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Cima del Piano della Casa, Terme di Valdieri, Valdieri, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italyi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Cima del Piano della Casa | Mountain |
| Terme di Valdieri | - not defined - |
| Valdieri | Commune |
| Cuneo Province | Province |
| Piedmont | Region |
| Italy | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
44° 10' 30'' North , 7° 16' 57'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Entracque | 722 (2014) | 11.7km |
| Saint-Martin-Vésubie | 1,345 (2016) | 11.9km |
| Venanson | 128 (2016) | 13.8km |
| Valdieri | 500 (2014) | 14.6km |
| Festiona | 132 (2014) | 14.7km |
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
"Madre di Dio"
Other Languages:
Italian:
Cima del Piano della Casa, Terme di Valdieri, Valdieri, Provincia di Cuneo, Piemonte, Italia
Alpine cleft system on the northern slope of Cima del Piano della Casa (2480 m), at the northwestern end of the ridge Cima de Cessole-Cima Maubert-La Madre di Dio.
The large cleft systems consists of an array of fissures, generally striking N20E to N25E and dipping 70-75NW, lined with variously coloured quartz crystals: hyaline, pale and dark amethyst, and smoky. The crystals have always very small or absent prism faces and often show non-uniform colour distributions, being the darker colours concentrated around the vertices and along the edges. Some amethyst crystals are so dark in colour to resemble the Brazilian ones, although the white granite matrix make them easily distinguishable from the latter.
Note: the locality name "Madre di Dio", a 2800-m-high peak located to the southeast, is sometimes used to indicate quartz specimens from this occurrence.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsMineral List
2 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
| ✪ Quartz Formula: SiO2 References: |
| ✪ Quartz var. Amethyst Formula: SiO2 References: |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Smoky Quartz Formula: SiO2 References: |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz var. Amethyst | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 | |
| ⓘ | var. Smoky Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Smoky Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Smoky Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Eurasian PlateTectonic Plate
- AlpsAccretionary Complex
EuropeContinent
- The AlpsMountain Range
Italy
- Piedmont
- Cuneo Province
- Argentera GroupMountain Range
- Gesso ValleyValley
- Cuneo Province
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Cima del Piano della Casa, Terme di Valdieri, Valdieri, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy