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Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

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Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

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Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon

Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon

Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon

Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon

Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon

Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon

Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon

Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Locality type:

Complex

Classification

Species:

Zircon

Formula:

Zr(SiO₄)

Age information

Maximum recorded age:

732 Ma

Minimum recorded age:

732 Ma

Sample ages:

	Recorded age	Geologic Time	Sample	Dating method
1	732 Ma	Tonian	-	U-Pb

Sample references:

1	-	Black, L. P., LP, B., & BL, G. (1978). The age of the mud tank carbonatite, strangways range, northern territory. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 3, 227-232.

Habit:

squat prismatic crystals to 5cm.

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:

Carbonatite

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

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Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

109204

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:109204:2

GUID (UUID V4):

Nearest other occurrences of Zircon

1.0km (0.6 miles)

ⓘ Mud Tank Vermiculite Mine, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

8.1km (5.0 miles)

ⓘ Annamurra Creek, Mount Riddock Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

67.3km (41.8 miles)

ⓘ Arltunga Gold Field, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

70.1km (43.5 miles)

ⓘ Mistral Ruby Mine (Hillrise Prospect), Spriggs Creek Bore (Spriggs Bore), Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

89.3km (55.5 miles)

ⓘ Yambla Prospect, Harding Springs, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

References

Black, L. P., LP, B., & BL, G. (1978). The age of the mud tank carbonatite, strangways range, northern territory. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 3, 227-232.

England, B.M. (1979) Pseudo-crystals of martite from the Mud Tank carbonatite, Strangway Range, Northern Territory, Australia. The Australian Mineralogist 1979, 144-146.

Wilson, Allan F. (1979) Contrast in the isotopic composition of oxygen and carbon between the Mud Tank Carbonatite and the marbles in the granulite terrane of the Strangways Range, central Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 26 (1) 39-44 doi:10.1080/00167617908729065

Crohn, P.W., Moore, D.H. (1984) The Mud Tank Carbonatite, Strangways Range. central Australia. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics, Commonwealth of Australia 9 (1), 13-18.

Nelson, D.R, Chivas, A.R, Chappell, B.W, McCulloch, M.T (1988) Geochemical and isotopic systematics in carbonatites and implications for the evolution of ocean-island sources. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52 (1) 1-17 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(88)90051-8

Currie, K. L., Knutson, J., Temby, P. A. (1992) The Mud Tank carbonatite complex, central Australia - an example of metasomatism at mid-crustal levels. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 109 (3) 326-339 doi:10.1007/bf00283322

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Zircon from Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Zircon from
Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia