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Diopside from
Drosendorf, Drosendorf-Zissersdorf, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Drosendorf, Drosendorf-Zissersdorf, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:888689
Long-form Identifier:1:3:888689:7
GUID (UUID V4):70fc7528-b4e2-40ca-afcb-56fdca0e4c76
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
3.3km (2.0 miles) Kobergraben, Primmersdorf, Raabs an der Thaya, Waidhofen an der Thaya District, Lower Austria, Austria
3.5km (2.2 miles) Hengl quarry, Eibenstein an der Thaya, Raabs an der Thaya, Waidhofen an der Thaya District, Lower Austria, Austria
4.3km (2.7 miles) Nonndorf gabbro quarry, Nonndorf bei Raabs, Raabs an der Thaya, Waidhofen an der Thaya District, Lower Austria, Austria
5.7km (3.6 miles) Gabbro occurrence, Stálky, Znojmo District, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
5.8km (3.6 miles) Arzberg, Kottaun, Geras, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
8.6km (5.4 miles) Gimpelfeld, Raabs an der Thaya, Waidhofen an der Thaya District, Lower Austria, Austria
12.3km (7.6 miles) Drösiedl (Klein-Ulrichschlag), Irnfritz-Messern, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
16.3km (10.1 miles) Pernegger Graben, Pernegg, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
19.8km (12.3 miles) Serpentinite quarries, Dietmannsdorf an der Wild, Brunn an der Wild, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
24.8km (15.4 miles) Marble quarries (incl. Renz Quarry; Bundesheer Quarry), Winkl, Röhrenbach, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Vermiculite in Serpentinites of the Bohemian Massif in Austria* M. A. G6tzinger Institut fi,ir Mineralogie und...und Kristallographie, Universit~it Wien, Austria With 8 Figures Received February 28, 1986; accepted June...field investigations in the northern part of Lower Austria almost monomineralic vermiculite occurrences...intercalated in the paragneiss-amphibolite series of the Drosendorf unit (Fuchs and Matura, 1980; Scharbert etal...series, Osfrong unif "Bunfe Serie", Varied Group ] Drosendorf Dobra gneiss, Spifz gneiss J'unif r:-:l Paragneisses
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ano Petrology © Springer-Verlag 1997 Printed in Austria Ophiolite remnants at the eastern margin of the...Geologie und Pal~iontologie, Universit~t Salzburg, Austria With 7 Figures Received February 23, 1996; accepted...higher Moldanubicum in the west is thrust onto the lower Moravicum in the east (Suess, 1903). The former...South Bohemian pluton are fairly common in Lower Austria, Bohemia and Moravia. They are restricted to...they were all termed '°Rehberg amphibolites" in Austria. These, in fact, include a series of different
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
high-pressure–temperature granulites from the Moldanubian Zone, Austria R. A. COOKE1, P. J. O’BRIEN2 AND D. A. CARSWELL3...Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstraße 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria (Robin.Cooke@sbg.ac.at) 2 Bayerisches Geoinstitut...the high-grade Gföhl Unit, Moldanubian Zone, Lower Austria. Textural observations, together with the interpretation...tectono-stratigraphic units of the Moldanubian Zone, Lower Austria (after Fuchs & Scharbert, 1979). Box indicates...fluid phase, as is typically encountered under lower crustal granulite facies conditions (e.g. Yardley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mid-crustal Drosendorf Unit and the lower-crustal Gföhl Unit (e.g. Urban and Synek 1995). The Drosendorf Unit...orthogneisses and migmatites with a substantial amount of lower crustal and mantle components such as high-pressure...following 12 skarn samples from the Moldanubian Zone (Drosendorf Unit): KM8/FV1, KM8/ FV3, KM3/FV, KMVLA/FV1,...The clinopyroxene compositions correspond to the diopside–hedenbergite series. Amphibole and epidote are...orientation. host rocks 4.1. The Moldanubian Zone (Drosendorf Unit) Budeč (Monotonous Unit) locality (Ludwig
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(Fig. 1) consists of pre-Variscan Gföhl and Drosendorf metamorphic units (Dallmeyer et al., 1995; Franke...a single, large-scale nappe that overlies the Drosendorf unit (Tollmann, 1982; Behr et al., 1984; Franke...Šrámek, 1999; Schulmann et al., 2005). The Drosendorf unit is formed by medium-grade amphibolite facies...spinel peridotites with eclogites generally indicate lower temperatures of 600–700 C at 1.4–1.6 GPa (Medaris...FM-tsc, Fe, Mg tschermak; Kos, Kosmochlor; Di ⁄ En, diopside and enstatite; Ts, Ca-tsc + FM-tsc, Alm, almandine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
peraluminous granulites from the Gföhl Nappe System, Austria Konstantin Petrakakis1 , Nathalie Schuster-Bourgin2...Vienna, Vienna, Austria of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Correspondence:...tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Gföhl Nappe System, Austria. They contain the primary assemblage garnet + Al-rich...Variscan orogen exposed in the Czech Republic and in Austria (see Fig. 1). Over approximately the last 3 decades...follows: – CPX: clinopyroxene di, hd, cTs, jd [diopside, hedenbergite, calcium Tschermak’s pyroxene, jadeite];
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kimberlites (more than 90 %), and is considerably lower in northern Siberia and Ural placers (< 30 %). Key...garnet, diopside and magnesite inclusions and polymineralic (touching) coesite-diamond and diopside-diamond...University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria 2 OREA, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology...of Sciences, Hollandstrasse 11-13, A-1020Wien, Austria e-mail: christian.ademeit@student.tugraz.at The...of Vienna, Althanstraße 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien, Austria Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography
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University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria Present address: Geoscience Center, Georg-August-University...5020 Salzburg, Austria 4 Department of Hard Rock Geology, Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38...Vienna, Austria 5 NAWI Graz Geocenter, University of Graz, Heinrichstraße 26, 8010 Graz, Austria e-mail:...unit overlies both, the Drosendorf and Ostrong units. Although the Drosendorf unit was traditionally assigned... which confirms an Avalonian affinity of the Drosendorf unit (SORGER et al., 2020). The youngest detrital
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shared the same exhumation path from their middle-lower crustal position at the end of Variscan orogeny...production within the MA lithospheric felsic lower crust. Willner et al. (2000, 2002) consider delamination...show various degrees of metamorphism, ranging from lower IP greenschist to amphibolite facies conditions...and Varied groups, collectively known as the Drosendorf Unit (Fuchs and Matura, 1976), consist TE D...km large bodies that are imbricated within the Drosendorf Unit rocks. They contain lenses of garnet peridotite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gneiss–granulite association in the Moldanubian Zone, Austria R.A. Cooke a,) , P.J. O’Brien b a b Institut...Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstraße 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria Institut fur ¨ Geowissenschaften, Mineralogie-Petrologie...are often found preserved within an apparently lower grade gneissose matrix. Resolving the true extent...comparisons can be made. Within the Gfohl ¨ Unit in Austria, an integral part of the Moldanubian Zone of the... Geological map of the Moldanubian Zone in Lower Austria. Box indicates position of Fig. 2 Žafter Fuchs
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ultrapotassic dyke found at Šebkovice (Třebíč district, western Moravia) is a mineralogically extreme...Moldanubian Zone (both in the Czech Republic and Austria) is well known for the occurrence of calc-alkaline...aegirine ± quartz have been encountered near Raabs in Austria and Třebíč in the Czech Republic (Hackl and Waldmann...emplacement of the massif (~ 335 Ma) was related to Lower Carboniferous rapid exhumation of a deep crustal...Monotonous (Ostrong) and Variegated (Drosendorf) units and the lower-crustal Gföhl Unit (Fig. 1; Fiala et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magnesiohornblend), Cal+Dol+Tr+Di. Relatively abundant diopside in the Moldanubian marbles indicates a higher...differences in the major elements, disregarding slightly lower SiO2/Al2O3 ratio, slightly increased Na and K contents...respectively. Amphibole porphyroblasts are overgrown by diopside (Fig. 2). The MCC are white, medium-grained, calcite-rich...Cal+Dol+Tr+Phl+Ttn; Na,Al-enriched amphibole (edenite) and diopside represent later assemblage, scapolite was found...associated MCC Fig. 2 Edenitic amphibole overgrown by diopside grains – Muckov, Èeský Krumlov Unit, Moldanubicum
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MORAVO - SILESIAN (medium to high grade) D Drosendorf unit (low to medium grade) ~ ~ Devonian to...Salzburg Hellbrunnerstr. 34lIII 5020 Salzburg Austria P.A. FLOYD Department of Geology University of...Salzburg Hellbrunnerstr. 34/III 5020 Salzburg Austria H.J. FRANZKE Geologisches Institut Leibnizstr...Graz Austria G. FUCHS Geologische Bundesanstalt Wien Rasumowsky-Gasse 23 - 25 1030Wien Austria P. ...Salzburg Hellbrunnerstrasse 34lIII 5020 Salzburg Austria H. KREUZER Bundesanstalt fUr Geowissenschaften
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Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstraße 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria * Corresponding author 2 In the Blanský les granulite...granulites in South Bohemia, Western Moravia and Lower Austria (Fig. 1a–b) have attracted, their genesis still...Bohemian Massif, shared by the Czech Republic and Austria, the Moldanubian Zone consists of several crustal...et al. 1993; ~1.38 Ga Dobra orthogneiss in Lower Austria: Gebauer and Friedl 1994), the allochthonous...into a structurally lower and mainly metasedimentary, amphibolite-facies Drosendorf and above this, a higher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
located in the Gföhl unit that together with the Drosendorf unit, roughly corresponding to the early Monotonous...eclogite and garnet peridotite, to the surrounding Drosendorf unit with medium-grade gneisses and low/medium-temperature...most cases, the Gföhl unit (nappe) overlies the Drosendorf unit (Dallmeyer et al., 1995), but following...sandwiches within the Drosendorf unit and it originated by extrusion of lower crustal rocks during Variscan...Zone with the high-grade Gföhl and medium-grade Drosendorf units of the Bohemian Massif (according to Dallmeyer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
based on the reaction 2 grossular + pyrope ¼ 3 diopside + 3 Catschermakite was proposed by Mukhopadhyay...quartz–feldspathic paragneiss complexes) and Varied (Drosendorf Unit, mainly quartzite, crystalline limestone...retrogradedeclogitic rocks of the Moldanubian Zone of Lower Austria (Carswell et al., 1989), but quartz is present...garnet core compositions probably indicates an early lower-P stage, and the studied eclogite may have been...higher in jadeite component (up to c. 45 mol%) and lower in Ca-tschermakite component (Si up to c. 1.95 pfu)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0rthogl~eisses [? uncertain age and correlation) ~===1 Drosendorf and Gf6hl units ( T Nd 1.4-1.7 Ga } DM Kaplice-...Sphene Apatite Orthite Zircon Magnetite Q A P Diopside in CIPW 22.8 3.4 53.0 9.8 10.2 0.3 0.5 + + +...approximate time of tonalite emplacement, whereas the lower intercept is probably due to a number of parameters...emplacement of the gneiss protolith, whereas the lower intercept defines the age of Variscan metamorphism...constituted the basement of the Varied Group ('Drosendorf terrane', Matte et al., 1990) were first detached
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plagioclase-bearing rocks thus not eclogite) and Al-rich diopside (i.e. indicating high Ca-Tschermak content), with...the orogenic crust and their intermingling with lower pressure metamorphic series at shallower levels...Bohemian Massif (Fig. 1) in the Czech Republic, Austria and Poland as well as further west in the Black...Plane polars. plagioclase, patchy Ca zoning and lower Mg ⁄ Fe + Mg of this secondary garnet are usually...Zr-in-rutile thermometer (Tomkins et al., 2007) yields lower temperatures (around 900 C) for Granulitgebirge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Graz, Universit€ atsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria ABSTRACT Corona and inclusion textures of a metatroctolite...and metamorphic evolution of the rocks. Numerous diopside inclusions (1–10 lm, maximum 20 lm in size) in...calculations, the troctolite crystallized in the middle to lower crust and the coronae were formed during three different...during the Variscan orogeny. After exhumation to lower and/or middle crust, the HP–UHP rocks underwent...of olivine = 33 wt%, plagioclase = 58 wt% and diopside = 6 wt%. Olivine is completely transformed into
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et al., 1990): (i) the Gföhl terrane, and (ii) Drosendorf terrane including Variegated Group and Monotonous...following standards were used (Kα X-ray lines): diopside (Si, Ca), kyanite (Al), fayalite (Fe), rutile...Variscan granites occur in the both Gföhl and Drosendorf terranes (e.g., Ulrych, 1972; Němec, 1979; Holub...larger variations in some values (XNa, YAl) and lower YR2+ predisposed by a larger set of samples analyzed...Rastenberg granodiorite, South Bohemian Massif, Austria. Mineral. Petrol. 58, 197–214. Klötzli, U.S., Frank
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are conspicuously associated with the high-grade, lower crustal/upper mantle Gföhl Unit (Moldanubian Zone)...lithological criteria, mid-crustal rocks of the Drosendorf Assemblage are NU traditionally divided into...(Košler et al., 2014). The heterogeneous blend of lower crustal and upper mantle rocks, termed the Gföhl...bodies, and the Rastenberg and Ybbs plutons in Lower Austria (Finger et al., 2007; Zeitlhofer et al., 2016)...or NU closely post-dated, rapid exhumation of lower to mid-crustal rocks associated with hightemper
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(KOKOTSKO) STOCK ……………………………………………………………... 76 1.22. LOWER VLTAVA COMPOSITE MASSIF …………………………………………………… 77...intrusions of the CBCB single-zircon dating indicates Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian–Viséan) ages and their... Geological environment: Neoproterozoic up to Lower Devonian pellites, greywackes, metabasalts, keratophyres...strata and the Blatná Granodiorite intrudes the Lower Devonian sediments. Xenoliths of coarse-grained...intruzivního magmatismu v příbramské rudní oblasti. – Sbor. Horn. Příbram, Geol. nerost. Sur., 155–182. VLAŠÍMSKÝ
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Omphacite is partly replaced by a symplectite of diopside + plagioclase + amphibole. Garnet and omphacite...into rocks in the © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd lower-middle crust (Medaris et al., 2006; Schulmann et...1976). Tollman (1982) grouped both units into the Drosendorf terrane. Both units are characterized by numerous...kyanite, and they are usually re-equilibrated at lower pressure conditions, © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd...now replaced by a symplectite of plagioclase and diopside (Figs 2a & 3b,m). The veins commonly have symmetric
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high-temperature garnet peridotite massifs in lower Austria Received: 22 July 1996 / Accepted 28 February...granulites in the southern Bohemian massif. In lower Austria the peridotites comprise garnet lherzolites...cooling is required to avoid reequilibration to lower pressure spinel and plagioclase bearing assemblages...equilibration of the garnet peridotites from lower Austria (3.1 GPa at 1000±1100 °C), and outlined their...data obtained on the peridotite massifs from lower Austria. Here, the main focus will be on the high-temperature
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al. 2008). (i) Mid-crustal, amphibolite-facies Drosendorf Unit is traditionally divided into the Monotonous...quartzites and amphibolites. (ii) The bottom of the lower crustal/upper mantle Gföhl Unit is formed by MORB-like...Dobra gneiss (1.3 Ga, Friedl et al. 2004) in Lower Austria and the Světlík orthogneiss (2.1 Ga, Wendt et...variable degree of in situ contamination (e.g., diopside pegmatites from pyroxene gneisses and marbles...in the Ledeč–Chýnov belt of the Varied Group (Drosendorf Unit), Moldanubian Zone, along the border with
 
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