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Hypersthene from
Ankafotia, Fotadrevo, Ampanihy District, Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:'Hypersthene' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Mg,Fe)SiO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hypersthene data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ankafotia, Fotadrevo, Ampanihy District, Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:535096
Long-form Identifier:1:3:535096:4
GUID (UUID V4):6b58373f-704f-40ea-8189-9ab232c9f2e0
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry of massif-type anorthosites from southwest Madagascar Received: 19 December 1997 / Accepted: 12 June...supracrustal gneisses in southwestern Madagascar. Two of these bodies (Ankafotia and Saririaky) appear to have...d'Antananarivo, B.P. 906, Ankatso, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar Present address: 1 Randgold & Exploration, Sanmatenga...mineral Sm-Nd isochron for samples from both the Ankafotia and Saririaky bodies. Initial isotopic ratios...extending from Brazil, through Angola, east Africa, Madagascar, southern India, Antarctica and western Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
massif-type anorthosite from the Ankafotia body of southwest Madagascar. The sample studied is a coarse-grained...(25–100 km2) massif-type anorthosite bodies (Ankafotia, Saririaky, Volovolo, and Manambahy) occur within...granulite facies ductile shear zones in southwestern Madagascar (Boulanger, 1959; Morel, 1996; Ashwal et al....(1998) estimated that magmatic emplacement of the Ankafotia and Saririaky anorthosite bodies took place at... samples over a large region in southwestern Madagascar, de Wit et al. (1998, 1999) proposed that early
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(different) anorthosite bodies in the Rogaland district of S. W. Norway formed in a catazonal and syn-orogenic...1959, p. 71) has classified the anorthosites of Madagascar into three types each with distinctive features:...and OTTO, 1960) Ankafotia, Saririaky, Manambahy and Volovolo plutons, S. W. Madagascar (BouLANGER,1957...Bjerkrem-Sogndal lopolithic complex in the Rogaland district (P. MicaoT, 1960, p. 12). Funnel-shaped bodies...primary dark minerals are either orthopyroxene (hypersthene) or clinopyroxene (angite-diopside?) or both
Book
Anorthosites in Africa .......................... 2.12.9 Madagascar ....................... 2.12.10 Australia............ 191 3.14.5 Anorthosites of Africa and Madagascar 191 3.14.5.1 The Kunene Complex, Angola;N"amibia.................. 192 3.14.5.3 Anorthosites of Madagascar ......... 195 3.14.6 Anorthosites of the U.S...the highest metamorphic grades, for example in Madagascar, India, South Africa, and West Greenland (e.g...based on occurrences near the village of Sakeny, Madagascar. These and similar occurrences of highly metamorphosed
Book
and structure of the Moine Schists in the Morar district, western Inverness-shire. Abstract. Proc. geol...the sedimentary-volcanic sequences in the Kenema district of Sierra Leone reach the amphibolite and granulite...Petrogenesis and geochemistry of the rocks of the Kenema district, Sierra Leone. 12th Ann. Rep. Res. Inst. African...d’ages absolus sur les séries précambriennes de Madagascar. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 258, 1853. De Sitter...1958. Les granites stratoides du Pays Betsileo (Madagascar). Bull. Soc. géol. Fr., 8, 537. FERRARA, G.
Book (volume)
Bancroft areas in Ontario, or in the Coimbatore district of Madras. Although originally believed to be...p. 264. Eckermann, H. von, 1948. The alkaline district of Alno Island. Undersok., Ser. Ca., No. 36. Eppler...1. 5-31 Haematite crystals, in decomposed hypersthene-augite andesite, Bernece, Borzsony Mts., Czechoslovakia... Ferrian ilmenite, anorthosite-norite, Ankafotia, Madagascar (Boulanger, 1957). 3. Ilmenite, fayalite...Boulanger, J., 1957. Les anorthosites de Madagascar. Serv. Oeol. Madagascar, Trav. Bur. Geol., No. 79. Bowie
 
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