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Dunite from
Madeira, Portugal


Locality type:Autonomous Region
Classification
Type:Dunite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Madeira, Portugal
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1418178
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1418178:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2004) 81: 85–111 DOI 10.1007/s00710-004-0029-5 Madeira Island alkaline lava spinels: petrogenetic implications...Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ci^encias, Lisboa, Portugal Received May 17, 2002; revised version accepted...Four groups of spinels have been identified in Madeira Island alkaline basalts: 1) Alrich chromian-spinels...log( f O2)NNO 1.8) during crystallisation from Madeira alkaline magmas. Pressure does not seem to have...crystallisation sequences during polibaric fractionation of Madeira magmas. Introduction Notwithstanding their minor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Islands, Canary Islands, Kerguelen, Gough and Madeira. The He isotopic compositions in samples of varied...from the Canary Islands, Kerguelen, Gough and Madeira, considered as a group, show a similar trend with...the other islands investigated in this study--Madeira, Canary Islands, Gough, and Kerguelen [15]. In...[21]. 3.2. Canary Islands, Kerguelen, Gough and Madeira Canary Islands. Samples studied are from the islands...Gran Canaria. The Lanzarote s a m p l e s - - a dunite, spinel harzburgite, spinel lherzolite and a g
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extraction pathways and stagnation depths beneath the Madeira and Desertas rift zones (NE Atlantic) inferred...February 2004 Ó Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract The Madeira and Desertas Islands (eastern North Atlantic) show...zones which intersect near the eastern tip of Madeira (São Lourenço peninsula). We applied fluid inclusion...suggest a multi-stage magma ascent beneath the Madeira Archipelago: main fractionation occurs at multiple...Fax: +49-421-2189460 two adjacent rift systems: Madeira and the Desertas may represent either a two-armed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(GeoFCUL), Campo Grande, C6, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal S. Martins (*) : J. Mata : J. Munhá : R. Caldeira...1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal e-mail: smmartins@fc.ul.pt M. H. Mendes IICT - DES, Lisboa Portugal; Instituto de...D. Afonso Henriques 41-4° D., 1000-123 Lisboa, Portugal C. Maerschalk : N. Mattielli Department of Earth...Estrada da Portela - Zambujal, 2721-866 Alfragide, Portugal terised by pronounced negative K anomalies and...for a westward age decrease (Serralheiro 1976, Madeira et al. 2009), which is more evident in the southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Isotope Systematics in the Canary Islands and Madeira: Lithospheric Contamination and Mantle Plume Signatures...range in Os isotopic signatures observed in the Madeira and Canary Island basalts despite a large range...xenoliths from the Canary Islands, Selvagen Grande and Madeira in the eastern North Atlantic. 187Os/188Os ratios...location of the Canary Islands, Selvagen Islands and Madeira close to the African continent on old (>130 Ma)...a suite of 28 primarily Holocene basalts from Madeira, Selvagen Grande and all of the Canary Islands
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
former case, the basalts always contain xenoliths of dunite, harzburgite, and less commonly, lherzolite and...Iceland, 2) Surtsey, 3) Jan Mayen, 4) Azores, 5) Madeira, 6) Tristan-daCunha, 7) St. Helena, 8) Bouvet....21 June 2016 TABLE 1. Chemical Composition of Dunite Xenoiths from Lanzarote and Volcanics from Tenerife...51 99.50 99.54 99.75 99.66 99.74 Note. 1) Dunite, Hermit-de-la-Magdlena, Lanzaote; 2, 3) harzbugite...equivalents on Tristan da Cunha, Gough, St. Helena, Madeira, and the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic (Fig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has distributed six geo chemical standards, NIM-D dunite, NIM-G granite, NIM-L luj avrite, NIM-N norite...uranium-helium dating of young volcanic rocks from the Madeira Archipelago, Earth Planet . Sci. Lett. 25, 142-150...Metallurgy, Johannesburg, S. Africa Uranium NIM-D Dunite, Chrysolite Sample Analysis Content NIM-L NIM-N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1093/petrology/egu052 Magmatic Evolution of Graciosa (Azores, Portugal) PATRICIA LARREA1,2*, CARLOS GALE¤1, TERESA UBIDE1...DEPARTMENT, AZORES UNIVERSITY, SA‹O MIGUEL, 9501-801, PORTUGAL OBSERVATO¤RIO VULCANOLO¤GICO E GEOTE¤RMICO DOS...DOS ACORES, 9560 ATALHADA, SA‹O MIGUEL, PORTUGAL 5 RECEIVED JULY 9, 2013; ACCEPTED SEPTEMBER 8, 2014... gabbro Syenite Subalk. gabbro Alk. gabbro Dunite Subalk. gabbro orthocum. orthocum. inequigran... gabbro Syenite Subalk. gabbro Alk. gabbro Dunite Subalk. gabbro orthocum. orthocum. inequigran
Report (article/chapter)
included over 200 papers. Charles Lyell visited Madeira and the Canary Islands between 1853 and 1854, and...geologist Georg Hartung (1821–1891) who was staying on Madeira for the benefit of his health. The paper by Manuel...1830–1884) described the olivine-rich rock called dunite. The discovery of chromite and copper in the region...to decipher some of the successions in southern Portugal, but also to try to make his counterparts in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is a dunite from Twin Sisters area of Washington State (Flanagan, 1967). The Twin Sisters dunite has large...Atlantic Ocean include the Azores, the Cameroon Line, Madeira, and Trinidade, which have been studied for their...difference between subaerial (Azores, Cameroon Line, Madeira, and Iceland) and submarine samples (Galapagos...1159-1172. Onyeagocha, A.C. (1978) Twin Sisters dunite: Petrology and mineral chemistry. Geol. Soc. Am...Washington Cazadero Complex, California DTS-1 Dunite 3 PCC-1 Peridotite KH96-8 Lherzolite Kilbourne
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harzburgite–dunite–orthopyroxenite suite as a record of supra-subduction...upwelling: Implications for the evolution of the Madeira hotspot in space and time J. Geldmacher, K. Hoernle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
upwelling: Implications for the evolution of the Madeira hotspot in space and time . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . Tamura, A. and S. Arai, Harzburgite–dunite–orthopyroxenite suite as a record of supra-subduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
noble gases, evaluation, Cenozoic, Atlantic Ocean, Madeira (Ferreira, M. P., et al.) 25 2 142 Igneous rocks...) 1 2 77 Geochronology Absolute age, Cenozoic, Madeira, Porto Santo (Ferreira, M. P., et al.) 25 2 142... temperature, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Peake Deep, Madeira Abyssal Plain Biscay Abyssal Plain (Pugh, D.T.)...Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, paleomagnetism, Madeira (Watkins, N. D., et al.) 1 6 471 Pliocene, Pleistocene...north, Africa, Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, Madeira (Hayes, D. E., et al.) 28 2 105 Sea-floor spreading
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rua Costa Pinto, 165, 2770-047 Paço d'Arcos, Portugal Universidade de Évora, Centro de Geofísica de...Geociências, Rua Romão Ramalho, 59, 7000-671 Évora, Portugal Equipe de Géochimie et Cosmochimie, Institut de...(CeGUL), Edifício C6, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal e Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de Geociências...Apartado 1422, 9501-801 Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal f UMR Interactions et Dynamique des Environnements...Aeroporto, 1749-077 Lisboa, Portugal h MAM, Terreiro do Paço, Lisboa, Portugal b c a r t i c l e i n f
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Quartz eclogite, olivine eclogite, peridotite and dunite are considered as the material of the lithosphere...tholeiite, which is ubiquitous at the ocean floor, to dunite, an anhydrous equivalent of serpentinite which...tholeiite; (2) olivine eclogite; (3) peridotite; and (4) dunite. The model quartz eclogite is equivalent to an...the pyrolite defined by Ringwood [7]. The model dunite is purely hypothetical, consisting mainly of olivine...properties of the model dunite is those of pure olivine with Fo 93, the solidus of dry dunite is assumed to be
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
preserved on Brava in the Cape Verde archipelago (Madeira et al., 2010). The age range of these ‘young’ detrital...to explain high-εHf basalts reported for some Madeira domain ocean island/seamount basalts ~400 km north...values from Deserta Bugio, lP Deserta Grande, Madeira, and Porto Santo; Geldmacher et al., 2011). A second...genesis. A similar Jo scenario exists in the Madeira domain to the north. The Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic compositions...300 km onland to the Serra de Monchique region, Portugal overlap Fuerteventura magmatism (Figure 9). Here
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Seamount collection of Matthews (1962), those of the Madeira Seamount described by Phillips (in Laughton et...miles north of Madeira; these prove to be alkali olivine basalts and one contains a dunite nodule with an...rifts and it is along the line of these that the dunite mylonites of St. Paul's Rocks are found (Tilley...investigations of a seamount, 150 miles north of Madeira. Deep sea Research, 7, 117-41. LE MAITRE, R. W...de Se'is. 22, 81-111. TILLEY, C. E., 1947. The dunite mylonites of St. Paul's Rocks (Atlantic). Amer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Solimões (Jun. 2005) Solimões (Dec. 2014) Negro Madeira Amazon LS01 MMD-02 KOS15 MMD-05 MMD-28 MMD-32... Brazil Manacapuru, Brazil Manaus, Brazil Foz Madeira, Brazil Iracema, Brazil 2010-05-14 2013-08-11...Dios joins other Andean tributaries to become the Madeira River (Fig. 3e, Supplementary Table B1). This observation...the three major Amazon tributaries (Solimões, Madeira, and Negro) all show a remarkably narrow δ 74 Ge...DOC-rich Negro River and the DOC-poor Solimões or Madeira (Table 1). 3.3.2. Isotopic fractionation of Ge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hornblendite - kaersutite gabbro diorite suite whereas the dunite - wehrlite - olivine clinopyroxenite - clinopyroxenite...Kratern am Sete Cidades Vulkan: Diese umfassen Dunite, Wehrlite, Olivin-Klinopyroxenite und Olivin-Gabbros...Cidades ausgetreten sind kogenetisch sind. Die Dunite, Wehrlite, Pyroxenite und Olivin-Gabbros ftihren...iorit-Abfolge handeln, wfihrend die Gruppe der Dunite, Wehrlite, Olivinklinopyroxenite und Olivingabbro-Nodules...gabbro - diorite nodules; " B " site refers to dunite wehrlite - olivine clinopyroxenite - clinopyroxenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
except for St. Paul's Rocks, which is a serpentimzed dunite. Table 1 lists the rocks of these islands, with...have been dredged as far south as the A/ores and Madeira. Bradley believes that they may have been transported...Gabbro Dioritc Syenite Nepbelinite Scrpcntinizcd dunite Authors: 2,5 (1) Dalv (1925; 1927) (2) Iddings
Report (issue)
thousands of xenoliths, including spinel lherzolite and dunite. Some samples have a relatively fine grained; recrystallized...Mosteiros, and its flow contain common xenoliths of dunite (megacrysts of olivine in a finer grained, recrystallized...Miguel-Acores): Communications de la Service Geologique de Portugal, v. 38, p. 65-90. Krause, D.C., and Watkins, N...Magmatic evolution and tectonic regime in the Canary, Madeira, and Azores island groups: Geological Society of...Weibel, M., 1972, Chemical study of rocks from Madeira, Porto Santo, and Sao Miguel, Terceira (Azores):
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wulff-Pedersen et al., 1996; Abu El-Rus et al., 2006), Madeira (Munha et al., 1990), the Azores (Johansen, 1996)... 41 862–1215 1068 OI1-u 7 891–1017 936 Madeira OI2-u 5 892–1182 1037 Azores OI2-u 17 1003–1232...OI1-f 4 1047–1233 1190 Mantle xenoliths from Madeira comprise refractory deformed harzburgites and lherzolites...clinopyroxene (in lherzolite). OI1-u xenoliths from Madeira (Munha et al., 1990) have lower (Al2O3)opx (15^3...wider range of 892^11828C, with a mean of 10378C. Madeira 1163 OI2-f 2 1028–1227 1127 Kerguelen OI1-u
Book (edition)
section is of the correct thickness. The rock is a dunite which is a monomineralic rock consisting almost...of weathering. 70 Igneous rocks 79 Olivine Dunite 90 Ha rz e Olivine orthopyroxenite Lherzolite...Locality: Madeira. Basalt 85 1 mm 85 Basalt, plane-polarized light. Locality: Madeira. 86 1 mm...mm 86 Basalt with crossed polars. Locality: Madeira. 75 Olivine basalt This rock is basaltic but has...light. Locality: Madeira. 96 1 mm 96 82 Gabbro, crossed-polars. Locality: Madeira. Olivine gabbro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lapilli Basanite lava Tephrite lava Basanite lava Dunite xenolith fragments Basanite lava Basanite lava...distributions are similar to results e.g. from the Madeira and Aeolian islands [17,62] but contrast with findings...is presented in [14,27]. The investigated small dunite xenoliths contain minor clinopyroxene and may represent...extraction pathways and stagnation depths beneath the Madeira and Desertas rift zones (NE Atlantic) inferred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oceanic lithosphere dominated by harzburgite and dunite residues (Neumann et al., 1995). In contrast, the...and leaving olivine-rich residue behind. Indeed, dunite conduits are well known from the 13 ACCEPTED...element systematic as MORB. Indeed, ophiolitic dunite conduits have been proposed to represent melt pathways...with the harzburgitic oceanic lithosphere, leaving dunite channels behind, CE which preferentially retain...ascending magma, which picked up harzburgite and dunite mantle fragments on its way to surface. Olivine
 
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