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Quartz from
Roaring Brook Quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Roaring Brook Quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:763680
Long-form Identifier:1:3:763680:6
GUID (UUID V4):ab526815-9fcf-4dad-894a-8b14ab724b99
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.8km (0.5 miles) John C. Wiarda Quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Unnamed pegmatite prospect #1, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Unnamed pegmatite quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Unnamed pegmatite prospect #2, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Unnamed pegmatite prospect #3, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Chamberlain Lane, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Dayton Road prospect #2, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Dayton Road prospect #3, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Dayton Road prospect #4, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Husband Quarry #1, Husband Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Pegmatites of the Middletown Area Connecticut GEOLOGICAL SU R V EY BULLETIN This report concerns work...GEOLOGY PEGMATITES OF THE MIDDLETOWN AREA, CONNECTICUT By FREDERICK STUGARD, JR. ABSTRACT The pegmatites...pegmatites of the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite...ascending order of sequence, mafic gneisses, the Glastonbury granite gneiss, Maromas granite gneiss, and Monson...Bolton schist includes middle- to high-rank mica-quartz schist of various compositions interbedded with
Book (edition)
THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK * «-• r ** K* ysf^ :' •'’S >- n...250 SPECIES iBooks by Ronald Everett Januzzi CONNECTICUT MINERALS ON PARADE NEW YORK STATE MINERALS ON...THE MINERALOGICAL PRESS 83 Elm Street Danbury. Connecticut IIOIPW MINERALS ON PARAt>E F.tMSTltIP* THREE...to enrich our knowledge of the mineralogy of Connecticut: James Dwight Dana Samuel L. Penfield Edward...Minerals from the Principal Localities in Western Connecticut and Southeastern New York State.............
Report (volume)
SURVEY ISTo. 117 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF CONNECTICUT WASH I NO TON &OVEKIV3IENT PRINTING OFFICE 1894...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Connecticut | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | S A | geographic dictionary | of | Connecticut | by | Henry 3 Gannett | [Vignette] | £ Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Connecticut | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Newberry. 1888. 4°. xiv, 152
Report (volume)
................................. Androscoggin County............................................. Auburn......................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;............................................................. Sagadahoc County.. '...... ......................................... 23 23 23 26 26 27 27 28 28 31 31 33 41 Connecticut, i..........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the Dayton Road District SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT JOHN H. BETTS 215 West 98 Street, Apt...forgotten locations in Connecticut is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury. This region was... They are in South Glastonbury, about 5 miles north-northeast of Portland, Connecticut, just north of...of the Portland-South Glastonbury town line and east of Route 17. The area, roughly triangular in shape...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north
Journal (issue)
developed and named after Cecil Rhodes. The British South Africa Company administered the entire area until...nine (9) "peculiar crystals" of various minerals (quartz, gold, sulfur etc). that show strange twinning...full color. $15- each or both for $25postpaid in USA Excalibur Mineral Corporation 1885 Seminole Trl—Ste...book filled with historical work involving Oxford County, describing and intertwining its minerals, miners...Schooner, the person who knew more about central Connecticut mineralogy than anyone else of his day, and the
Book
Stories in Stone Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1840 by Peter Bohan and Philip Hammerslough Introduction...Starr Stories in Stone How Geology Influenced Connecticut History and Culture by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer...Boer Stories in Stone How Geology Influenced Connecticut History and Culture Jelle Zeilinga de Boer ...978–0-8195–6891–5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Geology—Connecticut. I. Title. qe93.z45 2009 557.46—dc22 2009011073...Sidebar: Gems in Quarry Tailings Sidebar: Other Historic Quarries and Mines in Connecticut 4. Settlers and
Report (issue)
grade of aeta* »orphi«Bi exposed wMt of Bone»ill Brook fault. This i* the «tAod«rd H«w Hawpahire «equ«nce...been traced aouthvard across Massachusetts to Connecticut. la the £!*? Stafford Springs quadrangle soat...Clastonbtiry along the tt side of the Bonenill Brook fault. 01 Littieton Formation.** Gray-woathering...border to as ouch as 500 a or. the south. Formatter* well exposed in south***t slopes of ridges aorta of...of West Stafford and north of Jfeorn Brook, Dls Sandy wnber, Littleton Formation.* SisUlar to Di« except
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geologic map of pegmatite district near Middletown, Connecticut 825 14. Strickland pegmatite 828 15. Bordonaro...Bordonaro pegmatite 829 16. Pegmatite on Roaring Brook 830 17. E. E. Smith pegmatite 831 18. Pegmatite on Highway...pegmatitic solutions were added while chiefly of quartz and alkali feldspar. This defithe fractional crystallization...groups were examined in Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, principally during the summers of 1953 and 1954...1954. Of these, 17 in New Hampshire and 6 in Connecticut (Figs. 12, 13) were chosen as best exposed and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SEPTEMBER 1968 CEMENTATION OF TRIASSIC ARKOSES IN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS BY MILTON T. HEALD ABSTRACT...ABSTRACT The normal Triassic arkoses of Connecticut and Massachusetts contain moderate amounts of secondary...secondary feldspar and very little secondary quartz. Locally calcite or the zeolite laumontite is important. Secondary...more common. Large amounts of cryptocrystalline quartz, potash feldspar, and sericite were deposited in...sediments along the border fault in western Connecticut. In some faulted arkoses in the Triassic basin
Report (issue)
THE MOUNT CARMEL AND SOUTHIJOTON QUADRAM3LES, CONNECTICUT by Crawford E. Fritts New data concerning the...of approximately 111-square miles in south-central Connecticut were obtained in the course of detailed...the mirror-image of metamorphic zones in Dutchess County, New York. However, garnet appeared before biotite...meta/ basalt extrusives above Derby Hill Schist south of the map area represent more intense volcanic................................ 58 Granitic to quartz dioritic gneisses, undivided... 59 iii TABLE
Book
og<·1111~ l )a1t1 l '>1 Roaring Brook Road: 'fBrook Can1pgrou11d 260 Helon...Patten-Baxter State Park 267 Northern Maine and The County 277 U.S. 1: H oulton- For t Kent 283 Maine 11:...Houlton. On most roads the rocks are described from south to north. U.S. 2 between Skowhegan and the New Hampshire...Boundary 66 mya* Cretaceous Igneous rocks in York County. 68 to 100 mya Jurassic Basalt dikes near coast...Sebago granite and pegmatite deposits in Oxford County. 325 mya Devonian Acadian orogeny: Folding and
Report (issue)
State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 13 THE LITHOLOGY OF...OF CONNECTICUT By JOSEPH BARRELL, E.M., Ph.D. Professor of Structural Geology in Yale University...State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut. 1. First Biennial Report of the Commissioners...Hymeniales of Connecticut 3. by Edward Albert White. The Clays and Clay Industries of Connecticut by Gerald...or Smuts, of Connecticut by George 5. Perkins Clinton. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amos Eaton described the "Metalliferous Limerock" south of Canajoharie from which he collected "numerous...valley from Boonville, Oneida County, New York, to Carthage, Jefferson County. The outcrop swings west from...east of Sandhurst, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario. South of the Black River valley the formations...Formation The Kirkfield formation (Kirkfield, Victoria County, Ontario), as much as 100 feet of heavy-bedded...beneath the railroad trestle at Sugar River, at Roaring Brook, at House Creek, and along Deer River; elsewhere
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE ANORTHOSITE-CHARNOCKITE SUITE OF ROCKS OF ROARING BROOK VALLEY IN THE EASTERN ADIRONDACKS (MARCY MASSIF)...and extensive rock exposures in the valley of Roaring Brook displal' a great variety of rock rypes ranging...hypersthenite are the older, and the K-feldspar and quartz-rich rocks the younger members of the series. Textures...metamorphism, the rocks poor in K-feldspar and quartz are little affected. Foliation developed only in...muddy torrents swept through the valley of the Roaring Brook. The freshly exposedrock in the valley' floor
Report (volume)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davie County Basin............................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecticut Valley Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cherry Brook Outlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hartford Basin........................................................................ 22 4. Hartford basin, Connecticut and Massachusetts . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...__ Middlesex County__________________________ Hartford County_______._________. _______ __ JsTew Haven...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________
Report (volume)
covering early Mesozoic geology of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland...Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South Carolina...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg
Report (volume)
of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Newberry. 1888. 4°. xiv, 152...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, . New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S.Williams...Catalogue of Geological Maps of America (North anil South), 1752-1881, in geographic and chronologic order...cents. 10. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 8C pp....57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1329 Arizona Economic geology Aluminum, Maricopa county, Wickenberg (Sheridan, Michael F , et al.) tt-t2...(Mclean, W. John, er a/.) 7-E 1103 Hemihedrite,Pinal county, Florencemine, Maricopacounty, Wickenburg,Rat Tail...a/.) 7-8 1088 Kinoite, SantaRita mountains,Pima county (Anthony, John W., er a/.) 5-6 7O9 Phoenicochroite...er a/.) 1.2 224 Breccia Intrusive Utah, San Juan county, MosesRock dike, kimberlite (McGetchin, Thomas...(Omori, Keiichi.) tt-12 1897 Wardsmithite,Inyo county, Death Valley, Tertiary, Furnace Creek formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
....................................... 395 Connecticut...........................................................................................425 South Carolina.................................................................................... 429 South D akota................. .........................from Malaspina glacier south of Chaix hills (No. 544). Abandoned lake beds, south side of Chaix hills (No...Limestone mountain and stranded iceberg, about 10 miles south of Muir glacier bay (No. 217). P art of ice-front
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discussed in this paper occur in northwestern Warren County, New York, and adjacent regions. The most important...which the garnets were produced by the action of quartz syenite magma upon lens-like inclusions of basic...the other. Ruby M ountain areas.Two areas on the south f ace of Ruby Mountain present some interesting...already described. Fine exposuresin the bed of the brook in the western part of the area show the rock to...is irregularly streaked through anorthosite. Roaring Brook area. A little area of garnet-rich rock is shown
Report (chapter)
Mountains are subdivided into the highlands lying south-east of the CarthageColton mylonite zone (CCMZ,...remnants of the preOttawan metamorphism is along Roaring Brook on Giant Mountain in the north-eastern portion...sillimanite, garnet and ilmenite in a matrix of garnet, quartz, From DALY, J. S., CLIFF, R. A. & YARDLEY,B. W...metanorthosite; m-s-qs, mangeritic, syenitic and quartz syenitic gneiss with occasional andesine xenocrysts;...ms, metasediment; bqpg (lowlands only), biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss; lg, alaskitic and leucogranitic
Report (volume)
horizontal isoclinal fold in white marble; old quarry seven-eighths mile west of the Owl's Head, Dorset...observed by Mr. C. W. Hayes and the writer at a new quarry in banded marble opened in Pittsf ord, Vt., in...WiLLIAMSTOWN, MASS. i the lower part of specimen a quartz vein traverses the fold. another fold. Jl. The...of a miie west of the Owl's Head, Dorset, Vt. Quarry dumps DALE.] EFFECTS OF FOLDING. 11 has found...schists, which are noncalcareous and veined with quartz, have a cleavage striking N. 12° E. and dipping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz (crystals), sillimanite...(lodestone), nepheline, quartz (amethyst). Laconia area: psilomelane, quartz (crystals), sphalerite,...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...(microcrystals), genthelvite* (microcrystals), microcline, quartz* (smoky, crystals), siderite, siderophyllite, zinnwaldite
 
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