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glauconite::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of glauconite
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Glauconite is also called greensand, or Jersey greensand if that's where it was mined.
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Glauconite is commonly found in this section, especially around Freehold Township, New Jersey.
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This cycle can also form glauconite which is normally associated with modern and ancient phosphorites.
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A green ironpotassiumsilicate called glauconite in the Curtis indicates it was deposited in a shallow sea.
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Some sands contain magnetite, chlorite, glauconite or gypsum.
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Typically the shales do not contain many fossils, the coarser sandstones often have fractions of micas and glauconite.
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Normally, glauconite is considered a diagnostic mineral indicative of continental shelf marine depositional environments with slow rates of accumulation.
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- A green mineral consisting of hydrated silicate of potassium or iron or magnesium or aluminum; found in greensand
- Glauconite is an iron potassium phyllosilicate (mica group) mineral of characteristic green color with very low weathering resistance and very friable.
- A greenish form of mica found in greensand
- A green silicate mineral found in carbonate rock, usually indicate oxidizing shelf environment
- Silicate hydrate containing iron, a dark green mineral present in certain sedimentary rocks.
