Kaersutite from
Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands

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Kaersutite

Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands

Kaersutite

Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands

Kaersutite

Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands

Classification
Locality type:	Island
Species:	Kaersutite
Formula:	NaCa₂(Mg₃AlTi⁴⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂O₂
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Kaersutite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	1420551
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:1420551:4
GUID (UUID V4):	0
References
Wood, B. L., & Hay, R. F. (1970). Geology of the Cook Islands, NZ Geol. Surv. Bull, 82, 1-103. Palacz, Zenon A., Saunder, Andrew D. (1986) Coupled trace element and isotope enrichment in the Cook-Austral-Samoa Islands, Southwest Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 79 (3) 270-280 doi:10.1016/0012-821x(86)90185-8 Nakamura, Yoichi, Tatsumoto, Mitsunobu (1988) Pb, Nd, and Sr isotopic evidence for a multicomponent source for rocks of Cook-Austral Islands and heterogeneities of mantle plumes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52 (12) 2909-2924 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(88)90157-3 Thompson, G. M., Malpas, J., & Smith, I. E. (1998). Volcanic geology of Rarotonga, southern Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 41(1), 95-104. doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1998.9514793 Thompson, G., Smith, I., & Malpas, J. (2001). Origin of oceanic phonolites by crystal fractionation and the problem of the Daly gap: an example from Rarotonga. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142(3), 336-346. doi.org/10.1007/s004100100294 Schiano, P., Burton, K.W., Dupré, B., Birck, J.-L., Guille, G., Allègre, C.J. (2001) Correlated Os–Pb–Nd–Sr isotopes in the Austral–Cook chain basalts: the nature of mantle components in plume sources. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 186 (3) 527-537 doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(01)00265-5

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Kaersutite from Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands

Kaersutite from
Rarotonga Island, Cook Islands