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Plagioclase from
Chunky Gal Mountain, Clay County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chunky Gal Mountain, Clay County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:72792
Long-form Identifier:1:3:72792:1
GUID (UUID V4):5e836fdd-00d7-497a-86e3-e285fa8487bf
Nearest other occurrences of Plagioclase
8.3km (5.1 miles) ⓘAsh Flat Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) ⓘWinding Stair Gap Roadcut, Franklin, Ellijay Mining District, Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
11.2km (6.9 miles) ⓘNW Thorn Mountain Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
13.1km (8.2 miles) ⓘDills Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
17.0km (10.6 miles) ⓘArrowood Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) ⓘTurkey Nest Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
19.4km (12.0 miles) ⓘRaby Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) ⓘPoll Miller Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
21.8km (13.5 miles) ⓘMudhole Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
22.1km (13.8 miles) ⓘLissie Ray Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Contents Block-in-matrix structures in the North Carolina Blue Ridge belt and their significance for...Marjorie McKinney Tectonic mélange at Chunky Gal Mountain, North Carolina Alfred J. Lacazette, Jr., and Nicholas...containing ophiolite fragments along the Hurricane Mountain mélange belt (Boone and Boudette, this volume)...in the Carolinas and Georgia, that border the Carolina terrane as defined by Secor and others (1983);...(Rodgers, 1968) at the eastern edge of ancestral North America (e.g., Bird and Dewey, 1975). Rowley and
Report (volume)
Towns Counties, Georgia, and ·· Clay and Macon Counties, North Carolina U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY B Geology...and Towns Counties, Georgia, and Clay and Macon Counties, North Carolina By john D. Peper, Frank G. Lesure...and Towns Counties, Georgia, and Clay and Macon Counties, North Carolina I by John D. Peper ... [et al.]...Wilderness, partly in the Nantahala National Forest, Clay and Macon Counties, N.C., and partly in the Chattahoochee...Ga., was established as a wilderness by the North Carolina Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-324,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the plutonic mafic rock (containing up to 95% plagioclase) classified as gabbro of normal series. The deposit...described in the Alpine-type Chunky Gal-Mountain Belt (North Karolina, USA) in association with amphibolites...1983). In spite of the fact that large corundum plagioclase–kyshtymite massifs have been found at the South...c corundum crystals (Crn) in a fine-grained plagioclase (Pl) matrix. sional shear (Rusin et al., 2006)...vol %), amphibole (up to 20 vol %), and sodic plagioclase (up to 20 vol %). Accessory minerals are calcite
Report (volume)
......-...-...---------------...-.-.-.--.. North Carolina ______________________________________________................................._........... North Carolina ___..__._....._..._______..__._.____..._.____...........^....................... 116 116 North Carolina .............................................--.......-........-..--.-........--..-. South Carolina -...-.......:..........-.....-----....---.--........ .... ................................ North Carolina ...._.......-._..---...-....-_.._-......_-
Report (issue)
Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping ïŹnancial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and ïŹeld checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat
Report (volume)
North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral association includes corundum-sapphire, plagioclase (An61–93 ), muscovite, clinochlore, and clinozoisite...process at 440–420 Ma ago, most probably as plagioclase cumulates in a magma chamber. This cumulate rock...corundum anorthosite from the Chunky Gal Mountain (North Carolina, USA) [12] with pink-colored corundum...(5–20% wt. %), amphibole (up to 20 wt. %), and plagioclase 4 of 25 (up to 20 wt. %). Additionally, calcite...(5–20% wt. %), amphibole (up to 20 wt. %), and plagioclase and one sample of meta-ultramafic host rock were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
garnet * kyanite * staurolite * orthoamphibole + plagioclase(Anor-Annr) + qwrtz + ilmenite * rutile + pyrrhotite...reaction relation with the assemblage hornblende + plagioclase+ epidote + chlorite (andlor garnet),the common...hornblende * kyanite + staurolite + gedrite * plagioclase(Anr*-Anrr) in mafic rocks indicatesunusual metamorphic...Its occurrence assemblagecalcic amphibole * plagioclase* epidote * is, however, relatively widespread...experi- of the Hayesvitlefault, along the Georgia-North Carolina 0003-o04x/87l1 I 12-1086$02.00 1086 HELMS
Report (issue)
South Carolina and North Carolina Guidebook for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological...Muthukrishnan, James L. Bridgeman, and Tom Goforth CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2012 FIELD TRIP Geologic Studies...Ridge, South Carolina and North Carolina October 12-14, 2012 Greenville, South Carolina Guidebook for...for the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Carolina Geological Society 73rd Annual Meeting Founded at Furman...Ranson Carolina Geological Society Board of Directors 2012 President Scott Howard South Carolina Geological
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...terrane 8 NA29: Sauratown terrane 9 NA30: Pine Mountain terrane 10 NA31: Gaffney terrane 11 NA32: Bel...Uchee terrane 15 NA36: Juliette terrane 16 NA37a: Carolina terrane 16 NA37b: Spring Hope terrane 18 NA37c:...and Dallmeyer, 1989). Terrane concepts in eastern North America have evolved since the circum-Atlantic terrane...Supergroup near the North Carolina-Georgia border. Farther northeast in North Carolina, the western limit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymond, Arthur Merschat & R. Kelly...the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA, International Geology Review, 58:7, 874-912...the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymonda, Arthur Merschatb and R...State University, Boone, NC, USA; bUS Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA; cDepartment of Geology and Geography...Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Metaultramafic rocks
Report (chapter)
Blue Ridge ophiolites, Southern Appalachian Orogen, USA LOREN A. RAYMOND 1, S A M U E L JAMES E. SWANSON... Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA (e-mail: raymondla@appstate.edu) 2Department o f...Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Abstract: Resolution of the petrotectonic history...Grandfather Mountain Window; HFF, Hayesville-Fries Fault; MHT, Mars Hill Terrane; NC, North Carolina; GA, Georgia;...Georgia; SC, South Carolina; TN, Tennessee. Numbered and starred meta-ultramafic bodies, mentioned in
Report (volume)
Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK October 21 – 23, 1983 GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN...IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTHWE3STERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by Sharon E. Lewis Virginia Division of Mineral...NRCD Post Office Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1983 OFFICERS...South Carolina 29613 Vice-President: John J. Chapman Department of Earth Science Western Carolina University...University Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr. Department of Geology
Report (issue)
Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...Introduction 26 Construction Materials 26 Cement 27 Common Clay and Shale 28 Crushed Stone 28 Dimension Stone 29
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1988 OFFICERS President: Kenneth A. Gillon BP Minerals America 1112 Mill...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC 28403 Secretary-Treasurer:...Anthropology Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC 28723 H. Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources...of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695 Wayne V...ZONE OF THE SAURATOWN MOUNTAINS ANTICLINORIUM, NORTH CAROLINA TEUNIS HEYN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
(revised and adopted), Red Top Mountain Schist (named), Fort Mountain and Salem Church Gneisses (abandoned)...Russell Gneiss (revised) ................ Pine Mountain Group (revised) ..................... Zebulon...Formation (abandoned) .................. Andy Mountain Formation (abandoned) ............. Tallulah Falls..... 21 8. Generalized geologic map of the Pine Mountain anticlinorium ..................................basement gneiss (Woodland Gneiss) in the Pine Mountain anticlinorium ........ Map showing the location
Report (issue)
OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: KEVIN G. STEWART MARK G. ADAMS CHARLES H. TRUPE CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Loren Raymond Banner Elk, North Carolina September 26-28, 1997 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1997 FIELD...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Kevin G. Stewart Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel... Trupe Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 TABLE OF CONTENTS...Evolution Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Complex, Western North Carolina ..........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Paleoproterozoic BIF in Changyi area, eastern North China Craton: Evidence from geochronology and geochemistry...wallrock Protolith Paleoproterozoic Continental rift North China Craton a b s t r a c t The Changyi banded...banded iron formation (BIF) in the eastern North China Craton (NCC) occurs within the Paleoproterozoic Fenzishan...with the BIF bands are identiïŹed, including plagioclase gneisses and leptynites, garnet-bearing gneisses...reconstruction suggests that the protoliths of the plagioclase gneisses and leptynites are mainly graywackes
Report (issue)
OLeE o Suspect terrane definition in Anglesey, North Wales eek aie een eye or ...........+++++: ...developed for Mesozoic-Cenozoic orogens of the North American Cordillera. Project 233 of the International...Paleozoic tectonothermal events have been outlined in north-central (Biskayer Peninsula) and west-central (Motalafjella...orogenic events. The western, northwestern, and north-central tectonic elements of Spitsbergen, therefore...into several discrete structural blocks by major north-south faults. Sequences along the west coast of
Report (issue)
Proterozoic tectonic evolution of the Grenville orogen in North America Edited by Richard P. Tollo Department of...George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 USA Louise Corriveau Geological Survey of Canada GSC-QuĂ©bec...Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 USA Mervin J. Bartholomew Department of Earth Sciences...Tennessee 38152 USA Memoir 197 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140 ■ Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2004 MWR197...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. Copyright is not claimed on any material prepared
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CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m...n t h e e a r l y 1840's i n b o t h N o r t h Carolina and Georgia. C r y s t a l s were recovered f
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University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1410 USA Marvin P. Carlson Nebraska Geological Survey 102...102 NH UNW NEB Lincoln , Nebraska 68588-0517 USA John H. McBride Brigham Young University Department of...Geological Sciences P.O. Box 24606 Provo, Utah 84602 USA Jose R. Martfnez Catalan Departamento de Geologfa...Place. P.O. Box 9140 ‱ Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140 USA 2007 Ct>pynght <£1 2007. The Geological Society...Place. P.O. Box 9 140, Boulder. Colorado 80301-9140, USA. Copyright is not claimed on any material prepared
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Summaries 2007; U.S. Geological Survey: Reston, VA, USA, 2007; pp. 164–165. Beurlen, H.; Barreto, S.; Martin...Universty of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1986; p. 215. Jardim de SĂĄ, E.F.; Legrand, J.M.;... Hagemann, S.G., Eds.; PACROFI VI: Madison, WI, USA, 1996; pp. 97–98. Collins, P.L. Gas hydrates in CO2...Publication; Berkeley Geochronology Center: Berkeley, CA, USA, 2012. Steiger, R.H.; JĂ€ger, E. Subcommission on...gemstones. After its discovery in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, colorless gem-quality danburite has been subsequently
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Main Street, MSC 6903 Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 USA David W. Mogk Department of Earth Sciences 200 Traphagen...Montana State University Bozeman, Montana 59717 USA Eric J. Pyle Department of Geology and Environmental...22807 USA Special Paper 461 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140 Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA 2009...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA. GSA provides this and other forums for the presentation...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA www.geosociety.org Printed in U.S.A. GSA Books Science
 
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