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Actinolite from
Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA


Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:400995
Long-form Identifier:1:3:400995:5
GUID (UUID V4):403476eb-99b1-4b85-ae4e-1c8d66c9ad91
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
9.1km (5.6 miles) Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
14.1km (8.7 miles) Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
20.5km (12.7 miles) Route 28 area, Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
32.1km (20.0 miles) Chelmsford Lime Quarries, Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
40.5km (25.2 miles) Old Limestone Quarry Site, Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
41.8km (26.0 miles) Route 114 calc-silicate locality, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
46.0km (28.6 miles) Jungle Road area, Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
47.6km (29.6 miles) North Woburn, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
48.0km (29.8 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
Report (issue)
Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr. Open-Fi1e Report...sandstone and micaceous quartzite member (wcs) 25 MERRIMACK FORMATION 26 Nomenclature, Historical Background...GRANOFELS 85 Chlorite Zone 85 Biotite Zone 87 Actinolite Zone 91 RELATIONSHIP OF METAMORPHISM AND DEFORMATION...Formation 97 Staurolite-Kyanite/Andalusite (Actinolite) Zone 97 Sillimanite Zone 100 VI Page REGIONAL...OF DEPOSITION 108 Worcester Formation 108 Merrimack and Oakdale Formations 111 Unit as_ 112 PALEOCURRENT
Report (issue)
Page Silurian(?) rocks. ........... 0 . 163 Merrimack Group ............ 163 Kittery Quartzito .......Formation ........ . . . . 171 Metamorphism in the Merrimack Group . . 173 Correlation and age of the Merriroack....146 14. Estimated modes of rocks from the Merrimack Group. ....... o ............. .166 15. Estimated...understanding of the geologic history of southeastern New England, particularly as it is revealed in the Lawrence...the mildly metamor- phosed Middle Silurian (?) Merrimack Group on the north from a highly metamorphosed
Book (volume)
MODIFIED DRIFT By WARREN ae OF GLACIAL IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. UPHAM, DRIFT. APPENDIX II. TO PARTS ...INTRODUCTION, . . . . .. THE MINERALOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, LITHOLOGY, INDEX TO PART IV, APPENDIX, Part...Rockingham, Vt., 3 : 18, Section in Bridgewater and New Hampton, 19, Section in Concord, Fig. 20, Section... 29 32 56 7o 73 79 87 Fig. 22, Section in Merrimack and Litchfield, 95 98 Fig. 23, Section in Nashua...of IN THE 14-16 ATLAS. New Hampshire—/ac-szmle, reduced. New Hampshire—/ac-simzle, half size. Two
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PauL C. LYons ARTHUR H. BROWNLOW £ Studies in New England Geology A Memoir in Honor of C. Wroe Wolfe...GEOLOGICAL OF AMERICA SOCIETY er x ne Studies in New England Geology Edited by Paut C. LYons ArTHUR H...students were introduced to the complexities of New England Geology. In 1974 Dr. Wolfe received the Neil...interest in the earth sciences. Wolfe is best known to New England geologists as an astute crystallographer...his expertise on the mineralogy of pegmatites of New England, and for his work on the geology of the Boston
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STRATIGRAPHY IN SOUTHWESTERN M·AINE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW H.AMPSHIRE BY FRANK J. KATZ Published December...map of southwe~tern M~ine and southeastern New Hampshire.................. FIGURE 26. Index map showing...area in southwestern Maine and southeastern New Hampshire................ II 168 165 STRATIGRAPHY IN...IN SOUTHWESTERN MAINE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHI~E . . By FRANK INTRODUCTION. Area.-The region discussed...area in southwestern Maine and southeastern New Hampshire. meridians 70° and71 ° arid parallels 43° and
Report (issue)
Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the Merrimack Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and...By RICHARD GOLDSMITH G. Stratigraphy of the Merrimack Belt, Central Massachusetts By PETER ROBINSON...All who were involved in the preparation of the new bedrock map, particularly those responsible for the...understanding and portrayal of the geology. Although the new map is very different from Emerson's in many aspects...part of the State are the Connecticut Valley and Merrimack "belts" of primarily Silurian and Devonian strata
Report (issue)
EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A...REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of New Hampshire Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...directed to develop model standards and techniques for new building construction that would provide adequate...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented
Field Trip Notes
//' . GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD IN ''fy,.'t:J TRIPS NEW ENGLAND NOVEMBER 10-12, 1952 Organized by the...Before visiting any of the sites described in the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference guidebooks...Highlands of East-Central New York, Southern Vermont, and Southern New Hampshire Field Trip No. 2, Outstanding...Outstanding pegmatites of Maine and New Hampshire 73 Geology of the "Chelmsford Granite" 103 Field Trip...OF EAST-CENTRAL NEW YORK, SOUTHER Leaders: VERJ-IONT, AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE Marland P, Billings
Report (volume)
.................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro.............. Merrimack trough................................................. Merrimack quartzite...................................... 150 Berkshire County.................................................. 195 Dikes cutting the Quincy granite in Essex County, Mass......... 196 Aplite........................ 204 Nephelite-bearing dike rocks of Worcester County, Mass......... 204 Distribution...............
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localities. My fond hope is that someone of the new generation will take up the challenge of revising...tantalizing find, one of several mineral discoveries in New England since the 1970s, including gold in a state...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Report (volume)
regional setting of the Brimfield area, southern New England ---------------------------Photographs showing:...southern New England. INTRODUCTION 3 EXPLANATION Location of areas of recent study in aouthem New Eqland:...of ritehburg pluton of Billiqa (1966) in aouthenl New Hamp~hire. 'l'hele roeb &N pouibly correlative with...metavolcanic rocks has been mapped from northern New Hampshire to Long Island Sound along the Bronson Hill...rocks called the Bronson Hill anticline in New Hampshire (Billings, 1956). The Monson Gneiss, chiefly
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UNH LIBRARY 3 MbOD DllEE THE GEOLOGY NEW HAMPSHIRE A REPORT COMPRISING THE RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS...the in his chapter upon the Coos and western Merrimack Bethlehem gneiss, the first quarries. to state...Arrangements have been made upon the scale of Bien, of New York. The execute the coloring. tion with this...I. Page. THE RELATIONS OF THE GEOLOGY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE TO THAT OF THE ADJACENT TERRITORY. By II. ...DISTRICT. J. 271 H. Huntington.) GEOLOGY OF THE MERRIMACK DISTRICT, WEST PART (the gneissic area from
Report (issue)
.............................................57 New Mexico ........................................................................................ 99 New Jersey ...............................................................101 Appalachian Mountains in New England, Introduction ..............102 Connecticut..........................................110 New Hampshire ..........................................................................................123 New York ...........................................
Report (issue)
All who were involved in the preparation of the new bedrock map, particularly those responsible for the...understanding and portrayal of the geology. Although the new map is very different from Emerson's in many aspects...part of the State are the Connecticut Valley and Merrimack "belts" of primarily Silurian and Devonian strata...PENNSYLVANIAN MISSISSIPPIAN i s - -~-^Chapte r B D Merrimack belt ^~ i MiDedham lfo-rd (U SILURIAN (U...1984, Lithotectonic assemblages as portrayed on the new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts: American Journal
Report (issue)
25 30 31 ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1. Map of New England and Maritime Provinces showing Silurian and...along the coasts of southern New Brunswick, Canada, and southeastern New England in the United States...Devonian age crop out along the coasts of southern New Brunswick in Canada, and of southeastern Maine and...and Ziegler, 1971). The earlier ancestry of the Merrimack synclinorium REGIONAL PALEOGEOGRAPHIC AND is shown...60° 46° 200 KILOMETERS 100 FIGURE 1.- Map of New England and Maritime Provinces showing Silurian and
Report (issue)
Survey In Cooperation with the Town of Seabrook, New Hampshire Geophysical Characterization of a High-Yield...High-Yield, Fractured-Bedrock Well, Seabrook, New Hampshire By Thomas J. Mack, Carole D. Johnson, and John W...Lane, Jr. Open-File Report 98-176 Pembroke, New Hampshire 1998 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE...from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey New Hampshire/Vermont District 361 Commerce Way Pembroke,...Acoustic Televiewer Log of Well 1-88, Seabrook, New Hampshire............................................
Report (volume)
the Quimby and the Greenvale Cove, in Franklin County, Maine, are composed of clastic metasedimentary...or their equivalents may have been widespread in New England and southeastern Quebec, but if they were...quadrangles define nearly the full width of the Merrimack synclinorium in western Maine (Osberg and others...minerals, such as calcic plagioclase, grossularite, actinolite, diopside, and clinozoisite. The dense black...geology, Pt. 2 of The geology of New Hampshire: Concord, New Hampshire State Plan, and Devel. Comm., 203
Report (issue)
I CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STRATIGRAPHY OF NEW ENGLAND The Geological Society of America, Inc. Memoir...Memoir 148 Contributions to the Stratigraphy of New England Edited by Lincoln R. Page 1976 The Memoir...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Kerry M. Dolan Fossil-based stratigraphy in the Merrimack synclinorium, central Maine . Allan Ludman Pre-Silurian
Report (issue)
the Ayer and Chelmsford Granites, rocks of the Merrimack Group, rocks of the Tadmuck Brook area, and some...percent of the groundmass in most specimens, Merrimack Group (undivided) - Chiefly planar- to very 10-...12 light gray, very fine-r to mediums-grained actinolite~ 13 14* biotite-quartz schists, gneisses; and...in the group. Xenoliths (not 21 mapped) of Merrimack rocks are widespread in the Ayer 22 and Chelmsford...chlorite at many localities. partly altered to actinolite. Some hornblende is Most plagioclase is slightly
Report (issue)
quadrangle, Windham County, Connecticut. 3.--Geologic map of the Hampton quadrangle, Windham County, Connecticut...geologic map of the Plainfield quadrangle, Windham and New London Counties, Connecticut. 5. Geologic map of...the southern extension of the Merrimack synclinorium of New Hampshire. The synclinorium in Connecticut...Hampton quadrangle. The Connecticut turnpike and the new extension of the turnpike north to Massachusetts...and Danielson quadrangles. A branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad from Norwich to
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Paleozoic New Hampshire plutonic series granitic and darker rocks, pegmatite dikes E. Vermont & N. New Hampshire:...mostly Dev., Waits River & Gile Mtn. fms.; Ul New Hampshire: mostly Dev. Littleton fm.; low-high grade metasediments...metasediments & minor metavolcanics SE New Hampshire only: Merrimack group slates, phyllites & schists, &...i ES [42| ROADSIDE EOLOGY of Vermont and New Hampshire Bradford B. Van Diver C FR ox MOUNTAIN ...Vermont and New Hampshire. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Geology — Vermont. 2. Geology — New Hampshire
Report (issue)
Sciences Queens College, City University of New York Flushing, New York 11367-1597 and Ph.D. Program in Earth...School and University Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10036 and David P. West, Jr. Department...Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA, phone (978) 750-8400, http://www.copyright.com...contrasts in Paleozoic granitic rocks of the northern New England Appalachians 005.0570 0 5 < wn Oe Boe fon...from Casco Bay in southwestern Maine to central New Brunswick (Hussey, 1988; Hussey et al., 1986; Newberg
Report (issue)
Syracuse, New York 4/ --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, and Queens College, Flushing, New York ...Falls quadrangle DEVONIAN--Rocks principally of New Hampshire Plutonic Suite of Devonian age, but includes...recrystallized to complexly intergrown brown hornblende, actinolite, and cummingtonite(?); nowhere preserved south...stratigraphic nomenclature for the region. Definitions of new stratigraphic names, redefinition of established...member is well represented southwestward into New Hampshire, but eastward it becomes thinner, less calcareous
Report (volume)
welder ............... 52 Beaucoup Formation, a new Upper Devonian stratigraphic unit in the central...Detterman ..................... 62 Stoney Fork Member (new name) of the Breathitt Formation in southeasternmost...Ratcliffe .................... 79 Scotts Hill Member (new name) of the Cretaceous Peedee Formation of southeasternmost...Nomenclature in Toronto, Canada, October 24, 1978, two new ammendments to the Code were approved: Note 45 concerns...1977, Geology and mineral deposits of Pershing County, Nevada: Nevada Bur. Mines and Geology Bull. 89
 
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