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Benitoite (/ b ə ˈ n iː t oʊ aɪ t /) is a rare blue barium titanium cyclosilicate mineral, found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. It forms in low temperature, high pressure environments typical of subduction zones at convergent plate boundaries. Benitoite fluoresces under short wave ultraviolet light, appearing bright blue to bluish ...
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The New Idria Mining District is known for its abundance of rare minerals such as benitoite, named after the San Benito River. Gem quality benitoite is only found in this area of the world. New Idria is also home to serpentinite rock. Many thousands of tectonic events acting on the serpentinite have produced extensive deposits of short-fiber ...
Eiao vegetation map. The Eiao Nature Reserve is a nature reserve encompassing the whole of the island of Eiao in the northern Marquesas Islands, as well as several surrounding rocks. In the 1970s, the island supported French military activity while it was being considered for nuclear weapons testing. As of 1972, three drilling operations found ...
Pabstite is a barium tin titanium silicate mineral that is found in contact metamorphosed limestone. It belongs to the benitoite group of minerals. The chemical formula of pabstite is Ba(Sn,Ti)Si 3 O 9. It is found in Santa Cruz, California. The crystal system of the mineral is hexagonal.
Nicolas Baudin named the island in 1801 as part of his expedition around Australia. [3] [note 1] The name of the island was first charted on the Freycinet Map of 1811.The Adele Island Nature Reserve was gazetted on 1 December 2000, has a size of 2.17 square kilometres (0.84 sq mi), is located within the Northern Kimberley bioregion, [4] and was declared in recognition of its status as a bird ...
Assateague Island National Seashore is a unit of the National Park Service system of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located on the East Coast along the Atlantic Ocean in Maryland and Virginia, Assateague Island is the largest natural barrier island ecosystem in the Middle Atlantic states region that remains predominantly unaffected by human development.
Telašćica (pronounced [telaʃt͡ʃit͡sa]) is a bay in the southeastern part of the island of Dugi Otok, Croatia, in the Adriatic Sea. It is a designated nature park , full of wildlife and marine creatures.