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Rhönite from
Limagne Basin, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France


Locality type:Basin
Classification
Species:Rhönite
Formula:Ca4[Mg8Fe23+Ti2]O4[Si6Al6O36]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhönite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limagne Basin, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1374751
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1374751:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Rhönite
17.0km (10.6 miles) ⓘPuy de Saint-Sandoux (Puy de Barneire), Saint-Sandoux, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
30.0km (18.6 miles) ⓘGroire, Murol, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
30.8km (19.1 miles) ⓘTennis court outcrop, Murol, Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
References
Bailey, D.K. 2010. New forms of carbonate volcanism: what to look for and where. Paper presented at IMA 2010, 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, 21-27 August 2010, Budapest, Hungary. Acta Mineralogica-petrographica, Abstract Series, 558.
Brousse, R. & Lefèvre, C. 1990. Le volcanisme en France et en Europe limitrophe. «Guides géologiques régionaux». Masson, Paris.
Michel, R. (1953). Contribution à l'étude pétrographique des pépérites et du volcanisme tertiaire de la Grande Limagne. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Auvergne, 5, 1-140.
Camus, G., Cantagrel, J. M., Taupinard, J. M., & Vialette, Y. (1969). Mesure par la méthode à l'argon, de l'âge de quelques rochesvolcaniques de Limagne (Massif central français). Comptes-rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, série D, 269, 2513-2516.
de Herve, A. G. (2000). Peperites from the Limagne trench (Auvergne, Franch Massif Central): a distinctive facies of phreatomagmatic pyroclastics. History of a semantic drift. In Volcanoclastic rocks: from magmas to sediments (pp. 91-110). Gordon and Breach Science Publishers Amsterdam.
Bailey, K., Kearns, S., Mergoil, J., Daniel, J. M., & Paterson, B. (2006). Extensive dolomitic volcanism through the Limagne Basin, central France: a new form of carbonatite activity. Mineralogical Magazine, 70(2), 231-236.
Bailey, D. K., & Kearns, S. (2012). New forms of abundant carbonatite–silicate volcanism: recognition criteria and further target locations. Mineralogical Magazine, 76(2), 271-284.
Chazot, G., & Mergoil-Daniel, J. (2012). Co-eruption of carbonate and silicate magmas during volcanism in the Limagne graben (French Massif Central). Lithos, 154, 130-146.
 
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