...Ina REICHE; Guillaume MORIN; Christian BROUDER; Vicente Armando SOLÉ; Pierre-Emmanuel PETIT; Colette VIGNAUD; Thomas CALLIGARO; Michel MENU Abstract Odontolite or bone turquoise, a turquoise-blue coloured heated fossilised mastodon ivory or bone, is an imitation of the mineral turquoise used...

... The first unambiguous evidence for the origin of blue color of ancient bone material was based on research on fossil ivory ( Reiche et al. 2000 , 2001 , 2002a ) in the case of “Odontolite.” Odontolite is a turquoise imitation made of fossil ivory material that comes basically from Southern France from...

... monks are believed to have created odontolite, a turquoise-blue “gemstone,” by heating mastodon ivory found in Miocene geological layers next to the Pyrrenean chain, France, to use it for the decoration of medieval art objects. This material has been the object of investigations of famous European...

... indicated the existence of an extensive Villanovian village. Fifteen blue, turquoise, and dark green glass beads were selected and analysed in the present study. Chemical analyses of major and minor elements were obtained by EMPA, whereas trace elements were determined on selected samples by LA-ICP-MS...

.... Reactions at phosphate mineral surfaces play a major role in making fertilizers work ( Becker 1989 ). As part of our bones, phosphate minerals keep us upright ( Mann et al. 1989 ; Driessens and Verbeeck 1990 ) and, as the main component of our teeth, they enable us to chew our food ( LeGeros 1991...

... cranium and within diaphyses of long bones. CT data provide the only comprehensive approach to mapping vivianite distribution. Three-dimensional modeling and measurement of segmented long bones permits comparison between these individuals and with previously recovered specimens. CT scans of long bones...

... Theory of the Earth (1795), Georges Cuvier’s Researches on Fossil Bones (1812), William Buckland’s Reliquiae Diluvianae (1823), Charles Lyell’s aforementioned Principles , and the best from the rest of the Geological Society of London, including, of course, Charles Darwin, who, Rudwick reminds us...

... replacement of Bi 2 by Pb can proceed. Ribbons are arranged in a herring-bone pattern, the apical portions of one ribbon facing the central portion of the adjacent ribbon via the (empty) tetrahedral void. gladite krupkaite oversubstitution crystal structure Felbertal Austria gladite...

... of Ware et al., 2011 ) is most likely secondary and linked to abundant hydrothermal circulation and dikes, which are interspersed throughout the sedimentary deposits (there are concessions exploiting turquoise and there used to be silver mines nearby; e.g., Knopf, 1922 ; Page, 1959 ). Although...

... of the Oasis of Anau, Kurgans , Pumpelly observed that the strata of the north kurgan was especially marked by thin layers of ash, charcoal, and burnt earth with visible animal bones and potsherds, indicating the kurgans were remnants of settlements. Excavation revealed house walls and outlines of mud...

... groups of people in the north and northwest of China. Her tomb, which has an area of only 20 m 2 , has yielded 1.6 tonnes of bronze (195 ritual vessels and 271 bronze weapons), 755 jades, 110 objects of marble, turquoise and other stones, 564 objects of carved bone, 15 pieces of cowries, 3 ivory cups...

... attracted attention by a display of a number of lovely minerals. Minerals were also placed in the cabinets of the second hall. A further hall was filled with enormous fossil bones (such as mammoths). In the other three halls was the Demidov collection: shells, precious stones, large specimens of minerals...

... the Leonard series. The Leonard series is represented by the Bone Spring limestone. This consists of black, thin-bedded limestone and some shale in the basin, but changes into gray limestone in the marginal and shelf areas. The lower part of the gray limestones along the margin includes reef masses. The upper...

... is associated with barite, fluorowardite, goethite, gypsum, kidwellite, quartz, and rockbridgeite. Other species observed with fluorwavellite at the Silver Coin mine are chlorargyrite, crandallite, iangreyite, jarosite, lipscombite, metavariscite, turquoise, and variscite. A comprehensive list of mineral...

... –O 2 –light hydrocarbon–soil-gas anomaly above the Junction orogenic gold deposit: A potential, alternative exploration technique —P.A. Polito, J.D.A. Clarke, Y. Bone, and J. Viellenave 333 Regolith mineralogy and geochemical dispersion at the Northparkes Cu-Au deposits, New South Wales...

... earlier Saudi Arabian Red Sea lithostratigraphic schemes with the current scheme. Figure 2: Satellite image of the Midyan region showing localities and geological features mentioned in the text. In this image, outcrops of anhydrite show up turquoise; LS1/LS2, major left-stepping faults (see p. 530...

... ( Figure 7 ) overlain by approximately 300 ft (91.5 m) of yellow to reddish-brown, cross-bedded sandstones ( Figure 8 ) and gray-green shale ( Figure 9 ). The conglomerate ( Figure 10 ) contains granite cobbles and pebbles, phosphatic nodules, dinosaur ( Figure 11 ) and turtle bones, and petrified wood...

... Su et al. (2012) X – – Shuiyindong, (Guiuzhou, China); MA: py, asp, mar, orp, rlg, stb; INCL: asp, Au, EMPA Barker et al. (2009) X X – West Banshee, Turquoise Ridge, (Nevada, USA); MA: py, asp, orp, rea; INCL: N/D EMPA, SIMS Deditius et al. (2011) X – – Deep Star (Nevada...

...*) following the method of Singh et al. (2005) . (C) Illite crystallinity. (D) Global sea-water δ18O as a proxy for seawater temperature ( Zachos et al., 2001 , 2008 ). MMCO—Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum. (E) Sedimentation rates for the Indus Fan ( Clift, 2006 ) shown in black line with turquoise error bars...

...-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Denver, Colorado, laboratory. Methods for mapping pyrite ( Table 1 ) are similar to methods previously reported for dinosaur bones ( Koenig et al., 2009 ). The sections were previously characterized by petrography...