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Analcime from
Kerguelen Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France


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Analcime

Kerguelen Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France
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Analcime

Kerguelen Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France
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Analcime

Kerguelen Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France
Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Analcime
Formula:Na(AlSi2O6) · H2O
Habit:The first report of a trisoctahedron {233}, in analcime (Laspeyres 1877).
Colour:White
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Analcime data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kerguelen Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:656298
Long-form Identifier:1:3:656298:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Analcime in this Region
Grande Terre island, Kerguelen Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, France
References
British Museum of Natural History collection
Laspeyres, H. (1877) Analcimkrystalle von den Kerguelen-Inseln (Analcime crystals from the Kerguelen Islands). Neues Jahrbuch fĂĽr Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde: 1877: 530-530.
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Giret, A. (1979). Genèse de roches feldspathoïdiques par la déstabilisation des amphiboles: massif des Montagnes Vertes, Kerguelen (TAAF). Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, D289, 379-382.
Giret, A. (Ed.). (1980). Notice de la carte géologique au 1: 50 000 de la Péninsule Rallier du Baty, Iles Kerguelen. Comite National Français des Recherches Antarctiques, 45.
Lameyre, J., Marot, A., Zimine, S., Cantagrel, J., Dosso, L., Giret, A., ... & Hottin, J. (1981). Etude géologique du complexe plutonique de la péninsule Rallier du Baty, îles Kerguelen. Comb. natl. Fr. Res. Antarct, 49.
Giret, A. (1983). Le plutonisme océanique intraplaque: exemple de l'archipel Kerguelen. Comite National Français des Recherches Antarctiques, 54.
Giret, A., & Lameyre, J. (1983). A study of Kerguelen plutonism: petrology, geochronology and geological implications. In Antarctic earth science. International symposium. 4 (pp. 646-651).
Gautier, Isabelle, Weis, Dominique, Mennessier, Jean-Paul, Vidal, Philippe, Giret, André, Loubet, Michel (1990) Petrology and geochemistry of the Kerguelen Archipelago basalts (South Indian Ocean): evolution of the mantle sources from ridge to intraplate position. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 100 (1) 59-76 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(90)90176-x
Woldegabriel, Giday, Aronson, James L., Walter, Robert C. (1990) Geology, geochronology, and rift basin development in the central sector of the Main Ethiopia Rift. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 102 (4) 439-458 doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1990)102<0439:ggarbd>2.3.co;2
Weis, D.; Frey, F.A.; Leyrit, H.; Gautier, I. (1993) Kerguelen Archipelago revisited: geochemical and isotopic study of the Southeast Province lavas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 118 (1). 101-119 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(93)90162-3
Grégoire, Michel, Cottin, Jean Yves, Giret, André, Mattielli, Nadine, Weis, Dominique (1998) The meta-igneous granulite xenoliths from Kerguelen Archipelago: evidence of a continent nucleation in an oceanic setting. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 133 (3) 259-283 doi:10.1007/s004100050451
Weis, D., Frey, F. A., Giret, A., Cantagrel, J.-M. (1998) Geochemical Characteristics of the Youngest Volcano (Mount Ross) in the Kerguelen Archipelago: Inferences for Magma Flux, Lithosphere Assimilation and Composition of the Kerguelen Plume. Journal of Petrology, 39 (5) 973-994 doi:10.1093/petroj/39.5.973
Yang, H.-J., Frey, F. A., Weis, D., Giret, A., Pyle, D., Michon, G. (1998) Petrogenesis of the Flood Basalts Forming the Northern Kerguelen Archipelago: Implications for the Kerguelen Plume. Journal of Petrology, 39 (4) 711-748 doi:10.1093/petroj/39.4.711
Frey, F.A, Weis, D, Yang, H.-J, Nicolaysen, K, Leyrit, H, Giret, A (2000) Temporal geochemical trends in Kerguelen Archipelago basalts: evidence for decreasing magma supply from the Kerguelen Plume. Chemical Geology, 164 (1) 61-80 doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(99)00144-8
Moine, B. N., COTTIN, J. Y., Sheppard, S. M., Grégoire, M., O'REILLY, S. Y., & Giret, A. (2000). Incompatible trace element and isotopic (D/H) characteristics of amphibole-and phlogopite-bearing ultramafic to mafic xenoliths from Kerguelen Islands (TAAF, South Indian Ocean). European Journal of Mineralogy, 12(4), 761-777. doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2000/0012-0761
Gregoire, M., Jackson, I., O'Reilly, S., & Cottin, J. (2001). The lithospheric mantle beneath the Kerguelen Islands (Indian Ocean): petrological and petrophysical characteristics of mantle mafic rock types and correlation with seismic profiles. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142(2), 244-259. doi.org/10.1007/s004100100289
FREY, F. A. (2002) Flood Basalt from Mont Tourmente in the Central Kerguelen Archipelago: the Change from Transitional to Alkalic Basalt at 25 Ma. Journal of Petrology, 43 (7) 1367-1387 doi:10.1093/petrology/43.7.1367
Moine, B. N., Grégoire, M., O'Reilly, S. Y., Delpech, G., Sheppard, S. M. F., Lorand, J. P., ... & Cottin, J. Y. (2004). Carbonatite melt in oceanic upper mantle beneath the Kerguelen Archipelago. Lithos, 75(1-2), 239-252. doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2003.12.019
Scoates, James S., Weis, Dominique, Franssens, Matthias, Mattielli, Nadine, Annell, Heidi, Frey, Frederick A., Nicolaysen, Kirsten, Giret, Andre (2008) The Val Gabbro Plutonic Suite: A Sub-volcanic Intrusion Emplaced at the End of Flood Basalt Volcanism on the Kerguelen Archipelago. Journal of Petrology, 49 (1) 79-105 doi:10.1093/petrology/egm071
Duncan, R. A., Falloon, T. J., Quilty, P. G., Coffin, M. F. (2016) Widespread Neogene volcanism on Central Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Indian Ocean. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 63 (4) 379-392 doi:10.1080/08120099.2016.1221857
 
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