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Microcline from
Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA


Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lenni, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:605759
Long-form Identifier:1:3:605759:6
GUID (UUID V4):83456994-a92f-4a9f-b42c-38dbcad372ed
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
4.2km (2.6 miles) Feldspar Quarry, Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.2km (3.8 miles) Sycamore Mill (Bishop's Mill), Sycamore Mills, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Sycamore Mills, Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Leiper's Upper Avondale Quarry, Wallingford, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Deshong's Quarry, Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Leiper's Lower Avondale Quarry (Morrow Quarry; Facenda Quarry), Woodlyn (Avondale), Swarthmore (Borough of Swarthmore), Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Woodlawn Quarry, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
18.6km (11.6 miles) Campbell's Quarry, Hestonville, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
19.0km (11.8 miles) Overbrook, Hestonville, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
23.4km (14.5 miles) Chester County Poorhouse Quarry, West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Report (issue)
MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware...Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO Na 2 below 115 above...LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses of colorless...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Book (volume)
375 9 f-2. 162 fiQl c, THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO JOHN ETEKMAN < 1 > w Q O UJ 5...>CQ uf S B o i s UJ THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO CHEMICAL ANALYSES JOHN EYERMAN EASTON... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA: PART 1 490: 425: 426: A:...Easton; pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green...green crystals. No. 1 shaft, St. Peter's, Chester county radiating, columnar crystals of light green to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry...northwesterly line between Philadelphia and Mont(romery County, it has been largely quarried for over a century
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 18-C THE MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA NON-METALLIC... CONTENTS Introduction Asbestos Barite Franklin County Fulton and Bucks Counties Corundum Page 1 1 5...Magnesite Phosphate minerals Cumberland County Juniata County 18 23 25 25 26 Potash 29 Quartz-Mint...Quartz-Mint 32 Rock salt 36 Crawford County Elk County 36 37 Erie and Forest Counties 38 McKean, Potter...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mr. Trudell reported a trip to Lenni and Dismal Run, Delaware County, attended by Messrs. Ford, Frankenfield...described an Ordovician basalt flow in Lebanon County; no zeolites were found; and reported that Mr....found arsenopyrite and erythrite at Robeson, Berks County. Dr. Hawkins described a trip taken by Mr. Gordon...wernerite, garnet, pink calcite, epidote, oligoclase, microcline, biotite and titanite; and finally, Colltinsuille
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mr. Trudell reported a trip to Lenni and Dismal Run, Delaware County, attended by Messrs. Ford, Frankenfield...described an Ordovician basalt flow in Lebanon County; no zeolites were found; and reported that Mr....found arsenopyrite and erythrite at Robeson, Berks County. Dr. Hawkins described a trip taken by Mr. Gordon...wernerite, garnet, pink calcite, epidote, oligoclase, microcline, biotite and titanite; and finally, Colltinsuille
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(289) 290 F. BASCOM— PIEDMONT DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Page Igneous rocks.................. ........Geologic history o f the Piedmont district o f Pennsylvania.................................. 322 Résumé...R E L A T I O N S The Piedm ont district of Pennsylvania, forming with a width of 65 miles the southeast...New York, and in New England. The valley of the Delaware is the southeast boundary of this belt. From this...crest, from which the relatively flat slope to the Delaware can be surveyed. Downloaded from https://pubs
Journal (issue)
Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 180 by...Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey, Geological Survey Professional Paper...lennilenapeite. Lennilenapeite is named in honor of the Lenni Lenape indians, who inhabited the Franklin area...Hill, which cropped out in full view. The words "Lenni Lenape" mean "the original people" in the Algonquin...assemblages from the Franklin mine, Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. One of these contains nelenite, triodite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MYLONIZATION OF HYBRID ROCKS NEAR PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA BY ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG CONTENTS Abstract.....a quarter of a mile southeast ofSpring Mill, Pennsylvania.. 678 Plate Facing page 1. Geologic and structural...Bucks counties in southeastern Pennsylvania and in Burlington County in New Jersey and is part of the...Montgomery County-Delaware County line and extends northeastward to 4 miles northeast of the Delaware River...gneiss was made in H. D. Rogers’ Geology of Pennsylvania (1858) where it is called a syenite. In this
Book
Meionite Melanterite" Metalodevite Metazeunerite Microcline Mimetite Minehillite Molybdenite Monohydrocalcite...1w. An aboriginal tribe of Algonquin stock, the Lenni Lenape Indians, migrated here from west of the Mississippi...A sub-tribe of the Lenni Lenape was the Wolf Tribe which settled in Sussex County and were known as the...the Stone Country." 5 The Lenni Lenapes were later called the "Delaware" which cons isted of two other...mos t Minsi settled in the Minisink area of the Delaware, some lived along the Wallkill River, which runs
Report (issue)
Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V. HEYL,...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-...Index map of the Piedmont Upland, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Page and Delaware__.____________________-____--_-_-_--709...concentrates from lode mines and placer deposits in Pennsylvania and Maryland before 1900-___-_-__.-______--
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
range within that system. To illustrate: (i) "Microcline" used as a "minal," pure KAlSi308,' as one of...of the components of perthite; (2) "microcline" as a "mineral," as found in nature. This is never pure...of CaAI2Si2Os."To assign a single formula to "microcline" as a mineral, found in nature, is a failure...origin. Many mineralogists regard orthoclase and microcline as iden' Garnets.-W. E. Ford, Amer. Jour. Sci...KA1Si30O P KAlSi308 a KAlSiOs8 Sanidine Orthoclase Microcline Temperature High Intermediate Low SODA FELDSPAR
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HARMOTOME AND BARIUM FELDSPAR AT GLEN RIDDLE. PENNSYLVANIA Anorpn E. Mernn. Bryn Maur College,Bryn Mawr...flanked by serpentine at Glen Riddle, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The dike is composed of two distinct...railroad cut along the Octoraro Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, just west of the Glen Riddle station...poorly defined) r A. GIen Riddle station. Pennsylvania Railroad, Octoraro Branch. B. Lima road. Penna...those in the dike rock were found in granite near Lenni Mills, Pa., about one half mile west of Glen Riddle
Journal (issue)
of the Iron and Zinc Mining Industry of Sussex County, New Jersey. Property ownerships covering the Franklin...analogue of stilpnomelane and is named for the Lenni-Lenape Indians." New To The Deposit LAUMONTITE...white feldspar (consisting of an intergrowth of microcline and albite), clear to smoky quartz, and phlogopite...Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey (1935) and is reproduced here in Figure...law (Fig. 2). Associated species: quartz and microcline. Anatase TiO2 Only a single specimen of anatase
Report (volume)
From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different...From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°. Analyzed
Book
OF SELECTED AREAS IN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSIONS ND SOME l^irg...OF SELECTED AREAS IN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSIONS SEYMOUR SUBITZKY...Precambrian and lower Paleozoic geology of the Delaware Valley, New JerseyPennsylvania, by A. A. Drake...and Ridge Province between Delaware Water Gap and Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania, by Jack Epstein and Anita...of stream capture in the Strouds¬ burg area, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, by Jack B. Epstein 206 IC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quertz and green talc from Providence, R. I.; microcline crystals from Bradford, R. I.; calcite from Meriden...Mr. Knabe reported a trip to Leiper's quarry and Lenni, finding hematite at the latter. Mr. Oldach reported
Journal (issue)
hyalophane, microcline, and orthoclase. Of these seven, only albite, hyalophane, and microcline are currently...Metalodevite: Fluoresces moderate medium green SW. Microcline: Fluoresces moderate to bright pale blue SW,...Department E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company Wilmington, Delaware 19898 The occurrence at the Sterling mine of...Geochemistry of the Sterling Hill zinc deposit, Sussex County, New Jersey.: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 69, 775-788...the hundred-some years of zinc mining in Sussex County. This article was written to help explain some
Journal (issue)
p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...MINERALS MAY-JUNE 1978, Volume 53 Number 3 PENNSYLVANIA! EXECUTIVE EDITORS Rudy Bradbury John Hanahan...Hanahan Jr Richard S. Mitchell GUEST PENNSYLVANIA EDITOR Delbert L. Oswald FOUNDER Peter Zodac MANAGING EDITOR...Schmerling 94 Pennsylvania- A Geological Gem Beth Schooler 99 The Paleontology of Western Pennsylvania Richard...Chert in Western Pennsylvania Richard L. George 108 Rare Earth Minerals from Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells
Report (volume)
............................ 16 34 42 81 97 Delaware............................................................................................ Pennsylvania...............................................value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list not because they occur...and Ehrenfeld, Frederick, Minerals of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Top. and Geol. Survey Comm. Kept. No...Boulder. Connecticut_ Prof. William N. Rice, Middletown. Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
commonly known as orthoclase, and thence into microcline. Thus the Algoman syenite-granite rocks raise...what is the difference between orthoclase and microcline ? The attempt to answer these and similar questions...Components The Potassium Component Orthoclase Microcline Dimorphism of the Potassium Component The Sodium...MINERALOGRAPHY OF THE FELDSPARS 205 probably changes to microcline) at temperatures below the freezingpoint of any...barbierite. It is very likely that barbierite and microcline, when found, are usually not in their original
Report (volume)
Orthoclase (leelite, lennilite, delawarite) Adularia Microcline (amazonstone) Hyalophane Albite Oligoclase Andesine...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...Sussex and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland... Alunogen: Solfaterite. _. Amazonstone. (See microcline.) Amblygonite. Amphibole. (See actinolite, anthophyllite...luminescence of strength indicated Weak Renfrew County, Ontario. Bovey Tracey, England. Blagodat, India
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Precambrian Complex of Gold Butte, Clark County, Nevada A VOLBORTH Geological Society of America...in the Precambrian Complex of Gold Butte, Clark County, Nevada Abstract: The Precambrian complex of the...Figure 1. Location of the Gold Butte area, Clark County, Nevada 814 Plate Facing 1. Geologic map and cross...Clark County, Nevada 813 2. Eruptive breccias and granite cupolas from Gold Butte area, Clark County, Nevada...pcrthitic oligoclase mantle from Gold Bntte area, Clark County, Nevada 819 Table 1. Modal analyses of the Gold
 
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