Story: Rock and mineral names
Page 5 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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Chemical and modal composition of dunite from Dun Mountain, Nelson
This short paper by J. J. Reed, in the New Zealand Journal of Science (1959), describes dunite. (PDF, 565 KB)
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List of minerals named from New Zealand
This PDF (93 KB) from the Geological Society of New Zealand web site gives references to technical information on the 13 minerals first described from New Zealand.
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New Zealand ruby rock (goodletite)
The Ruby Rock shop in Hokitika specialises in jewellery made from goodletite.
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Notes on some volcanic rocks of the North Island of New Zealand
A short paper from the New Zealand Journal of Science (1932) by Patrick Marshall, who introduced the names ignimbrite and tuhualite. (PDF, 3.1 MB)
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Phosphate minerals formed by reaction of bird guano with basalt at Cooks Head Rock and Green Island, Otago, New Zealand.
This PDF (96 KB) of a short paper by C. A. Landis and D. Craw, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2003), describes the mineral taranakite in Otago.
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Soda-metasomatised argillites associated with the Nelson ultramafic belt
This short paper by J. J. Reed, from the New Zealand Journal of Science (1959), describes the argillite rock, now known as adzite, that was quarried for adzes from D’Urville Island and east Nelson. (PDF, 1.7 MB).
More suggestions and sources
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Grapes, Rodney, and Ken Palmer. ‘(Ruby-sapphire)-chromium mica-tourmaline [goodletite] rocks from Westland, New Zealand.’ Journal of Petrology 37, no. 2 (1996): 293–315.
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Railton, G., and W. A. Watters. Minerals of New Zealand. Bulletin 104. Wellington: New Zealand Geological Survey, 1990.
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Reed, J. J. ‘Mineralogy and petrology in the New Zealand Geological Survey 1865–1965.’ New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 8, no. 6 (December 1965): 999–1,087.
