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Kyanite from
Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:761017
Long-form Identifier:1:3:761017:2
GUID (UUID V4):a053e096-d88e-4d89-a719-4dbf46c8bf5a
Nearest other occurrences of Kyanite
9.6km (6.0 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Old Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Blandford Power Lines kyanite locality, Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
42.2km (26.2 miles) Pine Mountain, Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
50.5km (31.4 miles) Foxcroft Lane, Ratlum Mountain, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
50.8km (31.6 miles) North Canton, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
50.9km (31.6 miles) Mountain Laurel Court, Ratlum Mountain, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
50.9km (31.6 miles) Ratlum Mountain, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
51.2km (31.8 miles) New Hartford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
58.8km (36.6 miles) Soapstone quarry, Torrington (Wolcottville), Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Tectonic Studies of the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites...at the Western Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report B. Chronology...and Precambrian Rocks at the North End of the Berkshire Massif C. Tectonic and Metamorphic Chronology...History of Part of the East Side of the Berkshire Massif, Massachusetts E. Recumbent Folding of the Goshen...Goshen and Waits River Formations, \.Yestern Massachusetts F. Time and Space Relationships of Structures
Report (issue)
map of the Becket -quadrangle, Berkshire, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts by Stephen A...nnet-staurolite7muscovite-biotite schist wit)> rave kyanite or very - I rare slllinianite. Gnrnets are...Occur? just east of McNerney Road, southwest of Becket and on the west side of West Hill. The maximum...K., 1809, The. geology of eastern Berkshire fount y, Massachusetts: U.S. Cool, Survey !5ui].. 159, 139...Tectonic events in tfve southwestern part of the Berkshire ant Iclinoriutn, Mnr.snr.hnsri ts , and Connecticut
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SURVEY GEOLOGY OF THE WINDSOR QUADRANGELE, MASSACHUSETTS Stephen Alien Norton This report is preliminary...Formation General Statement Petrology Thickness Age Berkshire Schist General Statement Schist and Phy11ite Black...to recent geologic mapping in northwestern Massachusetts, southern Vermont, and southwestern New Hampshire...geologic map of southern Vermont northwestern Massachusetts. 11 Location of specimens for which modes...igraphic column for the Windsor quadrangle, Massachusetts. 26 Interbedded flaggy granulite and massive
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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............................................
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
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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...Shride Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts .Kenneth G. Bell and Donald C. Alvord Stratigraphic...Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, east-central Massachusetts .James W. Skehan. S.J.. and A. Adel Abu-moustafa...stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian
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FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...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...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43...Mass., p. 077. 1876. Allanite. Pelhain, Ware, Becket. C. U. Shepard: Catalogue of Minerals within 75
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^he Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts A. The Pre-Silurian Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone B. Stratigraphy...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-A-D The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor A. The Pre-Silurian...Jr. and Rolfe S. Stanley [etc.] 1. Geology Massachusetts. I. Hatch, Norman L. II. Series: Geological...a companion to the bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen and others, 1983; hereafter referred to... Geological Survey and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was begun in 1938. They also include
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rock, grown in a Ca-rich domain resulting from kyanite breakdown, has irregularly distributed patches...of fast grain-boundary diffusion. al., 1997a; Becket, 1997). Metamorphic conditions for the felsic granulites...south Bohemia, as elsewhere in the Variscides, are kyanite-Kfeldspar-beating (i.e. high-pressure-high-temperature)...along with apatite, zircon, futile and rarely kyanite. It is generally in contact P. J.O'BRIEN ;0...in a paragenesis with ternary feldspar, quartz, kyanite and rutile (Vr{~na, 1989; Vrfina and Jakeg, 1982;
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Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA (Received 30 July 2003; revised 7 November 2003)...Newcomb, western Essex County and in the Town of Long Lake, eastern Hamilton County, New York (latitude...moderately drained Typic Haplorthods and Fragiorthods (Becket-Mundell series sandy loams – coarseloamy, mixed...and apatite. Minor amounts of sphene, rutile and kyanite are also present (Table 2a). For comparison, the...CPX Ilmenite Garnet Apatite OPX Sphene Rutile Kyanite/And/Sill % Heavy2 33.6 16.8 16.5 12.6 7.2 5.4
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1984; Gardien et al., 1990; Mercier et al., 1991; Becket and Altherr, 1992; Okay, 1993) and the process...Barrovian-type metamorphism characterized by a staurolite-kyanite metamorphic assemblage. The strain trajectories...epidote, Grt garnet, Kfsp kalium feldspar, Ky kyanite, Mo monasite, Mu muscovite, Phe phengite, Pl plagioclase...high-pressure rock are recognized within the Sebes unit: kyanite-bearing eclogite facies rocks found in the Capatana...(pyrope around 50%), kyanite, futile ±quartz± apatite. Clinopyroxene (jadeite 24-25), kyanite, rutile, and exceptionally
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Mactung, Canada, Dick and Hodgson 1982; Pine Creek, USA, Newberry 1982; King Island, Australia, Kwak 1978)... They are described from Proterozoic (Colorado, USA, Tweto 1960; San Luis Province, Argentinia, de Brodtkorb...Massif, Austria, Beran etal. 1985; Blacklite, N.M., USA, Fulp and Renshaw 1985; Hindu Kush, Pakistan, Leake...us units in the higher stratigraphic horizons (Becket 1977). The tungsten-bearing strata exclusively...the metaclastic series, composed of staurolite-, kyanite-bearing garnet mica schists and gneisses. Minor
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Pre-Bellion rocks and Tertiary intrusivesin Madison County, Montana (after Cordua, 1973).The Kelly and Carter...asevidencedby the abundanceof sillimanite (and not kyanite) in associated meta-pelites.A second difficulty...(Kelly area), RMK-136 containing sillimanite and kyanite fragments are mite sample 45"C' This es! 545 range...from sample RMK-98' almandine + sillimanite (and kyanite) + quartz Carbonatesare highly susceptibleto recrystallization'... Temperatures obtained from the caTibration of Becket and CTaVton Ilncertainties -gsz" (7976). tisted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variable amounts of Mg-chlorite and subordinate kyanite, apatite, zircon, rutile and ilmenite. Occasionally..."whiteschists" of high-grade metamorphic origin (talc-kyanite assemblage) as postulated by Sehreyer (1974) are...1959, etc.). Some of the "whiteschists" (talc-kyanite schists metamorphosed under high pressure conditions)...related environment (Neubauer, 1988). According to Becket and Schumacher (1973) main deformation and crystallization...chlorite. Very rarely muscovite layers (containig kyanite) occur as a result of alteration and phyllonitization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Wisconsin, Stoughton, Wisconsin 53589, USA Received: August 3, 1994/Revised, accepted November...Pyrope Almandine Spessartite Grossular Andalusite Kyanite Sillimanite Topaz Phenacite Titanite Zircon -...Ferrett TA, Lindle DW, Heimann PA, Kerkhoff HG, Becket UE, Shirley DA (1986) Sulfur 1 s core-level photoionization
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North Western USA Fossil Sights #1 North Western USA Fossil Sights #2 North Western USA Fossil Sights...travelling to Canterbury and the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. And here, where we have stopped in-line with the...of the Third Kind, is the Devils Tower in Wyoming USA. This was formed by the cooling of a huge volcanic...2019 Specimens beginning with the letter K, as in Kyanite, Kimmeridge Clay, Keuper Marl, fossils from the
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Y:c*al z:c+alk. These coordinates replace those of Becket without change of diagram. From the focus (alk...diaspore, halloysite, hydrargillite, kaolinite, kyanite, pyrophyllite, sillimanite, topaz The following...ep epidote, gr grossularite, kaol kaolinite, ky kyanite, m muscovite, nra marialite, me meionite, ph phlogopite... while the latter are drawn toward muscovite, kyanite, sillimanite, andalusite, cordierite, chlorite...(Fe,Mg)O'SiOz 4.75 FeO.TiOz ilmenite kaolinite kyanite leucite limonite magrretite 2.61 3.61 2.48 3.8
Report (volume)
Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, ' South Carolina, and Massachusetts^and a revised Mississippiari time ,, *" scale...Formation, a Miocene formation in northern Elko County, Nevada, and adjacent Idaho, including a consideration...Revision of some stratigraphic names in central Massachusetts, by Peter Robinson and Gwendolyn W. Luttrell...FORMATION, A MIOCENE FORMATION IN NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, AND ADJACENT IDAHO, INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION...west and east sides of the Jarbidge River, in Elko County, Nev., and adjacent Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties
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ofgranulites to form orthoamphibole gneisses. Retrograde kyanite within these rocks thus suggests an isobaric cooling...Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. 0301-9268/92/$05.00 © 1992 Elsevier Science Publishers...Proterozoic iron formations of the Hamersley Range (Becket and Clayton, 1976). Magnetite, however, is somewhat...Green (1972). (b) The presence of coarse-grained kyanite intergrown with biotite in the granulite-facies...by fine-grained needles of orthoamphibole and kyanite in the granulite-facies rocks, and the presence
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Standards included apatite, barite, hematite, kyanite, wollastonite and synthetic CaF2, SrTi, Nb, ThO2... Geochem. Int., 1: 951 - 1014. Bilal, B.A. and Becket, P., 1979. Complex formation of trace elements...deeply-weathered perrierite-bearing pegmatite, Bedford County, Virginia. Southeast. Geol., 18: 3747. Moeller
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fundamentals of paragenetic garnet, omphacite and kyanite in an eclogitic mantle xenoliths. Mineralogy and...Monatshefte, 4, 172–178. Schmandt, B., Jacobsen, S.D., Becket, T.W., Liu, Z., and Dueker, K.G. (2014) Dehydration
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Hong Kong 691 Gem Notes Baryte from South Dakota, USA| Gems from Mong Long, Myanmar|Pyrite and other sulphides...University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell...Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;...E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; Andrew H. Rankin, Kingston University, Surrey; Benjamin...Rossman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA; Karl Schmetzer, Petershausen, Germany; Dietmar Schwarz
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geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290, pis. xliv-xlv...203-528, pls.'vii-xxxi. The geology of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, pp. 529-611...of Monument Mountain, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by T. Nelson Dale, pp. 551-565, pis. Ixxi,...The geology of the road-building stones of Massachusetts, with some consideration of similar materials...brick clays of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, by N. S. Shaler, J. B. Woodworth, and C. F
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Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-E-J The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy
 
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