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Markersbach granite, Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germanyi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Markersbach granite | Outcrop |
| Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel | City |
| Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge | District |
| Saxony | State |
| Germany | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
50° 50' 42'' North , 13° 58' 56'' East
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Petrovice | 663 (2018) | 6.2km |
| Tisá | 742 (2018) | 7.6km |
| Dohma | 2,190 (2014) | 8.7km |
| Liebstadt | 1,367 (2015) | 9.0km |
| Königstein | 3,011 (2016) | 10.1km |
The Markersbach granite is located in the easternmost Erzgebirge in Germany, at the transition to the Elbe Zone and spatially associated with the Cretaceous Königshain uranium deposit located in Upper Cretaceous sandstones. About 5 km2 of the granite body is exposed at the present surface. Drilling and mining activities in connection with the search for U deposits provided additional underground exposures of the granite down to several 100 meters. The Markersbach granite represents a highly evolved aluminous leucogranite of A-type affinity. Its A/CNK ratio ranges from 0.96 to 1.05 and corresponds to a metaluminous to slightly peraluminous character. Its evolved nature is evidenced by very low contents of Ca (0.15–0.60 wt.% CaO), Mg (0.01–0.04 wt.% MgO), Sr (0.8–5.7 ppm), Ba (8–20 ppm), and extremely low P (0.007–0.02 wt.% P2O5), combined with low Zr/Hf (11.6–16.6), Nb/Ta (3.8–8.6) and K/Rb (≤100) ratios.
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22 valid minerals.
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References
[1]Ondrejka, Martin; Förster, Hans-Jürgen; Bévan, Maëlys; Uher, Pavel; Kianguebene-Koussingounina, Chrisfanel Eurode; Mahdy, Nasser Mourad (2025) Evolution of accessory Nb–Ta–W–Sn–Ti–Fe oxide minerals from the Markersbach highly evolved aluminous A-type granite, Erzgebirge, Germany: Magmatic to hydrothermal processes and elemental mobility during F-rich fluid–rock interaction. Geologica Carpathica, 76 (3). doi:10.31577/geolcarp.2025.14
