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Limestone from
Basören Occurrence, Darende District, Malatya Province, Turkey


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Type:Limestone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basören Occurrence, Darende District, Malatya Province, Turkey
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1358514
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1358514:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Limestone
27.7km (17.2 miles) ⓘHekimhan listvenite, Hekimhan District, Malatya Province, Turkey
45.5km (28.3 miles) ⓘGüneyocak chromite mineralization, Kangal District, Sivas Province, Turkey
65.3km (40.6 miles) ⓘKışlaköy open-pit mine, Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey
77.0km (47.9 miles) ⓘDumluca iron deposit, Dumluca Intrusion, Divrigi District, Sivas Province, Turkey
90.0km (55.9 miles) ⓘKafa-B, Divrigi District, Sivas Province, Turkey
92.2km (57.3 miles) ⓘKafa-A, Divrigi District, Sivas Province, Turkey
References
Leo, G. W., Marvin, R. F., & Mehnert, H. H. (1974). Geologic framework of the Kuluncak-Sofular area, east-central Turkey, and K-Ar ages of igneous rocks. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 85(11), 1785-1788.
Ozgenc, I. (1999). Carbonatite-hosted fluorite and britholite mineralization at Sofular area, Malatya, Turkey. In Mineral deposits: processes to processing. Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial SGA Meeting and the Tenth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium (pp. 663-666).
Özgenç, İ., & İlbeyli, N. (2009). Geochemical constraints on petrogenesis of Late Cretaceous alkaline magmatism in east-central Anatolia (Hasançelebi-Başören, Malatya), Turkey. Mineralogy and Petrology, 95, 71-85.
 
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