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Sanidine from
Sugar Loaf Mountain, Monticello, Aroostook County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Sanidine
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sanidine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sugar Loaf Mountain, Monticello, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:220627
Long-form Identifier:1:3:220627:1
GUID (UUID V4):563516c4-6a4b-48e9-80dc-83ddfa039761
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Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIBECTOIt CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE BY HENRY S. Wir/LIAMS AND HERBERT E. GKREOORY................. Part J. The Paleozoic faunas of Maine: a preliminary report upon the Paleozoic faunas...from Aroostook County, by Henry S. Williams ................... Part 31. Geology of the Aroostook volcanic...volcanic area of Maine, including an account of the clastic rocks of Aroostook County, by Herbert E. Gregory.................................... IV. Map of Aroostook volcanic area................................
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright Β©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, Β©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
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The Moving Earth 14 Sedimentary Rocks 96 Mountain Building 16 Metamorphic Rocks 116 Earthquakes...materials of the landscape. Every valley, hill and mountain peak is made entirely of rocks and minerals. Yet...gently settling layers on the sea bed. Climb any mountain away from the city and gaze out on the landscape...their shapes varied as low areas were flooded and mountain ranges rose up. Permian 225 mya During the Permian...surface. The breakthrough dive into the mantle. Mountain ranges Wegener guessed this was not mere coincidence
Report (volume)
Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Report (volume)
.............................................. Maine...................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
world-renowned gem and mineral collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History since 1980. Joan Kaylor...crumples, result- ing in the rise of an inland mountain where they grate against each other, range,...located in the southern hemisphere and featured long mountain ranges, an inner sea, and some glaciation. It...site of a third type of boundary Appalachian mountain range conflict. Here two plates slide of North...Caledonian range of Europe were once parts of the same mountain _ chain; that Florida once belonged to _β€”_western
Report (issue)
McGrath area at Page Mountain, Cloudy Mountain, Candle Mountain, Takotna Mountain, Mount Joaquin, the...appear to be fault-bounded and the complex at Page Mountain is down-faulted against the surrounding sedimentary...monzonite, or granite. Plutons at Von Frank and Stone Mountain, however, are compositionally zoned, and commonly...suites are chemically similar (compare Cloudy Mountain and Nowitna on Fig. 4D). Trace-element ratios...in volcanic rocks in the Alaska Range-Talkeetna Mountain belt (Fig. 5). No trace-element data on the rocks
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world-renowned gem and mineral collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History since 1980. Joan Kaylor...plate crumples, resulting in the rise of an inland mountain range, such as the H imalayas. At other times...in the southern hemisph ere and featured long mountain ranges, an inner sea, and some glaciation. It...fossils, they have demonstrated that the Appalachian mountain range of North America and the Caledonian range...range of Europe were once parts of the same mountain chain; that Florida once belonged to western Africa;
Book (volume)
fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal (color) following 112 Tourmaline...bounded by flat faces like those of a cube. Granular sugar, although not a mineral, also shows crystals, however
Report (volume)
Continued Bugle Mountain area ............................---..---..-.--...---Bugle Mountain group ______...--------.----..-----14 5. Cambrian rocks at Scapegoat Mountain.................... 19 6. A thrust fault ^......Bugle Mountain prospects -------------------------------68 26. Trench and shaft, Bugle Mountain group...Bugle Mountain group ------------------------71 28. Photograph of middle vein, Bugle Mountain group ----------------72...----------------72 29. Map of adit, Bugle Mountain group------------------------------73 30. Map of Fisher
Book (edition)
near 6. Laccolith, New Madrid, Ragged Top Mountain, . . . . . 15 . . . . 15 . . . ...Phonolites. ... ... ... . Platy phonolite, Sugar Loaf Mountain, S. D., facing. 19 and 20. Diagrams Illustrating...orthoclase of the later volcanic rocks is often called sanidine. It does not differ essentially from the orthoclase... 1120 1125 Olivine Biotite 1130 Bronzite Sanidine 1 130 Quartz fuses Anorthite 1 132 II55C...(pre-Cambrian) volcanoes. well developed in New Brunswick, Maine, Massachusetts and Abroad the obsidian of the Lipari
Book (volume)
cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
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....243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...three major periods of crustal deformation and mountain building and to at least three or four additional...Marquette County include the Presque Isle body, the Yellow Dog body in the northern part of the county, and...Ishpeming. Several bodies also occur in Dickinson County near the mouth of the Sturgeon River. A distinctive...outcrops in the SWΒΌ section 27, T44N, R31W, Iron County, about 1.6 kilometers west of Lake Ellen, and about
Report (issue)
a short article on California diamonds. Amador County: A few small stones have been picked up near the...the towns of Volcano, Oleta and Fiddletown. Butte County: In 1853 it was observed that diamonds occurred..."Wliite Rock canyon and at Smith's Flat. Fresno County Small diamonds are reported to have been found...found a few miles north of Coalinga. Nevada County A 1-^ carat stone was found at French Corral. Siskiyou...El Dorado County Forest Hill. About : sixty have been : : : Bar. Trinit}^ County : INIicroscopic
Book (volume)
cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...W Hughes, Boulder, CO; Duane L. Johnson, Rocky Mountain Soapstone, Butte, MT; Chris I. Johnston, Royal...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy
Report (edition)
Louis County 32 16. Map showing many irregular lakes in terminal moraine, Otter Tail County 34 17....erratic, Duluth 158 71. Boulder till, St. Louis County 159 7Β£. Map showing distribution of loess in...topography, Dakota County 167 77. Terminal moraine topography, Otter Tail County 168 78. A typical...St. Louis County 199 90. Gravel of highest beach of Glacial Lake Duluth, St. Louis County 199 XVi...beach 209 97. Weathering of massive diabase, Lake County 210 98. View of Carlton Peak 212 99. Shoreline
Report (edition)
Louis County :32 16. Map showing many irregular lakes in terminal morame, Otter Tail County :34 17...erratic, Duluth 158- 71. Boulder till, St. Louis County 159' 72. Map showing distribution of loess in...topography, Dakota County 167 77. Terminal moraine topography, Otter Tail County 168 78. A typical...St. Louis County 199 90. Gravel of highest beach of Glacial Lake Duluth, St. Louis County I b ....beach 209 97. Weathering of massive diabase, Lake County 210 98. View of Carlton Peak 212 99. Shoreline
Report (issue)
_...................... ......... . 86 Table Mountain and Oroville ........ . ..... . ................................... _..... . 95 Kimshew Table Mountain .................. _...................... ..................... . 174 Cedar Spring and Green Mountain channels ........................... Β·; ...................................... ... . 210 Fort Mountain channel. .......................................__ .. _: __ ... __ ... : 214 214 Tuolumne Table Mountain ........... ___ .......... _......... _... __
Report (issue)
______________β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” β€” Indiana ______ β€”β€” __ β€” - β€”β€” β€”β€” β€” β€”β€”β€” Maine _________β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” Maryland _____________β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”...exploratory drilling for ground water in Fairfax County, Virginia _____________ Geologic and hydrologic...submarginal iron resources in Mill Creek, Peters Mountain, and Mountain Lake Wilderness study areas in Virginia...iron resources in the Mill Creek, Peters Mountain, and Mountain Lake Wilderness study areas in Giles and...and Crag Counties, Virginia, and Monroe County, West Virginia. The iron is in hematitic sandstone beds
Report (issue)
Contents. Chapter V.-Contim1ed. PAGE Stevens County..................................................Fields ..................................... Whatcom County .......................................... ...... Contents. vii. Chapter n.-Co11tin11cd. PAGE Skagit County ................................................................. .................... 178 King County .................................................................................... 198 Pierce County ..............................................
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Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions , together with the Basin Ranges and Mojave...are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...,o Map 1-2. Outline map of California showing county boundaries. __ _) 4 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA...in placers of the Potholes District of Imperial County, near the Colorado River about 10 miles north of...reported from San Ysidro, San Diego County, in 1828 ; from Los Angeles County, San Francisquito Canyon, in 183
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Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions, together with the Basin Ranges and Mojave...species are reported by 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible, locations of mines...within a township is illustrated by Figure 1-1. county of occurrence. Map *M. Fleischer’s 1980 Glossary...Map 1-2. Outline map of California showing county boundaries. 4 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA R5W i...first District of Imperial Yuma, Diego County, County, near the Colorado River about 10 miles north
Report (issue)
Mineral Production General Features I. Alpine County. 5 6 6 , Mining Districts The Mogul and Monitor...Curtz Claims The Hercules Company 14 23 Silver Mountain District Silver King District Mineral Water Grover's...27 27 27 , , Bibliography Chapter II, Inyo County. Introduction and Acknowledgments Location and...and water supply List of watering places in Inyo County Topography and drainage , Culture Mode 38 39...salt deposits Taele of Mining Districts in Inyo County . 5S 5S 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 5S 59 59 59 59
Journal (volume)
Mines and mineral resources of 7 11 Santa Cruz County, by Henry G. Hubbard 11 Discoveries in the strategic...O'Brien 77 Current mining activity in Plumas County, by C. A. Logan 85 GEOLOGIC BRANCH 88 Current...DISTRICT MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY By Henry G. Hubbard* OUTLINE OF REPORT Page...counties created February 18, 1850, Santa Cruz County was first called Branciforte. 1 An amendment passed...Mountains, the original boundaIn 1868 the ries of the county were the same as they are at present. northern
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Major features of the ocean floor. abyssal plain USA Mid-Atla otic Ridge Azores l Spain -k 1.6 Profile...Profile of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean from USA to Spain. the Peru-Chile Trench lies close to the...of the continents may be described in terms of mountain belts of different ages. Very old moun¬ tain belts...undeformed rocks. Such areas are called platforms. Mountain build¬ ing between about 600 and 300 million years...Kamchatka and Japan to New Zealand. The second young mountain chain runs from the Alps to the Himalayas. The
 
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