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Calcite from
Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127222
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127222:2
GUID (UUID V4):b99cc191-de9d-4581-a640-a1e69a5f8f99
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Route 9 road cut, Wellesley, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry (West Roxbury Trap Rock Co. Quarry; Grove St. Quarry), West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Thompsonville "silver mine", Thompsonville, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Massachusetts Broken Stone Co. quarries (Weston Quarry; Stony Brook Quarry), Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Allston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Warren Street Quarry (Beatty's Ledge), Allston-Brighton, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
15.5km (9.6 miles) Granite Street Quarry (Milk Row Quarry), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
16.9km (10.5 miles) Granite Railway Quarry (Granite Rail Quarry), Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
17.0km (10.5 miles) Mystic River Quarries (Mystic Quarries), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
17.8km (11.0 miles) Merry Mount Quarry, Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 839 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AREA MASSACHUSETTS BY LAURENCE LAFORGE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Fells Upland.----------..__.__.___.__..-_____ Needham Upland.----------------------------------------...geology of the Boston and Boston Bay quadrangles, Massachusetts--____-.-_____ In pocket. 2. Map showing surficial...-----------81 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AEEA, MASSACHUSETTS By LAURENCE LAFORGE INTRODUCTION* POSITION AND...30' and extends westward from the shore of Massachusetts Bay to meridian 71° 15', comprises the Boston
Report (issue)
Geology and Geophysics Boston College Weston, Massachusetts 02167 Geoffrey W. Smith Department of Geological...portion of the Boston Bay Group at Nantasket, Massachusetts. Brunton compass is for scale and also points...Mattapan Volcanic Complex, greater Boston, Massachusetts . 85 Margaret D. Thompson and O. Don Hermes...valon Boston terrane, Massachusetts . 133 A valon zones, eastern Massachusetts Martin E. Ross iii ...1984, Cambrian rocks of East Point, Nahant, Massachusetts, in Hanson, L. S., ed.. Geology of the coastal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz-kyanite matrix, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. VERNON J. HURST University of Georgia...Fannin University of Georgia Athens, Georgia 30602 County. This occurrence was brought to our attention by..."have been taken from mica pegmatites in Monroe County. Aquamarine crystals of lesser quality but up to...have been taken from the Hogg pegmatite in Troup County. LITHIOPHORITE Typical lithiophorite is a dark...Hurst and Porter (1963) from Hall County, Georgia. The Hall County lithiophorite is in black, euhedral
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...Roxbury south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley. BRAINTREE - By most accounts, land...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...[University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lunch in Bungay, the pit at Broome Heath, on the Norfolk side of the Waveney, was visited by permission...Crag Basement Bed. The road westward along the Norfolk side of the Waveney Valley was then followed to...deposits of the Gipping Valley between Ipswich and Needham Market. En route via Bramford Road reference was...among these were Jurassic septaria (some with good calcite THE QUATERNARY OF EAST SUFFOLK 377 crystals)...chalk has been indurated by impregnation with calcite. Right: The Gipping Till in contact with the chalk
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stratigraphic and geochronological data were sourced from Needham et al. (1988), Page et al. (1980), Page and Williams...period of deformation known as the Top End Orogeny (Needham et al., 1988). The orogeny consisted of three compressional...Event—(1850 Ma; Needham et al., 1988). 3. The Shoobridge Event—(1770 to 1780 Ma; Needham et al., 1988)...interrupted by a phase of extensional tectonism (Needham et al., 1988). The principal phase of compression...of tholeiitic sills known as the Zamu Dolerite (Needham et al., 1988). The period of extensional tectonism
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02548, USA. Band 70, Heft i, 1981,Seite 827--348...dissolution as controlled by the relative level of the calcite compensation depth (CCD), detrital input from land...105 is attributed to the presence of an elevated calcite compensation depth (CCD), probably near 2700 m...(TucrIOLKEand VOLT, 1979). The carbonate is low-magnesian calcite throughout the formation, except that aragonite...within the Blake-Bahama Formation are entirely calcite except for locally common dolomite at Site 887
Book
Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M. (granites...Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid...Voss C. (general), Wallace A.R (Schwartzwalder, USA), Wutzler B. (Australia). The numerous manuscripts
Report (issue)
52 22 ' N ., or about a mile north of that of Needham :tviarket ; and from 0 ° 54' E. longitude to 1...Handford Bridge, at Ipswich, which is the largest and county to'Wll of Suffolk. It lies a_bout 3 miles south­...the English Chalk, that of Ostrea lunata, for in Norfolk not less than 240 ft. of the Mucronata Zone were...or:Sa�d-gall � in the C.halk and Chalk-rubble of Norfolk,> Proc. Geol. Soc., Vol. IV, 1844, p� 482, and...¼ mile N. of Bosmere Hall, one mile E.S.E. of Needham Market, are much weathered and overgrown. The more
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contains calcite and rare clay minerals that are evidence for its exposure to liquid water. The calcite forms...the carbon and oxygen isotope composition of the calcite. The clay minerals are finely crystalline and comprise...previously been used successfully to study Nakhla (Needham et al. 2013). The XCT work employed a Nikon Metris...microstructure and crystallographic orientation of calcite and olivine were studied by electron backscatter...Some parts of the coating have an intergranular calcite cement, and this carbonate extends from the coating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
outcrop but in some cross-sections (Needham 1993, fig. 14; Needham & Knipe 1986, fig. 2) the terrane boundary...allochthonous, as Leggett et al. (1983), Needham & Knipe (1986, fig. 2) and Needham (1993, fig. 14) have indicated...Leggett 1987; McKerrow 1987; Walton & Oliver 1991; Needham 1993). In this review it is appropriate to examine...particular tract. An alternative approach by Knipe & Needham (1986) relating the observed structures to down-slope...carefully described in some detail by Knipe & Needham (1986). However, they appear to be rare or absent
Book
Hadleigh (026 425] in the Brett va lley in the west, Needham M.a rket [086 553] in the Gipping valley in the...calciu1n carbonate in the fonn of low-1nagnesian calcite, except in the lower part, that contains up to...Sphenocermnus) seen near the base of the succession at Needham Quarry [0940 5395] and in one of the two pits at...concretions are composed of carbonate flu.orapatite- and calcite-cemented sand grains and are up to abou.t 20 cm...western part of the old pit [095 553] east of Needham Market. The pencil is 15 cn1 long (P616163). Intervening
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit, a more highly metamorphosed equivalent (Needham and Stuart-Smith, 1976), and have proven reserves...stratigraphic drilling, and aeromagnetic interpretation (Needham and StuartSmith, 1976, 1980). Rb--Sr, U--Pb, and...petrochemical studies of mafic intrusives (Ferguson and Needham, 1978; Stuart-Smith and Ferguson, 1978) and granitoids...for the Alligator Rivers Region (modified after Needham and Stuart-Smith, 1980). 334 The composition...and western areas of the Pine Creek Geosyncline (Needham et al., 1980). For this reason, only the geochemistry
Journal (volume)
(1998). thaumasite from High Sedling mine, weardale, County durham, and from Shap, Cumbria, england. Journal...tsumeb (in Namibia), mammoth St anthony (in arizona, uSa), broken Hill (in australia), and Shingalobwe (in...particularly calcium carbonate, CaCo3, in the form of calcite or limestone. Calcium carbonate dissolved in pure...conditions, as will be demonstrated later. when solid calcite, CaCo3(s), dissolves in water, it initially forms...following equilibrium and the associated ksp for calcite, which is 10-8.3 (Garrels and Christ, 1965). CaCo3(s)
Report (issue)
sections of land, lies on 'the Socorro-Torrance county line in the east central part of the quadrangle...INTRODUCTION FIGURE 1. Map of New Mexico showing county boundaries and the Gran Quivira quadrangle. 9...have been made by Lee (1909, pp. 20-21) and by Needham and Bates (1943, pp. 1654-1657). The entire Gran...in the SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 6 S., R. 4 E., Socorro County, some 12 miles south of the Gran Quivira quadrangle...in the NE1 4 sec. 14, T. 2 N., R. 4 E., Socorro County Permian (?) and Permian systems--Wolfcamp and Leonard
Report (volume)
the ."Norwood Quadrangle ' Norfolk and Suffolk , Counties, Massachusetts By NEWTON E. CHUTE > GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN MASSACHUSETTS ^ ______________________________________________________________________...Prepared in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ^ Department of Public Works UNITED STATES...IN MASSACHUSETTS GEOLOGY OF THE NORWOOD QUADRANGLE, NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES, MASSACHUSETTS By...Wamsutta Formation of Pennsylvanian age occupy the Norfolk basin, a faulted syncline that crosses the southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S. Needham , P. G. Stuart‐Smith & I. H. Crick To cite this article: G. R. Ewers , R. S. Needham , P...Geosyncline, Northern Territory G. R. Ewers, R. S. Needham, P. G. Stuart-Smith and I. H. Crick Australian...in one continuous basin (Needham et al 1980; Stuart-Smith et al 1980; Needham & Stuart-Smith 1984). However...low-grade rocks W of the South Alligator Hinge Zone (Needham et al 1980). This paper documents the geochemistry...geosyncline and its mineralization. The stratigraphy of Needham et al (1980) with modifications by StuartSmith
Report (issue)
......................... 22 7. Map of Lincoln County showing middle(?) Tertiary intrusives ...........northern Lincoln County, with part of the north flank extending into Torrance County, about 40 miles southeast...of the Southern Pacific Railway. Carrizozo, the county seat, lies about 45 miles south of the range. Generally...less prominent mountain range in western Socorro County is also named Gallinas Mountains, and its highest...accessories are visible microscopically: apatite, calcite, muscovite, zircon, biotite, magnetite, chlorite
Report (chapter)
7 Geocosm, Town Plaza 233, Durango, CO 81301, USA 8 Rocktype, Oxford OX4 1LN, UK *Correspondence:...of stratigraphic age on seawater composition (calcite v. aragonite oceans), the greater role of compaction...composition. LMC, low magnesium calcite; HMC, high magnesium calcite. quality prediction for clastic...preferential precipitation of aragonite and/or high-Mg calcite at specific times (Sandberg Downloaded from http://sp...ROCKS: INTRODUCTION 1983). Aragonite and high-Mg calcite are metastable and therefore the resultant carbonate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
published be a correlative of the Cabill Formation (Needham, 0861-0128/88/174/823-1552.50 823 824 ' EWERS...recently been renamedMyra Falls Metamorphicsby Needham,1982).Ferguson(1980)hasindicatedthat temperaturesof...Nabarlekorebody bonaceous,and arenaceoussediments(Needham and Stuart-Smith,1976). However, it shouldbe emphais...dated at Riversuranium field have been given by Needham 1,600 m.y. took place well below $50øC. Unconformablyoverlying...Unconformablyoverlying the Myra Falls Metaet al. (1980) and Needham and Stuart-Smith (1980). The Precambriansequencein
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteredandunalteredhostrocksandhydrothermalquartz,calcite,and dolomitefromtheunconformity-related uraniumdeposits...widespreadgabbroicintrusion,the Oenpelli Dolerite (Needham,1984). Thisbasementisoverlain by anunconformable...theseunitsarepart of the Katherine River Group (Needham,1984), a lateral equivalent of the dolomiticand...umfieldandnorthernMcArthurbasin(modifiedafter Needham,1984; Jacksonet al., 1987). The uraniumdepositsoccurat...characterizedby the abundance Dolomite/• •o.s•j,Calcite '/,/l!ii ø8'• CARBONATE 0 ....... of solid
Book (edition)
and the metropolitan areas, MF As are generally county councils and National Park authorities. However... although the mineral sites are listed by each county. The mineral workings are arranged by Economic...workings Anhydrite Ball Clay Barytes Bauxite Calcite Chalk China Clay China Stone Coal, Deep Coal, Opencast...Lincolnshire ex West Midlands Cambridgeshire Norfolk Suffolk East Midlands Derby Derbyshire Leicester...aluminium sulphate production; also produces basalt Calcite East Midlands Peak District National Park Cretaceous
Report (issue)
geologists, including R. A. Binns, G. S. Eupene, R. S. Needham, and J. C. Rowntree in Australia, and L. S. Beck...sequences as in the Pine Creek geosyncline, Australia (Needham and others, 1980), Wollaston Group, Saskatchewan...above the horizons which host uranium deposits (Needham and Roarty, 1980). The ~1.0-b.y.-old Damara Supergroup...alteration. ALTERATION FRACTURING DOLOMITE CALCITE CHLORITE DRAVITE QUARTZ ADULARIA PITCHBLENDE...Chalcopyrite t . . ___ ,_,.. __ Chiorite Quartz Siderite Calcite I ..Pitchblende"! Pitchblende II Coffinite EARLY
Book (edition)
Abandoned Mine Methane Anhydrite Bal.I Clay Bai-ytes Calcite Chalk Chert China Clay China Clay Waste Clay &...goven1n1ent (counties and districts), MPAs are the county councils and National Park Authorities. In Scotland...Belfast, although du·ectory entries are shown by county to give an indication of geographical variations...in the case with Northen1 freland, an·anged by County. Within each article, the first line is the nan1e...Mine Methane Ironstone Mine Drainage Gas Barytes Calcite Lead Auhvdrite , 0~ Coalbed Methane Colliery Spoil
 
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