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Quartz from
Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:243003
Long-form Identifier:1:3:243003:4
GUID (UUID V4):89a9f9c6-7f36-41d2-8323-a47850bea332
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
6.5km (4.1 miles) Lane Quarry, Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Vernon, Windham County, Vermont, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Cheapside Quarry (East Deerfield Quarry; Trew Corp. Quarry), Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
12.3km (7.7 miles) Guilford, Windham County, Vermont, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) Mount Grace, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) Orange mica mine, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Richmond Soapstone Quarry, Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
25.7km (16.0 miles) Davis Pyrite Mine, Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
26.5km (16.5 miles) Mary Louise Copper Mine, Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
27.4km (17.0 miles) Dummerston granite quarry, Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
METAMORPHOSED MIDDLE PALEOZOIC FOSSILS FROM CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS, EASTERN VERMONT, AND WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE...most recently used to date the Bernardston Formation in Massachusetts probably came from Lower Devonian...(chlorite zone) in Nova Scotia, and not from Bernardston, Massachusetts. Restudy of the faunule from the calcareous...calcareous quartzite (garnet zone) of the Bernardston Formation indicates that it is probably of Silurian...fossiliferous zone in the lower part of the Bernardston Formation is possibly equivalent to the upper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERAL SHOW HELD SUNDAY, MAY, 1,1966 IN GILL, MASSACHUSETTS By EARL R. MELENDY Downloaded by [University...Falls Rocks and Mineral Club (Vt.) and The Franklin County Mineral club (Mass.) A fourth club was represented...represented. This was the Litchfield County Mineral Club of Torrington, Conn., who presented mineral exhibits...praiseworthy attention. An exhibit of Herkimer Co., N . Y. quartz crystals by Henry Ingram, Gill, Mass.—An exhibit...Carolyn Shores, Bernardston, Mass.; Mr. Henry Ingram, Gill, Mass.; Mr. William Shores, Bernardston, Mass.; Mr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
xls on massive smoky quartz. "Romerite on quartz. Island Mountain, Trinity County, Calif."—on label. Island...Island Mountain, in the S / W corner of Trinity County, is in N . California. CONNECTICUT—"I have been...common knowledge. I have seen quartz lined pockets in the trap rock—some quartz is amethyst and very nice...Middletown and Meriden are in northern New Haven County in central Connecticut. ILLINOIS—From George A...gray geode. The other was a group of tiny, slender quartz xls (stained brown by limonite). "The locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
m & Mineral Society Annual Show at Tippe­ canoe County Fairgrounds, T e a l R d . , Lafay­ ette, Ind....& Mineral Show sponsored by Franklin County Mineral Club of Massachusetts ( H o s t ) Bellows Falls Rock...of N . H . T o be h e l d at Bernardston T o w n H a l l , Bernardston, Mass. Show Chairman: Gene Mason...Mineral Societies, 5th A n n u a l Show. Adams County Fairgrounds, west o n 124th off U . S . 85. Chairmen:...Mineral Show at Futuristic H a l l , O l m s t e d County Fairgrounds, Roches­ ter, M i n n . Show Chairman:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology and Geography,University of Massachusetts,Amherst, Massachusetts01003, U.S.A. Prrnn J...the Skitchewauglevel proved to belong to the Bernardston nappe beneath the Skitchewaug.Although shearedand...Brennan Hill thrust, which in turn cuts into the Bernardston fold nappe below. Stratigraphic and structural...and overturned gneiss domes in west-central Massachusetts. Metamorphic studies show different P-Tpaths...bed of quartz-phyric rhyolite tuf near the baseof the formation at Bernardston, Massachusetts(Tucker
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERAL SHOW HELD SUNDAY, MAY, 1,1966 IN GILL, MASSACHUSETTS By EARL R. MELENDY Downloaded by [University...Falls Rocks and Mineral Club (Vt.) and The Franklin County Mineral club (Mass.) A fourth club was represented...represented. This was the Litchfield County Mineral Club of Torrington, Conn., who presented mineral exhibits...praiseworthy attention. An exhibit of Herkimer Co., N . Y. quartz crystals by Henry Ingram, Gill, Mass.—An exhibit...Carolyn Shores, Bernardston, Mass.; Mr. Henry Ingram, Gill, Mass.; Mr. William Shores, Bernardston, Mass.; Mr
Report (issue)
^he Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts A. The Pre-Silurian Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone B. Stratigraphy...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-A-D The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor A. The Pre-Silurian...Jr. and Rolfe S. Stanley [etc.] 1. Geology Massachusetts. I. Hatch, Norman L. II. Series: Geological...a companion to the bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen and others, 1983; hereafter referred to... Geological Survey and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was begun in 1938. They also include
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...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAP OF THE TRIASSIC IN Massachusetts. 1891 . ": ~GN>nir• Schistl ';! ~ ~ !Jroltte Gneiu BULLETIN...17 A p r i l 23, 1891 ON TH E TRIASSIC OF MASSACHUSETTS. B Y B E N J A M IN K . EM ERSON. (Read before...and explanation of the Triassic deposits of Massachusetts somewhat uncertain. They have been explained... 452 B . K . EM EBSON— ON T H E TRIASSIC OF MASSACHUSETTS. fruitful discussions of Professor Davis concerning...coarse dark mica-schists, dark phyllites and the Bernardston series of Devonian quartzites, and mica and hornblende
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... .72 C. Section C: Occurrences...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle...Bedrock geology of the Massachusetts portion of the Bernardston Quadrangle, Massachusetts-Vermont: U.S. Geological
Book (volume)
Me., locations of specimens collected in Coos county, Section lake to the Fig. 30 Mount Desert...of the Helderberg area, from Brattleboro' to Bernardston, XIX, Sections Helderberg area, illustrating...Sections by J. south-east corner of Bernardston, hill, hill, Bernardston, hill to . . north part of...observations map of Bruns- The au- in the four Massachusetts of 1844, Pcrcival's published attempt first...the north-east, partly in Connecticut and Massachusetts, are Formations as Laurentian by Profs. Hall
Report (volume)
SURVEY No. 116 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY CATALOGUE SLIPS. United States. Department...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | hy | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...topographer. XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Raphael Pnnipelly, J. E. Wolff, and T. Nelson
Report (volume)
MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON...after .olivine ............. FiG. 1. Garnet, with quartz iuclosures.......................................Geological Survey, a inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon...States Geological A MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B....within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is
Report (issue)
............... ... Cambrian Schist in Orleans County ....................... ......... Cause of Rill............... ...... ............. .181 Orleans County ........................ ............. 29 Trenton................................... 1(0 t;-i , ns County Dikes of ......... ...... ......... ..................... 72 Wolff, J. E. on Geology of Rutland County......................... 74 STATE OF VERMONT....D., Field Geologist. Professor of Geology, Massachusetts Agricultural College. E. F. CONWAY, Field Assistant
Book (edition)
CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
largely made up of zoisite and andalusite (?) with quartz and magnetite. Another, four feet from the granite...feet from the great Greenfield sheet a typical quartz-garnet-hornfels can be found, but from that rock...the molar contact. It is a compact aggregate of quartz and garnet with a large admixture of a colorless...exhibit a very marked granophyric intergrowth of the quartz and feldspar of the matrix. This micrographic development...rhyolites; the well-known " felsites " of eastern Massachusetts furnish a good example., 3. An analogous appearance
Report (volume)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH...SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
section along the Connecticut River from the Massachusetts line to Haverhill; and from Haverhill to the...Mountains are made out to be an immense mass of quartz rock. There seems to be an important element of...these rocks may not be repetitions of the granular quartz and Stockbridge limestone. Other facts show that... 1884. 2 Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts. Monograph XXIII. of the U. S. G. S. 3JOURNALOF...and one-half miles to the inch, to match the Massachusetts work of Simeon Borden in 1842, adding to hisdelineations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineraldeposition studies.................... 517' The Bernardston magnetite deposit ....................... Variation...The FIG. I. Photograph of polished slab of Bernardston magnetite ore showing banding found in many metasomaticdeposits...Photomicrographsshowing replacementof massivebarite by quartz and encrustationof barite platesoccurringin open...concave marginalindentationsdueto replacement by quartz (white). Restoration of the linear outlinesshowsthis... It has considerable golden-colored veiningof quartz,muscovite, and hastingsite,sometimesat a pronouncedangle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Complex crops out from north of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to the area surrounding Mount Pawtuckaway State...O NT Portland Portsmouth Odioiiics Point MASSACHUSETTS black shales. Elsewhere in New England and...clearly reflected by the distribution of a Si­ lurian quartz-pebble conglomerate and quartzite (a beach deposit)...chordate) have been found in samples from Bernardston, Massachusetts, and in Littleton, New Hampshire (Harris...coal deposits (Wor­ cester, Massachusetts; Narragansett Basin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island) to fossil
Report (volume)
England. Illinois. Iowa. Kentucky. Maine. Massachusetts. New Jersey." New York. Ohio and Indiana. Pennsylvania...New Jersey, DAVIS and WOOD. Fossils in Columbia County, New Geology of Lasseu Peak district, DILYork,...Mexico, WHITE, C. A. SHALER. Fossils in Dutchess County, New Thickness of rocks in Central New York, DWIGHT...FOERSTE. ginia, DARTON. DILLER. Soda-granite and quartz-keratoBlandford's address to Geological Sophyre... WILLIAMS, G. H. Gold-bearing rocks in Halifax County FARIBAULT. Lalce Superior to Lake Huron region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ocr., weekends only. World's largest deposit of quartz conglomerate. Paths lead through these massive...golden capillary filaments and groups of crystals on quartz from Kentucky, $1.25 to $2.00. Chalcotrichite,...Buccaroo Mine. Beautiful galena & silver in white quartz carrying gold & silver. Limited amount and cannot...offer of 12 Ibs. made up of amazonite - star rose quartz - Canadian moonstone - salmon pink feldspar. Full...Quadeville P.O., Ontario, Canada. May 4, 1969 Bernardston, Mass. GOLD Crystalline type, $2.00. Placer,
Field Trip Notes
inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....end of the Green Mountains near North Adams, Massachusetts, the Vermont Valley sequence is in contact with...south* The quartzite north of Williamstown, Massachusetts p where Walcott (1888) found trilobite fragments
Journal (issue)
discovered in the Proterozoic marbles of St. Lawrence County, New York, have been reported on recently (Isachsen...Hitchcock mapping party, reporting on the Orleans County area, concurred essentially with Hitchcock's age...townships extending from the Canadian to the Massachusetts border in eastern Vermont in the early part..."lenticular bodies" of greenstone interbedded with quartz conglomerate and with random distribution in the...in coarsely crystalline calcite in a matrix of quartz, diopside, grossularite and hornblende, a mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEVENTH SUMMER MEETING, HELD AT SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, AUGUST 27 AND 28, 1895 H e rm a n L e R oy............. 2 Geology of old Hampshire county, in Massachusetts [abstract] ; by B. K. Emerson...........been recognized as far south as Gloucester, Massachusetts, but the influence of what was probably the...the Merrimack river at Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts, and Manchester, New Hampshire; on the Connecticut...Connecticut at Holyoke, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and Bellows Falls, New Hampshire. 7. With a submergence
 
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