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Quartz from
Castle Point, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA


Locality type:Point
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Castle Point, Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:986321
Long-form Identifier:1:3:986321:7
GUID (UUID V4):2374a8ed-f89c-4173-8fbb-aa1422868024
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.5km (1.5 miles) New York - West Shore & Buffalo RR tunnel, Weehawken, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Erie Railroad tunnel, Bergen Hill, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) Erie Railroad cut (Bergen archways), Bergen Hill, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Pennsylvania Railroad cut, Mt Pleasant, Bergen Hill, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) World Trade Center Site, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) 65th Street & Broadway, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) 164th Street & Broadway, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Laurel Hill, Secaucus, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) 82nd Street & Central Park West, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) 88th Street, Manhattan (New York County), New York City, New York, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Broadwav’and 218th Street, Manhattan Island. 4—Quartz, var. Amethyst (purple), West Paterson. N. J. 5—Garnet...7—Datolitc (pale green), West Paterson* N J 8— Quartz, var. Smoky (brown), Broadway and 162nd Street... BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINER.ALOGICAL CLUB Volume 3, No. 1. THE MINERALS of NEW YORK CITY and ITS...ITS ENVIRONS BY JAMES G. MANCHESTER NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB January, 1931 Copyright, 3931 BY...BY James G. Manchester AFFERTON PRESS NEW YORK I AUTHOR’S NOTE Since his boyhood days the author
Journal (issue)
1 191/-7 35c Vol. 22., No. 9 Whole No. 194 NEW ARRIVALS FROM BRAZIL The following minerals were...RUTILATED QUARTZ-Diamantina, Minas Geraes, Brazil. Beautifully polished slabs of transparent quartz enclosing...ra Pena, Minas Geraes, Brazil. Specimens of this new and rare mineral that show fou r o r more crystal...the Mineralight. PHANTOM QUARTZ-Diamantina, Minas Geraes, Brazil. Selected quartz crystals enclosing one...50 each. QUARTZ with movable BUBBLES-Fundao, Espirito Santo, Brazil . Smoky and amethyst quartz enclosing
Report (issue)
specimens of serpentine-group minerals from Quebec, New Jersey, and Cuba _____________________________ 44. Photomicrographs...(alteration product of pyroxene) from Montville, Morris County, N".J. B, Dark-green serpentine from the well-known...Montville, Morris County, N.J. B. Dark-green serpentine, Newburyport, Essex County, Mass. C. Silky, fibrous...Montville, Morris County, N.J. D. Grayish-green picrolite, Culakenee mine, Buck Creek, Clay County, N.C. E. Grayish-green...Grayish-green serpentine, Corundum Hill, Macon County, N.C. Interpretation of Faust and Nagy Chiefly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Atmospheric and Life Sciences University of Wollongong New South Wales 2522 Australia malcolms@uow.edu.au BRUCITE...issues were combined and republished, together with a new fourth issue, as “Volume 1” of the AMJ (Woodman 2017)...magnesia” (magnesium hydroxide) from Castle Point, Hoboken, New Jersey, publishing his description in his...the best of these specimens have arguably set a new benchmark for the species in terms of aesthetics...United States. The type locality is Castle Point, Hoboken, New Jersey, where irregular layers of off-white
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
seaward from the highlands of Southern New York and Northern New Jersey; and from the latter district it has...that traversing the Newark (Triassic) rocks of New Jersey; although it is commonly conceived that the faults...spine of Mont Pel6. We have here, apparently, a new physiographic type, a variety of auto-relief not...instance, we need look no farther than Castle Point, in Hoboken, between 7 and 8 miles north of Staten...strike of the Staten Island serpentine stock. This point forms a hill about half a mile long and 1oo feet
Report (issue)
in the currentyear issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...Crystalline Basement Beneath the Coastal Plain of New Jersey and Contiguous Areas By Richard A. Volkert, Avery..., and Peter J. Sugarman GEOLOGIC STUDIES IN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...PAPER 1565-B Prepared in cooperation with the New Jersey Geological Survey Pre-Mesozoic metasedimentary...metasedimentary and metaigneous rocks beneath the New Jersey Coastal Plain resemble those of tectonostratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OJ‘ Hudson Coutifp, -Vcro J c ~ s g , 27 I V.- On fha Ccologg of Htidaon Cotdy, JVcw Jersey. ny ISRAEL...Aprll IOlb. IW ‘1’110 ciietcrii boiiiidury of Hudson Caiiniy is tlio niiddtc of tho Hudsoa Rivcr; at...;tlio boundary then follows Sawmill Creek to tho point wlicre that stream is crossed by tho Bc1le;ille...the geology BB well aa in the gcogropliy of Hudson County, is the grcnt ridge of trap-rock which trcbvemes...ditieront parts of i t 8 coiirsc 8s Bergen nil], Jersey City Hights, Hlglia of \Vccliu~vkcn, ctc. This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1.2 miles west-northwest of Rock Springs, Cecil County, Maryland. F-14. Serpentine, variety-"Yu-Yen Shi...Hills, Baltimore County, Maryland. F-20. Chrysotile: asbestosdeposits: Gila County, Arizona. F-40. Serpentine... 2| miles south-southeastof Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. samples.chemical analyseswere not availablefor...chrysotile mixture natural a of curve DTA is a Gila County, Arizona. Curve C-120 number 5' (see Table chrysotile...of serpentine from near Montville, Morris county, New Jersey, showing a natural mixture of chrysotile
Journal (issue)
Calvert............ THE SHAWANGUNK MOUN TAINS OF NEW YORK. By E. H e11sser .............................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 New Haven Mineral Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Magnetite Mine. 6 miles N. of Peekskill, Westchester County, N. Y. Tourmaline Strickland Pegmatite Quarry,...Collins Hill, 2½ miles N . E. of Portland, Middlesex County, Conn. Allanite N. W. Slope of the ( " Bald") Friar...Amherst County, Va. Uraninite Edwin Feldspar Co~p. Mine. Headwaters Crabtree Creek, Yancey County, N. C
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...MINERAL PARK, Maricopa Co. Turquoise MORENCI, Modoc Point, Greenlee Co. Garnet NAVAJO RESERVATION Carnotite...Womble) Quartz (clear crystals) CRYSTAL SPRINGS Quartz Crystals DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals)
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...landsvertebrate fossil remains;  Pine Ridge, areaQuartz concretions, agates, petrified wood, fossils, etc
Report (issue)
___________ Clinochrysotile (Globe-type), Gila County, Ariz___________________________________________...Clinoehrysotile (iron-bearing serpentine), Stillwater County, Mont_________________________ Clinochrysotile...Hill, Harford County, Md____________________ Clinochrysotile and lizardite, Morris County, N.J________...Clinochrysotile and lizardite, variant form, Morris County, N.J.____________________________ Lizardite plus...section___________-___ Lizardite (deweylite), Delaware County, Pa__-___________-_____________-_---__---__--_-Lizardite
Journal (issue)
........................... GEOLOGIC AGE OF THE NEW YORK CITY ROCKS. By Cecil H . Kindle WORLD'S GREATEST................ AN INT ERESTING DIABASE CuT IN NEW JERSEY. By Petet' Zodac .................... AMETHYSTS...also marked. Cutting transverse grooves at these point,; assure,; a firmer fastening for the strings. Each...planes m 11 st often be prolonged to a crossing point beyond the axis and outside the completed model...known mineral . So the search goes on for small, new, and different specimens for my growing collection
Report (issue)
CAVES OF NEW JERSEY RICHARD F. DALTON Senior Geologist Department of Environmental Protection New Jersey...Survey BULLETIN 70 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE Brendan OF NEW JERSEY T. Byrne, Governor Department...Topography Kemble Widmer, State Geologist CAVES OF NEW JERSEY BULLETIN 70 by RICHARD F. DALTON Senior Geologist...& Topography P.O. Box 2809 Trenton, New Jersey 08625 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CONTENTS Introduction..................................... Origin of New Jersey Caves ............................ Cave Patterns
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book
OF NEW JEt{SEY. BY AUTll0RITY PUBLISHED 0l? THE LEGISLATURE. BY THE BOKRD OF 3IANAGERS. NEW JERSEY...C0NORZSSIONALI)IS'_IIICT. WORTENDY_, sT_,vr. (*_0LOt_t_T. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ] • o .,s E_CELL_CY THE...THE CQVELIh'OR _OF TIIE STATII OF HON. NEW MARCUS L. WARD, JE_S_T 1 A,%'D__X OIeF/C]O_ pY/2_t]DENT...herewith to submit the Final Report on the GEOLOOYOF NEW JERSEY, as required by the 1,_wpassed March 30, 1864...SUI_V_Y_ COLLEGE. Y. J;, D_c. _9, 1868. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIST. PIREFA @E. era*
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
&3__<_.__�,�___._____ THE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND NEW SOUTH REQUIREMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL...MINING ENGINEERS AT THE INFORMATION. WALES, Sydney,New South Wales,we extract the 'following informa. 1872...Faculty of the Stevens Institute of Technology, at Hoboken, N. J. The visitors were received by the members...Ful­ Mechanical appliances on shore, fl@ur mills, quartz mills, sub acetate of lead; and he thus obtained...the elegant mansion of Mrs. E. A. Steven s at Castle Point, where an excellent lunch was provided. Among
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
&3__<_.__�,�___._____ THE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND NEW SOUTH REQUIREMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL...MINING ENGINEERS AT THE INFORMATION. WALES, Sydney,New South Wales,we extract the 'following informa. 1872...Faculty of the Stevens Institute of Technology, at Hoboken, N. J. The visitors were received by the members...Ful­ Mechanical appliances on shore, fl@ur mills, quartz mills, sub acetate of lead; and he thus obtained...the elegant mansion of Mrs. E. A. Steven s at Castle Point, where an excellent lunch was provided. Among
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
&3__<_.__�,�___._____ THE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND NEW SOUTH REQUIREMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL...MINING ENGINEERS AT THE INFORMATION. WALES, Sydney,New South Wales,we extract the 'following informa. 1872...Faculty of the Stevens Institute of Technology, at Hoboken, N. J. The visitors were received by the members...Ful­ Mechanical appliances on shore, fl@ur mills, quartz mills, sub acetate of lead; and he thus obtained...the elegant mansion of Mrs. E. A. Steven s at Castle Point, where an excellent lunch was provided. Among
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grained brownish-gray sand. It consists chiefly of quartz (colorless, smoky, brownish, ted chalcedony) with...This is a fine grained gray sand. It consists of quartz (smoky, reddish), biotite (bronzy, some almost... Fla., we have a sand sample that comes from a point 40 feet below the surface. This sand was donated...side of the ditch is moved over into the pit and new materials exposed. A great many square miles are...brown, dark brown), with smoky quartz and dark gray fossil corals. Quartz sand from Osage, Iowa Ralph
Report (volume)
director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | New Jersey | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | New Jersey | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] \ Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | New Jersey | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...Lamellibranchiata of the Earitan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey, byEobertP. Whitfleld. 1885. 4°. xx, 338 pp....Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Eocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Newberry
Report (volume)
Silurian Rocks in Shawangunk Mountain, Southeastern New York, Including a Historical Review of Nomenclature...Silurian Rocks in Shawangunk Mountain, Southeastern New York, Including a Historical Review of Nomenclature...Silurian rocks in Shawangunk Mountain, southeastern New York : including a historical review of nomenclature...3:1839-1 1. Geology, Stratigraphic Silurian. 2. Geology New York (State) Shawangunk Mountains. I. Title. II....Sequence in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania L8 Silurian Siliciclastic Rocks of Southeastern New York L8
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The “Anthropocene Epoch” has been proposed as a new post-Holocene geological time interval—a period characterized...future. Keywords: Mineral evolution, archeology, new minerals, mining, philosophy of mineralogy, sociology...citing Nickel (1995a) on behalf of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical...Mineralogical Association (now Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification, abbreviated...can be unclear. One such case is the occurrence of new substances that owe their origin, at least in part
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content, it is much less useful. For example pure quartz is colourless, but may be of almost any hue through...usually white and often too hard to powder easily. Quartz has a typical o·ystal form of six-sided prismatic...reflective like diamond Vitreous glassy, as in quartz Resinous like resin, as in amber and opal Pearly...lc Number 6 Mineral Orthoclase 2 Gypsum 7 Quartz 3 Calcite 8 Topaz 4 Fluorite 9 Corundum...conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper , allegedly
 
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