Biochemical and chemical sedimentary rock

A rock classification type

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Jaspillite

Jasper Hill, Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan, USA

Flint

Dyke Park, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

Flint

Pices Fanes, Mareo, Puster Valley District, South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

Jaspillite

Jasper Hill, Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan, USA

Flint

Dyke Park, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

Flint

Pices Fanes, Mareo, Puster Valley District, South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

Jaspillite

Jasper Hill, Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan, USA

Flint

Dyke Park, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

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This page provides petrological and mineralogical data about Biochemical and chemical sedimentary rock.

Mindat ID:

50843

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:1:50843:8

Rock
- Sedimentary rock and sediment
  - Sedimentary rock
    - Biochemical and chemical sedimentary rock

Recorded ages:

Mesoarchean to Quaternary : 3080 ± 20 Ma to 0.13 Ma - based on 20 recorded ages.

Sample ages:

Sample ID	Recorded age	Geologic Time	Dating method
1	~145.0 to 100.5 Ma	Early/Lower Cretaceous
2	152.1 ± 0.9 to 100.5 Ma	Mesozoic
3	3080 ± 20 Ma	Mesoarchean	Pb/Pb from Xenotime

Sample references:

ID	Locality	Reference
1	Sal-1, Sal Carbonatite Plugs, Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate, Oman	Nasir, S., Theye, T. & Massonne, H.-J. 2009 REE-rich aeschynite in apatite-dolomite carbonatite, eastern Oman Mountains. The Open Mineralogy Journal, 3, 17-27.
2	Asseelah Diatreme, Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate, Oman	Nasir, S., Al-Khirbash, S., Rollinson, H., Al-Harthy, A., Al-Sayigh, A., Al-Lazki, A., ... & Belousova, E. (2011). Petrogenesis of early cretaceous carbonatite and ultramafic lamprophyres in a diatreme in the Batain Nappes, Eastern Oman continental margin. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 161(1), 47-74.
3	Jack Hills mine, Jack Hills, Nookawarra Station, Murchison Shire, Western Australia, Australia	Rasmussen, Birger, Fletcher, Ian R., Muhling, Janet R., Wilde, Simon A. (2010) In situ U–Th–Pb geochronology of monazite and xenotime from the Jack Hills belt: Implications for the age of deposition and metamorphism of Hadean zircons. Precambrian Research, 180 (1) 26-46 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.03.004

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