| Locality type: | Volcano |
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| Species: | Calcite |
| Formula: | CaCO3 |
| Comments: | In lava :Feathery blebs and patches with resorbed rims.
interstitial and rimming chromite, or round inclusions in forsterite (crystalline cumulates from carbonatitic melts) in spinel harzburgite xenoliths. |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Calcite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Monduli volcano, Monduli District, Arusha Region, Tanzania |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 310704 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:310704:1 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 3054932a-7df4-4077-b7ee-f67ba48b78b6 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Calcite |
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| 68.6km (42.6 miles) | ⓘRuby occurrence, Muriatata hills, Longido District, Arusha Region, Tanzania |
| 69.1km (42.9 miles) | ⓘMerelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania |
| 71.1km (44.2 miles) | ⓘTrig Point Hill flow, Kerimasi volcano, Monduli District, Arusha Region, Tanzania |
| 72.9km (45.3 miles) | ⓘKerimasi volcano, Monduli District, Arusha Region, Tanzania |
| 83.3km (51.8 miles) | ⓘOl Doinyo Lengai, Ngorongoro District, Arusha region, Tanzania |
| 85.0km (52.8 miles) | ⓘMinjingu Quarry, Babati District, Manyara Region, Tanzania |
| 98.1km (60.9 miles) | ⓘLake Amboseli, Kajiado County, Kenya |
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 | | Report (chapter) | | have resulted from later regional mapping by the Tanzania Geological Survey, together with radiometric dating...Extrusive basaltic centres. The term ‘peralkaline volcano’ is used here to indicate that the structure is...(unpublished) state that the oldest lavas from this volcano are melanephelinites and melilitites of the Bast...Bast Hills and Birera, to the west of the main volcano. These, as with early lavas from some other centres...Ngorongoro, Oldeani, Gelai, Ketumbeine, Tarosero, Monduli and the Shira and Mawenzi centres of Kilimanjaro) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | carbonates in peridotite xenoliths from northeastern Tanzania Received: 30 July 1999 / Accepted: 5 February...xenoliths from the East African Rift in northeastern Tanzania occur as intergranular patches with accessory...reveals compositional clusters near end member calcite, end member magnesite, and stoichiometric dolomite...carbonatitic lavas (Woolley and Kempe 1989). Crystalline calcite excludes most incompatible trace elements from...summary Sample Host rock Primary carbonates Monduli MON7, ClinopyroxeneMON5 free spinel harzburgite |
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