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Quartz from
Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:303350
Long-form Identifier:1:3:303350:0
GUID (UUID V4):e6019501-9425-448a-a7a0-50980244a9b6
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Baraboo Quartzite Company; Inc. (Baraboo Quarry), Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
Devils Lake State Park, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
Jessie Quarry (Jesse Pit), Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
8.1km (5.1 miles) ⓘBaraboo Quartzite Company; Inc. (Baraboo Quarry), Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) ⓘJessie Quarry (Jesse Pit), Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) ⓘUnnamed drill hole, North Freedom Village, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
9.7km (6.0 miles) ⓘBaxter's Hollow, Sampler, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) ⓘWilliams Quarry, Columbia County, Wisconsin, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) ⓘLaRue Quarry, North Freedom Village, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) ⓘMartin Marietta Aggregates Rock Springs Quarry, Rock Springs Village (Ableman), Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
47.8km (29.7 miles) ⓘDoylestown lead diggings, Doylestown, Columbia County, Wisconsin, USA
50.3km (31.2 miles) ⓘMontello Granite Quarry (Montello Granite Company; Inc.), Marquette County, Wisconsin, USA
51.2km (31.8 miles) ⓘDemby-Weist Mine, Ridgeway, Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, Iowa County, Wisconsin, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Revisiting the Paleoproterozoic Baraboo interval in southern Wisconsin: Evidence for syn-depositional...Zambito IVa a b Wisconsin Geologic and Natural History Survey, University of Wisconsin- Extension, 3817...Point Road, Madison, WI 53705-5100, USA University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Geoscience, Weeks... Madison, WI 53706, USA A R T I C LE I N FO A B S T R A C T Keywords: Baraboo interval Dake Quartzite...Statherian Baraboo Quartzite (1710–1650 Ma) is present in the Baraboo Ranges, Wisconsin, USA. It is one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This diagram represents the orientations of the quartz grains in a sample ol qu,artz schist. The specimen... High concentration. Quartz schist. Petrofabric diagram of a specimen of quartz schist from Freiburg...Freiburg, Saxony, with 93 quartz axes. The contour intervals.are 0, 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6 and 7,8 and 9, 10 and 11...zone test is .048. Slide E-10 6, University of Wisconsin petrographic collection. concentration. The heaviest...concentration. It represents the orientations of some quartz axes in a specimenof deformed quartzite. In comparison
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LAKE, WISCONSIN ARTHUR C. TROWBRIDGE University of Iowa The vicinity of Devils Lake, Wisconsin, has long...and mile broad, situated in Sauk County, Wisconsin, 3 miles south of Baraboo, 40 miles north by northwest...pp. 177-78. 344 THE HISTORY OF DEVILS LAKE, WISCONSIN 345 ridges or "ranges," known respectively as...Range. These are the outcropping edges of the hard Baraboo quartzite formation which forms here an asymmetric...areas of flattish land at I,200 feet, 400 feet below Sauk Point, which is the highest point in the district
Report (issue)
PAPER 106 THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN WITH A CHAPTER ON THE OLDER ROCK FORMATIONS BY...Paper 106 QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN WITH A CHAPTER ON THE OLDER ROCK FORMATIONS BY............................................... Wisconsin Eiver............................................................................ Fox River (Wisconsin).......................................................................................... 56 Baraboo district......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEPTEMBER 1964 FRANCONIA FORMATION OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN By ROBERT R. BERG ABSTRACT The Upper Cambrian...formation in southeast Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin consists of glauconitic, quartzose sandstones...Valley Dunn County Mississippi Valley Buffalo River Valley Houston to Adams counties Baraboo area Wisconsin...868 4. St. Croix Valley cross section 872 5. Dunn County cross section 872 6. Mississippi Valley cross section.... 873 8. Buffalo Valley cross section 873 9. Wisconsin Valley cross section 873 Facing Plate page 1.
Report (volume)
Meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, Hew York, to Bradford,County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. Williams......................... PART I. Enlargements of quartz fragments and genesis of qnartzites, by R. D. Jrving...iron-bearing series of the Penokee region of Wisconsin....... In the slates of the Saint Louis River.... In the qnartzite formation of the Baraboo region of Wisconsin...... In the qnartzite formation of Southern...39 40 41 41 In the Saint Peter's sandstone of Wisconsin........................ 41 In the Eureka quartzite
Report (issue)
Age and Structure of Proterozoic Quartzites in Wisconsin U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1904-B AVAILABILITY...Age and Structure of Proterozoic Quartzites in Wisconsin By GENE L LABERGE, J.S. KLASNER, and PAUL E. MYERS...age and structure of Proterozoic quartzites in Wisconsin / by Gene L. LaBerge, J.S. Klasner, and Paul E...Quartzite Wisconsin. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic Proterozoic. 3. Geology, Structural Wisconsin. I. LaBerge...occurrences Hamilton Mounds B3 Necedah area B6 Baraboo area B6 Waterloo area BIO Vesper quarry Bll Veedum
Book
Dorr Jr JOHN W. ATTIG © ROADSIDE EOLOGY of WISCONSIN Digitized by the Internet Archive In 2022 with...org/details/roadsidegeologyoOO00O0dott SADSIDE EOLOGY of WISCONSIN Robert H. Dott, Jr., and John W. Attig © 2004...Cover art and illustrations by Susan L. Hunt, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey The authors’...the sale of this book go to the University of Wisconsin—Madison Department of Geology and Geophysics to...Dott, Robert H., 1929-— Roadside geology of Wisconsin / Robert H. Dott, Jr. and John W. Attig. p. cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
......................................... 728 Baraboo ra n ge..........................................Published by permission of the State Geologist of Wisconsin. Manuscript received by the Secretary February...720 E. T. THWAITES----BUKIED PRE-CAMBRIAN OF WISCONSIN I n t r o d u c t io n PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS...basement of Wisconsin when he began the study and collection of well records for the Wisconsin Geological...for in 1869 I. A. Lapham 2 published a map of Wisconsin on which he drew 100-foot contours on the base
Report (volume)
greenstone-granite terrane 9 Early Proterozoic Wisconsin magmatic terrane and associated epicratonic rocks...rhyolite-granite terrane of southern Wisconsin 11 Quartzite of Baraboo interval 11 Early Proterozoic metamorphic...Proterozoic rhyolite-granite terrane of southern Wisconsin 27 Early Proterozoic Central. Plains orogen 27...unconformity-type uranium deposits in Quartzite of the Baraboo interval 40 Summary and conclusions 41 References...terrane (age, 2.6-2.7 Ga); (3) Early Proterozoic Wisconsin magmatic terrane (age, 1.83-1.89 Ga) and associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variations in Baraboo-interval quartzites (ca. 1700 Ma), Mazatzal orogen, Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA John P...Department, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105, USA Received 13 June 2005; received in revised form 16...accepted 22 March 2006 Abstract Variably deformed Baraboo-interval quartzites (1750–1630 Ma) are now correlated...SE–NW tectonic shortening orientation from the Baraboo syncline (south) to the Flambeau syncline (north)...the Baraboo syncline. Electron backscatter device (EBSD) fabric diagrams (pole figures) of quartz optic
Book
WISCONSIN UNDERGROUND . a ee, Se 15 es ;= cs : A TRAILS BOOKS GUIDE WISCONSIN UNDERGROUND...aay Wil 53570 e TRAILS BOOKS Black Earth, Wisconsin ©2000 Doris Green All rights reserved. No part...Coys ens 12 Dane County AC AV cay sie sues each oo Saas Se ine 16 Pierce County eS onasic Cave...See 19 Richland County 4 Kickapoo Indian Caverns ........-.---++00005- 22 Crawford County Caves on Public...se eo 30 Door County 7 Cherney Maribel Caves Park .....-.+++++++++5> 5p Manitowoc County +eeee eer eeee
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lincoln Street, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA. dholm@kent.edu. Keywords: geochronology, mafic...located in the southern Lake Superior region (Wisconsin, northern Michigan, east- central Minnesota, and...(Pietrzak-Renaud and Davis, 2014). In northern Wisconsin, the steep, south-dipping Niagara fault zone (NFZ)...calc-alkalic volcanic and plutonic arc rocks of the Wisconsin magmatic terranes (WMT) to the south. The WMT... Penokean terrane (Holm et al., 2005). In central Wisconsin (Fig. 1), aeromagnetic data indicate that the
Report (issue)
Implications for Correlating Quartzites of the Baraboo Interval U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1904-N...Implications for Correlating Quartzites of the Baraboo Interval By VAL W. CHANDLER and G.B. MOREY U.S...implications for correlating quartzites of the Baraboo interval / by Val W. Chandler and C.B. Morey. p...Geologic setting N3 Previous paleomagnetic studies of Baraboo interval quartzites N5 Field and laboratory methods...Age of magnetization and relationships with the Baraboo and Barron Quartzites Conclusions N12 References
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volcanic Belt, northern Wisconsin, Michigan and east-central Minnesota, USA: Implications for future...LLC, 34898 University Ave, Cambridge, MN 55008, USA A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords:...Volcanic Belt (PVB) of northern Wisconsin, Michigan and east-central Minnesota, USA. These cycles are responsible...stratigraphically overlying, late Paleoproterozoic Baraboo Interval quartzites and late Cambrian sandstones...protracted cycle which ceased upon deposition of Baraboo Interval quartzites (1788–1714 Ma). Further uplift
Journal (issue)
2016. Any marine fossil found by member in Dane County or in adjacent counties. October 2016. Common opals...example: “Herkimer diamonds” are not diamonds but quartz. Fossil algae are usually stromatolites (photosynthetic...“tourmaline.” Cacoxenite has never been found in quartz. The inclusions in “cacoxenite amethyst” are goethite...Club Annual Show. Sunny View Expo Center, 500 E. County Road Y Oshkosh Sat 9-5; Sun 10-4. Contact Ann Voges...Valley Geological Society Annual Show. Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 503 N. Jackson Ave, Jefferson. Sat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OH 44242, USA Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA c Department...Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA b d Received 14 April 2006; received in revised...Minnesota batholith at moderate depths. In northern Wisconsin and upper peninsula Michigan metamorphic monazite...occurred throughout Iowa and southernmost Wisconsin (south of the Baraboo quartzite). 40 Ar/39 Ar mineral cooling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2003) TOURMALINE-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS IN THE BARABOO QUARTZITE, WISCONSIN: OCCURRENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE...Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, U.S.A. DARRELL J. HENRY...hematite occur in quartz veins that cut the geon 17 Baraboo Quartzite in south-central Wisconsin. The bluish...Fe + Mg. The alkali-deficient character of the Baraboo tourmaline largely reflects the alkali-depleted...and chemically mature composition of the host Baraboo Quartzite, but core-to-rim compositional variation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the springs flowing down the mountainside. Quartz Collecting: There are several rock shops on US-270...where one can pay for entrance to spend a day in a quartz quarry. Information and a few of the locations...shale, quartz veins in the Ouachita Mountains have produced some of the most spectacular quartz finds...Mountain (Devil’s Honeycomb): Southern Washington County, just south of Big River and Hwy-M on Figure 6...contracts. Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park: 148 Taum Sauk Trail, Lesterville, 63656; https://mostateparks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, University of Wisconsin, 800 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901, USA c Cameco Corporation, 2121-11th...Basin and the Baraboo, Barron, Flambeau, McCaslin, and Waterloo quartzites in northcentral USA are all supermature...supermature quartz arenites that are among the world’s oldest redbeds. These quartzites were deposited...similar to 40 Ar/39 Ar ages for muscovite from the Baraboo and Waterloo quartzites. Thus, the Sioux Basin...of the Sioux Basin are dominantly well-cemented quartz arenites that have been weakly affected by regional
Report (issue)
Brown Early Proterozoic tectonic style in centra! Wisconsin . R. S. Maass Lower Proterozoic stratified rocks... granites, and related rocks of southcentral Wisconsin, U.S.A. Eugene I. Smith The Proterozoic red quartzite...Proterozoic Symposium was held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on May 18-21, 1981, to dedicate the...Geophysics University of Wisconsin—Madison 1215 W. Dayton St. Madison, Wisconsin 53706 During the past...1914 and named for the Penokee Range in northern Wisconsin. Blackwelder originally assigned a post-Keweenawan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Middle Precambrian Rocks in Eastern and Central Wisconsin ^ M THURMAN*^* Z. E. PETERMAN J Department...that crop out throughout eastern and central Wisconsin. Most of the data are consistent with an apparent...demonstration that most of the older Precambrian rocks in Wisconsin are in the age range of 1,800 to 1,900 m.y. old...Precambrian rocks exposed in eastern and central Wisconsin. Material from many published reports and graduate...areas and aspects of the Precambrian geology of Wisconsin have been compiled by Dutton and Bradley (1970)
Report (chapter)
Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211 USA b SC Department...within the Baraboo Syncline, Wisconsin, USA. Both types of layers contain two major phases, quartz and pyrophyllite...pyrophyllite, with minor amounts of hematite. Quartz (with minor hematite) behaves as the strong phase...layers with high quartz concentrations and diffusive mass transfer in layers with lower quartz concentrations...content change. This is the case, for instance, with quartz and calcite (Brodie & Rutter 2000; Mancktelow &
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elsevier.com/locate/precamres The Paleoproterozoic Baraboo paleosol revisited: Quantifying mass fluxes of...b c Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison 53706, WI, United States Department...Atmospheric pCO2 a b s t r a c t The Paleoproterozoic Baraboo paleosol is the most chemically mature Precambrian...Chemical Depletion Fraction demonstrate that the Baraboo paleosol is chemically more mature than the Paleoproterozoic...(MATPPM) and Mean Annual Precipitation (MAPPPM) for Baraboo are 14.3 9:4 1695 mm yr1, confirming the previous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
siliciclastic metasedimentary sequences in central Wisconsin: The end of the Penokean Orogeny and cratonic...3705 Arctic Boulevard #1150, Anchorage, AK 99503, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Accepted 25 April 2008 Keywords: Paleoproterozoic Wisconsin Sedimentation U–Pb Detrital zircons The Hamilton...the only yet known location in central Wisconsin where a Baraboo Interval quartzite is clearly intruded...for sedimentation of the enigmatic quartz arenites of the Baraboo Interval; one model (Medaris et al
 
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