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Biotite from
Peaked Hill Quarry, Gilead, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
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 Peaked Hill Quarry, Gilead, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:33681
Long-form Identifier:1:3:33681:7
GUID (UUID V4):d6ea3f82-ff0a-46be-bcce-2b5a94d709d4
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granulitic garnet grains and adjacent metasomatic biotite, resulting in increased garnet d18O values over...an overall crustal-scale pop-up structure. Bt, biotite; mu, muscovite. Data sources: 1. This study; 2...garnetā€“stauroliteā€“kyaniteā€“biotiteā€“ muscovite schist in a deeply exhumed part of this terrane (Peaked Hill; Fig. 2). An...assemblages containing signiļ¬cant modal proportions of biotite and muscovite, and form broad schist belts that...C and 5.0ā€“6.5 kbar in the areas surrounding Peaked Hill and Mt Boothby (Dirks & Wilson, 1990; Dirks et
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 Ā©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, Ā©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ļ‚‚ the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmļ‚¾jasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. lineļ‚¾rock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1Ā½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatļ‚¾jasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: ļ‚ at Holton Quarry, 7Ā½ mi. NWļ‚¾agate; ļ‚‚ N of Calloway
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....very deformed quartz xls, from the wall of a small quarry above the main cut. I did not spend much time on...print. The rest of the day we spent at Gillette Quarry in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. Did not find anything...I returned to Gillette Quarry. I spent the morning looking through the quarry not finding anything. Then...Strickland Quarry at Portland and then we went to the old cobalt mines and pegmatite quarry at Cobalt
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j fĀ·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. ā€¢ .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright Ā©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of intergranular transport. Samples from the Peaked Hill shear zone, Reynolds Range, central Australia...zone. Garnetā€’stauroliteā€’kyaniteā€’biotiteā€’muscovite schists from Peaked Hill, Reynolds Range, central Australia...Outcrop relationships and sample descriptions Peaked Hill is located at the south-eastern margin of the...prominent bladed rocks that wrap around the base of each hill. A thin (1ā€“2 m wide) shear zone dissecting the dominant...containing garnetā€“sillimaniteā€“cordieriteā€“K-feldsparā€“biotiteā€“quartz assemblages, similar to that described by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1980; Broken Hill, Australia: Etheridge & Cooper, 1981; the Adirondack Mountains, USA: Cartwright et...Reservoir (AR); Conical Hill (CH), Sandy Creek (SC); Mount Boothby (MB); Peaked Hill (PH); and Yaningidjara...Hills; (2) the undated Boothby Orthogneiss at Peaked Hill; (3) the 1.78 Ga Napperby Gneiss at Anna Reservoir;...zones of high strain towards their centres. Peaked Hill. This shear zone is 1ā€“2 m wide, of unknown displacement...that at Sandy Creek, Yaningidjara Hills and Peaked Hill trend 300ā€“320Ā°/70ā€“90Ā°E and c. 270Ā°/80Ā°N at Anna
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsāŽÆagate, jasper, rare...āŽÆagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayāŽÆagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsāŽÆSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsāŽÆSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mineāŽÆpyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsāŽÆagate, jasper, rare...āŽÆagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayāŽÆagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsāŽÆSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional depositsāŽÆSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mineāŽÆpyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Sebago graniteā€“pegmatite system, southern Maine, USA Michael A. Wise*, Cathleen D. Brown Department...two-mica granite situated in the Oxford pegmatite field, southwestern Maine. Surrounding the pluton is an...subordinate intrusions of heterogeneous, two-mica and biotite granites, pegmatitic leucogranites and granitic...associated pegmatites. A few pegmatites (e.g., the Lord Hill pegmatite and amethyst-bearing pegmatites) show...chemistry, petrology, geochemistry, Sebago, southern Maine Received: 1 October 2009; accepted: 30 March 2010;
Report (chapter)
Australia; New England, USA; Trois Seigneurs, FranceSpain; Lizzies Basin, USA; Naxos, Greece) the progress...metamorphism in other terrains (e.g. Adirondack Mountains, USA; Omeo Zone, Australia) probably occurred with small...break down minerals with lower water contents (biotite and muscovite with 3-4wt% H20, or staurolite and...AR, Anna Reservoir; CH, Conical Hill; MB, Mount Boothby; PH, Peaked Hill; SC, Sandy Creek; WF, Woodford...slates with less quartz, and biotite that may be partially detrital. Biotite and andalusite porphyroblasts
Report (issue)
_______________________ _ Geology of the pegmatite districts of Maine __ :. . _____ _ Metamorphic rocks _________________________...__________________ _ Maine ________________________________________ _ Androscoggin County ______________________...______________________ _ Berry feldspar quarry __________________ _ Cumberland County _______________________ _ LaChance...LaChance mines _______________________ _ Oxford County ____________________________ _ Barrett beryl prospect...prospect __________________ _ Bennett feldspar quarry ________________ _ Black Mountain area ___________________
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)
Dover, . g. 46, Section in kame south-east of Pine Hill cemetery, Dover, . 47, Section in sand near Wheelwright...Wheelwright pond, Lee, . 48, Section on Boston & Maine Railroad near : Newmarket Junction, . 49, Granite...Contoocook valley which extends through Hillsborough county was thus occupied by a lake during a large part...south-east part of the state, in some parts of Maine, and in eastern Massachusetts, where there are only...Pine river, and by Pine River and Balch ponds into Maine. The first description of any of these ridges in
Book
Secretary of NEIGC, stated in the Mt. Katahdin, Maine, Guidebook that the New England Intercollegiate...in the northwestern Narragansett Basin (at Hoppin Hill near Attleboro) rests non-conformably on granite...the rock types are not identical and the Hoppin Hill locality is completely surrounded by Pennsylvanian...dating. 514 + 17 m. y. for the granite at Hoppin Hill, 591 Ā± 28 m. y, for the Westwood Granite (mapped...isolated by faults, plutons, or in the case of Hoppin Hill, by surrounding Pennsylvanian cover. The fossils
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of todayā€™s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where... that he may know first of all what mountain or hill, what valley or plain, can be prospected most profitably...olivine, pyroxenes Trachyte Light Subparallel Biotite, potash feld- Volcanic Absence of quartz Dark
Journal (issue)
Jo,,. Ntu,.,,,IH,,,,, 191/.I CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................Leon B. Bailey 406 TIN DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA 409 CALIFORNJA FIELD TRIP. By Uoyd M. D................... 412 A NICKEL DEPOSIT NEAR GOLD HILL, BOULDER CO., COLORAI)() .........................ccountries, visited Yosemite National Park in Mariposa county, California, enjoying its unrivaled grandeur and...district that centers in the Stayton mine, in Merced County, Calif., has been examined by geologists Edgar
Report (volume)
74, Ph miles east of Dutchtown, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. Type section cut by northtrending fault with...stream in NEIA sec. 33, T. 16 N., R. 14 E, Wayne County. Named after village of Abington, about 3 miles...Named for Adam Peak in Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County. Occupies belt about 21f2 miles long on western...Portlandian) age. Mapped around Adobe Flat in Stanislaus County. Well exposed west of Wilcox Ridge in sec. 23,...Airport, sec. 30, T. 19 N., R. 103 W., Sweetwater County. Akah Substage Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian): Utah
Book
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
Book
ians Mr. Atkins and Mrs. Brunton; Dr. or Morgan Hill, William Larson, CA; R. Fallbrook, W. Dr....always is Theophrastus Theophrastus. gazing John Hill by and J. F. Caley make it doubtful whether...gold links National Museum of Naples. McGraw Hill Book Co., After emerald The and and necklace...Baptiste V. J.-B. Ball 1676. 2nd ed. don: Oxford Hill, Caley, E. R., ence, on Press. 238 ed...Science. University Museum pp. 343 1971. McGraw-Hill Thorndike, facts University the Islip. 1855-57
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
structure. Mineral abbreviations: qtz, quartz; bt, biotite; mu, muscovite. Data sources: 1. This study; 2...assemblages containing signiļ¬cant modal proportions of biotite and muscovite, and form broad schist belts that...in light of Rbā€“Sr, Kā€“Ar and 40Arā€“39Ar data on biotite, muscovite and hornblende largely from adjacent...additional 40Arā€“39Ar (muscovite ā„ biotite) and Rbā€“Sr (muscovite ā„ biotite ā„ apatite ā„ feldspar ā„ whole-rock)...Traverse 1 features a pristine sillimaniteā€“cordieriteā€“biotite layered gneiss that progressively grades into an
Book (volume)
crystals of Fig- Section from the Androscoggin Maine line south of ā€” 5 tin ore line of Umbagog ...Map field, Fig. Section from Bronson's lime quarry to Smith's brook, Fig. Section in Dalton and...Palmer the bridge west of of the West Ammonoosuc hill Dummer, to gold ā€” to the 51 52 Rocky pond....... ..... .... Lyman through Burnham's lime quarry, 72 275 278 3^7 320 326 Fig. Section from...Fig. Section from quarry road to L. A. Parker's, Fig. Section from slate quarry to the Fig. Section
Report (volume)
Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA: the item-fee code for this publication is 0305-8719/01...Alden Press, Oxford, UK Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore PO Box 979 Tulsa OK 74101-0979 USA Orders; Tel...structure in the vicinity of the Proterozoic Broken Hill Block in eastern Australia (from van der Hilst et...and evolution. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. 12 R. E. HOLDSWORTH ET AL. TEYSSIER, C. &...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 4 Present address: Department of Geological Sciences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rockunits within the Arthur Lineament, attained biotite and amphibolite grades of metamorphism, and are...and copper sulphides, asbestos (e.g. Serpentine Hill) and chromite, but are noted for platinoid minerals...is apparently unrelated to the nearby Serpentine Hill ultramafic mass (Rubenach, 1974). Although there...4.0~, Zn and 69 g t -I Ag; Ellis, 1984). At Bubs Hill [399335], sphalerite and galena occur in irregular...Marshall ( 1 9 6 9 ) . ~ . ~ ~ , ~ , , . , PEAKED HILL I LY|LL FAULT GREAT ~ R , ' ~ : X ~ ' ~ ,
Book (volume)
MAPS OF THE STATE. By X. 119 TOPOGRAPHY OF COOS COUNTY. By IX. HAMPSHIRE. TOPOGRAPHY. By VIII. NEW...C. H. C. H. Hitchcock, 586 SCENERY OF COOS COUNTY. By J. H. Huntington, 636 APPENDIX, 651 INDEX...from Guildhall falls, Fig. 22, Mt. Carter, from hill, 181 183 186 Gorham, Fig. 23, Mt. Jefferson...Fig. 35, Franconia Mountains, from Sugar 199 ' hill, . 199 Fig. 36, Franconia Mountains, from Thornton...Mountains, from the Glen, mountain, 535 540 hill, 54i . 545 Fig. 66, Travelling on snow-shoes
 
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