White Monster (Furnace Creek)
California, Inyo County, Furnace Creek borate district (east of Death Valley), United States
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- Type
- Lacustrine borates (zoned), Furnace Creek Formation
Borate deposit of the Furnace Creek Formation (Miocene-Pliocene, extensional Basin and Range basin, over 600 km² between the Funeral and Black Mountains); about thirty borate lenses in calcareous lacustrine sediments, some zoned (probertite or ulexite core surrounded by colemanite), others colemanite-only. Swihart et al. (2014): probertite near +5 ‰, colemanite mostly near -1 ‰, the heavier boron of the Na-Ca core reflecting the ancestral lake and its springs, the lighter colemanite the alteration of Na-Ca borates by downward-migrating lake water. Zoned deposit, probertite from 77.7 to 136 m in drill hole 7, separated from the lower colemanite by 0.6 m of clay. Coordinates not published (district map only).
δ11B in ‰ (per mil) Values of the same system
Standard : NIST SRM 951
| Value | Range | n | Mineral or matrix | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 ‰ | 1 | probertite Single analysis (135,0 m). | Swihart et al. (2014), A boron isotope study of the Furnace Creek, California, borate dis… | |
| 0.3 ± 0.1 ‰ | 0.2 / 0.3 ‰ | 2 | colemanite of the lower zone Mean and standard deviation recalculated from 2 analyses, +0.2 to +0.3 (136,7 m +0.3; 141,0 m +0.2). 3.5 ‰ offset from the overlying probertite. | Swihart et al. (2014), A boron isotope study of the Furnace Creek, California, borate dis… |
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Cite this page
IsoFind Atlas (2026). White Monster (Furnace Creek), isotope signatures. https://www.isofind.tech/isotopes/en/deposits/white-monster-furnace-creek/ (accessed 2026-10-19).
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title = {White Monster (Furnace Creek), isotope signatures},
author = {{IsoFind Atlas}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://www.isofind.tech/isotopes/en/deposits/white-monster-furnace-creek/},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}Updated : 2026-10-19