstone, very hard...On the Continent at Vise and Tournay, etc., in Belgium; Ratingen, in Prussia; and also in America. ' ...origin. They may, however, be only segregations of calcite (of which substance they now consist) without organic... d. Lower Carboniferous limestone of Vise, of Chokier, and of Ratingen; in the shales of the median &age... Carboniferous limestone and shales: Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland, Spain, Russia, North America
Book
Vegetated swamp deposits P Paleosol carbonate (calcite, siderite) Pedogenic features: nodules, filaments...retain their original carbon, or may be replaced by calcite or siderite. Where associated with overlying coals...vertical scale. (Ferm and Staub 1984) I ii •Terre Haute N o I o 20 , 60 , km 40 ~ k mi I / "3...with clastic material (clastic dikes). Sheets of calcite, barite, or gypsum may also occur. Aggregates of... [.rt> (;. ~ I» "0 ~. ::r Arnsbergian Chokier ian ~ !4' ... rt> tv 0\ 0\ H 2c 1•• b N1
 
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