Area granite quarries and other bedrock exposures of alkaline Cape Ann granite and associated pegmatites and miarolitic cavities. Granite was quarried in Rockport beginning in 1823.
References:
Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (1866): On Danalite, a new Mineral Species from the Granite of Rockport, Mass. (American Journal of Science and Arts 47:73-78).
Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (1867): On Cryophyllite. (American Journal of Science and Arts 48:217).
Merrill, George P. (1889): The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones in the U.S. National Museum, p. 287.
Sears, John Henry (1905): The Physical Geography, Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology of Essex County.
McKinstry, H. E. (1921): The Minerals of Rockport, Massachusetts (American Mineralogist 6:56-60).
Palache, Charles (1950): Fayalite at Rockport, Massachusetts. (American Mineralogist 35:877-881).
Dunn, P. (1976): Genthelvite and the helvine group (Mineralogical Magazine 40:627-636).
Lyons, Paul (1976): The Chemistry of Riebeckites of Massachusetts (Mineralogical Magazine 4:473-9).
Bozhilov, K. N. & B. W. Evans (2001): Ferroanthophyllite in Rockport grunerite: A transmission electron microscopy study. (American Mineralogist 86(10):1252-1260).
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