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Zircon from
Pumice quarry, Ribeira Grande, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Astrophyllite5 photos of Zircon associated with Astrophyllite at this locality.
Ferro-katophorite4 photos of Zircon associated with Ferro-katophorite at this locality.
Aegirine4 photos of Zircon associated with Aegirine at this locality.
Fluornatropyrochlore3 photos of Zircon associated with Fluornatropyrochlore at this locality.
Pyrochlore Group3 photos of Zircon associated with Pyrochlore Group at this locality.
Sanidine2 photos of Zircon associated with Sanidine at this locality.
Monazite-(Ce)1 photo of Zircon associated with Monazite-(Ce) at this locality.
Titanite1 photo of Zircon associated with Titanite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pumice quarry, Ribeira Grande, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:544279
Long-form Identifier:1:3:544279:9
GUID (UUID V4):04f89c01-f086-4ed8-84ed-3c0b6485d38b
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
3.7km (2.3 miles) Ruins of Lombadas syenite xenolith occurrence, Ribeira Grande, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
5.1km (3.2 miles) Monte Escuro quarry, Monte Escuro, Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Three Late Quaternary Stratovolcanoes on Sao Miguel, Azores U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1900 Prepared...cooperation with the Regional Government of the Azores AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Three Late Quaternary Stratovolcanoes on Sao Miguel, Azores By RICHARD B. MOORE Prepared in cooperation...cooperation with the Regional Government of the Azores U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1900 U.S. DEPARTMENT...three late Quaternary stratovolcanoes on Sao Miguel, Azores I by Richard B. Moore. p. em. (U.S. Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Fogo A and 1563 A.D. trachyte deposits, São Miguel, Azores Darin C. Snyder a,⁎, Elisabeth Widom a ,...zoned trachyte deposits from Fogo volcano, São Miguel, Azores. High-precision U-series disequilibria measurements...multicollector mass spectrometry were performed on pumice lapilli and volcanic glass separates from Fogo...disequilibria; Time scales; Magma chamber; Trachyte; Azores ⁎ Corresponding author. 254 Williamsburg Circle...magmatic systems. Fogo volcano on the island of São Miguel (Azores) has repeatedly erupted strongly compositionally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
peralkaline magmatic system: Furnas volcano, São Miguel, Azores A. J. Jeffery1 · R. Gertisser1 · B. O’Driscoll2...of three active central volcanoes on São Miguel Island, Azores, and is considered to be one of the most...Geológicos, University of the Azores, 9501‑801 Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal 4 Centro de Informação e...Sismovulcânica dos Açores, 9501‑801 Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal 5 Department of Earth and Planetary Science...ubiquitous clinopyroxene antecrysts in the UFG pumice falls, provide evidence for mingling/mixing processes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of a chemically zoned trachyte: Fogo A, Sao Miguel, Azores E. Widom 1 *, H.-U. Schmincke 2, and J.B. GilP...paths. Major and trace element variations in 25 pumice samples collected from throughout the stratigraphic...Fig. 1. Locality map of the Azores platform with the island of Sao Miguel. The inset is a more detailed...detailed drawing of Sao Miguel showing the location of Agua de Pao volcano H i l d r e t h 1983 ; W 6 r n...setting The island of Sao Miguel lies near the eastern extent of the Azores platform, a topographic high
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
plinian deposits of Agua de Pau volcano (Sao Miguel, Azores Islands) F. RIDOLFI1, A. RENZULLI1,*, P. SANTI1...fall deposits of Agua de Pau volcano (São Miguel, Azores Islands) are divisible into (1) silica-undersaturated...minerals, Agua de Pau, São Miguel, Azores. Introduction T HE Azores archipelago straddles the MidAtlantic...MidAtlantic Ridge and emerges from the Azores Platform, (37 – 40ºN and 25 – 31ºW) near the North American-African-Eurasian...triple plate junction (Burke and Wilson, 1976). São Miguel is one of the eastern islands and is located along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magmatic Activity in Agua de Pao Volcano, Sao Miguel, Azores by E. WIDOM 1 *, J. B. GILL 1 , AND H.-U. SCHMINCKE...trachyte eruptions of Agua de Pao volcano, Sao Miguel, Azores, represent bulk liquid compositions resembling...trachyte eruptions of Agua de Pao volcano (Sao Miguel, Azores) also appear to represent MAGMAT1C ACTIVITY...velocities of residual melt. The Azores island group emerges from the Azores Platform, a topographic high...(Laughton & Whitmarsh, 1974). The island of Sao Miguel belongs to the eastern island group, and straddles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pyroclastics from Agua de Pau Volcano, Sao Miguel, Azores: Evolution of a Magma Body over 4,000 Years...England Abstract. The Recent stratigraphy of Sao Miguel records large numbers of trachytic pyroclastic...one of the three active stratovolcanoes on Sao Miguel. A geochemical and electron microprobe study made...succession, revealed significant variations in pumice clast chemistry and mineralogy between the individual...deposit. It is proposed that the five air fall pumice deposits represent successive samples of an evolving
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Evandro F. de Lima2 | Ruy P. Philipp2 | 3 Miguel A.S. Basei 1 Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Geociências...Geocronologia (CPGEO), Instituto de Geociências, USP, São Paulo, Brazil Correspondence Roberto J. Noll Filho...noll.robertoj@gmail.com Funding information Rio Grande do Sul State Research Foundation (FAPERGS), Grant/Award...HREE and has a strong negative Eu anomaly. U–Pb zircon dating indicates an age of 561 ± 2 Ma for Cerro...= Sierra Ballena, 9 = Cerro Amaro, 10 = Arroio Grande. Source: Philipp, Jelinek, and Chemale Jr (2012)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
underlying Tenerife (Canary Islands), Sao Miguel and Faial (Azores), and Vesuvius. The most fractionated...system is heavy-REE depleted roofwards, while the Azores systems, which lack these phases, display roofward...Walker & Croasdale (1971, and unpub. data) on the Azores Islands. We now describe the general features of...1980), the units studied are subplinian to plinian pumice fall deposits and ignimbrites, some with associated...Las Canadas is the source of a late Quaternary pumice succession comprising some 40 airfall and ignimbrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sinos (UNISINOS), Av. Unisinos, 950 Cristo Rei, São Leopoldo, CEP 93022-000, RS, Brazil 2 Laboratório...Camaquã Basin are located in south-central Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil. They are part of...phylossilicates in a matrix composed of shards and pumice, with eutaxitic texture, concoidal and perlitic...= 0.71454). Chemale Jr. (2000) obtained a U/Pb zircon age of 573±18 Ma, εNd (t=570 Ma) of –9.34 and –9...et al. (2003) used SHRIMP U/Pb dating in eleven zircon crystals from rhyolites of the Vila Nova do Sul
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LeitãO Waichel a b Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul b Universidade Estadual do Oest do Paraná...Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Cx. Postal...Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Cx. Postal...Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Cx. Postal...Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Cx. Postal
Book
Regional Geology Reviews Siegfried Siegesmund Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Pedro Oyhantçabal Sebastian...springer.com/series/8643 Siegfried Siegesmund Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Pedro Oyhantçabal Sebastian...Göttingen Germany Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Geosciences Institute University of São Paulo São Paulo Brazil...Uruguay. These metasediments, based on the detrital zircon ages pattern and geological similarities are considered...Damara and Gariep belts of southern Africa with the Ribeira Belt of South America, and to interpret their evolution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks from Serra Branca, Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal Diogo R.N. Rosa a,b,c,⁎, Carlos M.C. Inverno a...Estrada da Portela, Alfragide, 2720-866 Amadora, Portugal CREMINER-Centro de Recursos Minerais, Mineralogia...Cristalografia, Edíficio C6, Piso 3, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal c Department Geology, University of Lisbon, Edifício...Lisboa, Portugal d INETI-Serviços Geológicos, Rua Frei Amador Arrais, 39, 7802-491 Beja, Portugal e CODES-Center...rocks from Serra Branca, Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal, consist of calc-alkaline felsic and intermediate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemical Strategies, Inc., 2670 Appaloosa Way, Arroyo Grande, CA 93420, USA (rhaddad@charter.net) The application...do Porto, Praça Gomes Teixeira, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal (adoria@fc.up.pt) A 270-year ice core record...(canderso@uchicago.edu) New isotopic measurements of zircon and feldspar constrain the magmatic evolution at...range of pumice types from at least two migrating vent systems with syndeposition of plinian pumice falls...1) The earliest deposited pumice was plausibly the earliest erupted pumice and it probably derived from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volatile Component of Some Pumice-Forming Alkaline Magmas from the Azores and Canary Islands and M. Storey...alkaline pumice deposits, of airfall and ignimbrite type, from Tenerife (Canary Islands), Sao Miguel and Faial...Faial (Azores). It is argued that reliable temperature and f O z estimates can be obtained from tita...particular interest are the volatile contents of pumice-forming magmas, since their very formation is testimony...determined from information preserved in the final pumice deposit. The most satisfactory method is to analyse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3). zircon (Figure 3). The phenocrysts alkali feldspars apatite, monazite, haleniusite, and zircon (Figure...apatite and zircon accessory minerals. and sodium amphibole, with small amounts of apatite and zircon as accessory...◦ 0 ◦ 0 ◦ 0 ◦ 0 ◦ 7 of 21 Azores, Kilombe, Kenya Portugal 0 112 55 47” 112 55 41”and112 57...12 0.08 0.09 0.05 0.01 0.09 0.24 0.22 Kilombe, Azores, MgO 0.14 0.28 0.27 0.17 0.32 0.10 0.21 0.09 0...0.73 0.62 0.77 0.17 0.11 0.52 0.59 1.10 Kenya Portugal Na2 O Lat.(N) 5.99 23°8′43′′ 5.89 5.94 6.19 23°9′10′′
Report (chapter)
hybrid lavas from Agua de Pau volcano, Sao Miguel, Azores M. Storey, J. A. Wolff, M. J. Norry & G. F...F. Marriner SUMMARY: The island of Sao Miguel in the Azores exhibits bimodal volcanism: eruptives from...fluid pressure may act as a 'trigger' for explosive pumice-forming eruptions (Sparks et al. 1977). Experiments...Blake & Campbell 1986). The island of Sao Miguel in the Azores (Fig. 1) contains an example of this bimodal...volcanological problems. The volcanology of Sao Miguel was the subject of a detailed study by Booth et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoproterozoic intracratonic basin cycles of the Congo–São Francisco Craton Felipe Guadagnin a,b,⁎, Farid Chemale...Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, 91501-970 Porto...Keywords: Espinhaço Supergroup Congo–São Francisco Craton U–Pb and Lu–Hf zircon dating Precambrian intracratonic...t The U–Pb data from the volcanic and detrital zircon grains of the Tombador Formation in Chapada Diamantina...of the Chapada Diamantina region. The available zircon data defined three first-order intracratonic basinal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rosário–Neves Corvo antiform, Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal: new insights from physical volcanology, palynostratigraphy...shales with siliceous lenses and nodules, and the Ribeira de Cobres Formation of the Volcanic Sedimentary...siltstones and fine volcaniclastic rocks. Based on zircon U–Pb isotope dating, five discrete felsic magmatic...Zambujal Apartado, 7586 Alfragide, 2610-999 Amadora, Portugal J. T. Oliveira e-mail: tomas.oliveira@lneg.pt...LNEG Rua da Amieira, 4465-965 S. Mamede Infesta, Portugal e-mail: zelia.pereira@lneg.pt D. R. N. Rosa Dept
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1093/petrology/egu052 Magmatic Evolution of Graciosa (Azores, Portugal) PATRICIA LARREA1,2*, CARLOS GALE¤1, TERESA... GEOSCIENCES DEPARTMENT, AZORES UNIVERSITY, SA‹O MIGUEL, 9501-801, PORTUGAL OBSERVATO¤RIO VULCANOLO¤GICO...GEOTE¤RMICO DOS ACORES, 9560 ATALHADA, SA‹O MIGUEL, PORTUGAL 5 RECEIVED JULY 9, 2013; ACCEPTED SEPTEMBER...located to the east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the Azores archipelago.The three volcanic complexes recognized...subalkaline gabbros, found for the first time in the Azores, appears to be related to fractionation of highly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Keywords: Paleoproterozoic Accretionary orogeny São Francisco Craton Tocantins Province Campinorte Arc...terranes and, along with similar arcs within and at the São Francisco Craton edges, indicate a continental crust...basement is in tandem with coeval arcs in neighboring São Francisco and Amazonian cratons (Rosa-Costa et al...the Ribeira Belt (Heilbron et al., 2010), Araguaia Belt basement (Gorayeb et al., 2000) and São Luis...orogeny in China (Wu et al., 2008). These coeval São Francisco Craton orogens point to a widespread arc
Report (volume)
value to additional exploration in this part of Portugal and to future work in similar climatological and...consistently from the bottom to the top. Trace amounts of zircon, apatite, chevkinite, and allanite are also present...nonwelded vitric pumice blocks. Samples of basalts, andesites, dacites, and rhyolites included pumice, obsidian...crystallized rocks. Kfeldspar separates were made from pumice fragments in the Bandelier Tuff and from Proterozoic...and intra-Bandelier basaltic andesites in the Rio Grande gorge (Doe and others, 1969) overlap the Pb isotopic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Switzerland: U–Pb dating and Hf-isotopes of zircons, pumice geochemistry and origin Simone Koch a,⁎, Wilfried...acidic volcanic sources. U/Pb dating of single zircon crystals of a Paleocene layer (WW1948) by LA-ICP-MS...minimal durations of zircon crystallization of 350 ka. Hf-isotope analysis of the same zircon crystals reveals...source magma. The geochemical composition of the pumice grains of all bentonite layers is strongly affected...which is separately evaluated on bulk rock and pumice grain S. Koch et al. / Lithos 236–237 (2015)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
parautochthonous Variscan metasediments (Northern Portugal). Implications of metamorphism and metassomatism...Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre,687, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal (rramos@fc.up.pt; maribeir@fc.up.pt) The studied...Galiza Trás-os-Montes Zone (ZGTM), in Northern Portugal Variscan belt. The studied area involve two geographic...Geological Survey, UK, (vicky@mvo.ms) 2 Phonolite pumice found floating offshore of Tristan da Cunha following...voluminous Toba rhyolite. The advent of the Ti-in-zircon geothermometer (Watson and Harrison, 2005) will
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phases such as allanite, chevkinite, titanite and zircon are dependent on melt compositional and structural...pyroclastic units, compositions are those of single whole pumice clasts, or an average of several clasts. In the...and three smaller alkaline units. All consist of pumice fallout deposits and ignimbrites; fallout volumetrically...amphibole, all = allanite, chev = chevkinite, zirc = zircon, tt = titanite, ap = apatite-group minerals, mt...accessory mafic phases. All additionally contain zircon and at least one REE mineral as an accessory: allanite
 
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