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Diatomite from
Tripoli, Tripoli District, Libya


Classification
Type:Diatomite
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diatomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tripoli, Tripoli District, Libya
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:41793
Long-form Identifier:1:3:41793:6
GUID (UUID V4):69912e05-b967-4cb5-b9eb-dfd5c5846b8c
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include diatomites, diatomaceous clays, opoka, and tripoli. The near-surface bedding of siliceous rocks occupying...intergrading types. The widely known in many areas diatomite and less pure diatomaceous rocks. Harder siliceous...known term ā€œopokaā€™ for diagenesis product of diatomite. Diatomaceous earth is a common alternate name...sediment. Diatomite is also known as kieselguhr (Germany), tripolite (after an occurrence near Tripoli, Libya)...and moler (an impure variety within Denmark) (Diatomite statistics 2014). These rocks have been studied
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
www.elsevier.nl/locate/sedgeo A dolomitized diatomite in an OligoceneĀ±Miocene deep-sea fan succession...unique, 5Ā±10 cm thick layer of a dolomitized diatomite, which contains traces of volcanic material, occurs...deeply corroded diatom frustules. The dolomitized diatomite can be correlated with coeval occurrences of biosiliceous...Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Diatomite; Dolomite; Early diagenesis; Gonfolite Lombarda...Stereoscan electron microscopy; Sulfate reduction; Tripoli 1. Introduction Until some twenty years ago, dolomite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterization of wollastonite-2M by using a 2 diatomite precursor 3 D. NOVEMBRE1*, C. PACE1 & D. GIMENO2... Syntheses of wollastonite 2M by a diatomite 26 27 Keywords: diatomite, calcium silicates, wollastonite...here. 4 Syntheses of wollastonite 2M by a diatomite In general, CaSiO3 present two structurally quite...that in a 6 Syntheses of wollastonite 2M by a diatomite dry system nucleation of wollastonite occurs...the synthesis of calcium hydromonosilicate from diatomite 146 under hydrothermal conditions (150Ā°C) and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterization of zeolites K-F and W type using a diatomite precursor D. NOVEMBRE1,*, C. PACE1 1 2 AND D...and Rangsriwatananon (2005), for example, found diatomite to be an interesting and advantageous starting...30 mA, 1210 SYNTHESES OF K-F AND W USING A DIATOMITE counting time of 0.02 10 s per step) equipped...Siliceous raw material: ā€˜Tripoli rockā€™ The starting material was a diatomite, i.e. a fossiliferous siliceous...siliceous rock (ā€˜Tripoli rockā€™) cropping out in the Crotone Basin in southern Italy. Characterization of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marine to hypersaline conditions in the Messinian Tripoli Formation from the marginal areas of the central...Abstract Three sections of the early Messinian Tripoli Formation from the northern and southern margins...Messinian; Mediterranean; Central Sicilian Basin; Tripoli Fm; Salinity crisis; Biostratigraphy; Stable isotopes...complex sequence of marine marls, diatomite-bearing deposits (Tripoli Formation), evaporites and brackish...deposition of the major part of the early Messinian Tripoli Fm took place in near normal marine conditions
Report (chapter)
basin, Sicily, containing the early Messinian Tripoli Formation, which pre-dates evaporite formation...with the GPTS with the observed proportions of diatomite (relatively fast deposition) and clay (slow deposition)...thrusts (Grasso & Pedley 1988). The early Messinian Tripoli Formation diatomites were deposited when perched...thrust anticlines (Pedley & Grasso 1993). The Tripoli Formation is characterized by multiple laminated...preserved fish fossils in these sediments. The Tripoli Formation is found extensively over Italy and North
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distribution of various kinds of silicites (opoka, diatomite, tripoli, spongolite and chert) in the Northern Caucasus...Northern Caucasus. The most common are opoka, diatomite, tripoli, spongolite, and chert. Petrographic studies...Northern Caucasus: 1) opoka; 2) diatomite; 3) spongolite; 4) tripoli; 5) chert; 6) area of distribution...the Northern Caucasus: a, b) opokas, c) diatomite, d) tripoli, e) spongolite, f) chert. diagnosed on the...surface, x 4000; d) diatomite, impressions of diatomaceous algae, x 3000; e) diatomite, lobate surface,
Book (edition)
Seah eg Tepe Crushed Stone. By A. I. GORDBECK Diatomite. By ArrHur ose and Henry Mutryan Ā«vec 60 ...A. E. J. ENGEL Titanium. By Josep L. Gittson Tripoli, By Ropert W. MercaLr Vermiculite. By Joun B....separate chapters are devoted to Diamond, Diatomite, Tripoli, Pumice and Pumicite, Silica Sand and Quartz...Apatite 3 Emery Garnet Hā€”7 Hā€”6.5 Clay Diatomite to 7.5 Sandstone Silica sand Pumice schist...Chalk to 9 Silt Tron oxides Limestone Tale Tripoli Rottenstone Whiting Siliceous shale Manufactured
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lorca Basin (SE Spain) prior to the Messinian Tripoli Formation contain discontinuous levels of indurated...marls, which were deposited prior to the Messinian Tripoli Formation, represent a rather homogeneous unit...diagenetic carbonates (Fig. 2). The overlying Messinian Tripoli Formation, which reaches a maximum thickness of...90 m) is characterized by the alternation of diatomite beds and silty marls and by the intercalation...composed by silty marlstones where dispersed thin diatomite layers are present. Fig. 2. Simplified stratigraphical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
168 Ma reļ¬‚ects basin-wide restriction marked by diatomite and sapropel formation in the Mediterranean basin...the euxinic shales at 6.719 Ma coincides with diatomite formation in the eastern Mediterranean, uplift...in the Tripoli Fm are without true diatomite layers (Blanc-Valleron et al., 2002). Diatomite deposition...tripartite cycles of the Messinian diatomaceous Tripoli Formation (Sprovieri et al., 1996; Hilgen and Krijgsman...al., 2002). The formation of the diatomaceous Tripoli tripartites has been suggested to be linked to
Report (issue)
England and Wales Vi/ artime Pamphlet No. 5 .,. DIATOMITE By D. Haldaneā€¢ B.Sc., ā€¢ V. A. Eyles, B.Sc ā€¢...Introduction .A -sl1ort. account of the deposits of diatomite i:ri ScotlandĀ· appeared in Volume V of theĀ· Geological...given in that publication. (1) Nomenclature.- Diatomite has 111any names, those most commonly in use being...radioĀ­ ļæ½arian carth 9 kiesolguhr 9 tripolite 9 tripoli and 9 in Ireland, Bann Clay ā€¢ Other naines 9 used...a.nd radiolarian earth are n1isnomers, since diatomite is compo_sed neither -of :uu'usoria 11or ra di
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clean diamond is probably the answer. Diatoms - diatomite - tripolite - Opaline or hydrous silica consisting...mass. Sometimes erroneously termed tripoli, (See diatoms and tripoli). Varies considerable in composition...results. Tripoli ā€” natural tripoli. A fine grained silica and some different from diatomite and amorphous
Book
27 5 tlrag 28 6 7 Jordan Lebanon 29 31 8 Libya 32 35 9 10 Mauritania Morocco 11 12 Saudi Arabia...Kuwait* Lebanon Emirate Republic Kuwait Beirut Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman* Republic Republic Kingdom...States (Oman) Iraq Jordan Lebanon 900 ae ā€” 3,082 = Libya 1115 Copper ore ā€” a 15 ā€”200 ā€”_ ā€” Lead 0.328...Helwan Gulf States Iraq Israel Jordan Lebanon Libya Melting Direct | Converters reduction furnaces...a feasibility study for a plant is underway in Libya. By 1982, is it expected that the total aluminium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
following, from base to top (Table 1 and Fig. 5B): Tripoli E. PlayaĢ€ et al. / Sedimentary Geology 133 (2000)...within the gypsum layers are common (3) Up to six diatomiteā€“gypsum cycles occur. Two types of shallowing-upward...Irregular alternations of lutites and gypsum layers Tripoli Unit (1) Lorca/from 50 to 120 m/(borehole S4)...within the diatomites and resulting in a cyclic diatomite-gypsum assemblage (5 cycles) Saline Unit (1)...be subdivided into a Lower Member containing diatomiteā€“gypsum cycles, and a siliciclastic Upper Member
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spectrograms of chalcedony, chert, flint, novaculite, and tripoli. length from the Nujol absorption at 7.9 microns...probably due to OH groups. Tripoli, No. 35, which occurs in the lSeneca,Missouri, tripoli producing region has...absorption.This work is in progressby the writers. Diatomite (opal) from a Tertiary lake deposit near Quincy...being planned. X-ray difiraction patterns of thp diatomite and hyalite showed no well defined crystal structure...Mexico, shows almost no difierential absorption. Diatomite from Quincy, Washington, and opaline chert from
Report (issue)
............................................. Tripoli formation........................................of Sicily showing the areal distribution of the Tripoli formation ................................................. 16 Figure 8.--Isopach map of the Tripoli formation. Redrawn from Broquet and others (1984............ 19 Figure 11.--Folded beds of the Tripoli formation above the Cozzo Disi sulfur mine near...economic potential of the deposits. The terms "tripoli" and "tripolite" are used throughout this report
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1) from the Lower Member of the Messinian age Tripoli Unit (Fig. 1b) (Rouchy et al., 1998). The Messinian...comprised of a pre-evaporitic laminated series (the Tripoli Formation, Rouchy, 1982) and the Main Evaporitic...and Rosell, 1990; OrtıĢā€“Cabo et al., 1993). The Tripoli Formation is composed of diatomites, silty marls...Organic-rich shale Organic-rich shale Silicified diatomite Grey marl Grey marl 0.11 0.20 23.12 21.51 5.28...1b) is from the base of the Lower Member of the Tripoli Unit (Rouchy et al., 1998), approximately 17 metres
Journal (issue)
cement, clay, perlite, pumioe, expanded shale, diatomite, s111ca, gem stones, and coal comprised the balance...Undistributed: Asbestos, carbon dioxide (natural), eement, diatomite, gem stones, 11me, quartz, stone (dimension and...half-million dollar mark. Diatom1te The production of diatomite remains, as it has for many years, in the hands...copper, lead, and zinc deposits in the Bohemia district of Lane County as well as in some other parts...va.nadium$' titanium pigm.ents, coru.ndum~ diatomite, metallurgi"al i'llJoe'spa.r, arM,fielal graphite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
6-8 8 1 1 Lower evaporites Calcare di Base Tripoli diatomites Baksi et al. [22] used an age of 27...sedimentary cycles, we preferred to use the 38 diatomite cycles from Gavdos because they are tectonically...of the lower evaporites and/or the top of the Tripoli diatom&s (see [43]). F.J. Hi&en et al. /Earth...order, this succession includes diatomites of the Tripoli Formation, partly evaporitic limestones of the...of the Upper Evaporites. All units except the Tripoli diatomites belong to the Gessoso-Solfifera Formation
Book (edition)
submitted for identification from tl1e Laurens district, South Carolina. Systematic mining for corundum...years operations have been confined to the Salem district of Madras, while previous to 19~0 a small output...Tscherkakul, in the Bajan-Aul division of the Pavlodar district. COMMERCIAL CONTROL In spite of the severe competition...been mined only from Chester, Mass.; Peekskill district, New York, and Whittles, Virginia. MassachU8etu...Crookwell, New South Wales; also in the West Kimberley district of Western Australia. A fine-grained emery occurs
Report (volume)
quartzite, sand, "sand-clay," sandstone, and tripoli. "Chert-clay" is used here for a high-silica material...given. Tripoli occurs in the Arkansas novaculite in Garland and Montgomery Counties. The tripoli ranges...others, 1909, Description of the Philadelphia district [Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware]: U. S. Geol...manufacture of fire brick. Southeast of the Philadelphia district, glass sand (Cohansey) is dredged. Ā· Bascom, Florence...The most extensiv~ development of tripoli is in the Collinwood district, Wayne County, in the southern part
Report (issue)
separate discussion, that of the famed ā€œBermudaā€ diatomite, from which many species were described by Ehrenberg...and later workers, the localities of the Oamaru district, New Zealand, and the Oceanic deposits of Barbados...Hundreds on the James River in Virginia. The diatomite material itself most probably came from Nottingham...quadratum. Another important area is the Oamaru district of New Zealand. Referred in numerous publications...Szakal, Hungary Middle Miocene Undifferentiated: Diatomite of Marmorita, Alessandria, Piemonte, Italy Nyermegy
Book
Rare-earth minerals 90 Salt Diamonds 92 Diatomite 102 224 229 Sand & gravel 235 Sandstone...stone but also for specialized materials like diatomite, asbestos, and graphite. Certain then discuss...major producing districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies...graphite supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties...ultramafic rocks stretching from the Baie Verte district of Newfoundland though the Thetford Mines, Black
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
models from the Paleocene, Northeast Sirte Basin, Libya Mohamed H. Mresah Postgraduate Research Institute...rights reserved. Keywords: basin; dolomite; isotope; Libya; Paleocene; platform t Present address: Compagnie...Complex, Tower 3, Floor 10, EO. Box 91171, Tripoli, Libya. 0037-0738/98/$19.00 ~11998 Elsevier Science...Sirte Basin, a major petroleum province of northern Libya (Fig. 1), next to the relatively stable Cyrenaica...precipitated. Slower rates of deposition of the Miocene Tripoli Formation of Sicily permitted these sediments to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
comprise diatomites, marls and carbonates (e.g. Tripoli Formation on Sicily). This sedimentary cyclicity...homogeneous marls (`Lower Abad') to sapropel and diatomite-bearing sediments (`Upper Abad') ; this transition...Ć¾ 0.02 Ma [5]. The onset of diatomite formation in the classical Tripoli Formaton on Sicily, however...Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology of the Tripoli diatomite Formation (pre-evaporite Messinian, Sicily
 
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