emplacement of viscous mushes in the jinchuan ultramafic
... China, is currently a dyke-like body, dominated by olivine-rich ultramafic rocks containing disseminated sulfides. It was discovered in 1958, and follow-up exploration proved that the intrusion hosted as much as half a billion tonnes of net-textured, disseminated and subordinate massive Ni–Cu–PGE su ...
... China, is currently a dyke-like body, dominated by olivine-rich ultramafic rocks containing disseminated sulfides. It was discovered in 1958, and follow-up exploration proved that the intrusion hosted as much as half a billion tonnes of net-textured, disseminated and subordinate massive Ni–Cu–PGE su ...
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... of weathering to affect a rock, removing iron from ferromagnesian minerals and destroying the crystal structure. The weathering of weak minerals such as biotite often leads to decomposition of the entire rock due to the accompanying volume increase. When Fe2+- ions in the biotite becomes exposed to ...
... of weathering to affect a rock, removing iron from ferromagnesian minerals and destroying the crystal structure. The weathering of weak minerals such as biotite often leads to decomposition of the entire rock due to the accompanying volume increase. When Fe2+- ions in the biotite becomes exposed to ...
Geology and gold mineralization of mesozoic rocks in the Pine
... keV, and counting times of 10 seconds for major and trace elements and 20 seconds for rare earth elements. Natural and synthetic minerals were used as standards and replicate analyses of standards were preformed. Precision on major and trace elements is estimated to better than 1% except for Fe and ...
... keV, and counting times of 10 seconds for major and trace elements and 20 seconds for rare earth elements. Natural and synthetic minerals were used as standards and replicate analyses of standards were preformed. Precision on major and trace elements is estimated to better than 1% except for Fe and ...
magnetite and ilmenite from some finnish rocks
... T i 0 2 ) than in the magnetite between the ilmeninite lamellae. All these facts indicate that the ilmenite grains in magnetite are formed by »granule exsolution» through the oxidation of the ulvite component of the homogeneous singlephase mineral (Wright 1961, Buddington and Lindsley 1964, Vaasjoki ...
... T i 0 2 ) than in the magnetite between the ilmeninite lamellae. All these facts indicate that the ilmenite grains in magnetite are formed by »granule exsolution» through the oxidation of the ulvite component of the homogeneous singlephase mineral (Wright 1961, Buddington and Lindsley 1964, Vaasjoki ...
a guide for identifying common rock and fossil specimens found in
... great variety of source types, many of them can be attributed to two types: Concretions, and rocks of variable composition that develop differential weathering. 3.1 Concretions Concretions represent a lot of museum specimens because of the many unique shapes and forms that they create. The word “con ...
... great variety of source types, many of them can be attributed to two types: Concretions, and rocks of variable composition that develop differential weathering. 3.1 Concretions Concretions represent a lot of museum specimens because of the many unique shapes and forms that they create. The word “con ...
4.1 Sedimentary Rocks The sedimentary rocks of the Silverton
... Near the granite dyke, (at 53.55 - 53.25m) the rocks are cut by numerous veins rich in sericite and quartz and K-feldspar. Magnetite and biotite are present as alteration products of orthopyroxene and tend to occur along its grain boundaries. Olivine is generally partially altered to serpentine with ...
... Near the granite dyke, (at 53.55 - 53.25m) the rocks are cut by numerous veins rich in sericite and quartz and K-feldspar. Magnetite and biotite are present as alteration products of orthopyroxene and tend to occur along its grain boundaries. Olivine is generally partially altered to serpentine with ...
Minerals - AC Reynolds High
... atoms in the mineral olivine may vary, with some forms of olivine containing more iron than others. But the ratio of the total amount of iron and magnesium atoms to the amount of silicon atoms in olivine is always the same. Thus, the chemical composition of this mineral varies, but only within a wel ...
... atoms in the mineral olivine may vary, with some forms of olivine containing more iron than others. But the ratio of the total amount of iron and magnesium atoms to the amount of silicon atoms in olivine is always the same. Thus, the chemical composition of this mineral varies, but only within a wel ...
Isotope dating and tracing of clay minerals from low
... a two-step process (Clauer et al., 1992b) starting in coprolites that form an appropriate microenvironment in which smectite from surrounding mud evolves into Fe-bearing smectites to glauconies. Afterwards, progressive incorporation of K tends to the glauconite end-member. The Sr, Nd and oxygen isot ...
... a two-step process (Clauer et al., 1992b) starting in coprolites that form an appropriate microenvironment in which smectite from surrounding mud evolves into Fe-bearing smectites to glauconies. Afterwards, progressive incorporation of K tends to the glauconite end-member. The Sr, Nd and oxygen isot ...
New Approaches to Evaluation of Chemical Weathering
... warming up or of the waters and gases with magmatic origin. It is a very complex process involving mineralogical, chemical and textrural change, resulting from the interaction of hot aqueous fluids with the rocks through which they pass, under evolving physicochemical conditions. Weathering is destr ...
... warming up or of the waters and gases with magmatic origin. It is a very complex process involving mineralogical, chemical and textrural change, resulting from the interaction of hot aqueous fluids with the rocks through which they pass, under evolving physicochemical conditions. Weathering is destr ...
Types of Metamorphism
... A rock at a high metamorphic grade progressed through a sequence of mineral assemblages rather than hopping directly from an unmetamorphosed rock to the metamorphic rock that we find today ...
... A rock at a high metamorphic grade progressed through a sequence of mineral assemblages rather than hopping directly from an unmetamorphosed rock to the metamorphic rock that we find today ...
Seven Lakes Mountain Quadrangle Rock Descriptions
... lesser tuff and rocks of the Pyramid sequence but vary across the map area, presumably reflecting local source areas. Diatomaceous siltstone is finely laminated, whereas purer diatomite is commonly massive and in beds up to 1 m thick. Both weather to a lag of white chips. Most extensive in the weste ...
... lesser tuff and rocks of the Pyramid sequence but vary across the map area, presumably reflecting local source areas. Diatomaceous siltstone is finely laminated, whereas purer diatomite is commonly massive and in beds up to 1 m thick. Both weather to a lag of white chips. Most extensive in the weste ...
Geology of the West-Central Cape Breton
... Between Rocky Brook and Jim Campbell's Brook, a heterogeneous assemblage of relatively coarse grained metasedimentary rocks structurally overlies the Faribault Brook metavolcanics (Fig. 1). Boulder conglomerate outcropping along Rocky Brook and in a small area south of Faribault Brook (Fig. 1) conta ...
... Between Rocky Brook and Jim Campbell's Brook, a heterogeneous assemblage of relatively coarse grained metasedimentary rocks structurally overlies the Faribault Brook metavolcanics (Fig. 1). Boulder conglomerate outcropping along Rocky Brook and in a small area south of Faribault Brook (Fig. 1) conta ...
Mineralogical and textural arguments for a metasomatic origin of the
... andesite lava flow. (iii) The Ouin Oufroukh Formation, which includes sedimentary and volcanosedimentary rocks (limestone, cherts, mudstone, sandstone, conglomerates), tuffs and rhyolites and andesites levels. (iv) The Aoujane Aïssa Formation is dominated by ignimbritic rocks with some intercalation ...
... andesite lava flow. (iii) The Ouin Oufroukh Formation, which includes sedimentary and volcanosedimentary rocks (limestone, cherts, mudstone, sandstone, conglomerates), tuffs and rhyolites and andesites levels. (iv) The Aoujane Aïssa Formation is dominated by ignimbritic rocks with some intercalation ...
Density and lithospheric strength models of the Yellowstone–Snake
... built with a set of cross sections in vertical planes defined by two points on the surface and a depth. Vertical planes must always be parallel to each other, but the distance between them is variable, allowing for greater resolution in areas with more structural variability. The YSRP model has 32 ve ...
... built with a set of cross sections in vertical planes defined by two points on the surface and a depth. Vertical planes must always be parallel to each other, but the distance between them is variable, allowing for greater resolution in areas with more structural variability. The YSRP model has 32 ve ...
guide to the geology trail - The Sleeping Giant Park Association
... of a basin that is now called the Central Lowlands (and which extends from Massachusetts south to the New Haven Harbor). Over the course of time, seasonal rains washed sand and other sediments into the basin from the highlands on either side. As layer upon layer of sediment accumulated, natural proc ...
... of a basin that is now called the Central Lowlands (and which extends from Massachusetts south to the New Haven Harbor). Over the course of time, seasonal rains washed sand and other sediments into the basin from the highlands on either side. As layer upon layer of sediment accumulated, natural proc ...
Geology and Mineral Resources of Lake County, Colorado
... Simplified geologic map of Lake County, showing mining districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Generalized stratigraphic column of Lake County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Precambrian–Cambrian Sawatch Quartzite contact in Iowa Amphitheater east-cent ...
... Simplified geologic map of Lake County, showing mining districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Generalized stratigraphic column of Lake County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Precambrian–Cambrian Sawatch Quartzite contact in Iowa Amphitheater east-cent ...
Cordierite in felsic igneous rocks: a synthesis
... dacite from Cerro del Hoyazo in SE Spain (Zeck 1970, 1992); subhedral cordierite with inclusions of sillimanite from the Petite Kabylie Massif, northern Algeria (Fig. 2c,d) (S. Fourcade, pers. comm., 1993); zoned cordierites in rhyolites of the Cerberean Cauldron, SE Australia (Birch and Gleadow, 19 ...
... dacite from Cerro del Hoyazo in SE Spain (Zeck 1970, 1992); subhedral cordierite with inclusions of sillimanite from the Petite Kabylie Massif, northern Algeria (Fig. 2c,d) (S. Fourcade, pers. comm., 1993); zoned cordierites in rhyolites of the Cerberean Cauldron, SE Australia (Birch and Gleadow, 19 ...
CHAPTER 3 Minerals
... The Structure of Minerals Do you have a favorite mineral sample or gemstone? If so, perhaps it contains well-formed crystals. A crystal is a solid in which the atoms are arranged in orderly, repeating patterns. You can see evidence for this orderly arrangement of atoms when you observe the smooth, f ...
... The Structure of Minerals Do you have a favorite mineral sample or gemstone? If so, perhaps it contains well-formed crystals. A crystal is a solid in which the atoms are arranged in orderly, repeating patterns. You can see evidence for this orderly arrangement of atoms when you observe the smooth, f ...
palaeozoic porphyry molybdenum-tungsten deposit in the myszków
... Abstract. The Myszków porphyry molybdenum-tungsten deposit is one of several porphyry copper-type deposits that have been identified within a poorly defined belt of Precambrian to Palaeozoic rocks in south-central Poland. It is in a complex of Proterozoic (Vendian) to early Palaeozoic (Early Cambria ...
... Abstract. The Myszków porphyry molybdenum-tungsten deposit is one of several porphyry copper-type deposits that have been identified within a poorly defined belt of Precambrian to Palaeozoic rocks in south-central Poland. It is in a complex of Proterozoic (Vendian) to early Palaeozoic (Early Cambria ...
Geology and Geochemistry of Hadean Zircon Bearing
... et al., 2008, 2010; Trail et al., 2007). Elsewhere in Western Australia, Wyche et al. (2004) identified detrital zircons from the Southern Cross Granite-Greenstone terrane in the central part of the Yilgarn craton as old as 4350 Ma. Due to the geographic proximity of the Southern Cross with the Narr ...
... et al., 2008, 2010; Trail et al., 2007). Elsewhere in Western Australia, Wyche et al. (2004) identified detrital zircons from the Southern Cross Granite-Greenstone terrane in the central part of the Yilgarn craton as old as 4350 Ma. Due to the geographic proximity of the Southern Cross with the Narr ...
Crustal Trace Element and Isotopic Signatures in
... The pyroxenites make up a few percent by volume of the ultramafic massifs. As a result of poor exposure and strong serpentinization of the peridotites, it is often difficult to assess the structural relation of the Major elements pyroxenites with their host peridotites. Hence, many Selected major el ...
... The pyroxenites make up a few percent by volume of the ultramafic massifs. As a result of poor exposure and strong serpentinization of the peridotites, it is often difficult to assess the structural relation of the Major elements pyroxenites with their host peridotites. Hence, many Selected major el ...
as a PDF - Mineral Resources Tasmania
... to form a rock in which each joint and cavity is filled with chloritic clays and which as a whole is deeply decomposed. The rock is friable and subject to simple failure as the chloritic material is very waxy. Close examination of such rock in cores will confirm that movements have occurred between ...
... to form a rock in which each joint and cavity is filled with chloritic clays and which as a whole is deeply decomposed. The rock is friable and subject to simple failure as the chloritic material is very waxy. Close examination of such rock in cores will confirm that movements have occurred between ...
Gold-enriched Skarn Deposits of British Columbia
... Muller (1980). The Myraand overlying Buttle Lake formations, which form the upper two-thirds 01 the Sicker Group, outcrop on both claimgroups andarehost to the s h n mineralization on the JTK.L property. The Myra Formation comprises medium to darlr green siliceous tuff and black argillite which are ...
... Muller (1980). The Myraand overlying Buttle Lake formations, which form the upper two-thirds 01 the Sicker Group, outcrop on both claimgroups andarehost to the s h n mineralization on the JTK.L property. The Myra Formation comprises medium to darlr green siliceous tuff and black argillite which are ...
Whole-rock geochemistry
... (N 49°5'36.54'' E 16°11'58.79'', WK142, in the gorge with a small brook, next to the Mohelno– Dukovany road 392) Black massive garnet peridotite from this locality has strong ultra-mylonitic fabric with serpentinized olivine–orthopyroxene matrix. Large garnet porphyroclasts (>1 cm) with olivine and ...
... (N 49°5'36.54'' E 16°11'58.79'', WK142, in the gorge with a small brook, next to the Mohelno– Dukovany road 392) Black massive garnet peridotite from this locality has strong ultra-mylonitic fabric with serpentinized olivine–orthopyroxene matrix. Large garnet porphyroclasts (>1 cm) with olivine and ...
Melting of the Uppermost Metasomatized Asthenosphere Triggered
... centre of the Korean Peninsula, is one of a number of alkaline volcanoes at the eastern margin of the Eurasian Plate. Because some basaltic lavas from the Chugaryeong volcano have less differentiated chemical compositions, we can use them to investigate melting processes in the mantle. Here, we pres ...
... centre of the Korean Peninsula, is one of a number of alkaline volcanoes at the eastern margin of the Eurasian Plate. Because some basaltic lavas from the Chugaryeong volcano have less differentiated chemical compositions, we can use them to investigate melting processes in the mantle. Here, we pres ...
Igneous rock
Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire) is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic. Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava. Igneous rock may form with or without crystallization, either below the surface as intrusive (plutonic) rocks or on the surface as extrusive (volcanic) rocks. This magma can be derived from partial melts of pre-existing rocks in either a planet's mantle or crust. Typically, the melting is caused by one or more of three processes: an increase in temperature, a decrease in pressure, or a change in composition. Over 700 types of igneous rocks have been described, most of them having formed beneath the surface of Earth's crust.