Fayalite-Forsterite Series from
La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain

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Classification
Locality type:	Island
Species:	'Fayalite-Forsterite Series' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Fayalite-Forsterite Series data
Locality Data:	Click here to view La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	625909
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:625909:9
GUID (UUID V4):	0
References
Klügel A, Hansteen TH: Petrologic evolution of a peridotite-, cumulate- and MORB-gabbro-bearing tephriphonolite on La Palma (Canary Islands). Poster, AGU Fall Meeting 1998, San Francisco Mitchell-Thomé, R. C. (1976). Geology of the middle Atlantic islands. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin. Wulff-Pedersen, Erik, Neumann, Else-Ragnhild, Burke, Ernst A.J., Vannucci, Riccardo, Bottazzi, Piero, Ottolini, Luisa, Gjønnes, Jon, Hansen, Vidar (2000) Origin and structural character of haüyne ss in spinel dunite xenoliths from La Palma, Canary Islands. American Mineralogist, 85 (10) 1397-1405 doi:10.2138/am-2000-1008 Carracedo, J. C., Rodriguez-Badiola, E., Guillou, H., Nuez Pestana, J. D. L., & Pérez Torrado, F. J. (2001). Geology and volcanology of La Palma and El Hierro, Western Canaries. Estudios Geológicos, 57,175-273. doi.org/10.3989/egeol.01575-6134 Galipp, K., Klügel, A., & Hansteen, T. H. (2006). Changing depths of magma fractionation and stagnation during the evolution of an oceanic island volcano: La Palma (Canary Islands). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 155(3-4), 285-306. doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.04.002 Demény, Attila, Casillas, Ramón, Ahijado, Agustina, de La Nuez, Julio, Andrew Milton, J., Nagy, Géza (2008) Carbonate xenoliths in La Palma: Carbonatite or alteration product?. Geochemistry, 68 (4) 369-381 doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2008.05.002

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Fayalite-Forsterite Series from La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain

Fayalite-Forsterite Series from
La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain