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Spinel from
Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:306366
Long-form Identifier:1:3:306366:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
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
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
46.5km (28.9 miles) ⓘCollescipoli meteorite, Terni, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy
49.1km (30.5 miles) ⓘBagnaia, Viterbo, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
55.5km (34.5 miles) ⓘSan Martino al Cimino, Viterbo, Viterbo Province, Lazio, Italy
62.3km (38.7 miles) ⓘSiena meteorite, Lucignano d'Asso, Montalcino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy
73.7km (45.8 miles) ⓘCupaello Quarry, Santa Rufina, Rieti, Rieti Province, Lazio, Italy
77.0km (47.8 miles) ⓘSH2 deep well, Bracciano, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Lazio, Italy
References
Sabatini, V. (1899). I vulcani di San Venanzo. Riv Miner Cristal It, 22, 3-12.
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.
Stoppa, Francesco, Liu, Yu (1995) Chemical composition and petrogenetic implications of apatites from some ultra-alkaline Italian rocks. European Journal of Mineralogy, 7 (2) 391-402 doi:10.1127/ejm/7/2/0391
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
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.
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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