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Arfvedsonite from
Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Jönköping County, Sweden


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:Arfvedsonite
Formula:NaNa2(Fe42+Fe3+)Si8O22(OH)2
Age information
Maximum recorded age:1456 Ma
Minimum recorded age:1359 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
11456 to 1359 MaMesoproterozoic - K-Ar
Sample references:
1 -
Blaxland, Alan B (1977) Agpaitic magmatism at Norra Kärr? Rb-Sr isotopic evidence. Lithos, 10 (1) 1-8 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(77)90026-3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluoro-leakeite3
Eckermannite2
Quartz2
Jinshajiangite2
Mosandrite-(Ce)1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arfvedsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Jönköping County, Sweden
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1133
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1133:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Arfvedsonite in this Region
"The Pit", Norra Kärr, Gränna, Jönköping, Jönköping County, Sweden
Nearest other occurrences of Arfvedsonite
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘLakarp (Lakarp-Norra Kärr), Ödeshög, Östergötland County, Sweden
References
Törnebohm, Axel Elis (1906) Katapleiit-syenit, en nyupptäckt varietet af nefelinsyenit i Sverige [Catapleiite-syenite, a newly discovered variety of nepheline syenite in Sweden]. Avhandlingar och uppsatser. Serie C 199. Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning
Adamson, Olge J. (1942) Eckermannite, a new alkali amphibole. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 64 (3) 329-334 doi:10.1080/11035894209446082
Adamson, Olge Jungstedt (1944) The Petrology of the Norra Kärr District. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 66 (2) 112-255 doi:10.1080/11035894409451831
von Eckermann, Harry (1968) New contributions to the interpretation of the genesis of the Norra Kärr alkaline body in Southern Sweden. Lithos, 1 (1) 76-88 doi:10.1016/s0024-4937(68)80037-4
Blaxland, Alan B (1977) Agpaitic magmatism at Norra Kärr? Rb-Sr isotopic evidence. Lithos, 10 (1) 1-8 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(77)90026-3
Fryer, B. J., Edgar, A. D. (1977) Significance of rare earth distributions in coexisting minerals of peralkaline undersaturated rocks. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 61 (1) 35-48 doi:10.1007/bf00375944
Blaxland, Alan B (1977) Agpaitic magmatism at Norra Kärr? Rb-Sr isotopic evidence. Lithos, 10 (1) 1-8 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(77)90026-3
Fryer, B. J., Edgar, A. D. (1977) Significance of rare earth distributions in coexisting minerals of peralkaline undersaturated rocks. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 61 (1) 35-48 doi:10.1007/bf00375944
Kramm, Ulrich, Koark, Hans J. (1988) Isotopic composition of galena lead from the Norra Kärr peralkaline complex, Sweden. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 110 (4) 311-316 doi:10.1080/11035898809452665
Oberti, R., Boiocchi, M., Hawthorne, F. C., Ball, N. A., Harlow, G. E. (2015) Eckermannite revised: The new holotype from the Jade Mine Tract, Myanmar--crystal structure, mineral data, and hints on the reasons for the rarity of eckermannite. American Mineralogist, 100 (4) 909-914 doi:10.2138/am-2015-5132
Atanasova, P., Marks, M. A. W., Heinig, T., Krause, J., Gutzmer, J., Markl, G. (2017) Distinguishing Magmatic and Metamorphic Processes in Peralkaline Rocks of the Norra Kärr Complex (Southern Sweden) Using Textural and Compositional Variations of Clinopyroxene and Eudialyte-group Minerals. Journal of Petrology, 58 (2) 361-384 doi:10.1093/petrology/egx019
Sjöqvist, Axel S.L., Cornell, David H., Andersen, Tom, Christensson, Ulf I., Berg, Johan T. (2017) Magmatic age of rare-earth element and zirconium mineralisation at the Norra Kärr alkaline complex, southern Sweden, determined by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope analyses of metasomatic zircon and eudialyte. Lithos, 294. 73-86 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.09.023
Atanasova, P., Marks, M. A. W., Heinig, T., Krause, J., Gutzmer, J., Markl, G. (2017) Distinguishing Magmatic and Metamorphic Processes in Peralkaline Rocks of the Norra Kärr Complex (Southern Sweden) Using Textural and Compositional Variations of Clinopyroxene and Eudialyte-group Minerals. Journal of Petrology, 58 (2) 361-384 doi:10.1093/petrology/egx019
Sjöqvist, Axel S.L., Cornell, David H., Andersen, Tom, Christensson, Ulf I., Berg, Johan T. (2017) Magmatic age of rare-earth element and zirconium mineralisation at the Norra Kärr alkaline complex, southern Sweden, determined by U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope analyses of metasomatic zircon and eudialyte. Lithos, 294. 73-86 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.09.023
 
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