| Locality type: | Deposit |
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| Species: | Zoisite |
| Formula: | (CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Zoisite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 986444 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:986444:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | c65bdad4-61e9-483c-80af-45ff8246c42a |
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| 52.4km (32.6 miles) | ⓘRoadcut near Tjostolvflaten, Tjostolvflaten, Tokke, Telemark, Norway |
| 61.4km (38.1 miles) | ⓘHaugfoss, Modum, Buskerud, Norway |
| 70.4km (43.7 miles) | ⓘSæteråsen Niobium-deposit, Hedrum, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway |
| 96.1km (59.7 miles) | ⓘBreivevatnet Pump Station, Hovden, Bykle, Agder, Norway |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CYPRIN-THULITE DEPOSIT AT ØVSTEBØ, NEAR KLEPPAN IN SAULAND, TELEMARK, NORWAY BY HENRICH NEUMANN AKD ...the farm Øvstebø not far from Kleppan in the district of Sauland in the county of Telemark in Southern...Southern Norway. The locality has earlier been given partly as Kleppan and partly as Sauland or Souland... ZELIUS in 1820, and for thulite (red var. of zoisite) described by BRoo KE in 1823. The first to publish...and a profile of the Øvstebø deposit in his paper on the geology of Eastern Telemark in 1909 (p. 51) |  | | Report (volume) | | for rare bulk compositions such as hancockite. Zoisite, the orthorhombic polymorph of clinozoisite, is...importance of zoisite in subduction zone processes as a carrier of H2O and suggested zoisite to be the main...clinozoisite from its monoclinic symmetry and zoisite-like composition for those monoclinic members of...have low refractive indices and birefringence. Zoisite was probably confused with tremolite until the...Carinthia that was named zoisite by Werner. Haüy (1822) interpreted zoisite as a variety of epidote and |
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Øvstebø, Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway