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Microcline from
Tuolumne Meadows, Tuolumne County, California, USA


Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Comments:Occurs as megacrysts from 2.5 cm to 7.5 cm in porphyritic quartz monzonite of the Cathedral Peak pluton.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz3 photos of Microcline associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tuolumne Meadows, Tuolumne County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:683162
Long-form Identifier:1:3:683162:2
GUID (UUID V4):315febc7-eeab-496d-a528-775bc5da26d1
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
83.1km (51.6 miles) Dinkey Lakes pegmatites (1st & 2nd Dinkey Lakes), Dinkey Creek, Dinkey Lakes Wilderness, Fresno County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Emplacement of Mesozoic Batholithic Complexes In California and Western Nevada By J. F. EVERNDEN and R. W...Prepared in cooperation with the University of California (Berkeley) Department of Geological Sciences...showing distribution of Mesozoic granitic rocks in California and western Nevada _____ ------------- In pocket...Rubidium-strontium isochron plots for granitic rocks in California ________________________________ ----____ 18...EMPLACEMENT OF MESOZOIC BATHOLITHIC COMPLEXES IN CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA By J. F. EVERNDEN 1 and R
Report (chapter)
(CSD) study of microcline in the Cathedral Peak Granodiorite, Sierra Nevada, California MICHAEL D. H...Abstract: Microcline megacrysts in the Cathedral Peak Granodiorite and other parts of the Tuolumne Intrusive...interstitial melt whilst larger crystals grew. Microcline was most sensitive to this effect as the magma...opposing theories. /+ ~| ~::~ "~!:: California ( -+- ) "~ I Tuolumne ""~6, ~+~'.~- ' V' ",,'-:~\ Suite...Intrusive Intrusive . . . . . ---,~ k~ ~':~'\. ~ Tuolumne ..\... / ~!\ '~-~ - ~ + b \ Johnson Granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relationships from the Cretaceous Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California, reveal that the gradational transition...University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, USA e-mail: Breck.Johnson@anadarko.com; breckj@email... 1201 Lake Robbins Dr, The Woodlands, TX 77380, USA required late growth of K-feldspar, explains the...K-feldspar megacrysts  Textural coarsening  Tuolumne Intrusive Suite  Granodiorite  Thermal cycling...Intrusive Suite of Yosemite National Park in California in conjunction with results from experimental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, USA e-mail: afg@unc.edu Present Address: B. R. Johnson...Johnson Anadarko Petroleum, The Woodlands, TX, USA from exsolution of anorthite and must represent recrystallization...Cathedral Peak Granodiorite, Yosemite National Park, California. a Slightly weathered, glacially polished slab...photograph a. c Mosaic of megacrysts along the Tuolumne River 2 km east of McGee Lake. Long edge of compass...used herein, refers to all structural variants (microcline, orthoclase, and sanidine), and ‘‘megacrystic
Report (chapter)
Square, San Jose, CA 95192, USA (e-mail: sburgess@mit.edu) Abstract: The Tuolumne Batholith (TB), Sierra Nevada...Nevada Batholith (USA), is an archetypal large, zoned arc intrusion (c. 1200 km2). Previous work proposed...at the magma source. The Tuolumne Batholith (TB) in eastern California, USA is one such zoned intrusion...MILLER Fig. 1. (a) Generalized map of the USA denoting California and the Sierra Nevada Batholith. (b) Map...major intrusive suites. (c) Expanded map of the Tuolumne Batholith showing the study area and including
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/99 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Menlo Park, California 94025, USA 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA (Received June...Park, CA, USA; Loch Vale in Rocky Mountain National Park CO USA; the Panola watershed, GA USA; and the... CA, USA Loch Valle, Rocky Mtn. National Park, CO, USA Panola Mtn. Research Watershed, GA, USA Granodiorite...Quartz, oligoclase, microcline, biotite, hornblende Quartz, oligoclase, microcline, biotite Quartz, oligoclase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologic map of the region near Twenty-nine Palms, California......................... 419 Figure Plate 1...pre-Cretaceous crystalline rocks of southern California. As part of this program, certain areas have...middle-northern part of Riverside County into the middle-southern part of San Bernardino County. The base map used in...by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS The oldest known rocks...—Geologic map oj the region near Twenty-Nine Palms, California GOLD PARK GABBRO-DIORITE The Gold Park gabbro-diorite
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN IIANNUM, T. Director...1948 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY LIBRARY 1 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 ... ; STATE OF CALIFORNIA Earl Warren, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Warren T. Hannum,...a service laboratory for the determination of California minerals and a conference room with a mining...mineral industry, geology, and mining operations of California is distributed to the public by means of publications
Book (edition)
metropolitan areas, such as Yosemite National Park in California, have become overused and overcrowded. Automobile...University; Charles C. Plummer, University of California, Sacramento; Weldon W. Rau, Department of Natural...miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California. Like other major streams, the Colorado developed...station RN at Glen hehe Dam. 4. When the Gulf of California opened more than 6 million years ago, the mountain...base level lowered by the opening of the Gulf of California, the young Colorado River downcut |Figure 1
Book
kilowatt-hour 3 557. 1 * MORRIS, ROBERT M. GEOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA 79 r793 HILLSDALE BRANC0 San Mateo Public...Mateo, CA 94402 “Questions Answered" Geology of California Cover Illustration: Dome This monolith of...courtesy of Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.) Half Frontpiece in Yosemite...Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.) * > Geology of California Robert M. Norris, Professor...Professor of Geology, Emeritus University of California, Santa Barbara John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York
Book
granite mountains, such as the Sierra Nevada of California, extensive tracts of closely spaced convex hills...joint-bound corestones, at Lake Tahoe, Sierra Nevada, USA III Boulders within a hilly relief of the Erongo...the Mojave Desert (Joshua Tree National Park), California VII High-mountain granite landscape, Yosemite...Nevada, California Aplite vein cut through medium-grained massive granite, Mojave Desert, California Rough...subject to granular disintegration, Mojave Desert, California Block field built of predominantly angular blocks
Report (issue)
View from California Edited by Eldridge M. Moores Department of Geology University of California Davis,... California 95616-8605 Doris Sloan Department of Geology and Geophysics University of California Berkeley...Berkeley, California 94720-4767 Dorothy L. Stout Cypress College Cypress, California 90630 338 1999 Copyright...Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA, phone (978) 750-8400, http://www.copyright.com (include...Data Classic Cordilleran concepts : a view from California / edited by Eldridge M. Moores, Doris Sloan,
Report (issue)
Pacific Coast region __________________________72 California ___________________________72 Oregon _______...nued Alaska _____________________________119 California __________________________120 Idaho ________...magma chambers _____169 Ancient volcanism in California _________!70 Uranium in volcanic rocks _ __________170...Geotechnical and geohydrological studies in Fairfax County, Virginia _____________________285 Puget Sound...ore in the southern Wah Wah Mountains in Beaver County, Utah, can be treated profitably. occurs in nickel
Book (edition)
Clarion University, Pennsylvania David Golz, California State University, Sacramento XX1 Shannon O’Dunn...Orr, University of Oregon, Eugene Vicki Pedone, California State University, Northridge Greg Retallack,...of California, Los Angeles David Schwimmer, Columbus College, Georgia Gregory Wheeler, California State...Community College Raymond Ingersoll, University of California, Los Angeles Markes E. Johnson, Williams College...was president of the California, and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology
 
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