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Zoisite from
Gneiss quarry, Saunstein, Schönberg, Freyung-Grafenau District, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Zoisite
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zoisite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gneiss quarry, Saunstein, Schönberg, Freyung-Grafenau District, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:336500
Long-form Identifier:1:3:336500:7
GUID (UUID V4):eb00d050-bb56-4f92-841a-5b37cbb2b19a
Nearest other occurrences of Zoisite
14.1km (8.8 miles) Granodiorite quarries (incl. Kusser Quarry), Hötzendorf, Tittling, Passau District, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
20.2km (12.5 miles) Steinerleinbach Quarry, Röhrnbach, Freyung-Grafenau District, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
56.4km (35.0 miles) Kalkofen Quarry, Kalkofen, Arnschwang, Cham District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
71.3km (44.3 miles) Domoradice graphite deposit, Domoradice, Český Krumlov, Český Krumlov District, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
References
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hydrobasaluminite, basaluminite, 931 Merebead quarry, Somerset, mendipite, chloroxiphite, 9o i St. Austell...Cornwall, luxullianite, 441; 442 Scar Crag, Lake District, arsenopyrite, alloclase, glaucodot, cobaltian...intergrown with clausthalite and wittichenite, 13I Germany (Deutschland) Clara mine, Black Forest, cuprotungstite...hauchecornite, 875 Hagendorf Bavaria, arrojadite (hagendorfite), 23o Hfihnerkobel, Bavaria, alluaudite (hiihnerkobelite)...Valle Vigezzo, Prov. Novara, vigezzite, 459 Osa quarry, Rome, gismondine, 84 I Sasso della Mantesca and
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retrograded eclogites of the Munchberg Massif, Germany: records of a multi-stage Variscan uplift history...Universitat Bayreuth, Postfach 101251, W-8580 Bayreuth, Germany. ABSTRACT Eclogites with a wide range in bulk...basement of the Bohemian Massif in north-east Bavaria. New analyses of the primary phases garnet, omphacite...omphacite)-kyanite-paragonite (in phengite) and zoisite-grossular (in garnet)-kyanite-quartz relationships...Zo = zoisite INTRODUCTION The Munchberg Massif (MM) is located in north-east Bavaria, Germany, at the
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calc-silicate rocks of the Munchberg gneiss complex, Bavaria, Germany - - R. KLEMD,’ S. M A T T H E S...Bremen, Germany ’Institut fur Mineralogie, Universitat Wurzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wurzburg, Germany ABSTRACT...high-pressure gneisses in the Miinchberg gneiss complex of NE Bavaria. Core assemblages of the boudins consist...consist of grossular-rich garnet, diopside, quartz, zoisite, clinozoisite, calcite, rutile and titanite. The...eclogite facies, high-pressure rocks of the Miinchberg gneiss complex are part of the Central European Variscides
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Bayreuth, Postfach 1012.51, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany Abstract Eclogites from different parts of the... Massif showing Complex; (3) Oberpfalz; (4) Lower Austria. the major subdivisions sillimanite +...overlying the Palaeozoic series as in the Miinchberg Gneiss Massif or tectonically underlying them as is the...unit of the Moldanubicum in Bohemia, Moravia and Lower Austria (Fuchs, 197 1; Tollmann, 1982; Matte et...locations outside the Gfohl nappe in the Bavarian and Lower Austrian parts of the Moldanubian Zone. 3. Sample
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breakdown in metabasites of the KTB pilot hole, NE Bavaria: implications for the Variscan tectonometamorphic...Republic of Germany 2 KTB Feldlabor, Postfach 67, W-8486 Windischeschenbach, Federal Republic of Germany 3 M...Hubland, W-8700 Wiirzburg, Federal Republic of Germany ReceivedJune 21, 1991 / Accepted June 1, 1992 Abstract...facies assemblage garnet+omphacite + kyanite + zoisite + quartz + rutile. The garnets in the metagabbros...situated near Windischeschenbach, Oberpfatz, NE Bavaria (Fig. 1), was drilled between September 1987 and
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lens which is intruded into limestone in the City Quarry, Lewiston, Maine. The mineral is not commonly reported...equivalents. ft is probable that the graphite of the City Quarry pegmatite representsa hydrothermal product. LocauoN...low hill known locally as "West Rose Hill." The quarry faces the Maine Central Railroad line to Brunswick...from the Lewiston Lower Station. The graphite-bearing pegmatite is in an abandoned quarry opening on the...slope of the hill along the road connecting the quarry with Lisbon street. GBNrnar Gnorocv The bed rocks
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nappe protoliths of the Münchberg Massif, NE Bavaria (Germany) Nikola Koglin, Armin Zeh, Gerhard Franz...nappe protoliths of the Münchberg Massif, NE Bavaria (Germany). The address for the corresponding author...nappe protoliths of the Münchberg Massif, NE Bavaria (Germany) Nikola Koglina, Armin Zehb, Gerhard Franzc...University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany KIT Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Angewandte...Adenauerring 20b, Geb. 50.40, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany PT E c D armin.zeh@kit.edu Institute for Applied
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white mica dates, Miinchberg Massif, northern Bavaria K. H a m m c r s c h m i d t , 1 and G. Franz 2...geothermometers (quartzclinopyroxene, 676~ quartz-zoisite, 664~ quartz-hornblende, 617~ quartz-garnet, 606~...amphibolite-facies rocks. The U/Pb datings of zircons give a lower intercept age of 380 Ma for the discordia interpreted...and 368 Ma. In the very low grade Ordovician to Lower Carboniferous sediments east and west of the M M... Prosinite -Phyllite - Series ~'~ Ordovician-Lower Corboniferous Fig. 1. Geological sketch map of
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characteristics of retrograded eclogites, Miinchberg Gneiss Complex, Germany Reiner Klemd Institut fiir Mineralogie...Hubland, D-8700 Wiirzburg, Federal Republic of Germany Abstract. Kyanite eclogites occur as part of the...the Miinchberger nappe pile in NE-Bavaria, West Germany. Eclogites are overprinted by subsequent amphibolite...the coexistence of omphacite (Jd 50), kyanite, zoisite and quartz. Minimum pressure estimates, independent...Geological setting The eclogites of the Miinchberg Gneiss Complex are situated in the NE-Bavarian crystalline
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the Weissenstein eclogite, Miinchberg gneiss complex, Bavaria Reiner Klemd 1, Siegfried Matthes 2, and...eclogites and meta-sediments of the Mfinchberg gneiss complex suggest minimum pressures of about 15 kbar...amphibolite facies phengites have considerably lower Si-contents (3.0-3.25 p.f.u.). 2. Omphacite relics... Introduction The eclogites of the Miinchberg gneiss complex, known since the beginning of the last... and the geotectonic history of the Mfinchberg gneiss complex as a whole is still open to discussion
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Universitfit Bayreuth, Postfach 101251, D-95440 Bayreuth,Germany D. A. Carswell Department of Earth Sciences, University...comprising parts of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria and Germany. The block is truncated to the north-east by the...(Sk/tcel, 1981). The basement here is the Keprnik gneiss (546 Ma, Rb/Sr, Van Breemen et al., 1982) and the...with the Ramzova overthrust separating it from the lower temperature garnet-staurolite-andalusite schists...dark kyanite-free varieties; primary phengite, zoisite and hornblende are sometimes noted (Jelinek et
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ABsrRAcr The Climax pegmatite of the Micanite district in Colorado contains unusually large masses of... chlorite, and biotite, and traces of garnet, zoisite, and tourmaline. Data on 50 other occurrences of...discussed. IurnooucttoN The Micanite pegmatite district iies acrossthe Park-Fremont County line in south-centralColorado...rocks that include granitic gneiss, muscovite gneiss, siliimanite gneiss, mica schist, and biotite granite...grinding quality muscovite were obtained. Within the district ten major quarriesand prospectsare recorded(Fig
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by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...bothers to stoop and pick up a piece of limestone, gneiss or granite? And yet, it is these rocks which shape...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...hardness. Each mineral will scratch those in a lower division on the scale and can be scratched by those...vesuvianite (idocrase), wollastonite, zeolite, zircon, zoisite. Other methods of classification depend on external
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Leibniz University, Welfengarten 1 D-30167 Hannover, Germany Abstract: In some areas of the Variscan orogen...the Hagendorf-Pleystein Pegmatite Province, SE Germany, and present in many ensialic orogens elsewhere...named by the same author as greywacke-quartzite gneiss. Steiner (1986) treated them as a felsic mobilizate... 10-11) named the Teplá-Barrandian zone or in Bavaria as Zone of Erbendorf-Vohenstrauß “ZEV” (Malkovsky...into each other (Fig. 2, 6a). Biotit-plagioclase gneiss converts into pegmatoids via a reaction zone of
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the Weissenstein eclogite, Miinchberger Gneiss Massif, Germany G. Franz 1, S. Thomas 1' 2, and D.C. Smith...of a sample from the Weissenstein eclogite, Bavaria, Germany, has been investigated. The total mineral...Weissenstein eclogite in the Mfinchberger Gneiss Massif (MGM) in Germany. Phengitic mica (sometimes accompanied...kyanite in anhydrous eclogites has phengitic mica (4-zoisite) in hydrous eclogites, whilst low AlzO3-high MgO...g. presence o f garnet, clinopyroxene, quartz, zoisite/epidote, clinoamphibole and phengite with the latter
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of metagabbros in the Miinchberg Massif, N.E. Bavaria D. Bosbach, H.-G. Stosch, and E. Seidel Miner...Accepted September 17, 1990 Abstract. The central gneiss complex of the Mfinchberg Massif consists of the...Introduction The Mrinchberg Massif (MM) in northeastern Bavaria is a key area in structural models of the mid-European...Vollbrecht et al. 1989), The MM consists of a central gneiss complex, surrounded by the Randamphibolit-Serie...metamorphic zonation (Behr et al. 1982). The central gneiss complex of the MM is divided into the Hangendserie
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immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...culture, derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...crystallographic symmetry of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite...symmetr:y ar:e no longer: present (Fig. 16a, p. 93). A lower: cr:ystallogr:aphic symmetr:y is often only shown
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Universitat Wiirzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wiirzburg,: Germany Max-Planck lnstitut fur Chernie, Abteilung Ceochemie...Ceochemie, Postfach 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany Universitk Lausanne, lnstitut de Minkralogie et Pktrographie...garnet-peridotites, generally forming lenses in high-grade gneiss terranes, record the emplacement of mantle material...and the Gfohl unit comprising the granulites of Lower Austria (Scharbert & Carswell, 1983), Southern Bohemia...(Medaris et al., 1988), and in the Kutnh Hora-Svratka gneiss complex (Fiala, 1965, 1966; Dudek & Fediukovi,
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gneisses of the Tux Gneiss core, which represents the middle of three main Central Gneiss ("Zentratgneis")...metamorphosed Paleozoic (?) rocks (schist belt); Central Gneiss and intruded basement are overlain by Permomesozoicautochthonous...Permomesozoicautochthonous sediments.Basementschists, Central Gneiss with cover sequence, and the parautochthonous Wolfendorn...overthrust by Austroalpine nappes including the Lower Austroalpine quartzphyllite zone and the nappes...(Permomesozoic) plus autoehthonouscover G~anitoid gneiss belts basement complex BB Schist within Fig.
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Eclogite-facies rocks in the Saxonian Erzgebirge, Germany: high pressure metamorphism under contrasting P...represent at least two different nappe units. The lower-grade eclogite assemblages in the western Erzgebirge...Western Alps (Chopin 1984, 1987), in the western gneiss region of Norway (Smith 1984, 1988), and in the...Niederschlager Formation Upper Pressnitz Formation E ~ Lower Pressnitz Formation Osterzgebirge Formation Geological...lithologies, mainly belonging to the Lower and Upper Pressnitz Formation. The Lower Pressnitz Formation was affected
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Crystalline Complex, Mid-German Crystalline Rise, Germany: evidence for a so far unrecognised high-pressure...b Institut fur Am Hubland, D-97074 Wurzburg, Germany ¨ Mineralogie der UniÕersitat ¨ Wurzburg, ¨ ¨ Institut...Darmstadt, Schnittsphanstraße 9, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany Received 14 November 2000; accepted 23 August 2001...¨ Erlangen, Schloßgarten 5a, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. High-pressure metamorphic rocks such as eclogites...1991., for example, the Schwarzwald, the Munchberg Gneiss ¨ T.M. Will, E. Schmadicker Lithos 59 (2001)
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exsolution microstructures reported from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway, shows relicts of majoritic garnet...et al., 1991) and calcsilicates (e.g., Münchberg gneiss complex; Klemd et al., 1994). The kyanite + omphacitic...pyroxene lamellae was reported from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway (van Roermund and Drury, 1998)....Hugh-Jones, 1994). Epidote-Group Minerals Orthorhombic zoisite and monoclinic epidoteallanite are major Ca-Al...Fe [=Fe3+/(Fe3+ + Al)] value is 0.04 ± 0.01 in zoisite and 0.15 ± 0.04 in monoclinic phases of the Sulu
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Windischeschenbach, NE Bavaria, penetrated rocks of the Zone Erbendorf-Vohenstrauss (ZEV). The upper and lower sections...of the 9101m-deep profile are mainly composed of gneiss units (former greywacke sediments) and variegated...Rohstoffe, Postfach 510153, D-30631 Hannover, Germany Fax: ##0511 643 3664 J. Duyster Institut für Geologie...Bochum, Germany U. Harms GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg C9, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany A. Kontny... Im Neuenheimer Feld 234, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany M. Lapp Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt und
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Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany DOI: 10.1127/njma/2016/0304 eschweizerbart_xxx...Field being at the heart of this region, in SE Germany (Bavaria). During the most recent investigations of...Deep Drilling Program of the Federal Republic of Germany / KTB) to get a full-blown 3-dimensional view of...pegmatitic and aplitic occurrences (e.g. Drachselrieth, Germany, Nb-P garnet-andalusite pegmatite), gem sites (e...Greenland, cryolite pegmatite), (e.g., Zinnwald, Germany, Rb-Cs-LiSn pegmatite-greisen deposit) and super
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28 29 Staurolite 7 Chrysocolla Epidote 8 Zoisite 9 30 31 32 Emerald 33 Labradorite 10 Orthoclase...yielded enormous crystals weighing many tons. At lower temperatures than that at which pegmatites are formed...where the banding is coarse the rock is known as gneiss, and the more finely-layered rock is called schist...on the fact that a mineral sinks in a liquid of lower specific gravity than itself, floats in one of higher...and other localities in S.W. Africa; parts of Germany; Cornwall, England. Cutting Unsuitable. Other
 
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