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Biotite from
Mapleton, Aroostook County, Maine, USA


Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mapleton, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:219549
Long-form Identifier:1:3:219549:0
GUID (UUID V4):e8da166b-ab13-4193-9f8f-696e8cf6a5ab
Localities for Biotite in this Region
Grendell Road Locality, Mapleton, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
Pelkey Road Locality, Mapleton, Aroostook County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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................................
Report (volume)
Af Age of ThpleHtJo and Maiic·Aik4II Dikes in AroostooK Go~nf¥, Northeastern Mcl~ine @ Geochemical...Tholeiitic and Mafic-Alkalic Dikes in Aroostook County, Northeastern Maine By DAVID GOTTFRIED, RAYMOND MACDONALD...tholeiitic and mafic-alkalic dikes in Aroostook County, northeastern Maine. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin...Basalt-Maine-Aroostook County. 2. Dikes (Geology)-Maine-Aroostook County. 3. Geochemistry-Maine-Aroostook...took County. 4. Geological time. I. Gottfried, David. II. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1612-B 577.3 s [522'.26'097411]
Report (volume)
INTERIOR OCCURRENCE OF MANGANESE IN EASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY MAINE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 940-E -c UNITED...940-E OCCURRENCE OF MANGANESE IN EASTERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY, MAINE BY WALTER S. WHITE Strategic Minerals...and sections of the Presque Isle area, Aroostook County, Maine...................................... Geologic...in the southern half of the Houlton quadrangle, Maine......................... Outcrop map of an area...Hill area, Hodgdon, 'Maine.................................. 1.. Index map of Maine showing location of
Report (issue)
Foreland Basin Across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and Adjacent Areas Professional Paper 1624 U.S...Foreland Basin Across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and Adjacent Areas By Dwight C. Bradley, Robert...Foreland Basin across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and adjacent areas / Dwight C. Bradley... [et al...Includes bibliographical references. 1. Orogeny--Maine. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic--Silurian. 3. Geology...Stratigraphic--Devonian. 4. Geology, Structural--Maine. I. Bradley, Dwight Culver. II. QE75 .P9 v. 1624
Report (issue)
63130 4 Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 5-U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926A...Orogenesis............... 11 Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine and New Brunswick.................................................. 11 Fredericton Trough, Maine and New Brunswick ......................................Quadrangle, Maine.................................................................... 15 Central Maine Basin....... 17 Southwestern Moose River Synclinorium, Maine................................................
Report (edition)
BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Report (issue)
of the Maple and Hovey Mountains Area Aroostook County, Maine GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 362...of the Maple and Hovey Mountains Area Aroostook County, Maine By LOUIS PAVLIDES With a section on Lithology...a part of the Paleozoic terrane of northeastern Maine UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...the investigation____________ Geography of the Aroostook manganese belt- ______ History of discovery and...breccia______________________ Age and correlation of the Aroostook manganese beds ___-_--____-__--_---_----------_
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
derivative of orthosilicic acid. Andesites of the Aroostook Volcanic Area of ilaine. BY HERBERT E. GREGORY...area in the towns of Chapman, Mapleton, and Castle Hill, Aroostook Co., Maine. The andesites are Paleozoic...sometimes found. Exhaustive analyses show that the Maine andesites agree with the types of their class. No...the locality of the rubies described, is in Macon County, a few miles north of the town of Franklin. T h...a New ileteoric Iron found near Iredell, Bosque County, Texas, U. S. A. BY WARRENM. FOOTE. Am. J . Sci
Book
Geology of Maine. Conte11ts Preface vii Geology of Maine 7 Coastal Maine 25 Interstate 95 (Maine-furnpike)...tli S / Down East Maine: Bangor ;:incl Elli;worll1 to ( ,.i l:tic.; 1/S Maine 3, Maine 102, ancl rh(.;... Bangor (,a ln,s JOI Central Maine 707 M aine 5: Saco-Bethel / 14 Maine 26: Pegmatite Alley, Portland...ton / 49 Maine 7: Belfast-Dover-Foxcrofl I 57 Maine 15: Bangor-Abhot Village.: / 6 / Maine 11: Milo-Millinocket...ountains of Maine 17 3 U.S. 2: Skowhegan-Bcthc: I 179 M aine 4 : Farmington-Rangcley / 91 Maine 27: Farmington-C~oburn
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 ©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, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Seboomook Formation and Matagamon Sandstone, northern Maine: A flysch basin-margin delta complex.Bradford A...central Maine . Allan Ludman Pre-Silurian stratigraphic succession in central western Maine . Eugene... Boone Stratigraphy of the Belfast quadrangle, Maine .Charles E. Bickel Geochronologic contributions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be­ tween Inch Arran and Dalhousie Junction are biotite-augite andesites and latites. When fresh, these...phenocrysts of orthoclase, microperthite, oligoclase, biotite, augite, and black iron ore in a groundmass composed...Andesine....... Labradorite. . A B — A B C Biotite........... Hornblende. . Augite........... Hypersthene...to some pre-Cambrian rocks of New Brunswick and Maine. 491 RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER AREAS 1 There...connection with those of the contemporaneous Aroostook Series in Maine.11 Hillebrand’s analyses of the rocks
Report (issue)
stratigraphic and tectonic features of northeastern Maine, by Louis Pavlides, Ely Mencher, R. S. Naylor, and·...Foraminifera from Shell Bluff and Griffin Landings, Burke County, Ga., by S.M. Herrick________ 39 43 50 55 61 64...in rhyolitic tuff at Spor Mountain, western Juab County, Utah, by D. R. Shawe, Wayne Mountjoy, and Walter...the capture of the Yellow Dog River, Marquette County, Mich., by Kenneth Segerstrom______ 126 Ancient...sections of the Osgood Mountains quadrangle, Humboldt County, Nevada: U.S. Geol. Survey Mineral Inv. · Field
Report (issue)
as the pioneer in the geology of west-central Maine, for his expertise on the mineralogy of pegmatites...paleontology: two on the Merrimack Synclinorium in Maine and three on the so-called Pennsylvanian basins...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the...nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits of southeastern Maine, gravity studies of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series...polymetamorphism in the Merrimack synclinorium of western Maine ....... Robert H. Moench and Robert E. Zartman
Report (issue)
__ Middle Devonian plant fossils from northern Maine, by J. M. Schopf____________________________________________... Geochronology Radiometric ages of zircon and biotite in quartz diorite, Eights Coast, Antarctica, by..._ Suggested exploration target in west-central Maine, by F. C. Canney and E. V. Post_______________________________...and its use in ground-water studies in Niagara County, N.Y., by F. W. Trainer andJ. E. EddY---------...Cretaceous and pre-Eocene. 1\::-Ar radiometric ages of biotite (70-76 mi1lion years) of the batholith rocks are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are remarkably similar and compare well with the Maine A.S.T.M. card data on ferberites. The average chemical...these two species is provocative. State Check List Maine is justly famous for having produced a large number...Several authors have provided previous check lists of Maine minerals-Robinson (1825), Dana (1892), Perkins (1922-24)...formal state of Maine mineralogy book. Researchers who have X-ray and/or chemical data on Maine minerals, especially...maps showing proposed isograds. CHECK LIST OF MAINE MINERALS acanthite—Acton, Franklin, Gouldsboro,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Society members and guests. - - - - The Middlesex County Mineral Club, Inc. Moodus, had a special program...subject of a recent meeting. GEORGIA The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta with 23 members...Gem Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, a recent program consisted of movies...to speak before various groups. 923 MAINE The Coastal Maine Mineral Club, journeyed to Moat Mountain...Hampshire, was visited for apatite, autunite, beryl, biotite, garnet, loellingite, quartz (clear, rose milky)
Book
REMARKABLE MINERAL LOCALITY AT BRANCHVILLE, IN FAIKFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT ; WITH A DE- SCRIPTION OF SEVERAL...ON MORDENITE. NEW By COPPER MINERAL. HEBRON, MAINE. By H. ON ARGYRODITE AND ITS 168 176 ITS OCCURRENCE...SAN BERNARDINO By J. H. Pratt AND HANKSITE FROM COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. ON WELLSITE, A NEW MINERAL. J. ...AND ITS OCCURRENCE WITH BERTRANDITE AT OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE. By ON 287 S. L. Penfield CLINOHEDRITE... 457 ANDESITES OF THE AROOSTOOK VOLCANIC Herbert E. Gregory AREA OF MAINE. By 467 PART I. -MINERALOGY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aegirine-augite, titaniferous augite, analcite, apatite, biotite, magnetite, nontronite, titanite, chlorite, and...from Kokaryo. The fourth type from Toshiryo lacks biotite and contains natrolite, but in other respects is...or labradorite. The felspars enclose magnetite, biotite, and apatite. Titaniferous augite is abundant in...often surrounded by a narrow fringe of aegirine. Biotite is an important mineral in the specimens from Rokkutsu...variety which frequently has a reaction rim of biotite. It partly alters to leucoxene or titanite. Analcite
Report (issue)
Mar. 3, 1917)...... . (B) The N e~ngton moraine, Maine, ' New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, by F Katz and...MapofNewEnglandcoastalregio~fromPlum Island, Mass., to Casco Bay, Maine, showing distribution of moraine and outwash deposits.... ·.... . 12 v. A, B, Gravel pit in Biddeford, Maine~ ..... ~ .........................................Moraine front and outwash, Merriland Ridge,. Wells, Maine .......... ~ ·. ; .......... . VII. South side of...of railroad cut across Merriland Ridge, Wells, Maine ........................... . 16· VIII. A, West
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BITS FROM SOCIETY BULLETINS MIAIN'E The Central Maine Mineral Club explored a small pit known for the...Mineral Club, Farmington, heard Ronald J. Kley of the Maine State Museum discuss the past, present and future...he wishes to discuss. . . . . The St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club, Potsdam, is another of the...Rock and Mineral Tompki~s County Gem and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Club, Ithaca. ....Bulletin was used to apprise the memRock Club, Mapleton Depot. . . . . Anbers of details for this trip
Report (issue)
mining district Virginia City mining district Mapleton mine Browns Gulch area Alameda-Cornucopia-U.S...Altered, biotite-rich layer, perhaps containing vermiculite Altered, intensely folded biotite AHK0045...Fine-grained chromite ore ofNW1/4ofsec. 10.T.2S., R.6W. Mapleton mine; NW14 of SE!4 of Limonitic quartz vein from...heterogeneity. Ultramafic rocks, amphibolite, and biotite gneiss from the area of the Elk Creek vermiculite...of biotite in quartzofeldspathic gneiss at the contact of the ultramafic bodies, where a biotite schist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Bill) Acord Bowdoin Center Rd., RFD # 2 Litchfield, Maine 04350 Editor— Mrs. David (Alison) Watkins EFMLS... bulletin of the Mittel Appalachia Rock Club, Mapleton Depot, de­ voted a lot of space to the geology...Group of the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, met under the leadership of Bob...sented Member Chet Kunsman of the Imperial Polk County Gem and Min­ eral Society, Lake Wales, presented...Cornell University when guest speaker at the Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca. Member Roger Geer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the occurrence of granite-felsophyre in Alleghany County, Virginia, and several dikes of basalt near the...the State line on the north, in Pendleton County, West Virgima. Recent investigations by the writers, assisted...espe­ cially in the vicinity of Monterey,8 Highland County, the dikes are numerous. Of the six rock types...limited area in the vicinity of Monterey, Highland County, while those of nepheline syenite, teschenite,...narrow lim its in the northern part of Augusta County. The distribution of the dikes is shown on map
Journal (issue)
....................... FIELD MUSEUM ACQUIRES MAPLETON METEORITE........ 306 311 314 318 320 CLUB AND...Magnetite Mine. 6 miles N. of Peekskill, Westchester County, N. Y. Tourmaline Strickland Pegmatite Quarry,...Collins Hill, 2½ miles N . E. of Portland, Middlesex County, Conn. Allanite N. W. Slope of the ( " Bald") Friar...Amherst County, Va. Uraninite Edwin Feldspar Co~p. Mine. Headwaters Crabtree Creek, Yancey County, N. C...Montgomery and was formerly fed to a battery of County, Maryland" (Trans. Am. Inst. 10 California stamps
 
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