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Oligoclase from
Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Albite var: Oligoclase
Formula:(Na,Ca)[Al(Si,Al)Si2O8]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Oligoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:550511
Long-form Identifier:1:3:550511:1
GUID (UUID V4):4f9148a1-1ae8-4412-a894-0d9ffaeffd1d
Nearest other occurrences of Oligoclase
26.2km (16.3 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
30.1km (18.7 miles) Ratlum Mountain, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
49.1km (30.5 miles) Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
54.3km (33.8 miles) Thomaston Dam railroad cut, Thomaston Dam, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
60.7km (37.7 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
62.8km (39.0 miles) Davis Pyrite Mine, Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
64.9km (40.3 miles) Linkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
73.1km (45.4 miles) Gillette Quarry (J-J Mine; Haddam Neck Quarry), Haddam Neck, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
73.8km (45.9 miles) Chrysoberyl locality, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
74.1km (46.0 miles) Hill above the parsonage (unnamed feldspar quarry), Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Boston, Johanson and Savage from Leominster, Massachusetts, Verrow and the late Percy Leggett from Gorham...thick tabular pale greenishwhite crystals of oligoclase about 3 cm. long; there are also occasional books...There are not many localities where crystals of oligoclase may be collected. All the quarried pegmatite...minerals may be found are the Cape Ann and Quincy, Massachusetts and in the Conway area in New Hampshire but...the many granite quarries in the Westford, Massachusetts area. I noticed a small vug having a green and
Report (volume)
LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was prepared to accompany...MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
Report (issue)
-quadrangle, Berkshire, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts by Stephen A. Norton \\ Explanation...1250 feet on the brook draining north into the. Westfield River at the east edge of the quadrangle. Their...schist, commonly with gattiet, shinozoisite, oligoclase, magnetite, and biotite; abundant quart?, lenses...The. geology of eastern Berkshire fount y, Massachusetts: U.S. Cool, Survey !5ui].. 159, 139 p. Norwood...Redefinition of the Rowe Schist i r- northwestern Massachusetts, in Cohee, G.V. and Vtest , W.S., Changes ?
Report (issue)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of PUblic Works H. A. MacDonald, Commissioner U.S. Department...geologic map of the Plainfield-Hawley area, Massachusetts Plate 2 - Geologic map of the manganese deposits...deposits on the A. G. Betts property, Plainfield, Massachusetts. ****** Figure 1 - Key map showing locations...Plainfield-Hawley and CharlemontHeath areas, Massachusetts. Figure 2 - Garnet in schist. Camera lucida... Geology of the Plainfield-Hawley area of Massachusetts (with special reference to deposits of manganese
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA CRoyal Ontario, Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto...anomalously young isotopic ages (Millet Brook and Westfield) have been analyzed for U, Pb and Ar isotopes...6 Ma (4°Ar/3gAr plateau ages). New data from Westfield indicate that a paraintrusive porphyry was intruded...Rb-Sr whole-rock isochron age of ~ 270 Ma at Westfield reflect isotopic resetting that occurred below...250-300-Ma model Pb ages (including Millet Brook and Westfield) are located within, or close to, the Tobiatic
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County, is in southern Arizona. ARKANSAS—We recently received..."We recently bought another place (in Montgomery County, Ark.). Guess I told you the Atomic Energy Commission...tour'—we've been on practically every road in the county, so we know it pretty well now." "I'm sending you...CONNECTICUT—Robert H. Nelson, 949 Granville Rd., Westfield, Mass., sent in some specimens from the coal locality...angular masses. Rocky Hill is in southern Hartford County in central Connecticut. See Mr. Nelson's article
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Merryall and Haddam, Connecticut; Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron...Andradite has been found at Middletown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and at other localities in Delaware...St. Peter's Dome, Colorado; and at Rockport, Massachusetts, at which locality some large and unusual crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
years by membersof the GeologyDepartmentof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The accompanying map...in contact with Silurian-Devonianrocks in Kings County. No distinct stratigraphic breakbetweentheseandthe...LiscombLake near Caledonia,PockwockLakes and Westfield,containsuchmineralsas biotite,muscovite,oligoclasefeldspar...and in the JamesRiver Basin,Virginia? In these,oligoclase or andesinefeldspar,biotite and ilmeniteare presentwith...veinsadjacentto the largestintrusionof granite,at Westfield, PockwockLakes and Clearland,show lower temperature
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Report (volume)
Newport Center. The St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad provides freight service with stations...Notch in the southwestern part of the town of Westfield. It is chiefly interbedded carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous...Peak in the northwestern part of the town of Westfield. The general absence of B-14 CONTRIBUTIONS...of the cemetery that is half a mile south of Westfield. Phyllitic graywacke and conglomerate are well...Missisquoi River and 0.8 mile north of the Lowell-Westfield town line. The Knob, 1.0 mile north-northeast
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite................................. 113 113 113 Oligoclase ...............................................-CONTENTS. Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County Continued. Page. Opal............................11 THE GEOLOGY OF EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION. The country
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ca2(Mn2+, Fe2+)Fe3+[Si5O14(OH)], from Iron Cap mine (USA) were studied using electronmicroprobe analysis (EMPA)...(< 10 mm) are mainly associated with feldspar (oligoclase). The Bråstad mine located in the Arendal district...(Bugge 1940). (6) Iron Cap mine, Graham County, Arizona, USA: platy manganbabingtonite crystals (< 7...R2 = 0.97 5 Arvigo2 2 Arvigo1 3 4 2.15 7 Westfield 2.14 M1-O8’ M1-O4 + M1-O8 M1-O10 + b M1-O5...Arvigo1 (NMBE34973) Arvigo2 (NMBE34974) Westfield, Massachusetts Orlandi et al. (1998)a Scandiobabingtonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the epidote ca2Al3 Si3Or2(OH)componentin an oligoclase-producing reaction. In quartzofeldspathiclithologies...disappearsat higher grades than the appearanceof oligoclase. Epidote compositionsplot within the miscibility...D1 deformation. Early-formed oligoclase in the biotite-albite-oligoclase zone resulting from the disappearanceof...biotite-albite zones but in the biotite-albite-oligoclase rocks forms a well-developed schistoxitythat...metagreywackesand semischists. In biotite-albite-oligoclase schists Sr averages 219 ppm. Oxidation ratios
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Chalcodite of the Trap Quarries of Westfield, Massachusetts," Proc. U.S. Nat. Mu."., lvii, 1920, 397-403...respectively by the indices chlorite, biotite, and oligoclase have here been established for quartzo-feldspathic
Report (volume)
BUL.L.ETIN 354 CHIEF COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND BY T. NELSON...granites and quarries............................ Massachusetts...............................................Descriptions of the granites and quarries Continued. Massachusetts Continued. Quincy.............................198 199 206 CHIEF COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND RHODE ISLAND. By T. NELSON...granites of greatest economic importance in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. These are
Report (issue)
geology in 1816. Amos Eaton had surveyed Rensselaer County, N. Y., and the route of the Erie Canal; further...Both of these undertakings were short-lived. Massachusetts established her survey in 1830; she was the...OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST In Troy, Orleans County, titaniferous magnetite had been discovered in...Serpentine deposits are noted in Coventry, Lowell, Westfield, Troy and Jay but no mention is made of the verd...value as a building stone." He notes that Essex County is practically all granite and gneiss. Gneiss he
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State Museum Bulletin 251:134-48...section of a 1.6cm graphite sphere from Sussex County, New Jersey, showing a radial texture and smooth...Saphorin, Switzerland. URANIUM MINERALS OF MAINE, USA, GRANITE PEG MATITES. K T King, P.O. Box 90888, Rochester...are embedded in bronzy peristeritic to chalky oligoclase. Similar specimens were noted in Topsham by Francis...pegmatite-quarrygroup, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA. In Eastern mineralogy, Maine to Florida:
Book (edition)
a mineral was discovered (benitoite, San Benito County, California), or dedicated to a scholar (dolomite...from the Keweenaw measuring Peninsula (Lake USA) where masses weighing up to 400 metric tons and...Arizona (USA) and in the manganese skarns of Langban (Sweden) and Franklin, New Jersey (USA). Dendrites...Redbeds, Colorado (USA). The largest blocks are from Aspen, Colorado balt, (USA), where one weighing...electronics because of its very high conductivity. In the USA and some other countries it is still used as currency
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized 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 gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Report (volume)
See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Book (volume)
greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Pennsylvania Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts Gail and Victor Blomquist library, Dresden,...Museum Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Richard P. Hauck library, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurring in syenite near Tory Hill, Haliburton county, ontario. The intergrowth is a composite of several...igneous rocks of the Tory Hill stock in Haliburton County, Ontario, an unusual perthite was encountered....feldspars are orthoclase, microcline and albite-oligoclase. Microcline-perthites are abundant and commonly... warrene has describeda perthite from westfield, Massachusetts, in which small lamellae of albite make
 
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