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Plagioclase from
Bakersville, Cane Creek Section, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA


Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bakersville, Cane Creek Section, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:241141
Long-form Identifier:1:3:241141:5
GUID (UUID V4):97785b86-6149-46d4-97b0-64b2794d2c32
References
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Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK SEPTEMBER 29-30, 1990 GEOLOGY OF GRENVILLE-AGE BASEMENT...CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA BY CARL E. MERSCHAT AND LEONARD S. WIENER NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...OBTAINED FROM NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P.O. BOX 27687 RALEIGH, N.C. 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...President: H. Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources Commission Greenville, South Carolina Vice-President:...Geology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr
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CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK October 21 – 23, 1983 GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN...IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTHWE3STERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by Sharon E. Lewis Virginia Division of Mineral...guidebook may be obtained from: Geological Survey Section Division of Land Resources, N.C. Department of...NRCD Post Office Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1983 OFFICERS...South Carolina 29613 Vice-President: John J. Chapman Department of Earth Science Western Carolina University
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OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: KEVIN G. STEWART MARK G. ADAMS CHARLES H. TRUPE CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Loren Raymond Banner Elk, North Carolina September 26-28, 1997 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1997 FIELD...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Kevin G. Stewart Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel... Trupe Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 TABLE OF CONTENTS...Evolution Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Complex, Western North Carolina ..........................................
Report (volume)
Spruce Pine District ! Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...with the Min\ eral Resources Division of the North \ Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Spruce Pine District Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina By DONALD A. BROBST ! CONTRIBUTIONS...with the Mineral Resources Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...map of Spruce Pine pegmatite district, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties, N.C.__________________ In
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North Carolina State Library jleigh ( f t NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN RALEIGH...RALEIGH 1958 G. CONRAD Norffe Carolir* St** NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD...Jefferson F. J. BOLING Siler City H. C. BUCHAN, JR North Wilkesboro SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR Spruce Pine VOIT
Report (chapter)
Blue Ridge ophiolites, Southern Appalachian Orogen, USA LOREN A. RAYMOND 1, S A M U E L JAMES E. SWANSON... Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA (e-mail: raymondla@appstate.edu) 2Department o f...Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Abstract: Resolution of the petrotectonic history...MHT, Mars Hill Terrane; NC, North Carolina; GA, Georgia; SC, South Carolina; TN, Tennessee. Numbered and...Woody; 5, Webster-Addle; 6, Corundum Hill; 7, Buck Creek; 8, Hoots. e, locations of additional meta-ultramafic
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the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee By BRUCE BRYANT and JOHN C. REED...______ ____________________ _____ 10 10 Wilson Creek Gneiss ------------------------Megascopic features...granite gneiss _______________ 36 40 41 21 26 Bakersville Gabbro ------------------------ 41 Quartz porphyry...Chilhowee Group --------------------------- 45 Slices north of the Grandfather Mountain window ------------...belts in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, and southern Virginia. 4. Geologic section and simple Bouguer
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c\ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT BY JOHN M. PARKER, III GEOLOGICAL...SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT By M. PARKER, III Geological...BETWEEN THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
namely: in Maryland, Connecticut, New Mexico, and North Carolina. The Geological Survey, United States Department...severallocalities in each of California, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Washington' The determined...on the east side of Saline Valley, Inyo County'2 A thin section of a specimen,kindly furnished by Dr. Joseph...375(1941). Connecticut At Haddam, in Middlesex County, on the top of Walkley llill' across the Connecticut...Murdoch, Joseph, and Webb, R. W., Bustamite from Inyo County, California : Atn. M ineral., 21, 69-70 (1936)
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BULLETIN NUMBER 47 FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA By CHARLES E. HUNTER UncleT the...-------------·--·----·--------·--------- 57 Bakersville Deposit ----------------------------- _______...Analysis ------------------------------~--------- 86 Cane Creek D ep osi t ----------------------------------------------------...Ellijay Creek ---------------------------------------------------------------- 100 OF NORTH CAROLINA AND..._ 107 Buck Creek-Shooting Creek Area-------------------------------------- 107 Buck Creek Deposit---
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NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WILLIAM DIVISION JASPER P. OF L. SAUNDERS, MINERAL...RESOURCES GEOLOGIST Circular 16 LOCALITIES NORTH OF CAROLINA BY JAMES F. CONLEY Doc NC DENR LIBRARY...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MINERAL COLLECTING IN NORTH CAROLINA , . . . . # . WHERE TO COLLECT f ... f ......THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY COUNTIES . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ......... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 7 Emerald, Hiddenite and Associated Minerals
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Carolina Geological Society 2008 Fieldtrip and Annual Meeting, Little Switzerland, North Carolina October...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________...__ Carolina Geological Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders...Sponsors Active Minerals International, LLC Imerys North America Ceramics Unimin Corporation Vulcan Materials...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of eclogites from the Eastern Blue Ridge, North Carolina, USA F. Z. PAGE, E. J. ESSENE AND S. B. MUKASA...C.C. Little Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1063, USA (fpage@umich.edu) ABSTRACT The prograde metamorphism...metamorphism. Eclogites from the Eastern Blue Ridge of North Carolina retain evidence of their prograde path in the...These eclogites, from the vicinity of Bakersville, North Carolina, USA are primarily comprised of garnet...garnet–clinopyroxene–rutile–hornblende–plagioclase–quartz. Quartz, clinopyroxene, hornblende, rutile, epidote
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North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905
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FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth U.S. Geological Survey...Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade,...FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth INTRODUCTION AND GEOLOGIC...approximately nine days were spent mapping the north shore of Fontana Lake in November, 1993, when more...Valley Authority (TVA) map is on file with the North Carolina Geological Survey in Asheville (L.S. Wiener
Book
MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolina’s Hidden Mineralogical Treasures...E L L 2005 PARKWAY PUBLISHERS, INC. Boone, North Carolina Copyright ©1999 Lowell Presnell All Rights...Mines, miners, and minerals of western North Carolina : western North Carolina’s hidden mineralogical treasures...(hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina—History. I. Title. TN24.N8P74 2005 338.4‚7622‚09756—dc22...Domestic Mica Buying Policy 111 20. Western North Carolina & the War Years .119 21. The Mineral Kingdom
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.'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section P. O. Box 27687 Raleigh. N. C. 27611 1823 --~- GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SECTION The Geological...Geological Survey Section shall, by law"...make such examination, survey, and mapping of the geology, mineralogy
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Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Community Development Geological Survey Section P. O. Box 27687 Raleigh. N. C. 27611 & ^5 o Z M' tsS...about the Section please write: Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in...crystals have also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, RincĂłn, and...near Statesville, North Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of...pegmatite of the Eight Mile Park area of Fremont county, Colorado; while pink chalcedony has been found
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Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...Knoxville l°x2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina 2. Paleozoic metamorphic facies map
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
conditions. Eclogite from the Eastern Blue Ridge, North Carolina, contains clinopyroxene (Jd20CaTs5Ac5CaEs0Di65Hd5)...Eclogite from the Eastern Blue Ridge (EBR) of North Carolina, USA (Willard and Adams 1994; Adams et al. 1995;...Photomicrographs of garnet and pyroxene from the Bakersville eclogite. (a) Inclusions of quartz and rutile...Eclogite was described in this region near Bakersville, North Carolina (Willard and Adams 1994; Adams et al...retrogressed eclogite was reported near Boone, North Carolina (Abbott and Greenwood 2001). These localities
Report (issue)
Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Upper Precambrian rocks______________________ Bakersville Gabbro_________________________ Ocoee Series
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Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping ïŹnancial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and ïŹeld checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat
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be tinted gray, green, red; colorless in thin section; may be opalescent or iridescent. Streak: White...Powder Pattern: Petrick quarry, Llano Co., Texas, USA (low). 3.18 (100), 4.03 (80), 3.20 (80), 3.76 (70)...modi¯cations are recognized. Feldspar group, plagioclase series. Occurrence: Common in granite, syenite...Bavaria, Germany. On Tenerife, Canary Islands. In the USA, at Fine and Macomb, St. Lawrence Co., New York;...Pennsylvania; near Hawk, east of Bakersville, Mitchell Co., North Carolina. At Lake Harbour, Ba±n Island
 
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