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Quartz from
Oak Hill, Standish, York County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Water-transported Erratic
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oak Hill, Standish, York County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1519758
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1519758:6
GUID (UUID V4):d2b2b253-36d7-4049-b5f1-fbfcd71ab273
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
10.2km (6.4 miles) Dundee Falls Kyanite locality, Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Gambo Falls Staurolite locality, Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Pease Mountain, Cornish, York County, Maine, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) Spring Street Quarry (Pike Industries Quarry; Blue Rock Industries Quarry), Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
20.7km (12.8 miles) Berry Ledge, Cornish, York County, Maine, USA
21.1km (13.1 miles) Day Hill, Cornish, York County, Maine, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Estes Quarry, West Baldwin, Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Camp Hinds locality, Raymond, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
25.9km (16.1 miles) Bergendahl prospect, Newfield, York County, Maine, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) Piper Hill prospect, Newfield, York County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...by Vandall T. King Walworth, New York 14568 Production editing and design Robert D. Tucker Director...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Maine ............... 16 Table 5 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of New York ........... 56 Table 11 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Maine................^..............i.29 Figure 6. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Maine.................................30 Figure 7. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of northeastern New York.........................64 Figure 14. Uranium occurrences
Journal (volume)
Paleogeographic analysis of the preshelf facies in the Oak Hill and Camels Hump Groups: constraints on syn-rift...along the Baie Verte Brompton Line in northwestern Maine ..................................................Tucker, and K.T. Hollocher: The nature of the Bronson Hill Zone during the Taconian orogeny .................yet been discovered from the lower part of the Oak Hill Group (or its equivalent in Vermont, the Camels...and/or post-breakup deposits higher up in the Oak Hill sequence (see Dowling and others, 1987) contain
Report (issue)
VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little............. Sandstone (quartzite?) coarse, with quartz veins................ Feet. 20± 20± 25± 50± The... and here and there by thin stringers of small quartz grains. The variegation gives to the rock a highly...Bristol County; Lynnfield and Peabody, Essex County; Monson, Hampden County; Pelham, Hampshire County; Acton...Townsend, Middlesex County; Wrentham, Norfolk County; Brockton and Hingham, Plymouth County; Revere, Suffolk
Field Trip Notes
of the Appalachian Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field...Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite"...OF THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW...OF THE APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHERN VERMONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE By...General geological features 5 East-central New York and parts of western Vermont 7 Southern Vermont
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Martinsville Beach, Maine This fine grained, gray sand consists of quartz (colorless, milky, smoky)...present. "Beach sand. Martinsville Beach, Port Clyde, Maine. Collected May 13, 1963." •— on label of sand that...Talbot Ave., Rockland, Maine. Port Clyde (in southern Knox County in southern Maine) is on the Atlantic...is a fine grained, dark gray sand consisting of quartz (colorless, smoky gray, brownish), black magnetite...Monmouth County of eastern New Jersey. Quartz sand from Glen Cove, N. Y. "The enclosed quartz sand was
Journal (volume)
the Pre-Olenellus White Brook Dolomite, Lower Oak Hill Group, Southern Quebec: The Effects of Extensional... northern Vermont) and the West Castleton-Hatch Hill formations (Taconic allochthons). The distal group...THE PRE-OLENELLUS WHITE BROOK DOLOMITE, LOWER OAK HILL GROUP, SOUTHERN QUEBEC: THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIONAL...1936), is part of the syn-rift, pre-Olenellus, Oak Hill Group in southern Quebec and is composed of 1...sedimentary sequence as preserved in the Lower Oak Hill Group resembles that of Middle Miocene rocks on
Report (volume)
CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEAOTTES OF MAINE BY T. NELSON DALE WITH AN INTKObUCTTOtf BY GEORGE...GEORGE OTIS SMITH PREPARED IN COOPERATION WITH THE MAINE STATE SURVEY COMMISSION WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT ... CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION THE OCCUKHENCE OK GRANITE IN MAINE, BY GEORGE OTIS SMITH. Page. Geographic distribution............................ 12 THE GRANITES OF MAINE, BY T. NELSON DALE. Introduction..................classification ................................... Maine granites.......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3.5 cm attractively placed on a matrix of small quartz crystals. 248 ROCKS & MINERALS The specimen was...producing exceptional specimens are very limited. In Maine, good though generally small cassiterite crystals...the Martin prospect and Bennett quarry in Oxford County. Good crystals up to 25 mm have been found with... Middlesex County, Connecticut. Cassiterite as small crystalline grains in narrow quartz veins at Jackson...Conway Granite north of Moat Mountain, Carroll County, New Hampshire. Good cassiterite specimens, a few
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 23:49 05 October 2014 Daybreak Mine, Spokane County, Washington T he naming of minerals that contain...autunite aggregates from the Daybreak mine, Spokane County, Washington; John Lucking specimen, Jeff Scovil...autunite crystals on matrix from the Apex mine, Lander County, Nevada; Scott Kleine specimen, Jeff Scovil photo... felsic plutons including those of granite and quartz-monzonite composition, and roll-front and other...Several Maine localities have produced interesting autunite specimens. These include the Oak Hill prospect
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolomite, Hastings Creek, Naylor Ledge, and Luke Hill limestones, in Vermont and Quebec; Solomons Corner...red slate, in Quebec, and the Sfowe formation ( quartz-sen" cifecblorife schist, phyllific graywocfce...JS4f, fi JO). Enosburg Falls anticline: Tibbit Hill volcanics. Call Mill slate, Pinnacle formation ...dolomite, and Oak Hill=Parfcer slate. Cambridge syncfine: "Bonsecours" formation (quartz-sericite-cbforite...metagabbro and granite, of Lake Cbamploin in New York (not in- of the Adirondack massif on the west eluded
Report (volume)
___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the past 2 years, there are still very good fire quartz specimens to be found—apparently an iridescent...the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...fluffy mass in a vial). The sample came from the Oak Hill mines of Santa Clara Co., Calif. The following...brought us a most interesting specimen of amethystine quartz with wulfenite crystals from the old amethyst locality...associated with limonite, on the surfaces of the quartz crystals. So far as I know, this is the first occurrence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Colliery Drift, Schuylkill Township, Schuylkill County, PA: Discharge from an abandoned drift mine and...Airshaft, Branchdale, Reilly Township, Schuylkill County, PA: Discharge from an abandoned shaft and associated...the West Branch River. 3. Oak Hill Borehole, Minersville, Schuylkill County, PA: Discharge from several...limestone channel since 2002. Untreated water from the Oak Hill Boreholes is suboxic and net alkaline with pH...Mine Water Pool, Donaldson Village, Schuylkill County, PA: An abandoned mine shaft, unremediated. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Willsboro Wollastonite Skarn, Adirondack Mts, New York: a record of shallow hydrothermal processes preserved...Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA (coryc@geology.wisc.edu) ABSTRACT Oscillatory zoning...Willsboro wollastonite deposit, NE Adirondack Mts, NY, USA, preserves a record of the temporal evolution of...Mid-Proterozoic, granulite facies Adirondack Mountains of New York (Fig. 1), are a polymetamorphic terrane. Studies...gneisses: anorthositic lithologies w/ local skarn C - Oak Hill D - Lewis Olivine metagabbro Wollastonite skarn
Report (volume)
carried out detailed geologic mapping in Fairfax County, Va.; Bennison, Milton, and M. N. Bass (unpub....exposures of the sandstone at Manassas, Prince William County, Va., is divided into the Reston Member (new name)...northwestern part of the Vienna quadrangle, Fairfax County, Va. Distribution. The Reston is exposed along...light-gray, loose to semicompact micaceous feldspar and quartz sand, and angular to subangular rock fragments...fragments are chiefly mica schist, light-gray vein quartz, and light-gray to blackish-gray quartzite, as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCTOBER 1950 STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE OAK HILL SUCCESSION IN VERMONT BY VERNE H. BOOTH CONTENTS...Stratigraphy Introduction General correlation Tibbit Hill schist Pinnacle formation White Brook dolomite West...Thrust faults 1160 General statement 1160 Brigham Hill thrust 1160 Hinesburg thrust 1161 Arrowhead thrust...Fairfield Pond thrust 1163 Klippen west of the Oak Hill escarpment. 1164 Minor thrusts 1166 Mechanics...the sediNorth of the Winooski River, Vermont, the Oak ments and also that the sea was encroaching westHill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen of gray, petrified coral on massive grayish quartz from Eugene Engman, Box 87, Nokomis, Fla. "This...found in a narrow pegmatite consisting largely of quartz and mica."—item sent in by Gerald Navratil, Box...INDIANA—Slender, black xls of goethite coating rock xls in quartz goedes occur at Bean Blossom, Brown Co., Ind. ...13, Kans. "This petrified wood came from Barber County, Kansas. I am not sure of its exact location but...gravel pit near Monroe, Ouachita Parish, La. 122 MAINE—Small white xls (orthoclase) associated with sonite
Report (volume)
meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, . New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S.Williams... On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 8C pp. 3 pi...57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1...Faunas of the Upper Devonian the Genesee Section, New York, by Henry S. "Williams. 1887. 8°. 121pp. 4 pi. Price...Knowledge of the Geology of Texas, by Robert T. Hill. 1887. 8°. 94 pp. Price 10 cents. 46. Nature and
Report (issue)
Lithologic Description 45 Monzonite (DSm) 45 Quartz monzodiorite and monzodiorite (DSmd) 45 Amphibole...mineral phases muscovite, dolomite, K-feldspar, quartz, biotite, chlorite, calcite, calcic plagioclase...in the western Merrimack Synclinorium and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation...ALUMINOUS SCHIST OAKDALE FM, AND MERRIMACK FM, TOWER HILL QUARTZITE WORCESTER FM, Figure 1. PROPOSED STRATIGRAPHIC...in the western Merrimack Synclinorium and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation
Report (volume)
.............................................. Maine.............................................................................................. New York. .................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota_.Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks. Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Formation, the Porters Creek Formation, and the Oak Hill Mem- 4 ber of the Naheola Formation; and the...pusilla pusilla I.Z. 1 - 2 NP5 5 ' 6 o 03 •C (0 z Oak Hill Mbr. M. angulata I.Z. 1 >2 Tertiary Matthews...for southern Alabama. Creek Formation and the Oak Hill Member of the Naheola Formation. The TA-1.4 cycle...ALABAMA Naheola Formation 38 m Coal Bluff Member Oak Hill Member Porters Creek Formation 137 m Matthews...ALABAMA Naheola Formation 30 m Coal Bluff Member Oak Hill Member Porters Creek Formation 46 m Matthews
Report (volume)
Stroudsburg, Pa.; Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross New York ; exclusive distributor: Halstead Press, c. 1977...Evolution and extinction rate controls, Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., p. 63. Devonian-8ilurian...147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico...structures in the San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 5
 
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