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Calcite from
Beach gravel, Paraíso, Barahona Province, Dominican Republic


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beach gravel, Paraíso, Barahona Province, Dominican Republic
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:699728
Long-form Identifier:1:3:699728:1
GUID (UUID V4):caf655e0-65fd-48fd-acc5-f2f38289e954
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
10.9km (6.8 miles) Beach gravel, La Ciénaga, Barahona Province, Dominican Republic
15.2km (9.4 miles) Filipinas Larimar Mine, Los Checheses, Sierra de Baoruco, Barahona Province, Dominican Republic
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fenced in. I managed, however, to get specimens of calcite, biotite, protovermiculite, perovskite, aegirite...subject of dolomitization. Splendid crystals of calcite may be gathered most anywhere in the quarry. The...xline smoky gray calcite filling cracks in the dark gray septarium. It is the calcite which fluoresces...small lustrous flakes and sheets in white xline calcite, has been found in the Quincy copper mine at Hancock...Wentworth, 135 Maine Ave., Portland 5, Me. At Hampton Beach, Rockingham Co., N . H., she picked up a 4x4 inch
Journal (issue)
the porosity of the original carbonate sand or gravel prior to compaction. There are 3 groups of factors...and biologic parameters vary with the biological province, the local environmental setting of the carbonate...Shape Sedimented ~G V Anomia Donax Chiont! Beach Gravel 25mm Rods Spheres 20mm Disks ID Air Loose...Poritts Spir;ftr 40mm Rods Coral Beach Gravel (- 4<1>) Coral Gravel (unsorted)• Oliva (filled) Oolites...s s • Natural shape populations. The coral beach gravel (Fig. 2A) plots as a discoidal shape, but is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and stratigraphic context of the Easington Raised Beach, County Durham, UK Bethan J. Davies a,*, David R...Raised Beach, in Shippersea Bay, County Durham, is the most northerly known interglacial beach deposit...sedimentological analysis suggests that it is an interglacial beach, which is supported by the presence of pebbles bored...overlain by similar, but calcreted, deposits. The gravel fraction is dominated by Magnesian and Carboniferous...the Oslofjord region of Norway in the raised beach gravel, although rocks diagnostic of a Scandinavian
Book
the gold rush mS7 never be matohed by a sand-and-gravel rush, nevertheles. some nonmetallics came tro....category); 4· building materials (e.g. granite, gravel and sand, brickloam)· In the division of mineral...carbonatites in Sukulu Hills,Uganda, and Palabora in the Republic of South Africa· Carbonatites axist in a similar...components crystallize in the following order: calcite with Sr and Ba, sometimes containing dolomite lamellae...2 kyanite — ► mullite + Si0 2 tremolite albite calcite — > C0 9 + CaO ά (0.1 MPa) or-quartz —► tridymite
Book (volume)
dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena. CHATTAHOOCHEE...areaQuartz crystals. LITHONIA:  area quarriesCalcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline... Rock Chapel Quarry, on N side of Arabia Mt.Calcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline... Rose Quartz, etc.;  at the Ledbetter QuarryCalcite crystals (some with pyrite inclusions). FORSYTH...Galena. RANGER, the Black marble Quarry on US 411Calcite, green Fluorite, Pyrite, serpentine, Talc. GWINNETT
Report (issue)
Alluvium_________________________________________________ Beach graveL____ _ _ __ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _...Bay__ Following 39. A, Tertiary conglomerate on a beach near the north end of Craig C-2 quadrangle. B, Photomicrograph...lowland areas. Surficial deposits of till, outwash gravel, and alluvium are widespread. Glacial features...Thorne River valley, where glacial till and outwash gravel exert the primary control. The Thorne River, which...area, flows mostly on alluvium or reworked outwash gravel, except for a short distance above the point where
Report (chapter)
herein called the Kashanes gravel (informal). Holocene marine sand and gravel deposits occur along the...Kashanes gravel; Qkts, Late Pleistocene Kiti Tower sand; Qm, Holocene marine sand and beach gravel; Qe, Holocene...Tower sand, which is overlain by gravel and sand beds of the Kashanes gravel (both are discussed below). In...Also assigned to Vikla beds are marine sand and gravel beds that occur at 140–160 m in elevation at several... well-sorted, Table 1. 14 C data Kashanes gravel USGS WW7204 USGS WW7210 USGS WW7799 USGS WW7800
Report (issue)
Ilyirak Gravel.. Saligvik Gravel. Quaternary deposits . Stream-terrace deposits Chariot Gravel Colluvium...Wind-deposited silt and sand Flood-plain deposits Beach deposits of the present shoreline Geologic structure...faults of> the western province Folding and faulting of the eastern province Age and origin of deformation...colluvium, fluvial-terrace and flood-plain deposits, gravel and sand of uncertain origin (fluvial or marine)...wind-deposited silt and sand, and sand and gravel of the modern beach. INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In
Report (issue)
ORIGIN, DISTRIBUTION, AND DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF GRAVEL DEPOSITS ON THE BEAUFORT SEA CONTINENTAL SHELF...Science, in June 1975 iii ABSTRACT Two distinct gravel populations are present on the Beaufort Sea continental...Point. The Chert Facies, originally a fluvial gravel deposit and probably part of the basal transgressive... The distribution of the Dolomite Facies shelf gravel indicates an easterly source compatible with a...dates from undisturbed sediment underlying the gravel on the upper slope indicate that low Holocene sedimentation
Report (issue)
rock platform and cliff of marine erosion Raised beach gravels of Lewis and Barra Lewis 4 Barra 6 Discussion...Cro Naomb, Lewis. Raised beach gravel overlain by soliflucted till and gravel 16 Coast south of Eoropie... Till overlain by carbonate cemented raised beach gravel with slumped till above 18 Section on coast... Barra. Raised beach gravel overlain by till with water-smoothed rock below the beach 18 Quarry, Lochpartain...partly reworked by the sea to form a raised gravel beach of which remains occur in north Lewis and Barra
Report (issue)
of Use. Content: This Content is offered by the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Northern Development...Développement du Nord et des Mines (MDNM) de la province de l'Ontario. Les recommandations et les opinions.......................... 14 Industrial Sand and Gravel Company Limited (30) ........................................... 14 Limehouse Crushed Stone and Gravel Limited (31) ............................ 14 Milton...and Gravel ............................................................... 15 Ace Sand and Gravel (33)
Report (volume)
geographic headings are: Alabama, Alberta, Canada, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Mississippi Valley, Nevada...Montreal. Auk The Auk. Lancaster. Pa. Beach Erosion Board, Tech. Memo.- Beach Erosion Board, Technical Memorandum...of America Bulletin. Berkeley, Calif. Shore and Beach. Newark, N. J. Sierra Club Bull. Sierra Club Bulletin...possibilities of exploration for oil and gas in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The columnar section obtained... near Lyleton in the southwestern part of the province, is shown. Allan, Thomas H. See Kaufinann, G
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sedimentary load and reworking of already-rounded beach gravel deposits. The depositional evolution envisaged...to be the southern portion of the Mantiqueira Province, Hasui et al., 1975). The fragmentary nature of...alluvial fans, lacustrine deltas, and sand-bed/ gravel-bed braided fluvial streams. Phanerozoic deposits...sand-sized matrix (Fig. 4D). This facies represents gravel-bed bars deposited by gravity flows (turbulent...debrisflow) reworking of fine-grained river banks and gravel bars. Volcanogenic facies are present only in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxyg~n iso~ope stage ~e (c. 125,000 BP) for the beach on the east side of Portland Bill and a correlatIon...oxygen Isotope stage 7 (c. 210,000 BP) for the beach on the west side of Portland Bill. * K. Headon...elucidation possible. New altimetric studies of the beach deposits have been carried out by means of accurate...deposits. 2. THE BEACH DEPOSITS Lithologically, altimetrically and faunally, the beach sediments on either...hypothesis. (a) Portland East The deposits of this beach crop out along a coastal section northeast of Portland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brecciated Torridonian sediments set in matrices of calcite and calcareous mudstone occur on the island of...Inverness-shire. of the vent, though recent beach gravel obscures the actual contact. It is in this cliff...the breccia is a finegrained white or pale grey calcite mudstone. There is a crudely developed set of vertical...matrix is a mixture of pale grey calcite mudstone and clear crystalline calcite. — Vent margin — KEY. Lewisian...Torridonian accompanied by the crystallization of the calcite matrix. 562 R. C. Seller— STAGE 2 Collapse
Report (issue)
Location description and accuracy: The Alder Creek beach placer mine is at the mouth of Alder Creek on Kotzebue...The Alder Creek beach placer gold deposit consists of about one foot of beach gravel on eroded, dark...some wire gold was found on the bedrock surface. Beach diggings of limited extent were reported to produce...163.32 Location description and accuracy: This beach placer is at the mouth of Rex Canyon on Kotzebue...Scheelite Gangue minerals: Geologic description: Beach sand at the mouth of Rex Creek contains a trace
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Maputaland coastal plain in the extreme north of the province are underlain by a succession of littoral marine...Miocene to the Holocene. These unconsolidated or calcite-cemented sediments have been the subject of various...influenced the coastal zone deposited Isipingo Formation beach gravels and sand, now lying at up to +6 m relative...aeolianite (243 to 130 ka), erosively overlain by MIS 5e beach deposits (130 to 115 ka), beachrock and associated...dunes post-dating MIS 11 (~400 ka) and the calcified beach and aeolian sediments associated with the late Pleistocene
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . 11 Occurrences in emerged beach gravel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...they can occur in a variety of deposits, including beach gravels, mixed deposits, and disintegrating bedrock...circle (the surface expression of a plug) in beach gravel. To obtain a broad perspective on origin and...compared soil temperatures in shattered rock and gravel (as in borders of sorted circles) with those at...20 cm (8 in.) “ . . . in the shattered rock and gravel . . . the zero curtain effect lasted 10 days, while
Book (volume)
area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and...replaced by Marcasite), hollow shells lined with Calcite crystals or Marcasite. WHITEHOUSE, area quarries⎯Celestite...COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite crystals, Fluorite... Pyrite, fossils. GENOA, SE, in area quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite, Marcasite...clusters. SANDUSKY COUNTY WOODVILLE, area quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite, Marcasite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
previously dated at 124 and 117 Ky by cycounting), Shell Beach terrace (elevation about 25 m, previously undated)...the intertidal zone on the modem terrace at Moss Beach. Concentrations of 232Th in both living and fossil...Three specimens from a single bed on the Shell Beach terrace yield ages of 126, 122, and 121 Ky, similar...ages of solitary corals from the Cayucos and Shell Beach terraces are similar to ages of reef-building corals...and present elevations of the Cayucos and Shell Beach terraces yield tectonic uplift rates of 0.01 and
Book (volume)
area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek gravels and...replaced by Marcasite), hollow shells lined with Calcite crystals or Marcasite. WHITEHOUSE, area quarries⎯Celestite...COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite crystals, Fluorite... Pyrite, fossils. GENOA, SE, in area quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite, Marcasite...clusters. SANDUSKY COUNTY WOODVILLE, area quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite, Marcasite
Report (issue)
of Use. Content: This Content is offered by the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Northern Development...Développement du Nord et des Mines (MDNM) de la province de l'Ontario. Les recommandations et les opinions.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Sand and Gravel .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . .. . . 10 Classification of Sand and Gravel Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . 13 Highland Creek Sand and Gravel Company Limited (1) . . . . .. .. .. .. . . .
Report (issue)
mineral commodities, and does not include sand, gravel, or building stone. The present investigation was...meter in thickness. Quartz veins contain quartz, calcite, pyrite, and argillite breccia. Some quartz veins...Principal minerals Au Description Abundant quartz-calcite-pyrite veins with angular greenstone and argillite...Occurrence Principal minerals Ag Description Quartz-calcite-pyrite veins in argillite with thin lenses of graywacke...graywacke Data Sample 88SK270B, quartz-calcite-pyrite vein, contains 2 ppm Ag, 150 ppm Cr References
Report (issue)
available maps) of Indian R. on which auriferous gravel was discovered in 1910. Probably mined with Indian...of schist bedrock resulted in about a foot of beach gravel on schist. Fine, bright gold on bedrock; some...trace of scheelite was reported from a sample of beach gravel MELOZITNA QUADRANGLE (Batza Slough) Copper...cassiterite concentrate was recovered from 4,000 ft^ of gravel, but not assayed or sold. (Melozimoran Cr.) Gold(...159°44'W Galena, sphalerite, and pyrite in quartz-calcite veins and in pink syenite See also (Selawik Hills)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rimmed by Cambrian-Ordovician sediments rich in calcite and dolomite. Adirondack lakes (watersheds) were...alkalization with trona; lA2-22, alkalization with calcite). We retained the E-W Adirondack partition during...polyethylene (HDPE) bottles: A) hand-picked, beach gravel derived from local grus (l-2 cm mesh) and deposited...along the SW shore of Craig Pond; and B) coarse gravel (as above) prepared from fresh outcrop (U.S. Highway...water and IO-” N acid, no initial clean-up of the gravel was employed (cf. HOLDRENand BERNER, 1979). The
 
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