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Melilite Group from
Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy


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Åkermanite

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group, etc.

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group, etc.

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Åkermanite

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group, etc.

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group, etc.

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Åkermanite

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group, etc.

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
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Melilite Group, etc.

Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Melilite Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:A2M(XSiO7)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kalsilite6
Fluorapatite6
Magnetite4
Fluorophlogopite4
Forsterite2
Thomsonite-Ca2
Manganese Oxides1
Aegirine1
Calcite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Melilite Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:156507
Long-form Identifier:1:3:156507:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Melilite Group
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘSan Venanzo Volcano, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
35.6km (22.1 miles) ⓘColle Fabbri, Spoleto, Perugia Province, Umbria, Italy
41.0km (25.4 miles) ⓘForcinello carbonatite, Montefiascone, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
41.3km (25.7 miles) ⓘMontefiascone caldera, Montefiascone, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
43.3km (26.9 miles) ⓘPoggio Pinzo (Gradoli pozzolana quarry), Gradoli, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
43.5km (27.0 miles) ⓘMontenero Quarry, Onano, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
59.2km (36.8 miles) ⓘSan Rocco, Caprarola, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
73.7km (45.8 miles) ⓘCupaello Quarry, Santa Rufina, Rieti, Rieti Province, Lazio, Italy
References
Sabatini, V. (1899). I vulcani di San Venanzo. Riv Miner Cristal It, 22, 3-12.
Mittempergher, M. (1965) Vulcanismo e petrogenesi nella zona di San Venanzo (Umbria). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, serie A, 72, 437-479
Cingolani, G. (1974) Eccezionali cristalli di kalsilite a S. Venanzo (Umbria) Notizie del Gruppo Mineralogico Lombardo, 5, 3 (settembre 1974), 66-67
De Michele, V. (1974) Guida mineralogica d'Italia. Istituto Geografico De Agostini.
Peacor, Donald R., Dunn, Pete J., Simmons, William B., Tillmanns, Ekkehart, Fischer, Reinhard X. (1984) Willhendersonite, a new zeolite isostructural with chabazite. American Mineralogist, 69 (1-2) 186-189
Cundari, A., Ferguson, A. K. (1991) Petrogenetic relationships between melilitite and lamproite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 107 (3) 343-357 doi:10.1007/bf00325103
Laurenzi, M., Stoppa, F., & Villa, I. (1994). Eventi ignei monogenici e depositi piroclastici nel Distretto Ultra-alcalino Umbro-Laziale (ULUD): revisione, aggiornamento e comparazione dei dati cronologici. Plinius, 12, 61-65.
Sharygin, Victor V., Stoppa, Francesco, Kolesovc, Boris A. (1996) Zr-Ti disilicates from the Pian di Celle volcano, Umbria, Italy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 8 (5) 1199-1212 doi:10.1127/ejm/8/5/1199
Stoppa, F. (1996) The San Venanzo maar and tuff ring, Umbria, Italy: eruptive behaviour of a carbonatite-melilitite volcano. Bulletin of Volcanology, 57 (7). 563-577 doi:10.1007/bf00304440
Meli, R. (1997) Giacimenti da non dimenticare: i minerali delle vulcaniti di San Venanzo (Terni). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 21, 3 (3-1997), 269-275
Stoppa, F., Sharygin, V. V., Cundari, A. (1997) New mineral data from the kamafugite-carbonatite association: The melilitolite from Pian di Celle, Italy. Mineralogy and Petrology, 61 (1) 27-45 doi:10.1007/bf01172476
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
Panina, L. I., Stoppa, F., & Usol tseva, L. M. (2003). Genesis of melilitite rocks of Pian di Celle volcano, Umbrian kamafugite province, Italy: evidence from melt inclusions in minerals. PETROLOGY C/C OF PETROLOGIIA, 11(4), 365-382.
Sharygin, Victor V., Pekov, Igor V., Zubkova, Natalia V., Khomyakov, Alexander P., Stoppa, Francesco, Pushcharovsky, Dmitry Yu. (2013) Umbrianite, K7Na2Ca2[Al3Si10O29]F2Cl2, a new mineral species from melilitolite of the Pian di Celle volcano, Umbria, Italy. European Journal of Mineralogy, 25 (4) 655-669 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2306
Stoppa, F., Rukhlov, A. S., Bell, K., Schiazza, M., & Vichi, G. (2014). Lamprophyres of Italy: early Cretaceous alkaline lamprophyres of southern Tuscany, Italy. Lithos, 188, 97-112.
 
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