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⇱ Quartz-syenite from Zomba-Malosa Complex, Southern Region, Malawi


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Quartz-syenite from
Zomba-Malosa Complex, Southern Region, Malawi

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Locality type:Complex
Classification
Type:Quartz-syenite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz-syenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Zomba-Malosa Complex, Southern Region, Malawi
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1429624
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1429624:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition of amphiboles may occur in a given complex. A subtrend found only In oversaturated complexes...subhedral and have crystallized interstitially to quartz and microperthite. They are all highly evolved...are found as plates that poikilitically-enclose quartz and alkali feldspar. They are mainly of arfvedsonitic...al., 1980) consist predominantly of syenites and quartz syenites with lesser amounts of granite. In the...variation of amphiboles from the Topsalls-St. Lawrence complex (Strong and Taylor, 1984) illustrated III (a) the
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northern part of the Chilwa alkaline province, Malawi A. R. Woolley & G. C. Jones S U M M A R Y: The...alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites lies at the southern end of the East African rift, and is unique within...with nepheline syenite and nephelinite), large complexes of nepheline syenite and syenite, and plutons...plutons of peralkaline syenite, quartz syenite and granite, together with dykes compositionally equivalent to...present: (1) syenitequartz syenite-granite, (2) nepheline syenite-syenite and (3) nephelinite-carbonatitenepheline
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Punctuated anorogenic magmatism A-type granite Syenite Post-collisional magmatism Mineralization Nigeria...anorogenic magmatism in the Chilwa Province of Malawi, East African Rift The Chilwa Province of alkaline...alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites in Malawi and neighboring Mozambique displays three major cycles...129–123 m.y., dominated by syenite and nepheline syenite, locally with quartz syenite units. There are no obvious...(Eby et al., 1995, 2004), peralkaline syenite, quartz syenite and A-type (i.e., ferroan) granite were
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Journal (issue)
Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi .........................................minerals (facsimile: $10) v.2/#2 Chessy (France), Blue Quartz, Panasqueira (Portugal), X-ray crystallography...Ill) (facsimile: $10) v.2/#5 Gold Hill (UT), Rose Quartz, Grandview mine (AZ), Crandallite (VA), Early American...Turkish Kammererite, v.9/#6 Libethenite (Zambia), Quartz & Pyrite (WA), Hydroboracite (CA) v.10/#1 Hydroxylherderite...(Chile) v,10/#3 Taewha mine (Korea) Japan Twins (Quartz), Bancroft (Ont.), Franklin $7 v.10/#4 Chanarcillo
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on zircon from an alkaline pegmatite from ZombaMalosa, Malawi Aneesh Soman • Thorsten Geisler • Frank...pegmatite from the Zomba–Malosa Complex of the Chilwa Alkaline Province in Malawi has been studied by...solution-aqueous solution systems. Keywords Zircon  Thorite  Malawi  Hydrothermal alteration  Interface-coupled ...partially altered zircon from an alkaline pegmatite in Malawi. Based on textural, chemical, isotopic/geochronological...Mt Malosa located within the Zomba–Malosa Complex of the Chilwa Alkaline Province (CAP) in Malawi. The
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
review of five decades of research into an alkaline complex in South Greenland, with new trace-element and...November 2012; AE: T. Riley] ABSTRACT The Kûngnât Complex (12751.8 Ma) in the Gardar Alkaline Province,...intercumulus phases include alkali amphibole, biotite, quartz and calcite). In the well dissected earlier stock...compositional nearcontinuum from olivine gabbro through syenite intermediaries to alkali granite, ascribed to protracted...contamination of the magmas. K EY WORDS : Gabbro, syenite, layered intrusion, cumulates, ring-dyke, alkalic
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Report (volume)
northern part of the Chilwa alkaline province, Malawi 335 BOWDEN, P., BLACK, R., MARTIN, R. F., IKEI...EMELEUS, C. H. Mid-Proterozoic alkaline magmatism in southern Greenland: the Gardar province 449 LARSEN, L...classic alkaline provinces, such as East Africa, southern Greenland and the Kola Peninsula, are included...Archaean. For example, biotites from the Poohbah Lake syenite in north-western Ontario have been dated at around...however. The Chilwa alkaline province in Malawi, at the southern end of the rift, is an essentially intrusive
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Book (edition)
Class 53 Insular SiO, Groups and Other Anions or Complex Cations Borosilicates and Some Beryllosilicates...followed in this edition. The many and often very complex silicate minerals are here classified for the first...Especially when the mineral species is common, such as quartz (75.1.3.1), many varieties (jasper, onyx) are known...chemistry and structure are identical to those of quartz. 5D. Polytypes Materials whose basic structural...may be less for simple structures or more for complex ones. Typically, the projection is down the shortest
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