Grorudite from
Aksum-Adwa Complex, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

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Classification
Locality type:	Complex
Type:	Grorudite
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Grorudite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Aksum-Adwa Complex, Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	1424549
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:1424549:7
GUID (UUID V4):	0
References
Blanford, W. T. (1870). Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia: Made During the Progress of the British Expedition to that Country in 1867-68. Macmillan and Company. *Prior, G. T. (1899) Riebeckite in Trachytic Rocks from Abyssinia. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 12 (55) 92-95 doi:10.1180/minmag.1899.012.55.04* Prior, G. T. (1900). Ægirine and Riebeckite Anorthoclase Rocks Related to the “Grorudite-Tinguaite” series, from the neighbourhood of Adowa and Axum, Abyssinia. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 12(57), 255-273. doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1900.012.57.06 Merla, G., & Minucci, E. (1938). Missione geologica nel Tigrai: Rome, Reale Accademia d'Italia. Centro Studi per l'Africa Orientale Italiana, Roma, 3. Mohr, P. A. (1962). The geology of Ethiopia: Univ. Coll. of Addis Ababa Press, Addis Ababa. Le Bas, M. J., & Mohr, P. A. (1968). Feldspathoidal rocks from the Cainozoic volcanic province of Ethiopia. Geologische Rundschau, 58(1), 273-280. doi.org/10.1007/BF01820608 Merla, G., Abbate, E., Azzaroli, A., Bruni, P., Fazzuoli, M., Sagri, M., & Tacconi, P. (1979). Geological map of Ethiopia and Somalia (1973). 1:2000000 and comments with a map of major landforms. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Italy. Centro Stampa, Firenze.

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Grorudite from Aksum-Adwa Complex, Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Grorudite from
Aksum-Adwa Complex, Tigray Region, Ethiopia