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Sanidine from
Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:National Monument
Classification
Species:Sanidine
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Comments:In the groundmass and in welded rhyolite tuffs with quartz & magnetite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Magnetite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sanidine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:218893
Long-form Identifier:1:3:218893:5
GUID (UUID V4):2b990a07-721f-477c-a354-e811d75b0d8f
Nearest other occurrences of Sanidine
45.3km (28.1 miles) Commonwealth Mine (Pearce Mine; Silver Ware Mine; Brockman Mine; Smith Mine; Rinaud Mine; Ritter Mine; Eisenhart vein), Pearce, Pearce Mining District, Pearce Hills, Sulphur Springs Valley, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Preliminary geologic map of Chiricahua National Monument Cochise County, Arizona, with digital geologic map...and lithic poor, except near base where quartz, sanidine, and plagioclase xenocrysts and rhyolitic lithic...microporphyritic with small (<1 mm) phenocrysts of sanidine, quartz, and opaque oxide minerals; accessory...porphyritic; phenocrysts (< 1 percent) are quartz and sanidine (both < 1 mm) and microphenocrysts of opaque oxide...percent) phenocrysts, including plagioclase, sanidine, opaque oxides, and accessory biotite. Pumice
Report (issue)
map of the Rustler Park quadrangle, southeast Arizona By John S. Pallister1, Edward A. du Bray1, and...code. Denver, Colorado 2University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona NOTE: The revision of stratigraphic nomenclature...Geology of the Rustler Park Quadrangle, southeast Arizona, by John S. Pallister, Edward A. du Bray, and John...microporphyritic with small (<1 mm) phenocrysts of sanidine, quartz, and Fe-Ti oxides; accessory biotite and...percent) with small (<1 mm) phenocrysts of quartz and sanidine, and microphenocrysts of oxide minerals. Similar
Report (issue)
Geologic map of the Fife Peak quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona By John S. Pallister1 and Edward A. du... lavender near base. Typically aphyric; trace sanidine phenocrysts and biotite microphenocrysts locally...and lithic poor, except near base where quartz, sanidine, and plagioclase xenocrysts and rhyolitic lithic...microporphyritic with small (<1 mm) phenocrysts of sanidine, quartz, and opaque oxide minerals; accessory...porphyritic; phenocrysts (<1 percent) are quartz and sanidine (both < 1 mm) and microphenocrysts of opaque oxide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCALE LES GEOLOGIC MAP OF CHIRIGAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT, ARIZONA STRUCTURE BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL...9, 2015 1966 WELDED TUFFS OF CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT, ARIZONA BY HAROLD E. ENLOWS ABSTRACT Chiricahua...Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona, and much of the western part of the Chiricahua Mountains contain extensive...1. Index map showing the location of Chiricahua National Monument 1219 Topography 1216 Sedimentary rocks...1225 6. Section through Chiricahua National General description 1225 Monument from the northeast corner
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1957 GEOLOGY OF THE COCHISE HEAD AND WESTERN PART OF THE VANAR QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA BY FLOYD F. SABINS...The area of this report includes parts of the Chiricahua and the Dos Cabezas Mountains which together...side. 1315 1316 F. F. SABINS—COCHISE HEAD AND VANAR QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA CONTENTS TEXT Introduction Location...Accessibility The Cochise Head quadrangle is in southeast Arizona in the northeast part of Cochise County (Fig. 1)...109° 15' and 109° 30'. In order to study all the Chiricahua Mountains north of lat. 32° 00', page Introduction
Report (volume)
TO WILDERNESS WILDERNESS AREAS CHIRICAHUA WILDERNESS AREA, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1385-A...Resources of the ChiricahuaWilderness Area, Cochise County, Arizona By HARALD DREWES, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...88-577, Sept. 3, 1964) certain areas within the National forests previously classified as "wilderness,"..."wild," or "canoe" were incorporated into the National Wilderness Preservation System as wilderness areas...results of a mineral survey of the Chiricahua Wilderness, Arizona. CONTENTS Page Summary........
Report (issue)
Stanford Canyon Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog U.S. GEOLOGICAL... Chapter D Stanford Canyon Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog...BULLETIN 2021 GEOLOGIC SAMPLING OF THE CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE...Bray, E.A. Stanford Canyon quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona: analytic data and geologic sample catalog...Pallister. p. cm. (Geologic sampling of the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona; ch. D) (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin;
Report (issue)
Area Adjacent to the Turkey Cre~k Cafdera, Cochise County, ArizonaAnalytic Data and Geol'o gi,c Sarnple...Area Adjacent to the Turkey Creek Caldera, Cochise County, ArizonaAnalytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog...BULLETIN 2021 . GEOLOGIC SAMPLING OF THE CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE...adjacent to the Turkey Creek caldera, Cochise County, Arizona -Analytic data and geologic sample catalog...bulletin : 2021) (Geologic sampling of the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona: ch. E) Includes bibliographical references
Report (issue)
" Harrison Schmitt - 1964 1 By H. H. SCHMITT National Aeronautics and Space Administration Houston,...mines. Our generation, in 1. Presented to the Arizona Geological Society , March 3, 1964. This memorial...preserve liberty on this planet. This period of national service during World War I appears to have fertilized...deposits in Mexico from 1922 to 1926, in southern Arizona, Virginia and the Central Mining District of New...position of ore relative to the source hinges upon Arizona Geological Society - Guidebook III theories of
Report (issue)
Rustler Park Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog U.S. GEOLOGICAL... Chapter B Rustler Park Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog...BULLETIN 2021 GEOLOGIC SAMPLING OF THE CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL...du Bray, E. A. Rustler Park quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona : analytic data and geologic sample catalog...bulletin ; 2021) (Geologic sampling of the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona ; Chapter B) "Geochemical data for and
Report (issue)
" Harrison Schmitt - 1964 1 By H. H. SCHMITT National Aeronautics and Space Administration Houston,...mines. Our generation, in 1. Presented to the Arizona Geological Society , March 3, 1964. This memorial...preserve liberty on this planet. This period of national service during World War I appears to have fertilized...deposits in Mexico from 1922 to 1926, in southern Arizona, Virginia and the Central Mining District of New...position of ore relative to the source hinges upon Arizona Geological Society - Guidebook III theories of
Report (issue)
Tectonics of Sou thea t rn Arizona Tectonics of Southeastern Arizona By HARALD D. DREWES GEOLOGICAL...Drewes, Harald, 1927Tectonics of southeastern Arizona. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1144) Bibliography:...: I 19.16:1144 1. Plate tectonics. 2. Geology-Arizona. I. Title. II. Series: United States Geological...Mountains ---------------------------Northern Chiricahua Mountains-----------------------Southern Dragoon...-------------------------------------------------Central Chiricahua Mountains -------------------------Regional implications
Report (volume)
_ atidnal' Forest, > gy of Cot Southeastern Arizona, and; ,' r*~' f '' V ' * *^* *" Southwestern New'...through the NTIS may be obtained by writing to the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department...3128, 345 Middlefield Rd. RESTON, Virginia-USGS National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT...Potential and Geology of Coronado National Forest, Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico Edited...potential and geology of Coronado National Forest, southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico / edited
Report (issue)
exploration for hydrocarbons and mineral deposits in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. Held studies...available. Detailed petrologic studies in Missouri and Arizona (2, 3), of both carbonate and volcanic rocks, have...and of Mesozoic volcanic systems in southeastern Arizona illustrate the applications of volcanic structural...Cretaceous-early Tertiary calderas in southern Arizona. Caldera structures are common loci for mineralization...INVESTIGATION AT TURKEY CREEK CALDERA, CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS, SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA ROBERT M. SENTERFIT and DOUGLAS
Book (edition)
Q! creonl lia OE ~| /BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee...Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard...Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose
Report (issue)
Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, and Cochise County, Arizona b y ELLIOT GILL ERMAN 1958............................................ 39 Chiricahua limestone .....................................part of the Peloncillo Mountains, New Mexico and Arizona .................................................Mountains, situated as they are on the New Mexico-Arizona boundary, are critical in a comparison and correlation...resemble rocks in Arizona. The upper Paleozoic strata are similar to rocks of southeastern Arizona and indicate
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals-Arizona. I. Anthony, John W (John Williams), 1920-. QE375...HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
overlying basalt. Textures and minerals (mainly Na-sanidine and cristobalite) formed in the tuff during and...occur below ash flow tuffs in Arizona (Enlows, 1955), Yellowstone National Park (Boyd, 1961), and Grand... p. 824) conclusion lized to cristobalite, Na-sanidine, and small that incipient welding depends mainly...vapor pressure but that the cristobalite and Na-sanidine was identified complete welding is also controlled...are: (1) rocks, the vesicles are coated by Na-sanidine, the basalt flowed over a given area over the
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS...CALLAHAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON f -- The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona...arizona.edu © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~•.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee...Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
Book (edition)
OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
Report (issue)
miles north of Thumb Ranger Station, Yellowstone National Park._______________________________ Hand specimen..._ Photomicrograph of welded tuff from Saguache County, Colo., showing incipient devitrification _____________...flow-ba n ded rock from an intrusive dike, Lake County, Colo ____________________________ Photomicrograph...-Photomicrograph of welded tuff from Calaveras County, Calif., illustrating the type biotite-augite latite...Iddings' thin sections of rocks from Yellowstone National Park__________________________ Copy of a photomicrograph
Report (volume)
Chief Mining District, eastern Chief Range, Lincoln County, Nevada, by Peter D. Rowley, Lawrence W. Snee,...investigation at Turkey Creek caldera, Chiricahua Mountains, southeastern Arizona, by Robert M. Senterfit and Douglas...approaches to exploration for hydrocarbons in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana (chapters...available. Detailed petrologic studies in Missouri and Arizona (chapters A, L) of both carbonate and volcanic...Viburnum Trend I Rb/Sr adularia veins, Garland County, Arkansas Ar/ Ar authigenic potassium feldspar
Report (volume)
Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull., Mineral Technology Ser.-Arizona Bureau of·Mines Bulletin, Mineral Technology Series...Series. Tucson, Ariz. Ariz. Univ. Phys. Sci. BulL-Arizona University Physical Science Bulletin. · Tucson...History-Natural History. New York. Natl. Aead. Sci. Proc.-National Academy of Sciences Proceedings. Washington, D...D. C. Natl. Advisory Comm. Research Geol. Sci.-National Advisory Committee on Research in the Geological...Assoc. Comm. Soil and Snow Mechanics Tech. Memo.-National Research Council of Canada, Associate Committee
Report (issue)
phenocrysts in the Bachelor Mountain are mostly sanidine and plagioclase but some are biotite, magnetite...mm, but most are much smaller microphenocrysts. Sanidine generally predominates over plagioclase, although...ratio between the two minerals ranges widely. The sanidine crystals are n1ostly TABLE H7 euhedral, zoned...gray to buff rock having a silicified appearance. Sanidine phenocrysts 1-2 mm long are prominent; they constitute...(mode 10, table 1). In thin sections, some of the sanidine phenocrysts show compositional zoning and faint
 
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