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Geyserite, or
siliceous sinter, is a form of
opaline silica that is
often found as
crusts or
layers around hot
springs and geysers.
Botryoidal geyserite...
- cooling, the
silica is
deposited as
geyserite, a form of opal (opal-A: SiO2·nH2O). This
process is slow
enough that
geyserite is not all
deposited immediately...
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amorphous opal.
Gradually the opal
anneals into quartz,
forming geyserite.
Geyserite often covers the
microbial mats that grow in geysers. As the mats...
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stromatolite fossils which have been
found in 3.480-billion-year-old
geyserite uncovered in the
Dresser Formation of the
Pilbara Craton of
Western Australia...
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waiting for
eruptions of
nearby Great Fountain Geyser. Its 12-foot-high
geyserite cone is one of the
largest in the park.
Eruptions are unpredictable, but...
- Ménilmontant (Paris), France,
where it
occurs as
concretions within bituminous Early Oligocene Menilite Shales.
Geyserite Hyalite Menilite on Mindat.org v t e...
- m****es.
Named after Santa Fiora, Italy,
fiorite is used as a gemstone.
Geyserite Manutchehr-Danai,
Mohsen (2000).
Dictionary of Gems and Gemology. Springer-Verlag...
- of
Yellowstone National Park. It is
noted for the
particularly large geyserite sinter deposits,
which form its cone.
These deposits have been likened...
- caldera. Many of the
thermal features in
Yellowstone build up sinter,
geyserite, or
travertine deposits around and
within them. The
various geyser basins...
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aqueous solution Flint –
Cryptocrystalline form of the
mineral quartz Geyserite – Form of
opaline silica often found around hot
springs and
geysers Greywacke –...
