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Gypsum from
Vestfold Hills, Ingrid Christensen Coast, Princess Elizabeth Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vestfold Hills, Ingrid Christensen Coast, Princess Elizabeth Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:314821
Long-form Identifier:1:3:314821:1
GUID (UUID V4):5176c6a6-7036-465f-b33c-67b18543bbd3
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PROTEROZOIC OF AUSTRALIA AND THE CAINOZOIC OF ANTARCTICA M.R. WALTER and J. BAULD Bass Becking Geobiological...Proterozoic of Australia and the Cainozoic of Antarctica. Precambrian Res., 21: 129--148. Carbonate sediments...occupy enclosed glacial basins in both the Vestfold Hills, and the Taylor and Wright Dry Valleys; Lake...acicular anhydrite and less abundant discoidal gypsum crystals (Fig. 4b). As with the samples described...n that a large number o f lakes and ponds in Antarctica support benthic mats constructed b y filamentous
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change and ice-sheet history in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica Dan Zwartz ) , Michael Bird, John Stone...new Holocene sea-level record from the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica, has been obtained by dating the lacustrine–marine...changes; glacial rebound; numerical models; Vestfold Hills; Antarctica 1. Introduction Determining the extent...applicability of their results. Since large areas of Antarctica have yet to be studied in detail, methods which...Holocene sea-level record from the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica ŽFig. 1., which will be used to constrain
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COASTAL AND SUBGLACIALPOLAR CARBONATES, EAST ANTARCTICA C. PrasadaRao', I.D. Goodwin'and J.AB. Gibson'...Pleistocenepolar carbonates occurin East Antarcticain shelf, coast,lakes and marginalto underneath glaciers, associatedmainly...bivalves anddiatoms. Coastalcarbonates (in the Vestfold Hills) are calciticand contain faunal assemblagessimilarto...marginal to subglacial polar carbonates from East Antarctica and present preliminary results on·their sedimentology...of aragonitic carbonates inice-freeregions of Antarctica (Hendy et al, 1979;Aharon 1988; Bird et al. 1991;
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CIRCULAR 909 Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Antarctica Work done in cooperation with the National Science...Foundation Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Antarctica By John C. Behrendt, Editor GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...resources in Antarctica?, by John C. Behrendt . . . . . . Mineral occurrences of Antarctica, by Peter D...· · · · · · · · · · · The Dufek Intrusion of Antarctica and a survey of its minor metals and possible...FIGURE 1. 2. 3-9. 10. 11-18. 19. Index map of Antarctica Cartoon of "ring of oil" Maps showing: 3. Worldwide
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Introduction and overview 1.1. Antarctic desert habitats Antarctica is a remote continent whose ice-free desert regions...(Fe, Mg and Ca) with SiO2 , overlain by layers of gypsum, anhydrite halite and sulfates of Na and Mg, topped...vulnerable to another stress which is extreme in Antarctica and currently escalating — enhanced UVB radiation...geomorphology on Mars analogous to habitats found in Antarctica (Carr, 1996). These include an ocean (Head et...the McKay model draws on analogous habitats in Antarctica suitable for practical evaluation of hypotheses
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3390/min11050507 Academic Editors: Yasuhito Sekine, Elizabeth B. Rampe and Department of Earth and Planetary...compositions of secondary sulfate salts (e.g., gypsum, thenardite) in the surficial sediments and soils...soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), Antarctica to determine contributions of sulfate from bedrock chemical...thin gypsum crusts on the terrestrial gypsum dunes at White Sands supports reactivity of gypsum on the...available in near-surface environments at the time of gypsum formation in the north polar region on Mars. Ice
Report (issue)
Tanarakite, ardealite, hydroxylapatite, variscite, gypsum. Distribution: Numerous occurrences. Found on...Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. In the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Name: To honor Professor George Jarvis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
continental saline environments such as evaporites of gypsum, halite and other materials in the alkaline Wadi...endoevaporitic cyanobacteria and other microorganisms within gypsum and halite evaporites in the lagoons of Baja California...Mexico and Italy, respectively, as well as recent gypsum deposits from Australia, Mexico and Peru containing...hypersaline lakes in Antarctica. One of these, Deep Lake located in the Vestfold Hills, is the source of...Antarctic lake (Lake Vida, Victoria Valley, East Antarctica) with a salinity of 200 showed presence of a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
79-91 Fluorine iron biotite from the Honeycomb Hills rhyolite, Utah: the halogen record of decompression...(Regularities of strontium distribution in Miocene gypsum south of the Holy Cross Mts, Central Poland) A...99-112 Sapphirine granulites from the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica: geochemical and metamorphic evolution...geochemical stream sediment survey in Umm Khariga area, Eastern Desert, Egypt yi3_$50Morsy, Mathematzcal Geology
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basins (SIMBs), and have been documented 78 in Antarctica (Gibson, 1999) and the Canadian High Arctic (Hughen...Arctic Canada (Vincent et 91 al., 2000) and Antarctica (Brady and Batts, 1981; de Mora et al., 1994)...Peltier, 2004) 296 indicate that the Sachs Harbour coast is presently submerging at a rate of ~2.50 mm/a...brine formation has been 17 380 observed in Antarctica where brines have depressed the freezing point...initial seawater incursion. Evidence from 391 Antarctica shows that while brines are generated near the
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Kump L. R. Kunk M. J. Kurz M. D. Kyte F. T. Lal D. Land L. S. Landing W. M. Landis G. Lange R. A. Langmuir... Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues by Elizabeth Kay Bemer and Robert A. 59(1 591 Articles TZEN-FU...Froidevaux System” edited by K. Fuchs 797 LYNTONS. LAND:“Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures”...JEANDUBESSY,MAURICEPAGEL,JEAN-MICHELBENY, HILBERT CHRISTENSEN,BERNARD HICKEL, CHARLES KOSZTOLANYI and BERNARDPOTY:...Consortium study of relationship to inclusions in Allan Hills 78 113 aubrite . 1835 JAMESW. MOFFEIT and ROD
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Kump L. R. Kunk M. J. Kurz M. D. Kyte F. T. lal D. Land L. S. Landing W. M. Landis G. Lange R. A. Langmuir...Water Cycle: Geochemistry and Environment” by Elizabeth Kay Berner and Robert A. 59cI Bemer ,,,..,_,....Froidevaux . System” edited by K. Fuchs _. LYNTONS. LAND: “Dynamical Geology of Salt and Related Structures”...Consortium study of relationship to inclusions in Alian Hills 781 I3 aubrite ........... and ROD G. ZIKA: Measurement...alteration: An example from a quartz-graphite vein, Black Hills, South Dakota .................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
conjugate sets (Fig. 5a). Deformation bands and gypsum veins have comparable attitudes to sills and thrust...(f) ~ 32° ~1 m (e) (Horizontal view ~100 m) Gypsum veins have opposing dips Low-angle fractures ...bands Gypsum veins Low-angle fractures Bleached host rock at sill tip Low angle fractures Gypsum veins...bands and low-angle fractures parallel to gypsum veins. (e) Gypsum veins with conjugate geometries. (f) Sill...Lower-hemisphere equal-area projections showing (g) gypsum veins and fractures, (h) thrust faults, and (i)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coastal areas M. J. BARCELONAand D. K. ATWOOD 47 Gypsum-organic interactions in the marine environment:...quartz grains from the Harney Peak Granite, Black Hills, South Dakota 147 Contrcile des concentrations... 629 Oxygen and carbon isotope measurements of land snail shell carbonate 637 Water and magmas: clarification...of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: suboxic diagenesis DOUG CULLEN...lignin geochemistry of marine southern Washington coast 819 Bismuth drites DALE C. MANN LINDA BIES-HORN
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45 6030± 60 6260± 25 7095± 70 7270± 60 Mg-cal. gypsum 140 140 5 aragonite dolomite 150 150 160...contain authigenic minerals (aragonite, Mg-calcite, gypsum and dolomite) and detrital silicates (quartz, feldspars...minerogenic detritus dominates this unit. Content of gypsum (up to 20 %) and Mg-calcite are relatively high...2015 light-coloured laminae from Unit I, while gypsum content is c. 4 %. It is worth noting that no dolomite...distribution for dolomite and gypsum when compared with the dark brown laminae. Gypsum seems to be more abundant
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earth scientists in the scientific exploration of Antarctica can best be judged from the fact that 7 years...geology and solid earth geophysical literature of Antarctica. It is worth noting that two important differences...where earth scientists have but a fragment of Antarctica exposed to study and at times make, in some cases...parts of Antarctica, and the infuence of new plate tec¬ tonic thinking not only in Antarctica but in its...Adie freedom of the SCAR nations working in Antarctica, to give to SCAR his services, for the second
Report (chapter)
by chain lines. Sample suites: 1, subglacial~ Antarctica, Aharon (1988): 2, subglacial, Quebec (Hillaire-Marcel...7, lacustrine carbonates from Taylor Valley, Antarctica (Hendy et al. 1979); 8a 20000 years old, 8b 10000...lacustrine carbonates, Lake Fryxell, Taylor Valley, Antarctica (Lawrence & Hendy 1989); 9a modern cold-water...Tasmania (Rao & Green 1982; Rao 1988); 10 Permian, Antarctica authigenic lacustrine (Lord et al. 1988) and...diagenetic modification of Mg/Ca ratio and 6180 values (Land 1980), this was not found to be the case for the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
available lithic habitats. The impact melt breccia hills of the Haughton impact structure cover Palaeozoic...discussion in Osinski and Lee [2005]). In the eastern part of the crater, the impact melt breccia deposits...regions (Figs. 2 and 3). The impact melt breccia hills have low vegetation cover, with generally less than...paper are localized to the impact melt breccia hills and the regions of dolomitic polar desert between...Cyanobacterial epiliths have been observed on and within gypsum outcrops in Haughton (Parnell et al. 2004). Cryptogamic
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Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11.4 Singhbhum Craton of Singhbhum-Orissa...Antarctic Craton 2.13.1 Napier Complex of Enderby Land 116 118 120 121 3 Early Proterozoic crust 3.1...Structural Zone 3.6.4 Western Churchill Province 3.6.5 Eastern Churchill Province 3.6.6 Woprnay Orogen 3.6.7 Western...African Craton: Northern Africa 4.10.1 Darfur and Eastern Tchad Basement 4.10.2 Tuareg Shield 4.11 Indian...4.11.1 Cuddapah-Kaladgi-Godavari Region 4.11.2 Eastern Ghats Belt 4.12 Australian Craton 4.12.1 Carpentarian
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Granulite Domain (South Indian Highlands) 2.11.3 Eastern Ghats Belt 2.11.4 Singhbhum Craton of Singhbhum-Orissa...Antarctic Craton 2.13.1 Napier Complex of Enderby Land 116 118 120 121 3 Early Proterozoic crust 3.1...Structural Zone 3.6.4 Western Churchill Province 3.6.5 Eastern Churchill Province 3.6.6 Woprnay Orogen 3.6.7 Western...African Craton: Northern Africa 4.10.1 Darfur and Eastern Tchad Basement 4.10.2 Tuareg Shield 4.11 Indian...4.11.1 Cuddapah-Kaladgi-Godavari Region 4.11.2 Eastern Ghats Belt 4.12 Australian Craton 4.12.1 Carpentarian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yukon Territory, Canada (Wilson et al. 2006) Antarctica (Jull et al. 1988) Orthoserpierite Ca(Cu,Zn)4(SO4)2(OH)6·3H2O...mines No. 44, 45, Kopeisk, Russia OK Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica (Chesnokov et al. 2008) (Gore et al...SiO2 KAlSi3O8 quartz sanidine Gypsum plaster CaSO4·2H2O CaSO4 gypsum anhydrite High-temperature concrete...concrete CaAl2O4 krotite gypsum anhydrite CA2 Hydraulic (i.e., “Portland”) cement “alite” or “C3S” Ca3SiO5...and most prolific slag localities are near the coast of Lavrion (also known as Laurion or Laurium), Attiki
Report (issue)
assessment of potential sensitivity of soils in the eastern United States to acid precipitation. Oak Ridge...Thomas K. Geologic map of the Iditarod D-2 and Eastern D-3 quadrangles, Alaska. (College, Alaska] : Alaska...). Ad Hoc Committee on the Relationship Between Land Ice and Sea Level.Glaciers, ice sheets, and sea...lower Kittanning seam, western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. University Park, Pa. : Coal Research Section...environment of the Herrin (no.6) seam in central, eastern, and northwestern Illinois. University Park, Pa
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spatiotemporal variability in acidity on the mid north coast of NSW, Australia. Dissolution reaction rates varied...sulfate soils site near Kempsey, on the mid north coast of New South Wales, Australia (30° 55′ 40″S, 152°...were minor amounts of clay (~ illite composition), gypsum, diatom fragments and quartz grains (Fig. 2) intermixed...or there was another SO42− phase present such as gypsum. The Fe3+/ SO42− ratio was approximately 25% higher...sulfate minerals are known to have been present. Gypsum is abundant at this site, and was observed with
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1985 with his map of the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. We are pleased to republish these paintings...tent camp in the Mesa Range of northern Victoria Land at the foot of Mt. Masley. Printed on acid-free...during the 1969/1970 field season. Prolog Antarctica! The very word brings to mind images of fierce...winds, bone-chilling cold, and utter desolation. Antarctica has the reputation of being a hostile place unfit...worked there have a very different impression of Antarctica. To us it is a place of unsurpassed beauty where
Report (issue)
Giant Oil and Gas Fields.11 Bill St. John: Antarctica—Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential.55 A. R. Green...Robert A. Meneley: Oil and Gas Fields in the East Coast and Arctic Basins of Canada.143 A. C. Grant, K....McAlpineandJ. A. Wade: The Continental Margin of Eastern Canada—Geological Framework and Petroleum Potential...as yet unexplored and little-known continent, Antarctica. When asked about the philosophy of the Wallace...of its habitat, the disintegrating rocks of the land surface, the astounding record of its own evolution
 
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