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Quartz from
Warminster, Nelson County, Virginia, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Warminster, Nelson County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:368753
Long-form Identifier:1:3:368753:6
GUID (UUID V4):948a40a2-7ff0-43ad-be42-8e6176e53a44
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA PART I I : CARBONATES, SULFATES, AND PHOSPHATES By R. S. MITCHELL...BLAND, JR. Department of Geology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Following the scheme introduced...white ferroan dolomite ses the eastern edge of the county. White rhombohedrons, are embedded in mas- cleavable...believes the goethite gossan Rockfish. According to Nelson (1963) was formed mainly by oxidation and hy- this...in slate from the Esmont James near Warminster in Nelson County. However, marble does occur in Alquarry
Report (issue)
at the Former Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania by Randall W. Conger Open-File...conducted near the Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania . . . . . 2 2-11. Borehole-geophysical...boreholes, former Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania: 2. Borehole BK-2885 (HN-54-S)...at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . ....at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tract extending from the Vales of Wardour and Warminster through Central Hants and the southern part of...ordinary malm contains but a small proportion of quartz sand and still less glauconite, so that it is not...Gault; (2) Upper Gault and Devizes Beds ; (3) Warminster Beds. Hitherto it has been usual in England to...is most highly developed near Warminster it is known as the Warminster Beds, and included in the zone...Cardiaster fossarius. The zone of Pecten asper near Warminster includes three sets of beds : (1) Greensaud and
Report (issue)
July 1998, Former Naval Air Warfare Center, Bucks County, Pennsylvania by Randall W. Conger and Phillip...conducted near the Naval Air Warfare Center, Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . ....near the former Naval Air Warfare Center, Bucks County, Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...JULY 1998, FORMER NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA by Randall W. Conger and Phillip...former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Warminster, Bucks County, Pa., to monitor water levels and sample
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
B. WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.G.S. I L T SH IR E is a county full of interest to the geologist, W rich in association...the formations with which we have to deal. The county records take us as far down as the Lias, but no... however, can be best studied in the bordering county of Somerset. In the course of our excursions we...farms in the northern and western parts of the county. Our first recorded excursion into Wiltshire was...glauconite"; in some layers, as Mr. Hudleston remarked, quartz grains apparently constitute one half of the mass
Report (volume)
the James River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1008 Geology...oftheJatnes River-Roanoke River Manganese District Virginia By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ..._______ _ ___ _____ _____________ ________________ Quartz veins__________________________________________________...Descriptions of mines and prospects-Continued Campbell County-Continued Drinkard and nearby prospects _________________________... 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. · manganese district, Virginia. showing distribution of quartzite, white marble
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
explain how th ese irregular concretions of white quartz sand, cemented by crystalline calcite, have become...and a fair scattering of still larger grains of quartz. The bed here forms a hard stone, producing a decided...coming in from the north-east is a branch of the Warminster Anticline, which in its course brings up the...Excursion was over the area from which the so-called Warminster Greensand fossils have been obtained, and which...phosphatic beds containing the fauna of the so-called "Warminster Upper 12 4 B. POPE BARTLETT AND JOHN SCANES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chlorites, The Eape of the, 111. Chloritic Marl and 'Warminster Greensand, 494. Choffat, P., Jurassic Fauna of...Formation of, 382. Cole, G. A. J., The Tachylytes of County Down, 220. Cone-in-Cone, How it Occurs in the Devonian...On Augen-Structure, sp. nov., 292. Enclosures of Quartz in lava of Strom20. boli, 47. Gordon, Rev. G.,...Trias of Cheshire, 451. Johnston-Lavis, H. J., Quartz in the Lava of Stromboli, 47 ; Eruptive Rocks of...559. Jukes-Browne and Meyer, Chlorltic Marl and Warminster Greensand, 494. Jurassic Ammonites, 170, 298
Report (issue)
(2) The Upper Gault and Devizes Beds (3) The Warminster Beds. The more important of the fossils found...Green, and Yellow Sands Fossils of the Upper Warminster Beds or fossariiis Fossils of the Gaiilt, (in...- Malmstone, &c. Zone of Pecten asper and Warminster Beds - Cnirlinsfei- vm TABLE OF CONTENTS...Greensand Gault Stourton, Longleat, and the Vale of Warminster - Lower Gault TT /-I 227 228 234 235 237...This tract extends from the Vales of Wardour and Warminster, through central Hants and the southern part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Thickness in feet 800+ Middle Chalk Lower Chalk Warminster Greensand and related beds 80-100 180 Upper...outcrop. Outside the Vale of Wardour proper, the Warminster Greensand beds at the base of the Chalk Marl...Geologists' Association excursion. All the earlier Warminster Greensand accounts have been fully summarised...from the Warminster Greensand are Cenomanian in age and the majority did not come from Warminster itself...from Maiden Bradley and Mere. Nevertheless, the Warminster name has been adopted for these beds, whereas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MANGANESE-BEARING VEINS VIRGINIA. ANNA IN SOUTHWESTERN • I. JONAS. ABSTRACT. Veins carryingmanganese...crystallineschistsand gneisses of Carrolland GraysonCounties, Virginia, in the southern parts of the Galax and Independence...W. Stoseand the writer for publication by the Virginia Geological Survey. T•v. manganese-silicate areais...the State Geologist of Virginia. 408 MANGANESE-BEARING VEINS IN VIRGINIA. 409 injectiongneissesand...Spessartiteveins in the Great GossanLead District, Virginia. Southeastern Belt. Veins of massivespessartite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A. J. Jukes-Browne—The Warminster Greensand Fossils. 261 sequence given. Like many other Carboniferous...Carboniferous rocks. VI.—THE FOSSILS OF THE WARMINSTER GKEENSAND.1 By A. J. JUKES-BROWNE, B.A., F.G...S. r p H E fossils of the Upper Greensand of Warminster have long X been known to collectors and geologists...beds (Warminster Beds). The complete succession of the Gault and Greensand Beds near Warminster is as...follows :— 6. Light greensand J 5. Chert beds > Warminster beds. 4. Greensand and sandstone ) 3. Green and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
following on, the Geolo~sts' Association's visit to County Antrim, under the guidance of Mr. A. McHenry ;...1876. Vol. 53.] THe, CRETACEOUS SlltATA OF COUNTY ANTRIM. 541 My thanks are due to the following...from many localities, as at Slieve Gallion, in county Derry, and at ~urlough Bay, near Ballycastle. In...of the principal exposures of the Cretaceous in County Antrim, most of which have been personally inspected...which are embedded numerous very rounded grains of quartz, glauconitic casts of foraminifera, and green irregular
Journal (issue)
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard
Report (issue)
VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...1988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard...Mitchell and William F. Giannini COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...and State Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE. VIRGINIA 1 988 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thicker beds than at Aberystwyth, and with some quartz-conglomerates (part of the Plynlimmon Group of...country rock around; the spars are almost exclusively quartz, and the ores are usually lead (lead sulphide,...greywacke, slate, shale, and mudstone, with a few quartz boulders, forming the great porportion. They were...conglomerates of various colours, felsites, mostly quartz felsite, several varieties of granite, hornblendic...the one represented a Blackdown, the other a Warminster fauna—I suggested that beds 10 to 12 of my section
Book
Magnesia, &c. - s • , ... - . 158 - Case J. . . • QUARTz * - Rock Crystal º s - º 161 . 158 to 158 *•...- 160 - f As - 1 / . . . A Case K. -> QUARTz, continued Chalcedony - 161 to 163 • º •...They are commonly associated with iron pyrites, quartz, fluor-spar, and chlorite ; more rarely with tin...Shelf I. > 1. NATIVE COPPER, associated with quartz. From the Great St. George Mine, Perran Perth,...of COPPER. 3. NATIVE CoPPER, intermingled with quartz. Devon and Courtnay Mines, near Tavistock, Devon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Little Coxwell, in the Upper green sand near Warminster, and in the Lower green sand of Hythe and Lockswell...well-rounded, siliceous pebbles of various kinds, as quartz, jasper, hornstone, and some closely resembling...the uppermost bed of the Upper green sand at Warminster, but there is no spot in England where the Upper...found in that deposit in this neighbourhood. Warminster is the nearest spot which affords any large number...Maest~ht, Warmiuster. Meestl~ht, Essen~ Danes' Dyke, Warminster, France, and Gormany~ ~, Upper Green Sand.
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...aggregates in magnetite with stilpnomelane, penninite, quartz ... HASTINGSITE Iran calcium sodium potassium alumino-silicate
Book
the stratigraphy of the formations found in the county. Other possible titles would be ‘An Introduction...there are only about ten large quarries in the county being worked for economic purposes; one in stone...of the landscape. What follows aims to study the County of Wiltshire from all those aspects of a geologist’s...reason Our study of the relations underlying county rocks and should include between the features...1. The isolation of Wiltshire the north of the county than in the south (Aubrey) ? Geologically many
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
--Greyish or brownish chalk, with green grains, quartz grains and Thosphatir nodules. T h i c k n e s...common with the higher beds of the Greensand of Warminster. They include, also, amongst their fossils the...the greater portion of those usually quoted as Warminster species. There is little doubt, therefore, that...portion of the so-called "Upper Greensand" of Warminster is, properly speaking, "Chloritie Marl" instead...the strata, as at Beer Head, and possibly at Warminster, is far from unlikely. In tracing these beds
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NUGGETS, 4-5" Quartz, Garnet, Tiger Eye, Smokey cleaned specimens. $5.00 postpaid. USA. Quartz, Amethyest...postage. Metersk) \ Min­ erals, 725 Cheryl Drive, Warminster, Pa. 18974. MISCELLANEOUS AT NEW HAMPSHIRE-Mineral...Send for our latest picture catalog, 1 001 Brown County. Open 6 days 12 to 6 . Closed parts for making
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mainly for the purpose of obtaining a clean white quartz-sand, known as 'silver-sand,' which is highly valued...rounding and polishing exhibited by the larger quartz-grains and lydites. This feature is indeed prevalent...with worn and polished surfaces, mixed with coarse quartz-grit and small ' lydite '-pebbles in a slightly-calcareous...varying abundance, with smooth shining grains of quartz, lydite, and dark iron-oxide ; and occasionally...from Shenley, very closely resemble those from Warminster, having the large foramen and recurred beak.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the crustacea which have been quoted from the Warminster Greensand. Above the chert-beds, and below the...nodules. They contain the Rye Hill fauna of the Warminster Greensand, and it is proposed to call them the...present. Beds containing this fauna are traced from County Dublin, the Isle of Man, ~Bolland, Craven, the...material consisting of felspar, tridymite, and quartz. The hollow spherulites proper are divided into...ash. The ash contains lapilli, felspar-crystals, quartz-grains, small shaly patches, and fossils, cemented
 
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