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Sapphirine from
Mitterbachgraben, Gansbach, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria


Classification
Species:Sapphirine
Formula:Mg4(Mg3Al9)O4[Si3Al9O36]
Comments:Symplectites with bytownite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sapphirine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mitterbachgraben, Gansbach, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:297302
Long-form Identifier:1:3:297302:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Sapphirine
6.1km (3.8 miles) ⓘPaltmühl, Bergern im Dunkelsteinerwald, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
48.1km (29.9 miles) ⓘSerpentinite quarries, Dietmannsdorf an der Wild, Brunn an der Wild, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
65.6km (40.8 miles) ⓘGabbro occurrence, Stálky, Znojmo District, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
References
Carswell, Dennis A., Möller, Charlotte, O'Brien, Patrick J. (1989) Origin of sapphirine-plagioclase symplectites in metabasites from Mitterbachgraben, Dunkelsteinerwald granulite complex, Lower Austria. European Journal of Mineralogy, 1 (3) 455-466 doi:10.1127/ejm/1/3/0455
Petrakakis, Konstantin, Schuster-Bourgin, Nathalie, Habler, Gerlinde, Abart, Rainer (2018) Ca-rich garnets and associated symplectites in mafic peraluminous granulites from the Gföhl Nappe System, Austria. Solid Earth, 9 (3). 797-819 doi:10.5194/se-9-797-2018
Asenbaum, R., Racek, M., Petrishcheva, E., Abart, R. (2021): Contraining time scales of the decompression of mantle rocks from secondary chemical zoning of garnet from the Gföhl-Unit, Moldanubian Zone. Mitt. Österr. Mineral. Ges. 167, 73 (abs.).[samples from Mitterbachgraben according to oral presentation]
 
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