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Salite from
Roccamonfina Volcanic Complex, Caserta, Campania, Italy


Locality type:Volcanic Complex
Classification
Species:Diopside var: Salite
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Salite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roccamonfina Volcanic Complex, Caserta, Campania, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1387236
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1387236:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Salite
68.3km (42.5 miles) ⓘMonti Ernici, Frosinone Province, Lazio, Italy
References
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Taylor, Hugh P., Giannetti, Bernardino, Turi, Bruno (1979) Oxygen isotope geochemistry of the potassic igneous rocks from the Roccamonfina volcano, Roman comagmatic region, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 46 (1) 81-106 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(79)90067-0
Vollmer, R.; Hawkesworth, C.J. (1980) Lead isotopic composition of the potassic rocks from Roccamonfina (South Italy). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 47 (1). p.91-101. doi:10.1016/0012-821x(80)90107-7
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Giannetti, Bernardino (1982) Cumulate inclusions from K-rich magmas, Roccamonfina volcano, Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 57 (2) 313-335 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(82)90153-4
Giannetti, Bernardino, Luhr, James F. (1983) The white trachytic tuff of Roccamonfina Volcano (Roman Region, Italy) Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 84 (2) 235-252 doi:10.1007/bf00371289
Giannetti, Bernardino, Luhr, James F. (1990) Phlogopite-clinopyroxenite nodules from high-K magmas, Roccamonfina Volcano, Italy: evidence for a low-pressure metasomatic origin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 101 (2) 404-424 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(90)90169-x
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Giannetti, Bernardino, Ellam, Rob (1994) The primitive lavas of Roccamonfina volcano, Roman region, Italy: new constraints on melting processes and source mineralogy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 116 (1) 21-31 doi:10.1007/bf00310687
Giannetti, Bernardino, De Casa, Giancarlo (2000) Stratigraphy, chronology, and sedimentology of ignimbrites from the white trachytic tuff, Roccamonfina Volcano, Italy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 96 (3) 243-295 doi:10.1016/s0377-0273(99)00144-4
Conticelli, S., D'Antonio, M., Pinarelli, L., Civetta, L. (2002) Source contamination and mantle heterogeneity in the genesis of Italian potassic and ultrapotassic volcanic rocks: Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data from Roman Province and Southern Tuscany. Mineralogy and Petrology, 74 (2) 189-222 doi:10.1007/s007100200004
Le Maitre, R. W. - Ed. (2002) Igneous Rocks - A Classification and Glossary of Terms (2nd ed.) Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535581
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Conticelli, Sandro, Marchionni, Sara, Rosa, Davide, Giordano, Guido, Boari, Elena, Avanzinelli, Riccardo (2009) Shoshonite and sub-alkaline magmas from an ultrapotassic volcano: Sr–Nd–Pb isotope data on the Roccamonfina volcanic rocks, Roman Magmatic Province, Southern Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 157 (1) 41-63 doi:10.1007/s00410-008-0319-8
Nikogosian, Igor K.; van Bergen, Manfred J. (2010) Heterogeneous mantle sources of potassium-rich magmas in central-southern Italy: Melt inclusion evidence from Roccamonfina and Ernici (Mid Latina Valley). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 197 (1). p.279-302. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.06.014
 
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