"stbenge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> Hey Thomas,
>
> Interesting landscape. I bet 'The Traps' have some great potential for 
> good mineral hunting. That's assuming they harbor pegmatite dikes. If the 
> composition is mainly basaltic, then there's a good chance of finding some 
> zeolites. I've always wanted to find some apophyllite, which is found with 
> zeolitic minerals.

The traps are basaltic indeed. I rapidly googled and found this:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3672/is_200301/ai_n9204621
or this one:
http://www.le.ac.uk/gl/ads/SiberianTraps/Index.html

How about the Karoo, Sam? Smaller than the traps in Siberia or India, but 
still a vast igneous province.

>
> I haven't forgotten about the weathered rocks tutorial I've been promising 
> for months. I'm just not sure how to start new pages on the POV Wiki 
> yet...

Would be nice... :-)

Thomas

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