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Staurolite from
Bolton Notch, Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA


Classification
Species:Staurolite
Formula:Fe22+Al9Si4O23(OH)
Comments:"in large crystals, often forming the cross"
Habit:prismatic, twinned
Colour:dark brown
Quality for species:Good crystals or rich for species - important (!)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Staurolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bolton Notch, Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:764255
Long-form Identifier:1:3:764255:5
GUID (UUID V4):ccaf46a9-dee6-4e59-a52d-7f62706dd165
Nearest other occurrences of Staurolite
9.0km (5.6 miles) Birch Mountain Road, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Diamond Lake locality, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) State Route 2 roadcut, Marlborough, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) Brack Gem prospect (Brack prospect), East Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
17.0km (10.6 miles) Becker Quarry (Becker's Quarry), West Willington, Willington, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) Nathan Hall Quarry (Clark Hill Quarry), East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
23.9km (14.9 miles) Linkpot cut, Airline Railroad, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
25.0km (15.6 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Lyman Viaduct at Dickinson Creek, Westchester, Colchester, New London County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
627-636 Rotated staurolite porphyroblasts in the Littleton Schist at Bolton, Connecticut, USA M. D. BUSA AND...Geophysics University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269-2045, USA ABSTRACT Staurolite porphyroblasts, 1.5-8cm...3-2cm in width, in the Littleton Schist at Bolton, Connecticut, contain curved quartz inclusion trails which...135”. The orientations of long axes of these staurolite crystals define a weak preferred orientation...coincides with the preferred orientation of the staurolite c-axes. The total rotation reflected by the inclusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geological Sciences, Lexington KY 40506, USA (moker@uky.edu) ABSTRACT The assumption of oxygen...during prograde metamorphism was tested using staurolite-grade pelitic schists that have undergone sequential...history that involves garnet growth followed by staurolite growth, with each porphyroblast growth event...isotope equilibrium was attained between garnet and staurolite at c. 625 C. However, the agreement of Qtz–Grt...petrographic observations (garnet grew before staurolite) and petrogenetic grid constraints that predict
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...area. The pegmatites cut the metasediments of the Bolton schist of pre-Mississippian(?) age and, in ascending...million years old, presumably Mississippian. The Bolton schist includes middle- to high-rank mica-quartz
Report (issue)
separated. Pelham Dome Massachusetts I / Connecticut i_ LEGEND O ° $ + A v This Study Tucker & Robinson...that this sample contains atolled garnets and staurolite grains ranging from 200 um to 3 mm. in length...Lake Rd. in the Ellington 7 1/2' quadrangle, Connecticut. Map unit: Middletown Formation- pegmatite within...Lake Rd. in the Ellington 7 1/2' quadrangle, Connecticut. Map unit: Middletown Formation - hornblende...the hill at an elevation of approximately 935 ft. Bolton Schist of the Ellington 7 1/2' quadrangle (Gollins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURE OF THE HEBRON GNEISS, CONNECTICUT Janet M. Aitken University of Connecticut, Starrs, Conn. The Hebron...Hebron gneiss formation of eastern Connecticut presents an interesting relationship betweenpetrologic units...to the east and less granitized gneiss near Bolton Notch approximately 10 miles to the west. The structural...movement in the Eastern Upland metamorphics of Connecticut. NEW OIL DEVELOPMENTS IN MEXICO IN RELATION TO...extending from Orange County to the North Carolina line near Stuart in Henry County, a distance of 200 miles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
generally NNE-SSW-trending arch running from Connecticut through central Massachusetts and western New...structures, and sample locations. G = Garnet; St = staurolite; K = kyanite; Si = sillimanite; OA = Orfordville...increases from garnet grade in this structure to staurolite-kyanite grade in the Orfordville anticlinorium...sillimanite postdates formation of abundant kyanite and staurolite. Several other P-T paths for the Orfordville...Synkinematic rotated staurolite porphyroblasts in the Littleton schist, Bolton Notch, CT. Geol. Soc. Am
Report (issue)
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...Summary of stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease...stratigraphy of the New London area, southeastern Connecticut ..Richard Goldsmith Summary discussion of stratigraphy...stratigraphy of eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut .H. Roberta Dixon Pre-Silurian stratigraphy in south-central
Report (issue)
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...cooperators .............................. . State, county, and local cooperators ................. . Other...raw materials in nature, Tintic district, Utah County, Utah, has confirmed the existto the development...molybdenum occurrences in the Badlands area, Pennington County, S. Dak., by R. U. King and W. H. Raymond has shown...southeastern part of the Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyo., is a cup-shaped layered complex that is
Report (volume)
Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian...map. Occurs in vicinity of Abbyville, Mecklenburg County. Abercrombie Formationl Middle Cambrian: Western...above Pope Creek coal. Named for Aberdeen, Butler County, Ky., where it stands out in prominent cliffs along
 
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