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Peridotite from
Dun Mountain, Nelson Region, New Zealand


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Type:Peridotite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Peridotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dun Mountain, Nelson Region, New Zealand
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1340965
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1340965:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Peridotite in this Region
Coppermine Saddle, Dun Mountain, Nelson Region, New Zealand
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Origin of New Zealand Ultramafic Intrusions by GWYNETH A. CHALLLIS New Zealand Geological Survey...South Island of New Zealand, and include the large masses of Dun Mountain near Nelson, Red Hills in the...the Wairau Valley, and Red Mountain in north-western Otago. Other, relatively small and almost completely...relatively unserpentinized ultramafic intrusions at Dun Mountain and Red Hills. A smaller isolated mass occurs...Manchester on June 2, 2015 ABSTRACT Dun Mountain, Red Hills, and Red Mountain, are three of the largest ultramafic
Report (article/chapter)
Patuki and Croisilles melanges in South Island, New Zealand: genesis related to Permian subduction–accretion...(c. 278–270 Ma) supra-subduction zone (SSZ) Dun Mountain ophiolite is bordered to the east by the Pataki...the Jurassic Tethyan Ocean in the Mediterranean region (e.g. Jones & Robertson 1990), the Cretaceous Tethys...adjacent to the approximately north–south-trending Dun Mountain ophiolite, of late Early Permian (c. 278–270...is that of Raine et al. (2015), applicable to New Zealand, correlated as far as possible with the international
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand Department of Geological Sciences, University...interface. For ∌55 km in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, a 10 to 100s m wide blockin-matrix serpentinite...Fault – separates the harzburgitic base of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt from arc-derived metasedimentary...= +7.8h). These changes require hydration of peridotite by ïŹ‚uids derived from, or that interacted with...thicker zone of massive and variably serpentinized peridotite with a progressively decreasing “slab” element
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wairau Valley—New Zealand by G. A. CHALLIS N.Z. Geological Survey, Lower Hutt, New Zealand High-temperature...Blenheim in the north-east of the South Island of New Zealand (see Challis, 1965, fig. 1). It is at the southern...includes the well-known ultramafic intrusion of Dun Mountain. A detailed survey was made of about 8 square...intrusion and as it occurs in the same lens as Dun Mountain, it has always been considered as such (Hess...Permian), similar to those on the western margin of Dun Mountain (Lauder, 1965). The zone of serpentinization
Report (issue)
________ __ ___ __ _______ ______________ ___ Baldy Mountain, Oreg_ _ _______________ _____ _______________...Oregon____________ 5. Field sketch of locality at Baldy Mountain, Oreg., showing locations of analyzed specimens...progressive chemical variation of samples from the Baldy Mountain area, Oregon______ 7. Field sketch of locality...spectrographic analyses of samples from Baldy Mountain area, Oregon (loc. 10)________________________...problem while studying the jadeite deposits within the New Idria serpentinite mass in the central part of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dunite. Localities of Analyzed Materials Dun Mountain, New Zealand I Publication authorized by the Director...e b s t e r ,N o r t h C a r o l i n a . . . . . New Caledonia Twin Sisters,Washington. Methods of Separation...r R e l a ti o n s h i p s Serpenlinization. New Zealand. Sweden.. .. Physical and Chemical Relations...earth's crust, which these rocks may reveal. Peridotite rocks are found in two distinct modes of occurrence-as...dunite samples from Dun Mountain, New Zealand, and from a locality near Noumea, New Caledonia. The dunite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clinopyroxene REE Geochemistry of the Red Hills Peridotite, New Zealand: Interpretation of Magmatic Processes in... The Red Hills peridotite in the Dun Mountain ophiolite of South Island, New Zealand, is assumed to have...a paleo-mid-ocean ridge tectonic setting. The peridotite is composed mostly of harzburgite and dunite... Partial melting processes in the upper mantle region are generally thought to be multi-stage near-fractional...REE geochemistry; Dun Mountain ophiolite; Moho transition zone; orogenic peridotite; Red Hills KEY WORDS:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
296-328] PETROLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF THE RED MOUNTAIN OPHIOLITE COMPLEX, NE\V ZEALANDt JOHN M. SINTON*... University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand ABSTRACT. The Red Mountain area comprises a relatively coherent...relations at Red Mountain, the "high-temperature contact" aureole around the Nelson Red Hills mass is...Overall petrology and stratigraphy indicate that Red Mountain ophiolite generation was mainly by processes similar...around Red Mountain in northwest Otago, :New Zealand includes a portion of the Permian Dun Mountain ophiolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
History of the Basal Alpine-Type Peridotite, Red Mountain, New Zealand by JOHNM. SINTON Department of Geology...Geology,* University o/Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand {Received 30 June 1976; in revised form 5 October...INTRODUCTION T H E Red Mountain ultramafic massif of northwest Otago and south Westland, New Zealand (Fig. 1) is...of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt (Coombs et al., 1973,1976). Peridotite bodies from the Nelson sector...sector of the Dun Mountain belt have been described by Lauder (1965), Challis (1965), Coleman (1966), Walcott
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contamination in Auckland Volcanic Field basalts, New Zealand Jenni L. Hopkins, Christian Timm, Marc-Alban...contamination in Auckland Volcanic Field basalts, New Zealand, Chemical Geology (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo...contamination in Auckland PT Volcanic Field basalts, New Zealand RI Jenni L. Hopkins*a, Christian Timmb, Marc-Alban...Wellington 6140, New Zealand MA bGNS Science, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand cDepartment of...basaltic volcanic fields in the North Island, New Zealand. PT Previous studies on AVF eruptive products
Report (issue)
Permian age) in the South Island and in small peridotite and serpentinite bodies near North Cape, Wellsford...furnace. New Zealand Occurrence, Production and Imports No chromite is currently mined in New Zealand: all...grade of 20-54% Cr2O3, were mined in east Nelson at Dun Mountain, Croisilles Harbour and D’Urville Island...ultramafic rocks (Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt Figure 1: Location of chromite deposits in New Zealand. Figure...Figure 2: Dun Mountain (centre) area of east Nelson from which almost all of New Zealand’s chromite was produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentinite shear zone: the Livingstone Fault, New Zealand Matthew S. Tarling1 , Steven A. F. Smith1 , James...University of Otago, 360 Leith Street, 9016 Dunedin, New Zealand 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Otago...Otago, Union Place West, 9016 Dunedin, New Zealand 3 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente...Fault in New Zealand is a terrane-bounding structure that separates the basal portions (peridotite; serpentinised...serpentinised peridotite; metagabbros) of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt from the quartzofeldspathic schists
Report (article/chapter)
continental margin of SE Gondwana (South Island, New Zealand): summary and overview ALASTAIR H. F. ROBERTSON1*...Avalon, Lower Hutt 5010, New Zealand 3 395 Trafalgar Street, Nelson 7010, New Zealand H.J.C., 0000-0002-6845-0126;...Permian (c. 285– 275 Ma) supra-subduction zone Dun Mountain ophiolite records subduction initiation and...proximal forearc basin unit. The sediments of the Dun Mountain–Maitai Terrane (Maitai basin) represent a distal...chapter build on previous work, while in some cases new, or revised, interpretations are proposed. Preferred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1093/petrology/egw001 Original Manuscript The Anita Peridotite, New Zealand: Ultra-depletion and Subtle Enrichment...University of Otago, Leith Street, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; 2Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource...Downloaded from http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/ at New York University on February 21, 2016 1 *Corresponding...2016 ABSTRACT The orogenic Anita Peridotite in Fiordland, SW New Zealand, provides an opportunity to examine...geochemical characteristics indicate that the peridotite body experienced >30% melt extraction, probably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Patuki Volcanics at south D'Urville Island, New Zealand. In addition, gabbroic rocks comprise abundant...after revision May 5, 1983) Introduction The Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt comprises a discontinuous exposure...length of over 1100 km in the South Island, New Zealand. Two sectors of the ophiolite belt are dextrally...northern sector, in Nelson Province, has received comparatively little attention. In Nelson Province the ophiolitic...volcanics and ultramafics on the eastern limb of the Nelson Regional Syncline (Waterhouse, 1964). The mafic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
presenceof significantbrucite in all but the peridotite. Thus it seems that serpentinitesoften contain...S0-mile interval of the Great SerpentineBelt of New South \Vales,as describedby Benson (1913-1918).These...serpentinized,periodotitemassesin New Caledonia.The ten selectedNew Zealand samples are part of a larger study...petrologicrelationshipsin the Great Ultramafic Belt of New Zealand. Eighty of the samples were collected at numerouslocalitiesin...alteration to serpentine.In three of the samples(Dun Mtn., Twin Sisters,and Burro Mtn.) more than 40 volume
Report (article/chapter)
Paleozoic–Mesozoic geology of South Island, New Zealand: subduction-related processes adjacent to SE...Avalon, Lower Hutt 5010, New Zealand 3 395 Trafalgar Street, Nelson 7010, New Zealand 4 GNS Science, 764...764 Cumberland Street, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand *Correspondence: Alastair.Robertson@ed.ac.uk This Memoir...Island in its regional context, which includes New Zealand as a whole, the continent of Zealandia, eastern...the Mesozoic. During this prolonged period, New Zealand and adjacent crustal units were located along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND~AGNrSIANROCKSOF NEW ZrALANDo 351 19. The NErnRITE a~d MAGNESIANROCKS Of the SouTrt ISLANV of NEW ZEALAND. By ALEXANDER...work on the olivine-rock of the Dun Mountain, and on the New Zealand nephri~e or ' greenstone,' the rocks...the ' magnesian belt ' of the South Island of' New Zealand have had an absorbing interest for students of...this paper is given a general account of the peridotite- and serpentine-rocks of the South Island and...and a discussion of the nature and origin of New Zealand nephrite. Those analyses which are not attributed
Report (issue)
OsIr and laurite RuS2. The most common forms in New Zealand are platinum-iron, and osmium-iridiumruthenium...osmiridium and iridosmine, from the Lee Valley, Nelson. The largest grain is 2 mm x 1 mm (Photo: Eric...Longwood and Riwaka complexes are considered to be New Zealand representatives of this class (Challis, 1989;...podiform chromitites, as in the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt in New Zealand. 3. Ni-Cu and Ni magmatic sulphide...and Riwaka Complexes, and those shed from the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt. Placer deposits, formed by the
Report (issue)
NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 125th ANNIVERSARY...1865 -1990 NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 104 ISSN 0077-9628 Minerals of New Zealand by G. L....initials should be G.T., not G.L. Lower Hutt, New Zealand 1990 I I Beach sand, alluvium, ‱ terrace...Figure 1. Simplified geological sketch-map of New Zealand. 0 20 40 60 80 100 KM l INTRODUCTION It...Morgan's "Minerals and Mineral Substances of New Zealand" was published, as NZ. Geological Survey bulletin
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UC-NRLF NEW ZEALAND of department Geological Survey Branch (P. G. Morgan, Director). LIST...LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, BY P. O. Issued MORGAN AND J. A. BARTRUM. under the authority of...Z. JOHN MACKAY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER 1913. NEW ZEALAND-!, n Department jfe 5j Geological Survey Branch...Morgan, Director). LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, P. Issued O. MORGAN AND J. A. BARTRUM. under...Minerals . . ... LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND INTKODUCTION. FOR many of is in years there
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Example from the Red Hills Ultramafic Massif, New Zealand Eric Stewart1*, William Lamb1, Julie Newman1...ultramafic massif, part of the Dun Mountain ophiolite belt of New Zealand. In the east, the Red Hills massif...element and cryptocrystalline metasomatism altered peridotite originally similar to the Two Tarns Harzburgite...is part of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt (Fig. 1a) of the South Island, New Zealand. The crustal section...section of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite belt is considered to have formed in a forearc environment (Sano
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences...xxxx Editor: F. Moynier Keywords: lithosphere peridotite Os isotopes depleted mantle lateral accretion... they too may – in part – be compilations of peridotite shallowly melted and then laterally accreted...1. Introduction The compositions of cratonic peridotite xenoliths have led to models in which the mantle...The intrinsic buoyancy of depleted lithospheric peridotite compared to the convecting mantle promotes long-term
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palaeozoic (Permian) Fossils at Clinton. The New Zealand Journ. of Science and Technology VII, 362--364...MORGAN und J. A. BARTRUM (List of the Minerals of New Zealand, Wellington 1913) ftihren yon 57eu-SeeIand keinen..., 114. *) ~V. 57. BENSO~, RecentAdvances in New Zealand Geology (Rep. 15. Meet. Australas. Assoc. Adv...Adv. Sc. [1921], C.), 11--13. 5) Nach DUN liegt ein anderes Genus vor. Trotzdem kann es sich sehr wohl...Arbeiten behandelt: C.T. TREO]=IYIANN,The Trias of New Zealand (Qu. gourn. Geol. Soc. London 78 [1917], 165--246
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and of a typical unaitered dolerite dike and a peridotite of the area. The mineralogy of the rodingite...may be related to the serpentinization of the peridotite country rocks. Iurnolucrror.r An area of about...describecertain dike rocks from Roding River, Dun Mountain area, Nelson, New Zealand, consisting of grossular,and diallage...analysis (D) of a prehnite-zoisite aggregatefrom a New Zealand gabbro shows close similarities with that of...Ertnite-zoisiteaggregate in alteredgabbro,MacquarieIsland,New Zealand(Grange,1s27) Anal.: (alsoincludes F. T. Seelye
 
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