Sparagmite (from the Latin sparagma, meaning "fragment") is an arkosic sandstone, greywacke and conglomerate set of beds so named by Jens Esmark in 1829. Deposited in what is now Scandinavia during the Neoproterozoic Era to early Cambrian time, the sparagmite nappes were transported up to several hundred kilometers during the Caledonian collision. Sparagmite is characterized by high feldspar percentages of microcline.
References
- 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, ISBN 978-82-92344-31-6, page 133, in Norwegian; issued in 2008 in an English edition, translation by Richard E Binns, ISBN 978-82-92394-42-7
- Landet blir til: Norges geologi ISBN 978-82-92344-31-6, page 136
- Holtedahl, Olaf (1922) "A Tillite-like Conglomerate in the "Eocambrian": Sparagmite of Southern Norway" The American Journal of Science 204: pp. 165–173
- Holtedahl, Olaf; Schetelig, Jakob; Rosendahl, Halvor; Størmer, Leif (January 1934). "The geology of the oslo region, and the adjacent sparagmite district on Science Direct". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 45 (3): 314–IN14. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(34)80026-0.
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