Kees Linthout

Expertise

Mineralogy, petrology and microscopic petrography.
Kees Linthout is a geologist with field experience in metamorphics and ultramafics of the Banda Arc in Indonesia; Alpine and Variscan ranges of Spain; Caledonian of Scotland and Argentina, and Precambrian of Tanzania and Scandinavia. Publications are mostly based on own geological fieldwork. Several papers, however, result from co-operation with workers in other disciplines -- structural geology, sedimentology, oceanography, hydrogeology, and archaeology -- who needed the expertise of a geologist specialized in petrology and mineralogy. Current geoarchaeological projects aim at uncovering the provenance of basalt blocks found at Roman sites in the Netherlands. 

 

Other activities

Former representative of the Netherlands in the Amphibole subcommittee of the International Mineralogical Association (1987-1998) and of the Commision on New Minerals and  Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association for (2002-2007).

 

Selected publications

• Linthout, K. (2011) Petrografie, geochemie en herkomst van basaltkeien van de Limes in het Kanaleneiland (Utrecht). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, FALW-IGBA. IGBA Rapport 2011-03, pp. 38. Rapport in PDF
• K. Linthout, H. Paulick & J. R. Wijbrans (2009) Provenance of basalt blocks from Roman sites in Vleuten-De Meern (the Netherlands) traced to the Tertiary Siebengebirge (Germany): A geoarchaeological quest using petrological and geochemical methods. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 88, 55-74; and supplementary data on the internet.
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• Linthout, K., 2007. Petrografie en geochemie van basaltblokken uit De Meern 4, 79-86, in: De Groot, T & Morel, J.-M.A.W. (eds.), 2007. Het schip uit de Romeinse tijd De Meern 4 nabij boerderij de Balije, Leidsche Rijn, Gemeente Utrecht. Rapportage Archeologische Monumentenzorg 147. RACM (Amersfoort): 173 pp. See also: Jansma, E. & Morel, M.A.W. (eds.), 2007. Een Romeinse Rijnaak, gevonden in Utrecht-De Meer; resultaten van het onderzoek naar de platbodem ‘De Meern 1’. Rapportage Archeologische Monumentenzorg 144. RACM (Amersfoort): 531 pp. & 4 folders.
• Linthout, K. (2007) Tripartite division of the system 2REEPO4 – CaTh(PO4)2 – 2ThSiO4, discreditation of brabantite, and recognition of cheralite as the name for members dominated by CaTh(PO4)2. Candian Mineralogist, 45, 503-8.
• Kuijpers, A., Troelstra, S.R., Prins, M.A., Linthout, K., Akhmetshanov, A., Buryak, S., Bachmann, M.F., Lassen, S., Rasmussen, S., Jensen, J.B. (2003): Late Quaternary sedimentary processes and ocean circulation changes at the Southeast Greenland Margin. Marine Geology, 195, 109-129.
• Linthout, K., Troelstra, S.R. & Kuijpers, A. (2000): Provenance of ice-rafted detritus near the SE Greenland margin. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 79, 109-121.
• Leake, B.E., ..., Linthout, K., et al. (1997): Nomenclature of the Amphiboles: Report of the Subcommittee on Amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. Mineralogical Magazine, 61, 295-321; Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 219-46; European Journal of Mineralogy, 9, 623-52; American Mineralogist, 82, 1019-37.
• Linthout, K., Helmers, H. & Sopaheluwakan, J. (1997): Late Miocene obduction and microplate migration around the southern Banda Sea and the closure of the Indonesian Seaway. Tectonophysics, 281, 17-30.
• Linthout, K. & Lustenhouwer, W.J. (1993): Ferrian high sanidine in a lamproite from Cancarix, Spain. Min. Mag. 57, 289-99.
• Roep, Th.B. & Linthout, K. (1989): Precambrian storm-wave base deposits of Early Proterozoic age (1.9 Ga) preserved in andalusite-cordierite-rich granofels and quartzite (Rämsberg area, Värmland, Sweden). Sedimentary Geology, 61, 239-51.
• Linthout, K. (1984): Alkali-zirconosilicates in peralkaline rocks. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 86, 155-8.
• Linthout, K. & Westra, L. (1968): Compositional zoning in almandine-rich garnets and the metamorphic history of their host rocks: an electron microprobe study. Proceedings Koninkl. Nederl. Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B, 71, no.4, 297-312.