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Albite from
Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:243765
Long-form Identifier:1:3:243765:1
GUID (UUID V4):eca307c7-0679-464b-960a-6a9010204c64
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
11.0km (6.8 miles) Aggregate Industries Quarry (Bayer-Mingolla Quarry; Trimount Quarry), Ashland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) Blanchard Quarries, Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) Indian Head Hill, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) Lynch Quarry (Quinn Quarry), Berkeley, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
25.6km (15.9 miles) Interstate 290/Interstate 495 interchange road cuts, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
32.7km (20.3 miles) West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry (West Roxbury Trap Rock Co. Quarry; Grove St. Quarry), West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
34.8km (21.6 miles) Manton Avenue Quarry (Manton Quarry; Violet Hill Quarry), Manton, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
35.5km (22.1 miles) Interstate 295 / US Route 6 road cuts, Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedham Zone,
Report (issue)
Geology of the land area of the Boston 2° sheet, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 10- New Hampshire... 16 17 18 U. S. Geological Survey Boston, Massachusetts 19 ,U. S. Geological Survey* OPEN FILE REPORT...GEOLOGY OF THE LAND AREA OF THE BOSTON 2° SHEET, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE...of Rhode 7 Island. 8 the Oxford, Grafton, Milford, and Blackstone quadrangles. 9 10- They underlie...intrusive rocks. 22 Northbridge is cut by the Milford Granite (Emerson, 1917), that has 23 been assigned
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON............................................ Worcester County, Mass.......................................member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...ZONE 12 ROCKS IN THE NASHUA RIVER AREA 15 WORCESTER FORMATION 18 Nomenclature, Historical Background...Description 38 275- TO 280-M.Y.-OLD GRANITE IN THE MILFORD-MASON, N.H., AREA________ :~ 39 Nomenclature...Retrograde alteration of andalusite schists -io Worcester Formation 97 Staurolite-Kyanite/Andalusite (Actinolite)...SYNTHESIS 102 ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION 108 Worcester Formation 108 Merrimack and Oakdale Formations
Report (volume)
BUL.L.ETIN 354 CHIEF COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND BY T. NELSON................. Massachusetts................................................. Milford..................Descriptions of the granites and quarries Continued. Massachusetts Continued. Quincy.............................quarries........................................... Milford..................................................of granite and gneiss, Milford, N. H.; B, Pegmatite dikes, Young quarry, Milford, N. H................
Report (volume)
___ 89 Waldoboro, Maine____________________ Milford, N. H________________________ Westerly and Charlestown...___ 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 __._.____________________
Report (issue)
Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E.
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
Report (volume)
..................... 26 Contact rocks on the Milford granite................................... 26 General....................... 29 Contact effect of the Milford granite on inclosed Cambrian schists at the Saylesville...towns of Sutton, Northbridge, and Douglas, in Massachusetts, and extends southward across western Rhode...the Cambrian rocks is greatly interrupted in Massachusetts by broad areas of intruded granite, and farther...O., Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts, 1880, pp. 127-128. PKE-CAMBRIAK KOCKS. V
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...1987 with only limited collecting possible since: albite* (cleavelandite), allanite-(Ce) (microcrystals)...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 P. O. BANKS Department of Earth Sciences...as the subaerial alkalic granites of eastern Massachusetts. The Gulf of Maine lies within the Avalon Platform...greenschist facies, and it is exposed in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island as well as in the Maritime...K-feldspar; the perthite consists of thin veins of albite oriented parallel to (001) that produce a herringbone...the low-albite microcline perthite may have inverted from initially Carlsbad twinned low-albite orthoclase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...Aquamarine (8.8 cm long), Black Panther mine, Riverside County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil...8 cm long), Blue Lady mine, Aquanga, San Diego County, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil
Journal (issue)
News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...Fifties, i.e. chiastolite crystals from Madera County, CA. They used to be very common, almost ubiquitous...Manhattan, NV, from the Twin Creek Mine, Humboldt County, NV. The crystals are about 3/g to 5/g inch (1...with fresnoites from the Junnila Mine, San Benito County, CA, which he described in the Mineral News of...Foma~ite from the Singer Mine. Goodsprings, Clark County. Ne,·adi 14-5:1.6,7 American Lands Access ASSO<'iation
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
......................................... 4H2 Milford granite..........................................feature of the petrology of th<; eastern part of Massachusetts and which reach their most important development...particularly for that part of the map which lies in Massachusetts and in the vicinity of the Blackstone River...Rock granite Fiue granite Grants Mills granite Milford granite m Qnartz diorite C u m bei In u d ite...porphyry dikes. Middle Devonian. Quartz diorite. Milford granite. Grants Mills granite, including fine granite
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
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 1380 Prepared in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works A facies change and...in southwest Massachusetts are described) and correlations between western Massachusetts and Connecticut...----------Stratigraphic section of western Massachusetts ------------------Hoosac Formation ________...------------------------------------Summary of Massachusetts section -------------------------Discussion...------Southington, Mount Carmel, Ansonia, and Milford quadrangles__ Naugatuck quadrangle -----------
Report (issue)
and the exterior of the handsome city hall and county court-house building at Minneapolis, erected at...the United Presbyterian Church (interior) at Worcester, Mass.; Spokane Club building, Spokane, Wash.;...number of such quarries have been opened in Llano County, and the experience of quarrymen has shown that...extensively quarried at Granite Mountain, Burnet County. In Llano County Teich's quarry No. 2 has produced stone...The coarse-grained granite of southwestern Llano County will probably some day be utilized. There is an
Catalog/List
8 ^ Mineralogkal Cabinet, 82. L. Chester, Massachusetts. Massive; ofa pale green color in granite...Limestone. Chem. Carbonate of Lime. Bolton, Massachusetts. Chaux carbonatce primitive. H. St. Andreasberg...Southampton, Massachusetts. Var. Argentine or Shief- fer-spar. 127. L. Williamsburgh, Massachusetts. 128...Ireland. Var. Marble. Bituminous limestone 169. L. Milford, Connecticut. 160. L. Egypt. MPMMII Var. Marble...carbonate of lime, upon quartz. 201. L. Berkshire, Massachusetts. tals, imbedded 202. L. Connecticut. In
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
products to melt sites via reaction-zone networks, Milford Sound, New Zealand P. BLATTNER Institute of Geological...gabbroic/dioritic Pembroke Hornblende Granulite (PHG) of Milford Sound displays a geometrically simple mesoscopic...Only in these areas are Na and Si reconstituted as albite, with more garnet as byproduct, having avoided...partial melt melanosomes – were inherited by the Milford Gneiss ÔfaciesÕ of the PHG. Key words: garnet melanosome;...In the Mt Pembroke massif immediately north of Milford Sound, an area of c. 30 km2 of Pembroke Hornblende
Journal (issue)
was drawn to an area of orange-stained friable albite, on the right side and back from the face, well...for nearly half an hour, getting some fairly good albite crystal clusters. Noting that a big slab above...cabinet-size (about 16x 14x6-cm) cluster of glassy white albite crystals with elongated-hexagon books (8-cm, maximum...quartz crystal, and then some smaller (3-5 cm) albite crystal clusters with small blue apatite prisms...glassy white albite crystals. One of the apatites (3-cm long) extends through the albite and is doubly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Huntington State Park, off Codfish H i l l Road exit: albite, bertrandite, columbite, quartz, schorl. Nearby...r r y , B r a n c h v i l l e , Mountain Road: albite and muscovite mixture (obsolete: cymatolite), beryl...( T ) , m i x t u r e o f eucryptite ( T ) and albite (obsolete: (3spodumene), fairfieldite ( T ) , fillowite... Dodgingtown, Newtown, off Purdy Station Road: albite, bertrandite, beryl, quartz, including var. smoky...pegmatite q u a r r y , Ridgefield, off Ramapoo Road: albite, bertrandite, beryl, lepidolite, spodumene, stilbite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Element Deposits in the Goodsprings District, Clark County, Nevada PETER VIKRE,1,† QUENTIN J. BROWNE,2 ROBERT...94305-2115 Abstract The Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada, includes zinc-dominant carbonate replacement...33) that reflect proportions of K-feldspar and albite phenocrysts and megacrysts as well as partial alteration...biotite phenocrysts are present in several subtypes. Albite may have formed during emplacement of magma in... Introduction THE GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT, Clark County, Nevada, is notable for the wide distribution,
Report (issue)
facies metamorphic rocks. Association: Garnet, albite, biotite, \hornblende," quartz, calcite. Distribution:...Trondheim, Norway. In the USA, at Goshen and Williamsburg, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; in the Keystone quarry...quarry, near Cornog, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; at Milford Heights, Baltimore Co., Maryland. From around Spruce
 
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