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Iron-bearing Dolomite from
Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:Dolomite var: Iron-bearing Dolomite
Formula:Ca(Mg,Fe)(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Iron-bearing Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1362170
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1362170:6
GUID (UUID V4):0
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.
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
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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