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Tridymite from
Basalt quarry, Racoş (Racoşul de Jos), Brașov County, Romania


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Tridymite
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tridymite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarry, Racoş (Racoşul de Jos), Brașov County, Romania
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:752011
Long-form Identifier:1:3:752011:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
Udubaşa (1938, Ocnele Mari, Romania) Director of the Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest; President...President of the Mineralogical Society of Romania; Member of the Commission for New Minerals and Mineral Names...and about 100 articles - one-third outside of Romania. Rudolf Duda (1944, Vojany, Slovakia) Head of the...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll) Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska) Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa) Slovakia (Rudolf Duda) Ukraine...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll), Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska). Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa), Slovakia (Rudolf Duda). Ukraine
Catalog/List
Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J lJaed gold... Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will be satisfactory...at the pristine source underground ar an fresh quarry faces and the like. Very aften though, such source...feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to light green...785 ADAMITE (CUPRIAN),MohawkMine, San Bernardino County, California. Nicely spaced transparent jade green
Book
Debrece n. HUN; CG= Constantin Gruescu Collection, Ocna de Fier. ROM : CHTU = ChemistryTechnology Univer ity...eum. Kosice. SLK; GIR = Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest, ROM; GM= Gold Museum, Brad, ROM : GYV...Unfortunatel y, mo t of the old collections have been de troyed and/or dispersed during the "sto rmy'' centuries...Marinescu (Geological lnstilllte of Romania): Necolai Terteleac (De. ign-Art-Foto. Bucharest): Victor Gorduza...State University. [viv). for advice concerning the de criptions of 1he minerals and for help in the preparation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
form from this temperature to 1470"+ 10o C is B2-tridymite. Above this temperature B-cristobalite is stable...low temperatureforms of tridymite: a-tridymite stable below 117oand B1-tridymite stable between 1170and...and reversible. The high temperature form, pr-tridymite persistsbetween 1630and 7470"+ 10o at which temperature...Fenner'sthesisfor the Ph.D. degreewas on the Watchung basalt and the paragenesisof its zeolites and other secondary...the secondary minerals occurring in the Watchung basalt Fenner solved two problems,namely: (a) the early
Report (issue)
9 (3) 33.34 66.66 . 100.00 (1) Aranyer Berg, Romania; recalculated to 100% after deduction of SiO2 1...processes in titanium-rich andesite, rhyolite, basalt, etc., and by reactions with xenoliths within these;...magnetite, bixbyite, ilmenite, enstatite-ferrosilite, tridymite, quartz, sanidine, topaz, spessartine, beryl,...Piski, Romania. In Germany, near Mayen, Eifel district. From Riveau Grande, Mt. Dore, Puy-de-Dôme, France...New Mexico. From the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA. From Cerro los Remedios, Durango
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON November 8, 2008 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver... 3 Pseudobrookite Twins from the Lemolo Lake Quarry Don Howard and Kent England Pseudobrookite was...1878 for material found at Uroiu, Transylvania, Romania. It is a high temperature mineral, usually formed...the margins of a boulder in the west end of the quarry that was originally collected in 1982 and 1983...three minerals: enstatite, pseudobrookite, and tridymite, with ilmenite crystals conspicuously absent.
Journal (issue)
Institute of Romania Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Damian, President of the Society of Economic Geology of Romania Editor...University, Iaşi Anne-Sylvie Andre-Mayer, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Ferenc Molnar, Geological...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Ioan Pintea, Geological Institute of Romania Mircea Ţicleanu, Geological...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Nicolae Buzgar, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi Marian...Marian Munteanu, Geological Institute of Romania Ioan Seghedi, Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ordovician altered shales (now schists) at Salles-de-Rochan, Brittany (Bucher, 1953). An igneous intrusion...coniferous wood, Miocene, McKittrick Formation, Kern County, California (Adams, 1920) Epidote, echinoderm,...(Adams, 1920). Celestite, Eocene fossils, Cluj, Romania (Imreh, 1965). Cerargyrite (Hartzell, 1906). Robert...1958). Onyx (quartz), arachnids, Cenozoic, Bonner Quarry, Ashfork, Arizona (Petrunkevitch, 1945). Limonite-Geothite...Pennsylvania, in coal, Llewellyn Forma­ tion, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (Hoskins, 1964). Strontianite, ammonite
Book
Gravity: 3.5-4.2 This pegmatite in San Diego County California (now the site of a housing ment), ...Amblygonite is either white or a light shade of yellow, de Larangeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil, display. ing internal...include Pala, California, Taos County, New Mexico, and Yavapai County, Arizona. Transparent yellow amblygonite...primarily with the zeolite minerals and calcite in basalt cavities, although it does occur as a primary mineral...Colorado, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, and the basalt cavities of northern New Jersey. Large transparent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FRIEDRICH,G., and WIECHOWSKI, A., titanomaghemite in basalt, 299 Almandine-grossular and -pyrope garnet solid...505 Amphibole, ferri-ferrohornblende, kirwanite, County Down, Northern Ireland, 253; fibres, flexibility...Greenland, 107 Analcime-bytownite intergrowth in basalt, Skye, Scotland, 382 ANDERSEN,T., carbonatite-related...Asbestos, flexibility, 327 ASHWORTH,J. R., low-tridymite polymorphs, 89 Atacamite, synthesis and stability...Bernardite, new mineral, Yugoslavia, 531 BEUKES,G. J., see DE BRUIYN,H., 385 BEVAN, J., and SAVAGE,S., dissolution
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 3, 2003 9:00 am to 6:30 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...be missed. Chuck Sweany Lemolo Lake, Douglas County, Oregon Doug Merson Lemolo Lake came to my attention...Lemolo Lake is located in northeastern Douglas County north of Diamond Lake. The lake is created by a... The minerals found here are pseudobrookite, tridymite, hornblende, hypersthene, and apatite. Hypersthene... although a few crystal groups may be found. Tridymite is the most common accessory mineral present with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and gabbroic clasts contain more abundant modal tridymite and merrillite, and more commonly contain augite...mesosiderites were formed by remelting of a mixed basalt-cumulate gabbro-metal source region near the parent...pyroxene analyses and the modal abundances of tridymite, merrillite, and augite. Xenocrystic plagioclase...generally more abundant tridymite in the former. The average modal abundance of tridymite in the basaltic clasts...from 3 to 17%. In contrast, eucrites average 4% tridymite and range from I. 1 to 7.7% (DELANEY et al., 1984)
Report (issue)
TIN ORE IN NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA. By ADOLPH KNOPF. LOCATION AND DISCOVERY. Tin ore has recently...recently been found in northern Lander County, Nev., in an unnamed short range of hills lying 20 miles north...capped by a great thickness of black basalt, but to the north the basalt capping is absent and the mesa becomes...in northern Lander County, Nev., and vicinity. TIN" ORE IN NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY, NEV. 127 was made...flows is the main rock of the tin-bearing area. Basalt appears in small quantities at the west end of
Report (issue)
drill cuttings from EWEB 5 drill hole, Clackamas County, Oregon by Terry E. C. Keith and James R. Boaen...under U.S. Department of Energy, Region X, Grant No. DE-FG51-79ET 2743. Eugene Water and Electric Board...4), in the Mount Hood National Forest, Clackamas County, Oregon (fig. 1). Drilling commenced on October...Range are exposed in a quarry. About 1/2 km further to the west of the quarry, rocks of the upper Miocene...groundmass consists of plagioclase, clinopyroxene, tridymite, and a-cristobalite. Glass may have been a major
Book (edition)
"Dana's System of Mineralogy•· ( 1944, I 951, 1962). de Fourestier (1999) and Strunz and Nickel (2001). Mi11eral...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...ASG -Archives de Science Geneve BM - Bulletin de la Societe fram;aise de mineralogie et de cristallographie...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
Report (issue)
lies nearly wholly in Lake County, though Sonoma County. Economic minerals de- the southwest corner enters...Lake lava 6. Photo of quartz inclusions in olivine basalt 7. Structure sections across Lower Lake quadrangle...volcanic rocks range in composition from olivine basalt to obsidian, and include intermediate types of...in association with quartz. Much of the olivine basalt and andesite is quartz-bearing, and locally contains...within Sonoma County, the quadrangle lies entirely within Lake County. Paved state or county roads offer
Book
canadien de la nature Text copyright © 1994 by Canadian Museum of Nature/ Musee canadien de la nature...volcanos in Iceland, or black smokers along the Juan de Fuca ridge beneath the Pacific Ocean, also provide...average density of granite is less than that of basalt. Peridotite, which is one of the most common rocks...density greater than that of either granite or basalt. Thus, considering only differences in density... P L A T E .4. Calcite. Herja, Transylvania, Romania. s x 7 cm. Calciteisstableoverabroadrange of t
Catalog/List
in lxl inch Basalt Zeolite lxl £5 166 II: ■ GISMONDINE Green road Quarry, Ballyclare, County Antrim Chalk')'...areas on Basalt. ½ inch £4 I inch £8 Zeolite 169 ■■ GONNARDITE Hillsport, Island Magee, County Antrim...Antrim, N.lrelan Quite rich white radiating mass on Basalt Zeolite _{ Ix! £6 .~ 242 ■■ GUDMUNDITE Pezinok,Slovakia...£5 Ix! £8 Fe Sb S 370 ■■ HAINITE Bortolan Quarry, Pocos de Caldas Minas Gerais, Small fawn fibres in...OH Cl 385 ■■ MIARGYRITE Mc Laughlin Mine, Napa County California black areas in quartz with red Pyrargyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite (weathered), kaolinite...fluorite, 4Ol Hazlehead quarry, Penistone, muscovite, I76 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Hazlehead, Penistone...Swinden Limeworks quarry, Linton, fluorite, 4oi WALES(Cymru) Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, muscovite...CO2metamorphosed lavas, ankerite, chalybite, 119 Binhill quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite...hornblende-schist, laumontite, prehnite, kaolinite, 608 Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland, nickel hydroxide and (?) oxyhydroxide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crosscutting silicates. Euhedral apatites in the Moore County cumulate eucrite occur as inclusions in pyroxene...K/Th 2000 Moore County 0 = 36 EET 87542 ALH 85001 0.5 EET 90020 agé Serra de Magé Pasamonte ...selected for this study. Gray labels (Moore County, Serra de Mage, Allan Hills (ALH) 85001, and EET 87548)...The cumulate eucrites ALH 85001, Serra de Mage, Moore County, EET 87548 were also selected (Fig. 1)...Stannern, Nuevo Laredo, Pasamonte, Moore County, and Serra de Mage) and thus have minimal terrestrial
Catalog/List
plates on 2.5cm calcite and Mn oxides. Merehead Quarry near Frome Mendips £12 • 5 BARYTES creamy platy...crystals in cavity in ferruginous limestone Machen Quarry Caerphilly South Wales 7x5cm £ 10 7 SPHALERITE...pyrite on top, very pleasing at x 10 . Greystones Quarry Launceston Cornwall 4x4 £25 , t 19 SCAWTITE...a 3mm area) on 2x2cm dolerite Carneal Plug Lame County Antrim £8 25 QUARTZ a few crystals on one side... WAVELLITE white radiations on slate High Down quarry Filleigh Devon type location 5x5cm £8 32 STRONTIANITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 641–651 Ferri-obertiite from the Rothenberg quarry, Eifel volcanic complex, Germany: mineral data...in a pale beige silicate vein found from a basalt quarry at Mount Rothenberg, Eifel district, Germany...occurrence after the Caspar quarry at Bellerberg volcano, Eifel region), tridymite, rutile, roedderite and...occurring in vugs in volcanic rocks at the Bellerberg quarry, Laacher See district, Eifel, Germany. These authors...This latter sample is from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California, and was found in inclusions of lithic-wacke
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arthur C., Jr. Beryl from the Oxford mine, Troup County, Georgia Bailey, Roy A. Volcanism and the upper...Physicaland chemical data for crandallite from Alachua County, Florida 3-4 473 Boles, James R. Composition,optical...Melanophlogitefrom Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California Cooper,W. F. Chargerefinementof a light-atommineral...review] De lVaal, S. A. Nickel minerals from Barberton, South Africa; V, Trevorite, redescribed De Waard...inversesdu MassifCentralfrancais;La Seriede la Sioule(Puy-de-Dome, [Contributionto the geologyof the inverted
Book (volume)
BARIUM FELSPARS.166 SILICA MINERALS.179 Quartz, Tridymite, Cristobalite . . . . .179 NEPHELINE GROUP...Geological Congress; The Secretary, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid; Akademische...perthite, pegmatite, S. of Iron Creek, Pennington County, Black Hills, S. Dakota (Higazy, 1949). Anal. R...unmixed to oligoclase and orthoclase), larvikite, quarry near Larvik, near Oslo, Norway (Muir & Smith, 1966)...eutectic tempera¬ ture between potassium felspar and tridymite is placed at 990°C.+ 20°C. at a composition leucite
Book (volume)
256 Composition, 256 Occurrence, 257 TRIDYMITE High-Tridymite 259 259 Structure, 259 Morphology,... 261 Physical Properties, 263 Middle-Tridymite Low-Tridymite Structure, 264 Morphology, 264 264 264...High-quartz 573-870° Low-tridymite Below 117° Orthorhombic Middle-tridymite High-tridymite 117—163° 163—-1470°...Herschel, Biot, Weiss, Rose, and Des Cloizeaux. Tridymite, the first polymorph of silica to be recognized...1889 and was later shown to occur in nature. Tridymite has since been found to include a group of three
 
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