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Okenite from
Skarvefjeld, Queertarsuaq (Godhavn), Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland


Classification
Species:Okenite
Formula:Ca10Si18O46 · 18H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Okenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Skarvefjeld, Queertarsuaq (Godhavn), Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:882653
Long-form Identifier:1:3:882653:4
GUID (UUID V4):eab71d52-66a1-4f93-9602-9d8f6ed4e5d8
Nearest other occurrences of Okenite
4.5km (2.8 miles) Blæsedal, Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
30.7km (19.1 miles) Kangerluk, Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
87.9km (54.6 miles) Qutdligssat (Kudlisat), Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Okenite Ca5 Si9 O23 ² 9H2 O ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Triclinic...Distribution: From Greenland, at Qutdligssat (Kudlisat), Ritenbenk district; on Quqertarsuaq [Disko] Island, at Skarvefjeld...Skarvefjeld and Bl½sedal, Godhavn district; and elsewhere. On Bordoy and Streymoy, Faeroe Islands. At... 565. (2) Gard, J.A. and H.F.W. Taylor (1956) Okenite and nekoite (a new mineral). Mineral. Mag., 31...Stationary O±ce, London, 22{24. (4) Merlino, S. (1983) Okenite, Ca 10 Si18O 46 ² 18H2 O: the ¯rst example of a
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MINERAL SPECIES FffiST DESCRIBED fron1 GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen Also in this series... MINE. RAL ....... SPECIES FIRST DESCRIBED froin GREENLAND Ole V. Petersen & Ole Johnsen The Canadian Mineralogist...organizations: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland Geologisk Museums St0ttefond (Geological Museum's...document on the minerals first discovered in Greenland. After all, as they point out in the first sentence...Introduction, a mere 26 kilometers separates Greenland from Canada along Nares Strait; we are neighbors
Journal (issue)
quantities of minerals have been sent home from Greenland. These minerals originate from different sources...Station at Godhavn, and by Mr. 0. R. B. HANSEN, former manager, Chief Assistant from Godhavn, while Mr...material has naturally been collected in East Greenland by the numerous expeditions of later years, whereas...increase the size of the hook. As far as West Greenland is concerned, the geological conditions are rather...peninsulas of Svartenhuk and ugssuaq and the island of Disko, is built up of plateau basalt, several km
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AI)480100]o3ZHZO (not associated with zeolites) okenite CalOSilS04601SHZO tacharanite CalZAlZSi lS0SlolSHZO...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...meters in the Ngatamariki geothermal field, North Island, New Zealand, was capped and let stand for 472...in andesite and dacite of submarine calderas in island-arc volcanism. The results of "black smoker" vents...sedimentary rocks, in a 3 to 12 km thick section in South Island, New Zealand, are altered to zeolites from burial
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AI)480100]o3ZHZO (not associated with zeolites) okenite CalOSilS04601SHZO tacharanite CalZAlZSi lS0SlolSHZO...nodules, on the South Indian Ridge, east of Kerguelen Island, in the Indian Ocean (Mohapatra and Sahoo, 1987)...meters in the Ngatamariki geothermal field, North Island, New Zealand, was capped and let stand for 472...in andesite and dacite of submarine calderas in island-arc volcanism. The results of "black smoker" vents...sedimentary rocks, in a 3 to 12 km thick section in South Island, New Zealand, are altered to zeolites from burial
 
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