| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | CLASSIC PEGMATITE OCCURRENCES IN Delaware County, Pennsylvania JOSEPH J . PETERS Department of Mineral...collected from a few granite pegmatites in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia (Figure 1). The quarries...specimens: Leiper's Upper and Lower Avondale quarries, Avondale; Leiper's quarry, Springfield Township; and...and Deshong's quarry, Ridley-Nether Providence townships (Figure 2). The fascinating history and mineralogy...for the manufac ture of snuff. Upper Avondale quarry (Figure 5), one mile south of Swarthmore where | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | large part of Philadelphia is covered with the Delaware River gravels and clays, but most of the streams...river this rock was largely quarried. The first quarry opened was irnmediately on the river bank. When...When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks extending...from about 30th Street to 34th Street, and a large quarry, or a series of quarries afterwards merged into...with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse ort | | | Report (issue) | DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na...Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses... Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC | | | Book (edition) | abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...coal dumps at Shamokin, Northumberland co., Pennsylvania, and at Chervonograd, LvivVolhynia basin, Ukraine |
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