Sparagmite Explained

Sparagmite (from the Latin sparagma, meaning "fragment") is an arkosic sandstone, greywacke and conglomerate set of beds so named by Jens Esmark in 1829.[1] Deposited in what is now Scandinavia during the Neoproterozoic Era to early Cambrian time,[2] the sparagmite nappes were transported up to several hundred kilometers during the Caledonian collision. Sparagmite is characterized by high feldspar percentages of microcline.[3] [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Ramberg, Ivar B. (editor) (2007) Landet blir til: Norges geologi (The Making of a Land: Geology of Norway) Norsk Geologisk Forening (Norwegian Geological Society), Trondheim, Norway,, page 133, in Norwegian; issued in 2008 in an English edition, translation by Richard E Binns,
  2. Landet blir til: Norges geologi, page 136
  3. Holtedahl, Olaf (1922) "A Tillite-like Conglomerate in the "Eocambrian": Sparagmite of Southern Norway" The American Journal of Science 204: pp. 165 - 173
  4. The geology of the oslo region, and the adjacent sparagmite district on Science Direct. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association . January 1934 . 45 . 3 . 314–IN14 . 10.1016/S0016-7878(34)80026-0 . Holtedahl . Olaf . Schetelig . Jakob . Rosendahl . Halvor . Størmer . Leif .

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