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Spinel from
Cabezo Maria Volcanic Field, Vera, Almería, Andalusia, Spain


Locality type:Volcanic Field
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cabezo Maria Volcanic Field, Vera, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1415046
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1415046:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
94.1km (58.5 miles) ⓘCartagena Basaltic Volcanism Area, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain
References
essai de synthese. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 7(3), 469-480. https://doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.S7-XIX.3.469
Nobel, F.A., Riessen, P.A.M., Hebeda, E.H., Priem, H.N.A. & Rondeel, H.E. 1981. Isotopic dating of the post-Alpine. Neogene volcanism in the Betic Cordilleras, southern Spain. Geologie en Mijnbouw, 60, 209-214.
essai de synthese. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 7(3), 469-480. https://doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.S7-XIX.3.469
Nobel, F.A., Riessen, P.A.M., Hebeda, E.H., Priem, H.N.A. & Rondeel, H.E. 1981. Isotopic dating of the post-Alpine. Neogene volcanism in the Betic Cordilleras, southern Spain. Geologie en Mijnbouw, 60, 209-214.
Fuster, J. M., & De Pedro, F. (1953). Estudio petrologico de las rocas volcanicas lamproiticas de Cabezo Maria (Almeria). Estudios Geologicos, 9(20), 477-508.
Borley, G. D. (1967) Potash-rich volcanic rocks from southern Spain. Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, 36 (279) 364-379 doi:10.1180/minmag.1967.036.279.07
Bellon, H., & Brousse, R. (1977). Le magmatisme perimediterraneen occidental
Venturelli, G., Capedri, S., Di Battistini, G., Crawford, A., Kogarko, L.N., Celestini, S. (1984) The ultrapotassic rocks from southeastern Spain. Lithos, 17. 37-54 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(84)90005-7
Benito, R., López-Ruiz, J., Cebriá, J. M., Hertogen, J., Doblas, M., Oyarzun, R., & Demaiffe, D. (1999). Sr and O isotope constraints on source and crustal contamination in the high-K calc-alkaline and shoshonitic Neogene volcanic rocks of SE Spain. Lithos, 46(4), 773-802. doi.org/10.1016/S0024-4937(99)00003-1
Prelević, D., & Foley, S. F. (2007). Accretion of arc-oceanic lithospheric mantle in the Mediterranean: evidence from extremely high-Mg olivines and Cr-rich spinel inclusions in lamproites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 256(1-2), 120-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.01.018
Prelević, D., Foley, S.F., Romer, R., Conticelli, S. (2008) Mediterranean Tertiary lamproites derived from multiple source components in postcollisional geodynamics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72 (8) 2125-2156 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.01.029
Gernon, T. M., Spence, S., Trueman, C. N., Taylor, R. N., Rohling, E., Hatter, S. J., & Harding, I. C. (2015). Emplacement of the Cabezo María lamproite volcano (Miocene, SE Spain). Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(6), 52. doi.org/10.1007/s00445-015-0934-y
 
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