| and Cr6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert Ella V. Sokol...This extremely rare mineral was found at the Nabi Musa locality (Judean Desert, Israel), in a peculiar...thermodynamic modeling, and mineralogical analyses of the Nabi Musa rocks (XRPD, EMPA, SEM, FTIR, and optical microscopy)...consequence of the highway construction across Nabi Musa hill in 2006, the buried veins filled by Cr6+-substituted...locality, newly discovered in the Mottled Zone: Nabi Musa hill 5 km southeast of the Maale Adummim area |
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Sokol, E.V., Kozmenko, O.A., Kokh, S.N., Vapnik, Ye. (2012) Gas reservoirs in the Dead Sea area: evidence from chemistry of combustion metamorphic rocks in Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 53 (8) 745-762 doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2012.06.003 |
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| chemistry of combustion metamorphic rocks in Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano E.V. Sokol a,*, O.A. Kozmenko...31 March 2011; accepted 15 July 2011 Abstract Nabi Musa located at the northern tip of the Dead Sea at...Melting foci have been discovered in two craters of Nabi Musa volcano, with numerous veins of paralavas having...The suggested mixing models predict that the Nabi Musa paralavas result from combustion metamorphism...quartz arenite. The history of mud volcanism at Nabi Musa began with small eruptions that mobilized gas |
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Galuskin, Evgeny, Galuskina, Irina, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Murashko, Mikhail (2020) Molecular Hydrogen in Natural Mayenite. Minerals, 10 (6) 560 doi:10.3390/min10060560 |
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| the Dead Sea Rift in the territories of Israel, Palestine, and Jordan [5–7]. Commonly, genesis of the pyrometamorphic...low-temperature processes and composed mainly of katoite, calcite, and tacharanite (Figure 1A–C). The dark parts...fluormayenite from larnite rock, Jabel Harmun, Palestine, with simplified empirical formula Ca12 (Al13...mineral, processes and composed mainly of katoite, calcite, and tacharanite (Figure 1A–C). distinguishing...fluormayenite-fluorkyuygenite series from Jabel Harmun, Palestine [16]. For the first time in the Raman spectra |
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Seryotkin, Yurii V., Sokol, Ella V., Kokh, Svetlana N. (2012) Natural pseudowollastonite: Crystal structure, associated minerals, and geological context. Lithos, 134. 75-90 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.12.010 |
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| rock-forming mineral in Ca-rich paralava veins of Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano (Dead Sea area). Pseudowollastonite-bearing...natural pseudowollastonite. Pseudowollastonite from Nabi Musa dome is stoichiometric CaSiO3 and belongs to the...pseudowollastonite-bearing paralava found at Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano in the Dead Sea area. These...Tul-i-Marmar Wo Fe-MgWo Wo Wo Darreh Harrachi Nabi Musa F.3029 F.3084 21 12D 12C YV197 45.11 0...indentified). Ap-(F) = fluorapatite, Aug = augite, Cal = calcite, CPx = clinopyroxene, Cr-Spl = Cr-spinel, CSHs |
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Galuskina, Irina O., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Prusik, Krystian, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Juroszek, Rafał, Jeżak, Lidia, Murashko, Mikhail (2017) Dzierżanowskite, CaCu2S2 – a new natural thiocuprate from Jabel Harmun, Judean Desert, Palestine Autonomy, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (5) 1073-1085 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.153 |
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| thiocuprate from Jabel Harmun, Judean Desert, Palestine Autonomy, Israel IRINA O. GALUSKINA1,*, EVGENY...type locality, near the Palestinian village of Nabi Musa, lies close to a historical place with an eponymous...Tomb of Moses), situated in the Judean Desert, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel (31°46′N, 35°26′E)...3a). There are four such ‘fumaroles’ on the south-west slope of Jabel Harmun. Jasmundite forms chains of...jasmundite. More often these channels are filled with calcite, ettringite or Cl-bearing Cahydrosilicates. In |
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Gross, Shulamit (2016, June) Petrographic atlas of the Hatrurim Formation. Report GSI/05/2016. Geological Survey of Israel |
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| and Ca-Al-silicates such as gehlenitelarnite, _calcite_-spurrite and anorthite-diopside-zeoloites fels...NKVD) security clearance. In 1946 Shulamit moved west to Moscow State University, and re-started her Ph...1971. Determination of spurrite, associated with calcite, by means of differential thermal analysis. Israel...Bentorite. A new mineral from the Hatrurim area, west of the Dead Sea, Israel. Isr. J. Earth Sci., 29:...Brt Barite Lrn Larnite Srp Serpentine Cal Calcite Lz Lizardite Tch Tacharanite Cal-sil Calcium-silicate |
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Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskin, Evgeny V., Galuskina, Irina O., Kusz, Joachim, Stasiak, Marta, Krzykawski, Tomasz, Dulski, Mateusz (2019) Qatranaite, CaZn2(OH)6 · 2H2O: a new mineral from altered pyrometamorphic rocks of the Hatrurim Complex, Daba-Siwaqa, Jordan. European Journal of Mineralogy, 31 (3) 575-584 doi:10.1127/ejm/2019/0031-2833 |
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| sphalerite, Se-bearing thaumasite, afwillite, calcite, srebrodolskite–brownmillerite, spinel–magnesioferrite...(Fig. 1). In unaltered dark spurrite marbles, calcite content reaches 80 vol%. Apart from spurrite, minerals... Spurrite marbles are crosscut by networks of _calcite_–thaumasite (rarer ettringite) veins up to 1–2 mm...cuspidine veins transform to spurrite rocks as their calcite content falls to a few percents and the rocks bear...Qatranaite associated with Se-bearing thaumasite, calcite, awfillite and barite was found in secondary low-temperature |
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Sharygin, Victor V., Lazic, Biljana, Armbruster, Thomas M., Murashko, Mikhail N., Wirth, Richard, Galuskina, Irina O., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Britvin, Sergey N., Logvinova, Alla M. (2013) Shulamitite Ca3TiFe3+AlO8 - a new perovskite-related mineral from Hatrurim Basin, Israel. European Journal of Mineralogy, 25 (1) 97-111 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2259 |
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| processes. They are significantly replaced by calcite, aragonite, hydrated calcium silicates and sulfates...Later the same process was reconstructed for Nabi Musa, another locality in the Hatrurim Formation (Sokol...spurrite-merwinite facies. They occur in Israel, Jordan and Palestine. The Hatrurim Basin (approximately 5 km to southeast...identified in a melilite-larnite rock from the Nabi Musa combustion complex, Hatrurim Formation (Sokol...Bentorite, a new mineral from the Hatrurim area, West of the Dead Sea, Israel. Isr. J. Earth Sci., 29 |
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Geller, Y.I., Burg, A., Halicz, L., Kolodny, Y. (2012) System closure during the combustion metamorphic “Mottled Zone” event, Israel. Chemical Geology, 334. 25-36 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.029 |
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| process producing the high-grade gehlenite–larnite, calcite_–spurrite and anorthite–diopside fels (“dense-olive”...clay minerals (kaolinite and montmorillonite), calcite and biogenic apatite. Other minor components are:...Upper Ghareb Formation corresponds to the spurrite–_calcite rocks and the Lower to Middle Paleocene marly chalks...°C and larnite becomes stable at 665 °C. 2.2.2. _Calcite_–spurrite marble Rocks of this unit cover large...mineralogically uniform. The main minerals are spurrite and calcite in variable proportions. Minor phases are brownmillerite |
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Juroszek, Rafał, Krüger, Biljana, Galuskina, Irina, Krüger, Hannes, Vapnik, Yevgeny, Galuskin, Evgeny (2020) Siwaqaite, Ca6Al2(CrO4)3(OH)12·26H2O, a new mineral of the ettringite group from the pyrometamorphic Daba-Siwaqa complex, Jordan. American Mineralogist, 105 (3) 409-421 doi:10.2138/am-2020-7208 |
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| mainly composed of calcite, fluorapatite, and brownmillerite. Siwaqaite occurs with calcite and minerals of...ettringite group from pyrometamorphic rocks of Nabi Musa, West Bank, reaches 0.36 atom per formula unit (apfu)...sides of the Dead Sea Transform Fault in Israel, West Bank, and Jordan (Fig. 1). They belong to the large...pyrometamorphic Mottled Zone complexes along the Israel-West _Bank_-Jordan borders (left, modified after Techer et...goethite, hydrocalumite, portlandite; and carbonates: calcite, aragonite, and vaterite (Techer et al. 2006; Khoury |
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Abzalov, M. Z., van der Heyden, A., Saymeh, A., Abuqudaira, M. (2015) Geology and metallogeny of Jordanian uranium deposits. Applied Earth Science, 124 (2) 63-77 doi:10.1179/1743275815y.0000000009 |
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| East of the country to 350m in the West, reaching 600m to the West of the 1 Distribution of gamma anomalies...white and locally black, and primarily consist of calcite and apatite. They are cut by hydrothermal veins...the Mottled Zone (MZ) complexes in Israel and Palestine (Vapnik, Sharygin, Sokol and Shagam 2007; 66...accompanied by a series of the splays forming East West and North _West_–South East striking faults (Figs. 2 and 6)...central Jordan the most important faults are the East-West trending Siwaqa and Zarqa Ma’in 124 NO 2 Abzalov |
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Galuskina, Irina O., Galuskin, Evgeny V., Pakhomova, Anna S., Widmer, Remo, Armbruster, Thomas, Krüger, Biljana, Grew, Edward S., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Dzierażanowski, Piotr, Murashko, Mikhail (2017) Khesinite, Ca4Mg2Fe3+10O4[(Fe3+10Si2)O36], a new rhönite-group (sapphirine supergroup) mineral from the Negev Desert, Israel– natural analogue of the SFCA phase. European Journal of Mineralogy, 29 (1) 101-116 doi:10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2589 |
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| concerned a few grains in gehlenite hornfels at the Nabi Musa locality, Judean Desert (Sokol et al., 2011)....secondary, lowtemperature minerals such as ettringite, calcite, apophyllite, afwillite, tobermorite and other...(Záček et al., 2015); 5 – gehlenite hornfels, Nabi Musa (Sokol et al., 2011); 6–8 Dorrite: 6 – gehlenite...andradite, Bfr – barioferrite, Brt – barite, Cal – calcite, Ghl – gehlenite, Hsh – hashemite, HSi – hydrosilicates...CaFe2O4: a new mineral from the Jabel Harmun, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel. Am. Mineral., 99 |
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Britvin, Sergey N., Murashko, Michail N., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Polekhovsky, Yury S., Krivovichev, Sergey V., Vereshchagin, Oleg S., Shilovskikh, Vladimir V., Krzhizhanovskaya, Maria G. (2020) Negevite, the pyrite-type NiP2, a new terrestrial phosphide. American Mineralogist, 105 (3) 422-427 doi:10.2138/am-2020-7192 |
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| (Fig. 1). Secondary minerals are comprised of calcite and unidentified X‑ray amorphous Ca-Fe hydrous...pyrometamorphic larnite rocks of the Jebel Harmun, Palestine Autonomy, Israel. Mineralogical Magazine, 78,...CaFe2O4: a new mineral from the Jabel Harmun, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel. American Mineralogist...and Cr6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert. American |
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Juroszek, Rafał, Krüger, Biljana, Galuskina, Irina, Krüger, Hannes, Tribus, Martina, Kürsten, Christian (2019) Raman Spectroscopy and Single-Crystal High-Temperature Investigations of Bentorite, Ca6Cr2(SO4)3(OH)12·26H2O. Minerals, 10 (1) 38 doi:10.3390/min10010038 |
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| sample was proven to be 80% bentorite with some calcite and truscottite (Ca,Mn)14 Si24 O58 (OH)8 ·2H2 O...crystals up to 150 µm in size, associated with calcite and ettringite, were found in low temperature veins...Besides the main rock forming minerals, spurrite and calcite, the minor concentrations of ye’elimite, shulamitite-sharyginite...at Ma’ale Adummim locality in the territory of Palestine. This location composed of high temperature rock...together with blue afwillite, thaumasite, ettringite, calcite, Ca silicate hydrates, and minerals of the baryte-hashemite |
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Belakovskiy, Dmitriy I., Cámara, Fernando, Gagne, Olivier C., Uvarova, Yulia (2016) New Mineral NamesAradite and ZadoviteChlorkyuygenite, Fluorkyuygenite, FluormayeniteChubaroviteCryobostryxiteFerriakasakaite-(La) and Ferriandrosite-(La)Ferro-pedriziteFlamiteFlinteiteFluorchegemiteFluor-tsilaisiteGatedaliteKononoviteMendigiteNabimusaite. American Mineralogist, 101 (7) 1709-1716 doi:10.2138/am-2016-nmn101714 |
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| Prefecture, Japan. The minerals were found in tephroite-calcite veinlets cutting the stratiform ferromanganese...hausmannite-impregnated skarn with jacobsite, Mn-calcite, tephroite, Mn-phlogopite, långbanite, pinakiolite...Jabel (Mount) Harmun near the village Nabi Musa, Judea Desert, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy. Later this...named for its type locality near the village of Nabi Musa. Type material is deposited in the Museum of Natural |
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Sokol, Ella, Kokh, Svetlana, Sharygin, Victor, Danilovsky, Victoria, Seryotkin, Yurii, Liferovich, Ruslan, Deviatiiarova, Anna, Nigmatulina, Elena, Karmanov, Nikolay (2019) Mineralogical Diversity of Ca2SiO4-Bearing Combustion Metamorphic Rocks in the Hatrurim Basin: Implications for Storage and Partitioning of Elements in Oil Shale Clinkering. Minerals, 9 (8) 465 doi:10.3390/min9080465 |
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| Mineral/Sample Y-5-1 Y-6-3 Y-8 YV-412 YV-411 YV-410 Calcite Portlandite Hydrogarnet 0.8 Y-10-5 W-11-3 ...phosphorite, chert, and marl) heavily cut by veins of calcite, aragonite, gypsum, zeolite, ettringite, and various...mainly found at the top of the Mesozoic sequence west of the Dead Sea rift, in Negev and Judean Deserts... hydrocarbon gases, and micro-oil mostly to the west, toward the Mediterranean Sea [72]. Consequently...light-colored matrix of secondary minerals (mainly calcite, aragonite, gypsum, and “pebbles” in a light-colored |
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Seryotkin, Yurii V., Sokol, Ella V., Kokh, Svetlana N., Sharygin, Victor V. (2019) Natural bentorite—Cr3+ derivate of ettringite: determination of crystal structure. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 46 (6) 553-570 doi:10.1007/s00269-019-01022-4 |
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| afwillite, truscottite, fluorapatite, tobermorite, calcite, and vaterite. It occurs as almost monomineralic...and granular aggregates tightly intergrown with calcite and truscottite (Ca14Si24O58(OH)8‧2H2O). The concentrate...residue after extraction of C O2 and excess CaO as calcite and SiO2, CaO and H 2O as ideal truscottite...alkaline aqueous solutions and cut by veinlets of calcite, aragonite, gypsum, various Ca silicate hydrates...though found ( CrO4)2−-bearing ettringite in the Nabi Musa area in Judean Desert (Sokol et al. 2011). Later |
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Sharygin, Victor V. (2019) A hibonite-spinel-corundum-hematite assemblage in plagioclase-clinopyroxene pyrometamorphic rocks, Hatrurim Basin, Israel: mineral chemistry, genesis and formation temperatures. Mineralogical Magazine, 83 (1) 123-135 doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.138 |
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| alteration and are cut by abundant veinlets containing calcite, aragonite, gypsum, various hydrated Ca-silicates...These highly-porous rocks are mainly composed by calcite and zeolites, which cemented the quartz sand and...carbonation. The secondary products are mainly calcite, aragonite, gypsum, ettringite, and minor Ca silicate-hydrates...“hyalophane” (Cn51-69), Ti-andradite, celestine, baryte, calcite, anhydrite and unidentified Mn-hydroxide occur...partly or completely filled with low-temperature calcite, zeolite-supergroup minerals, quartz and rare bassanite |
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Sharygin, V.V. (2015) Mayenite-supergroup minerals from burned dump of the Chelyabinsk Coal Basin. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 56 (11) 1603-1621 doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2015.10.007 |
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| reaction MeCO3 → MeO + CO2↑. Decarbonation of calcite occurs at T = 700–900 °C. Dolomite breaks down...down at T < 750 °C to form CO2, periclase, and calcite, which, in turn, decomposes at a higher temperature...CaFe2O4: a new mineral from the Jabel Harmun, West Bank, Palestinian Autonomy, Israel. Am. Mineral. 99...and Cr6+-bearing precursor minerals from the Nabi Musa Mottled Zone complex, Judean Desert. Am. Mineral...chemistry of combustion metamorphic rocks in Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano. Russian Geology and Geophysics |
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Seryotkin, Yurii V., Sokol, Ella V., Kokh, Svetlana N., Murashko, Mikhail N. (2018) Natural Cr3+-rich ettringite: occurrence, properties, and crystal structure. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 45 (3) 279-292 doi:10.1007/s00269-017-0917-y |
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| sampled in a road excavation along the Jerusalem–Jericho highway in Ma’aleh Adumim, one of the Mottled Zone...numerous vuggy veins mainly composed of C aCO 3 (calcite, aragonite, and rarely vaterite) and gypsum with...long) perfect crystals of afwillite, very rare calcite, fine-grained ellestadite, and brucite (Fig. 2)...ettringite crystals. d Thaumasite associated with calcite and afwillite. e, f Aggregate of randomly oriented...abbreviated as Afw afwillite, Brc brucite, Cal calcite, Ett ettringite, Tha thaumasite 13 Cr3+-bearing |
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Abad, Isabel, Sánchez-Gómez, Mario, Reolid, Matías, López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Vicente (2019) Pyrometamorphic Rocks in the Molinicos Basin (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain): Insights into the Generation of Cordierite Paralavas. Minerals, 9 (12) 748 doi:10.3390/min9120748 |
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| conglomerates and sands (≥100 m thick) limits the the basin west. observed maximum thickness of lacustrine sediments...sediments thisranges area ranges basin to to thethe west. TheThe observed maximum thickness of lacustrine...places by centimetre thick, concentric layers of calcite. A dark-coloured patina coats the bed remnants...the XRD patterns, are mainly composed of quartz, calcite and clays: illite, chlorite, a smectite phase and...and kaolinite. Some feldspars are also present. calcite and clays: illite, chlorite, a smectite phase and |
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Sokol, E. V., Kokh, S. N., Vapnik, Y., Thiery, V., Korzhova, S. A. (2014) Natural analogs of belite sulfoaluminate cement clinkers from Negev Desert, Israel. American Mineralogist, 99 (7) 1471-1487 doi:10.2138/am.2014.4704 |
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| hydration and/or carbonation products (mainly calcite, aragonite, gypsum, and ettringite, with lesser...located near top of Har-Parsa. Magnesioferrite Calcite after larnite Fe-analog of shulamitite α’-Ca2SiO4...(Gross 1984) Larnite, Ye’elimite, Aragonite, Calcite, Cobbles from pseudoFluorapatite-Fluorellestaditess...Hatrurim Basin. Larnite, Brownmillerite, Aragonite, Calcite, Fluorellestadite, Ye’elimite Gypsum, Ca-Al-hydrates...production site have become cemented with secondary calcite to form monolithic breccias due to hydration and |
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Warchulski, Rafał, Gawęda, Aleksandra, Kupczak, Krzysztof, Banasik, Kamila, Krzykawski, Tomasz (2020) Slags from Ruda Śląska, Poland as a large-scale laboratory for the crystallization of rare natural rocks: melilitolites and paralavas. Lithos, 372. 105666pp. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105666 |
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| Heijlen et al., 2003). Dolomite, barite, and calcite are gangue minerals. Throughout its existence,...1300-1400°C. The exceptions here are the paralavas from Nabi Musa with low Al contents, for -p which the liquidus...3030, F.3029, Darreh Harrachi sample F.3084, Nabi Musa samples 21, 12D, 12C, YV-197 from Seryotkin et |
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Kokh, Svetlana N., Sokol, Ella V. (2023) Combustion Metamorphism in Mud Volcanic Events: A Case Study of the 6 May 2000 Fire Eruption of Karabetova Gora Mud Volcano. Minerals, 13 (3) 355 doi:10.3390/min13030355 |
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| plagioclase (6 wt%), pyrite (4 wt%), gypsum (4 wt%), and calcite (3 wt%). The relative percentages of clay minerals...Slightly annealed rocks become devoid of gypsum and calcite, retained a dehydroxylated illite-like phyllosilicates... R.; Kozmenko, O. Combustion metamorphism in Nabi Musa dome: New implications for a mud volcanic origin...chemistry of combustion metamorphic rocks in Nabi Musa fossil mud volcano. Russ. Geol. Geophys. 2012 |
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Khoury, H. N. (2015) Uranium minerals of central Jordan. Applied Earth Science, 124 (2) 104-128 doi:10.1179/1743275815y.0000000005 |
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| composed of U–F-bearing aggregates in intermixed calcite, carbonate-fluorapatite, and variable amounts of...fractions (.2mm to ,2mm) that are mainly composed of calcite, apatite and smectite (more in the ,2mm size fraction)...concentrate in the finest size fraction together with calcite, secondary apatite and more smectite. New primary...and the highlands overlooking the Dead Sea to the West (Fig. 1). Department of Geology, The University...in calcrete developed by evapotranspiration and calcite precipitation in fluviatile to playa systems, in |
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