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Forsterite from
Smales Quarry, Lake Pupuke, Auckland Region, New Zealand


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Aragoniteⓘ1 photo of Forsterite associated with Aragonite at this locality.
Opal-ANⓘ1 photo of Forsterite associated with Opal-AN at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Smales Quarry, Lake Pupuke, Auckland Region, New Zealand
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:414393
Long-form Identifier:1:3:414393:2
GUID (UUID V4):1e418954-c344-456c-8d32-dece37e35156
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of nearly Fe-free forsterite. BUNCH and FUCHS (1969) have recently discovered a new Cr mineral, Brezinaite...BEAULIEU), Nedagolla (2441 ppm, SMALES),Clark County (1565 ppm, SMALES; 386 ppm, BEAULIEU)and Boguslavka...(215 ppm, SNLALES;LOVERING),Obernkirchen (355 ppm, SMALES) or Maria Elena (392 ppm, LOVERING)]. On the basis...REFERENCES BUNCH T. E. and FUCHS L. H. (1969) A new mineral brczinaite CrsS, and the Tucson meteorite
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VINCENT and SMA.LES(1956) and WAGER, VINCENT and SMALES(1957). Because of the lack of Pd data on igneous...in this study is similar to that of VINCENTand SMALES(1966) but differs from it particularly in the use...analyses of W-l are compared with those of VINCENTand SMALES (1966) in Table 1. Teble 1. Neutron activation...determination Analysts E. A. VINCENT and A. A. SMALES J. H. CROCKET and G. B. SKIPPEN of the Pd Content...UB-2-A UB- 1-A UB-1-D S-l-A B-I-I Dunite (95% forsterite, remainder enstetite plus spinel) Mt. Albert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4% d) (AHRENS, 1952). Indeed, Ge-substituted forsterite and fayalite olivine--spine1 solid solutions...olivine structure and forms a solid solution with forsterite in any proportions. Fe,GeO,-Fe,SiO, solid solutions...is very small (SMALESet aZ., 1958 ; FOUCHB and SMALES, 1967 ; Moss et al., 1967). Thus, under the equilibrium...I iron meteorites to Group IV iron meteorites (SMALES et al., 1967). Yet Cu and Ge are defined as “normal...bodies. Astrophys. J. 132, 243 288. FOuCd K. F. and SMALES A. A. (1967) The distribution of trace elements
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American Museum of Natural History New York John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York and London Copyright ©...meteorite research along many new lines in recent years has provided a mass of new informa tion yet to be...chapters from E. L. Fireman, L. T. Silver, A. A. Smales, C. B. Moore, W. D. Ehmann, and G. Baker. Dr. Michael...support is gratefully acknowledged. Brian Mason New York City May 1962 Contents 1 Introduction ...century and the early part of this. It was given a new direction by the development of geochemical research
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the s u b m i c r o g r a m range (Smales and Pate, 1952 ; Smales et al., 1957, 1958). This v e r y sensitive...neutron activation methods described by Smales and Pate (1952) and Smales et al. (1957, 1958). A typical batch...and standards were then treated as described by Smales et al. (1957, 1958), thioacetamide being used instead...Skaergaard intrusion, and, partly in the light of new analyses, Wager (1960) has recently reassessed the...Wager and Mitchell (1951) and Wager, Vincent, and Smales (1957). In the present work, arsenic and antimony
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analysed in E-, H- and L-chondrites by FOUCHI? and SMALES(1967b), who found no correlation between the concentration...chondrites. Ge and Ga have been determined by Fouc& and SMALES (1967a) and recently by (CHOU and COHEN (1973)...chondrites. As W and MO are in the transitional region from lithophile to siderophile elements, they might... (12) RIEDER and WKNKE (1969). (13) ATKINS and SMALES (1960). (14) MORGAN et al. (1969). (15) CAKE et...(~~/~~o~). (4) The activities of fayalite, forsterite and enstatite were obtained using the equations
Book
Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. GORDON New York AND BREACH SCIENCE PUBLISHERS Paris London... Science Publishers, Inc. 44 Park Avenue South New York, N.Y. 10016 , Editorial office for the United...table is now largely of historical interest, since new and improved 1 Elemental Abundances in Meteorites...X-ray spectrography, colorimetry, and completely new techniques such as neutron activation and isotope...Uchiyama and Brown, 1951; Lovering et al., 1957). This new chemical TABLE 6 Structural classification of iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystalline compound having fixed composition, such as forsterite, Mg=SiO~, in the following reaction: K(T) =...function of temperature, can be calculated from the new JANAF (Joint Army, Navy, Air Force) Tables of Thermochemical...~2MgSiO~ + H2(g) (5) begins to convert solid forsterite to solid clinoenstatite. The curve for this reaction...open to SiO, reaction at de would convert all forsterite to clinoenstatite. But since reaction only begins...raises P(H2) for the curve by the same factor, the region above de is effectively a two solid phase field
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
indicates that it is highly crystalline, containing forsterite and enstatite with smaller amounts o f diopside...containing the same major and minor phases (enstatite, forsterite, plagioclase, diopside, nickel-iron, troilite...2 A.L. Graham, A.J. Easton and R. Hutchison, Forsterite chondrites - the meteorites Kakangari, Mount...1205-1236. 21 J.T. Wasson, Meteorites (Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y., 1974). 22 E. Goldberg, A. Uchiyama and...Cosmochim. Acta 2 (1951) 1-25. 23 K.F. Fouch~ and A.A. Smales, The distribution of gold and rhenium in iron meteorites
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and Germanium Content in Crude Oils of the Emba Region” “Germanium in the Oil, Water and Rocks of Oil...Scientific and Industrial Research of the New Zealand Government—New Zealand Journal of Science : “Germanium,... Molybdenum, Copper and Zinc in New Zealand Thermal Waters” Economic Geology Publishing Company—Economic...Verlagsbuchhandlung—Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen “New Secondary Tin—Germanium and Primary Tungsten—(Molybdenum-...Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg—Mineralium Deposita “New Primary Vanadium-, Germanium-, Gallium-, and Tin-Minerals
Report (issue)
the enclosing rocks in the northwestern White Sea region, U.S.S.R_____._._________.____________________...data), neutron activation analysis (Atkins and Smales, 1960), and mass spectrography. It should be pointed...Recommended values.. 20 Tantalum 0.48 (2) Atkins and Smales (1960); Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell...granodiorite, Kalba, U.S.S.R ___ __ _ Kulinda, Baikal region, U.S.S.R _ _ central Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R__ _ _...northwestern Wyoming _ New Mexico ___ ___ _____ _______ Rhyodacite-dacite, quartz latite, New Mexico. __ Rhyolite
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1975 SANFORD, FLORIDA JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., New York - London - Sydney 10M 9 SeelanGie Copyright... Contributors S. BHATTACHARJI, Brooklyn College, New York, U.S.A. C. F. DAVIDSON, The University of St...among the contributors. The increased application of new instrumental techniques to problems related to the...Princeton University, and the State University of New York at Binghamton. S. Bhattacharji: R. Baragar...cent, given in parentheses after each mineral: forsterite (42.9), fayalite (29.4), hornblende (an average
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
because the new data are more homogeneous and extensive, especially for siderophiles. The new correlations...1983). We have therefore decided to classify the new value as doubtful, as it is very low for an E4, and...other recent analyses of E-chondrites (FOUCH~and SMALES,1967a,b; BINZ et al., 1974; BAEDECKERand WASSON...significant of 1.28 and 0.82. being Te and Rb, where the new values would shift the points by factors 0 - ...and other siderophiles in metal phase (FOUCHEand SMALES,1967a,b; RAMBALDIand CENDALES, 1980). But at least
Report (issue)
silicon by minor minerals such as plagioclase and forsterite. The lower Mg/Si ratio for the hypersthene achondrites...range of < 1-2,360 ppm and an average of 37 ppm; Smales, Mapper, and Fouche (1967) measured 66 irons and...concentration decreasing in the order C1-C2-C3 (H, L, LL). Smales, Mapper, and Fouche (1967) reported on copper in...gallium relative to the chrondrites. Fouche and Smales (1967a) studied the distribution of gallium in...table 44, largely from the results of Fouche and Smales (1967a), with some additional data. This table
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_, $2.00 ----~~--~--------~-----'· I What's New at Denver in 1998? ·The Fall Mineral Shows We've...a fabulous job of filling my need to see what's new and overdose on minerals and mineral-collecting friends...visiting most of the dealers and finding out what's new. Unfortunately, this year, due to back trouble, I...quite as intense and thorough in my search for the new discoveries in the mineral rid. There are a lot of...Colorado Springs, CO. Palermo Mines, North Groton,New Hampshire Summer 1997 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and to the solar nebula from which they formed. New data on the compositions and textures of chondrules...generally more difficult to oxidize than Ni. FOKH& and SMALES (1967) and EHMANN et al. f 1970) reported Au metal/...ordinary chondrites that those of Ni (FOUCH~. and SMALES, 1967; CHOU et al., 1973; RAMBALDIand CI CAmdrDlr...could have settled through the lightning discharge region more quickly than metal-poor materials, and thus...refractory lithophile element fractionation and added forsterite to bring the Mg/Si ratio up to the ‘unfmctionated’
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
himself was quick to qualify it by referring to the new tools o f research opened up by X-ray analysis. Nevertheless...(I92I) had published his tables with hundreds of new determinations on analysed minerals; Hartshorne and...proved less exciting. Among the silicates, the only new principles uncovered have been associated with N...The structural studies of r926-34 inevitably threw new light on crystal chemistry; to quote V. M. Goldschmidt...that Bragg did not find it necessary to suggest a new classification that cut across the old chemical boundaries;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
& Phillips, 1954), sulphides (Wager, Vincent, & Smales, 1957), and olivines (in progress). Recently, however...magmas developed by the crystal fractionation. The new analyses are mainly by Dr. E. A. Vincent and I am...Downloaded from http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/ at New York University on May 23, 2015 Department of Geology...Downloaded from http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/ at New York University on May 23, 2015 because the assumption...The boundary between two zones is drawn where the new phases have become a usual feature of the rocks,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
& Phillips, 1954), sulphides (Wager, Vincent, & Smales, 1957), and olivines (in progress). Recently, however...magmas developed by the crystal fractionation. The new analyses are mainly by Dr. E. A. Vincent and I am...The boundary between two zones is drawn where the new phases have become a usual feature of the rocks,...are given above the arbitrary base. * indicates new analysis not previously published. Average rock ...corresponding to the boundaries between zones. The new classification of the layered series, although more
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
temperature of melt segregation from its source region) are all at or below this depth (>250 km; Green...Ti-rich cumulates above their source regions, in the region of mare basalt melt production (Elkins et al.,...Elkins-Tanton et al., 2011). This mare basalt source region heterogeneity is evident from wide compositional...further evidence for Nd isotopic variations in source–region compositions (e.g., Borg et al., 2009). In order...wellcharacterised NHM standards (Na – jadeite, Mg – synthetic forsterite, Al – synthetic corundum, Si + Fe – synthetic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an Aerobee rocket from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, into the Leonid meteor shower and successfully...= 1.9 - 3.7%), enstatite (Fs = 4.0 - 8.1 %), forsterite (Fa = 1 - 8%), albite or oligoclase in all members;...Cr-diopside (Fe = 3%), enstatite (Fs = 6.6 - 7.0%), forsterite (Fa :;= 4%) and albite or oligoclase in all members;...essentially iron-free enstatite, diopside and forsterite with plagioclase of variable composition (An...abundance of Ca, Mg, Na and K in Australasian tektites. New analyses of approximately 330 tektites from 200 different
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron (after Smith [2]). The arrow indicates the region where anticorrelation exists between the overabundance...the rarefied envelope and enter the gravitational region of the secondary. In this way Galilean satellites...plagioclase, enstatite (MgSiO3) in the pyroxenes, and forsterite (Mg2SiO4) in olivine which predominate at first...1 (1951) 129. L.R. Wager, E.A. Vincent and A.A. Smales, Sulphides in the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
correct, the fractionation process in the nebular region where the CM chondrites formed was less efficient...the relative abundance of the element. The nebula region where the ordinary chondrites formed is assumed...more volatile than Fe. Condensation of Fe-Ni, forsterite (Mg2 SiO4) and pyroxene (MgSiO3) occurs at about...K). Since Mg2GeO 4 forms a solid solution with forsterite, Mg2Si04 [19], substitution of Ge for Si in silicates...volatiles from the ordinary chondrite formation region during a period of falling temperatures when condensation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consisting of minerals such as spinel, melilite, forsterite, perovskite, etc., and a minor metallic phase...Elemental Abundances in Meteorites (Gordon and Breach, New York, N.Y., 1971). 14 C.L. Chou and A.J. Cohen, Gallium...Anderko, Constitution of Binary Alloys (McGraw-Hill,New York, N.Y., 1958). 17 C.L. Chou, P.A. Baedecker and...Cosmochim. Acta 34 (1970) 493. 21 K.F. Fouchd and A.A. Smales, The distribution of trace elements in chondritic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterization of this petrologic sequence may generate new insight into the metamorphic process that is so pervasive...(1969). 8. TANNERand EHMANN(1967). 9. FOUCH~: and SMALES(1967). IO. GREENLAND(1967). 11. LAUL et al. (1970)...chondrule in Ornans consists of subhedral granular forsterite grains, clinoenstatite, and glass. (b) Type II...increases. This low-temperature regime must be the region where C3(0) metal formed, since observed kamacite...be assigned to a unique chemical group. Perhaps new bulk analyses will resolve this question. Regardless
 
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