 | | Report (edition) | | BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright © 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Report (issue) | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Casco Bay group .âą..... .. .. ..... .' ............................. .- ........... . Relations of the Casco Bay group .................. . ............... ~...FIGURE 26. Index map showing area in southwestern Maine and southeastern New Hampshire................ II...II 168 165 STRATIGRAPHY IN SOUTHWESTERN MAINE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHI~E . . By FRANK INTRODUCTION...which is in the southwest corner of Maine, in Cumberland and York counties, the remainder being in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rochester, New York 14603 Ontario Pseudomorphs Mr. George Madokevich of Buffalo, New York is a specialist...horizontally. The gonnardite, 1. Lenses and veinlets in quartz veins itself, is rather undistinguished. The mineral...lenses and veinlets present in localities. the quartz veins contain mainly the fine-grained variety,...are remarkably similar and compare well with the Maine A.S.T.M. card data on ferberites. The average chemical...khondalites have promoted the segregation of W in quartz veins from the graphite gneisses and schists. 3 |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Descriptive Mineralogy Vandall T. King Rochester, New York 14609 , Eugene E. Foord U S. Geological Survey...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. âą .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...by Vandall T. King Walworth, New York 14568 Production editing and design Robert D. Tucker Director...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey |  | | Report (issue) | | Queens College, City University of New York Flushing, New York 11367-1597 and Ph.D. Program in Earth and...and University Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10036 and David P. West, Jr. Department of...Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA, phone (978) 750-8400, http://www.copyright.com...index. ISBN 0-8137-2331-0 1. Geology, Structural--Maine--Norumbega Fault Zone. 2. Geology, Structural--Appalachian...within the Norumbega fault system in south-central Maine. The thin section is cut parallel to the stretching |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | prospect, Casco; specimen is 14 X 23 cm. Figure 2 (center): Grossular crystal from the Pitts-Tenney mine, Minot;...blocky vesuvianite crystals from the Chute Prospect, Casco; largest crystal is 4 cm long^ matrix is massive...SKARNS OF SOUTHWESTERN MAINE DUANE L . L E A V I T T Route 1, Box 140 Buckfield, Maine 04220 Photographs by...discusses some of the smaller, lesser-known skarns of Maine in terms of their paragenesis and mineral ogy....Pitts-Tenney mine, near Minot; the Basin quarry outcrop in Phippsburg; and the Chute prospect in Casco. Students |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 136 ROCKS AND MINERALS POUND OF TEA ISLAND, MAINE By PETER ZOOAC Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY]...Island, Maine. The specimen was sent me by Hugh A. Ford, the well known mineral dealer of New York City...no success. Letters addressed to some well known Maine collectors also met with no successânot one of them...Monday, June 20th, I "grabbed" a plane out of New York City (La Guardia Airport) heading north for Portsmouth...E. Lawrence Sampter, in his yearly coverage on Maine minerals, always speaks highly of the Skillins. |  | | Report (issue) | | Mar. 3, 1917)...... . (B) The N e~ngton moraine, Maine, ' New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, by F Katz and...MapofNewEnglandcoastalregio~fromPlum Island, Mass., to Casco Bay, Maine, showing distribution of moraine and outwash.... ·.... . 12 v. A, B, Gravel pit in Biddeford, Maine~ ..... ~ .........................................Moraine front and outwash, Merriland Ridge,. Wells, Maine .......... ~ ·. ; .......... . VII. South side of...of railroad cut across Merriland Ridge, Wells, Maine ........................... . 16· VIII. A, West |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 28,45-67 (1993) Terrane sutures in the Maine Appalachians, USA and adjacent areas STEPHEN G. POLLOCK Department...University of Southern Maine, Gorharn, ME 04038, USA Terrane sutures in the Maine Appalachians and adjacent...Devonian plutons. Not all faults in south-westem Maine are related to the suture. Younger dip and/or strike-slip...modified by younger deformational events. Within the Maine Appalachians three large composite suspect terranes...discontinuously crop out for substantial distances within the Maine and Canadian Appalachians in approximately the same |  | | Report (chapter) | | al. 1985). Between Pennsylvania and southern New York State there is no record of Ordovician plutonism...Jersey. The Cortlandt complex of southeastern New York State is a mafic intrusive that has had a complex...through Massachusetts and New Hampshire to E central Maine. Billings (1956) originally assigned only the Highlandcroft...the Silurian Clough Formation. In northwestern Maine the chain of plutons bifurcates, with the western...Wones (1984) determined that the Casco Bay terrane in S central Maine contains intrusive rocks that are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists. My first...Ridgefield Pegmatite chiseling out very deformed quartz xls, from the wall of a small quarry above the...specimens for the members of the club. At the Buckwheat Mine Dumps close to the river I broke up a boulder which...specimens. Then we headed over to the Gooseberry Mine Dumps at Franklin. There I found a large, well formed...specimens. I found a couple of gemmy beryl xls. and quartz xls with white inclusions. But, the prize was a |  | | Report (chapter) | | on detrital zircon from quartz + feldspar + biotite and hornblende + quartz + feldspar + biotite gneisses...at 369 Ma. Zircons in quartz diorite gneiss intruding low-grade (dolomite + quartz in calcareous rocks)...Formation, Maine 6 Casco Bay, Maine Rock type 4 Penobscot Bay (700 acre and smaller islands), Maine Location...Pre-Arenig metamorphism in the northern Appalachians--USA* Amphibolite Amphibolite Metasedimentarymetavolcanic...metasedimentary rocks 7 SE New Hampshire and adjacent Maine and Massachusetts 4~ PLAIN Greenschist to medium |  | | Journal (volume) | | of monthly dinner meetings with the Central New York Association of Professional Geologists (http://www...MOUNTAINS, USA NORRIS, Emmet, Department of Geology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA 9:15 AM...Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA 10:00 AM - PRE-ERUPTIVE STORAGE AND EVOLUTION OF...Geology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA 10:15 AM - ORDOVICIAN PROTOLITH HISTORY AND DEVONIAN...DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM OF THE CASCO BAY GROUP, HARPSWELL, MAINE PROCTOR, Atticus, and WEST, David |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Austin, 2275 Speedway Stop C9000, Austin, TX 78712, USA (wcarlson@jsg.utexas.edu) 2 Department of Geosciences...4044 Derring Hall (0420), Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA ABSTRACT A dramatic demonstration of the role of...in pelitic schist exposed at Harpswell Neck, Maine, USA. Many garnet crystals have irregular, patchy...Harpswell Neck, 123 124 W. D. CARLSON ET AL . Maine, USA, were included among the observations considered...CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM IN METAPELITES AT HARPSWELL NECK, MAINE The findings of Carlson (2002) were set forth as |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Maine Articles Published in Rocks and Minerals AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DANIEL BEHNKE 2981 Landwehr...Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the dean of Maine minerals," Charles...of Buckfield, Maine. Bailey, E . M. 1929. A catalog of minerals found at Rumford, Maine. Rocks and Minerals...D. S. 1955. The Union Limestone quarry, Union, Maine. Rocks and Minerals 30:365-66. Short description...periences beginning with early-day collecting in Oxford County. . 1965. Fifty years of mineral collecting (Part |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ordovician Fe- and Mn-rich rocks in south-central Maine: From peri-Gondwanan deposition through Acadian...Department of Earth Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, U.S.A. 1 2 Abstract The Wilson...discontinuously over a distance of >75 km in southern Maine. Cathodoluminescence imaging of zircon grains from...assemblages dominated by grunerite + garnet + biotite + quartz. These and other mineral assemblages found in the...the Wilson Cove unit in south-central Maine are consistent with peak metamorphic conditions of 550 to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chebeaugh Island, Maine From Little Chebeaugh Island, in Casco Bay, Cumberland Co., Maine, we have two sand...Springvale, Maine. One is a fine grained reddish sand consisting chiefly of pinkish garnet and quartz (colorless...a fine grained gray sand consisting chiefly of quartz (colorless, smoky) with some pink garnet, brownish...from Onslow Beach, N . C. Onslow Beach, in Onslow County, N. C , is on the Atlantic Ocean From this beach...gray in color, consisting chiefly of colorless quartz with a small amount of sea shells (white, gray |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Terranes in the Greater Antilles a b Antonio GarcĂa-Casco , Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent & James Pindell c...Aug 2010. To cite this article: Antonio GarcĂa-Casco , Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent & James Pindell (2008)...Terranes in the Greater Antilles ANTONIO GARCĂA-CASCO,1 Departamento de MineralogĂa y PetrologĂa, Universidad...University] at 06:02 27 January 2014 782 GARCĂA-CASCO ET AL. understanding the plate tectonic evolution...dubbed âCaribeanaâ (Iturralde-Vinent and GarcĂa-Casco, 2007). Latest CretaceousâEarly Paleocene Pale |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 131±153 Ă Springer-Verlag 1999 Antonio GarcÔà a-Casco ĂĄ Rafael Luis Torres-RoldaĂn Natural metastable...kyanite, sillimanite, andalusite, muscovite (Ms) and quartz (Qtz) and record complex reaction processes of...ca. 12 kbar down to 2±3 kbar, then A. GarcÔà a-Casco (&) ĂĄ R.L. Torres-RoldaĂn Departamento de MineralogĂ”Ă...and Gil Ibarguchi 1991; GarcÔà a-Casco et al. 1993; GarcÔà a-Casco and Torres-RoldaĂn 1996; Platt et...assemblages were commonplace (GarcÔà a-Casco et al. 1993; GarcÔà a-Casco and Torres-RoldaĂn 1996; Soto and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Betic alpine belt (southern Spain) ArlroNro Gnncia-Casco,ANroNro SANcnnz-Nlvls, R.lrlnr, Lurs Tonnns-Ror...contain abundant structurally controlled biotite + quartz intergrowths that range in size from a few nanometers...incoherent upon coarsening,and (2) that biotite-quartz nucleation was probably influencedby deformation...intermediate compositions, the intergrown biotite * quartz assemblage,and the diffirsion halos. The reaction...outside the subsolidusstability of muscovite + quartz is explained by a combination of (l) a P-T path |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NUMBER 5 PAGES 1207-1239 19% ANTONIO GARCIA-CASCO* AND RAFAEL LUIS TORRES-ROLDAN DEPARTAMENTO DE MINERALOGiA...and are characterized assemblage, in addition to quartz, muscovite and by a marked state of textural and...garnet and 19914) or the exhaustion of muscovite or quartz in staurolite. Reaction relations and compositional...metapelite layers [the Torrox Gneiss Complex of Garcia-Casco et al. (1993)]. The graphite-bearing metapelites...metamorphic reactions at high temperature. GARCIA-CASCO AND TORRES-ROLDAN internal zone Q Maiaau.dM FAST |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | plagioclase + vapour = hercynite + corundum + mullite + quartz + liquid, and involves three reactions; staurolite...staurolite + vapour = hercynite + corundum + quartz + liquid, albite + vapour = mullite + liquid, and muscovite...Textures indicate that quartz formed later than corundum. The corundum + quartz + hercynite assemblage...experimental breakdown, hercynite, corundum, mullite, quartz, glass, metastability. Introduction EXPERIMENTAL...breakdown of Fe-staurolite (i.e. H2Fe4Al18Si8O48) + quartz, to almandine + Al-silicate + H 2 O occurs at temperatures |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 4°Ar-39Armethod: An example from the Norumbega Fault Zone, Maine David P. West, Jr. *, Daniel R. Lux Department of...of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA (Received June 7, 1993; revised and accepted...extensive Norumbega fault zone in south-central Maine provide an excellent opportunity for testing the...of Geology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA. 0012-821X/93/$06.00 © 1993 Elsevier Science Publishers...extensive Norumbega fault zone in south-central Maine have been well characterized both structurally and |
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