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Calcite from
Asuk, Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Asuk, Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:882922
Long-form Identifier:1:3:882922:1
GUID (UUID V4):aaa40451-6192-42ab-bf76-42ddce564cbe
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
65.2km (40.5 miles) Qaarsut, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Avannaata, Greenland
70.5km (43.8 miles) Niaqornat, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Avannaata, Greenland
99.0km (61.5 miles) Skarvefjeld, Queertarsuaq (Godhavn), Disko Island, Qeqertalik, Greenland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AI-Armalcolite and Native Iron in a Lava From Asuk, Disko, Central West Greenland Asger Ken Pedersen Geologisk Museum...enclosed in basalt in a native iron bearing lava from Disko is similar in chemistry, apart from volatile components...Tertiary carbonaceous shale sediments from West Greenland, believed to have been the major contaminant and...formation of the native iron in the volcanic rocks on Disko. The shale buchite has preserved original sedimentary...Since the first major description of native iron on Disko by Nordenskj61d (1870) a large number of theories
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Paleocene flood basalt province of western Greenland ROBIN,’ NICOLA H.M. SWINBURNE,*.* LAURENCE FROGET...Nuussuaq, western Greenland. These beds are a mixture of glass, smectite, and calcite with rare occurrence...Fe-bearing basalts and andesites in the Nuussuaq and Disko area. This origin is further supported by the high...the sequence of lavas on Disko, the Asuk Member of the Vaigat Formation. The Asuk Member is highly unusual...siderophile elements (K&k et al., 1986). The Abraham-Asuk correlation was made on the basis of the occurrence
Journal (volume)
VAASJOKI, On Basalt Rocks with Native Iron in Disko, West Greenland . . MAUNU HÄ.RME, A Zoned Skarn Dike in... quartz, calcite (w = 1.663), chlorite, (sphene, apatite and opaque minerals). The calcite is frequently...conglomerate contains quartz , feldspar, biotite, calcite, (epidote, hornblende, sphene and a small amount...the matrix vary. Some spots are rich in mica. Calcite occurs in it as veins of microscopic size, while...by volume biotite (y = 1. 652 greenish brown) , calcite, quartz , (muscovite, feldspar, sphene, epidote
Journal (volume)
VAASJOKI, On Basalt Rocks with Native Iron in Disko, West Greenland . . MAUNU HÄ.RME, A Zoned Skarn Dike in... quartz, calcite (w = 1.663), chlorite, (sphene, apatite and opaque minerals). The calcite is frequently...conglomerate contains quartz , feldspar, biotite, calcite, (epidote, hornblende, sphene and a small amount...the matrix vary. Some spots are rich in mica. Calcite occurs in it as veins of microscopic size, while...by volume biotite (y = 1. 652 greenish brown) , calcite, quartz , (muscovite, feldspar, sphene, epidote
Journal (volume)
Umanaks og Uperniviks Distrikter samt paa Øen Disko (Isbræer, Basalt og tellurisk Jern) i 1878—80 ved...Ш. Beretning om en Undersøgelsesrejse til-Øen Disko i Sommeren 1898 af К. J. V. Steenstrup. (Hertil...Narsarsuk on the Firth of Tunugdliarfik in Southern Greenland by Gust. Flink. Introduction. In the summer...make charged logical of 1897 I visited South Greenland in order mineralogical by the and investigations... conducting with the geo- exploration of Greenland («Commissionen for Ledelsen af geologiske og
Book
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 (article/letter/editorial)
basalts and magnesian andesites from Di ko, West Greenland by Asger Ken Pedersen KØBENHAVN 1985 Grønlands...kr.12O.00 Greenland. 1980 by J. M. Hurst. O. 139 Triassic Iithostratigraphy of ast Greenland between Scoresby...and faunas on the north coast of Ogssuaq, West Greenland. 1981 by Leifur A. Sfmonarson. D.kr. 160.00 o...graptolites from Washington Land, we tem orth Greenland. 1981 by M. Bjerreskov. D.kr. 11200 o. 143 Stratabound...mineralisation in the Permo-1iiassic af central Bast Greenland. 1982 by B. Thomassen, L. B. Oemmensen & H. K
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mercury in cavities and fractures in a matrix of calcite, quarlz, and barite. Associated minerals in the...corroded rockbridgeite on the 67-m level in the island Vulcano of the Lipari group, north of Sicily, Italy...mudstone xenoliths with native iron from Disko, central West Greenland. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 96,3546...carbonaceousmudstones that occur at Asuk on northern Disko, Greenland, in a strongly reduced andesite breccia...lunar rocks, but the Vanadium-titanium carbide Disko material constitutesthe first description of magn6li
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
facies shows abundant vesicles and veins Þlled with calcite. Melluso et al. (2003) interpreted the gradation...and feldspar relics beside vesicles filled with calcite and silica-rich glass in the clinker (sample NPM...plagioclase relics of partial melting, dotted by calcite-Þlled vesicles. On the other hand, sample NPM 8...geochemistry of maÞc dykes from Monte Castello, Elba Island, Italy. OÞoliti, 29, 249–262. Conticelli, S., DʼAntonio...and native Iron in a lava from Asuk, Disko, Central Western Greenland. Contribution to Mineralogy and
Journal (issue)
Narssarssuk, Greenland. Photo by R. Bode. TITLE PAGE: The most common mineral in Greenland: ice —making...up the typical Arctic icebergs, ubiquitous in Greenland waters; photo by B. L. Nielsen. This special...AMMASSALIK (ANGMAGSSALIK) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF GREENLAND NUUK (GODTHAB) PAAMIUT (FREDERIKSHAB) ARSUK...Paleozoic and Mesozoic North Greenland platform and fold belt East Greenland Caledonian fold belt P rote...Archaean i 500 km i i i i PREFACE Throughout Greenland there are many interesting mineral localities
Journal (volume)
2002 Review of Greenland activities 2001 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF THE...Y B U L L E T I N 1 9 1 • 2 0 0 2 Review of Greenland activities 2001 Edited by A. K. Higgins, Karsten...Sønderholm GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT GSB191-Indhold 13/12/02...Side 2 Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 191 Keywords Geological mapping, Greenland activities 2001...View to the east from a vantage point on the island of Disko. Photo: Stig A. Schack Pedersen. Frontispiece:
Journal (issue)
quantities of minerals have been sent home from Greenland. These minerals originate from different sources...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...which chiefly occur in the southernmost part of Greenland. As elsewhere, the occurrences of minerals in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eruptions of active volcanoes on Ruapehu and White Island, New Zealand (Wood, 1994; Wood and Browne, 1996)...2003; Salvioli-Mariani et al., 2005), and El Hierro Island, the Canary Islands (Del Moro et al., 2015), were...coarse-grained carbonate SC (metacalcareous or marble). Calcite, dolomite, siderite, micas and quartz from the...green spinel and coarse (up to NU 3 mm sized) calcite and dolomite. This mineral assemblage suggests...(Eu/Eu*=0.80-0.92). Buchitic shale from Disko in West Greenland (Pederson, 1979) and cordierite buchite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highly reduced, me~iment-con~minated basalts from Greenland (PEDERSEN,1979, 1981). The ferric iron analog...association with Nb-sphene, Nb-perovskite, ilmenite and calcite-l sample. Examples of a selection of these types...rutile + oriented ilmenite, and very dark gray calcite c sphene; (d) light gray armaleolite mantle on...Nb (27 wt%NbrO,) - Cr (1 I wt8 Crr03 rutile and calcite (the sphene exceeds the most Nb-rich sphene yet...rutile mantled by armalcolite with coexisting calcite and phlogopite. The most severe deformation is
Book
org/details/geologyofgreenla0000unse Geology of Greenland = ~ Geology of sreenland Arthur Escher ...Geological Survey of Greenland 1976 Copyright © The Geological Survey of Greenland, Available The from...DK-1350 Denmark or through ISBN 1976 Survey of Greenland 10 Copenhagen your bookseller 87-980404—0-5S... Fabrik A/S, Odense Preface Geology of Greenland aims to provide a concise modern account...geology. A large part of the exposed bedrock in Greenland is formed of Precambrian crystalline rocks with
Book
org/details/geologyofgreenla0000unse Geology of Greenland ™~ i ~ j : . . — ; i ~ - : Arthur Escher...Geological Survey of Greenland 1976 Copyright © The Geological Survey of Greenland, Available from...from The Geological Survey of Greenland @Mster Voldgade 10 DK-1350 Copenhagen Denmark or through your bookseller...ae A/S, Odense 1976 Preface Geology of Greenland aims to provide a concise modern account of...geology. A large part of the exposed bedrock in Greenland is formed of Precambrian crystalline rocks with
Journal (volume)
paa i 1878—80 og 1 Kort. Øen Umanaks og Disko (Isbræer, ved Hammer, Steenstrup 1883. Andet...Julianehaab, Greenland by 0. В. Bøggild Bidrag til en Skildring af Vegetationen paa Øen Disko tilligemed... Ш. On Ilvaite rom Siorarsuit at Julianehaab, Greenland. By 0. B. Böggild. | D: | | m ых | dp‘pas...ИТ ha NUIT a i Тане was first found in Greenland Бу К. J. У. Steen- strup, who, in 1874, brought...minerals otherwise ro- have the pre- the other. calcite which plays a prominent of the influence that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concemed with Tertiary basalts from West and Bast Greenland, one concemed with the Upper Palaeozoic succession...in eastem North Greenland and one with Upper Permian foraminifers in Bast Greenland. The first article...a description of the dykes and sills in Bast Greenland from the sediment areas that lie between the plateau...Upper Permian foraminiferal assemblages from Bast Greenland which suggests a broad correlation ofthe Wagener...drowning event in the Wandel Sea Basin, eastem North Greenland. (Photo: L. Stemmerik.) ©GElJS,Copenhagen, 1996
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
argillaceous/ carbonaceous material With sparry calcite/dolomite Within veinlets As clast replacements...bitumen. Association of sphalerite with sparry calcite or dolomite is restricted to occurrences in the...centimeters in grainstone, and are filled with sparry calcite. In the Beekmantown, the veinlets appear as thin...straight only when sphalerite abuts against sparry calcite or dolomite; otherwise, grain boundaries are sinuous...is commonly replaced by small nodules of sparry calcite or dolomite scattered throughout the Beekmantown
Journal (issue)
only nickeliferous pyrrhotite so far known in Greenland is given a very thorough ore-microscopic description...Northeast coast of the island of Disko, which in turn lies off the West coast of Greenland. The ore was contained...basalt complex which i. a. forms the main part of Disko and the neighbouring regions of the Greenlandic...basalt deposits in the northern part of Disko island in West Greenland have demonstrated the presence of a...Nickeliferous Pyrrholite. III ; ,I i I,, NUGSSUAQ DISKO DISKO BUGT E·-;;.•;·,;: :··] r,mar!J Granit, -
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
only nickeliferous pyrrhotite so far known in Greenland is given a very thorough ore-microscopic description...Northeast coast of the island of Disko, which in turn lies off the West coast of Greenland. The ore was contained...basalt complex which i. a. forms the main part of Disko and the neighbouring regions of the Greenlandie...basalt deposits in the northern part of Disko island in West Greenland have demonstrated the presence of a...NUGSSUAQ DISKO (:".;::::;: :00] c:::::w -=n I~:%~,· 'I r~rliar!l Grani"~ ... DISKO BUGT ':o
Book (volume)
continent and even in the icefree fringes of Greenland; in fact, there is no state or province which...furnished information and a photograph on the calcite onyx deposits of Baja California. Owen H. Perry...Rhyolite, Red Corundum in Amphibolite, Pyrite, Calcite, Howlite, Ulexite, Gypsum, Catlinite, Argillite...and reflection of light . Double refraction in calcite . Dichroism in tourmaline . Dispersion . Three...rhyolite cabochons Cut and rough calcite from Mexico Drawing of Petoskey calcite nodule 167. 168. An onyx quarry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
12(3) 209-219 aegirine Denmark lO(3) 193-204 Greenland, geochemistry 31(3-4) 207-225 Labrador 5(3) 217-225...Pacific Ocean, lava 20(2) 135- 151 aenigmatite Greenland, phase equilibria lO(4) 257-270 Afghanistan mineralogy...22(4) 275-285 Agnotozoic see Proterozoic agpaite Greenland geochemistry 12(4) 303-315; l3(2) 22l222 Precambrian...37(2-3) 181-197 amber mica see phlogopite Ambittle Island geochemistry 12(3) 173-186 amphibole group see...26(1-2) 135156 Greece, petrology 27(2) 79-93 Greenland magmas 20(5) 391-417 petrology lO( 1) 59-72 Iceland
Report (issue)
OFTAMMANY C. ICE HARBOR MEMBER 8.5 Basalt o! Goose Island N Basalt of Martindale R Basalt ol Basin City...Weissenfels RidgeMember;Tig, Tim, and Tib = the Goose Island, Martindale, and Basin City flows, respectively...Hawkesworth[1993] related this componentto an ocean island or mantle plume-relatedmantle source(Figure 11)...magmatismin Baffin Island, W and SE Greenland,the British Isles, and possiblycentralE Greenland(the Lower Basalts...continentalmargins,the Main Series basaltsin centralE Greenland,the Greenland-Faeroes Ridge, and Iceland.Contaminationby
Report (volume)
EQUILIBRIA 67 69 70 ve 13 81 86 88 92 Quartz-H20 Calcite-H20 Graphite-H2O Graphitic pelitic hornfelses Graphitic...measurements Experiments with quartz Experiments with calcite Results with other minerals Absence of grain-boundary...assemblages and the invariant assemblage dolomite-calcite-tremolite-forsteritediopside Limits on time-integrated...569 569 569 569 569 570 571 BY&, Ji 578 579 Calcite Quartz Wollastonite Extrapolation of experimental...experimental coarsening results to geologic times Calcite Quartz Does grain diameter stabilize at long times?
 
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