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Chloritoid from
Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Species:Chloritoid
Formula:(Fe2+,Mg,Mn2+)Al2(SiO4)O(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chloritoid data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:406318
Long-form Identifier:1:3:406318:6
GUID (UUID V4):0d103aa4-e666-4aca-9432-c0f8a10906b2
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Report (volume)
Geology of Some Copper Deposits in North Carolina Virginia, and Alabama By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE CONTRIBUTIONS...of the Fontana and Hazel Creek mines, Swain County, North Carolina, the Toncrae mine, Virginia, and the..._______________________ Deposits in Great Smoky ~ountains, North Carolina__________________ Generalg...---------------------------------Geology of Swain County copper district__________________________ Sedimentary...of the Swain County copper district, North Carolina. 2. Geologic map of the Fontana mine, Swain County
Report (issue)
Geology of the Eastern Great Smoky Mountains North Carolina and Tennessee By JARVIS B. HADLEY and RICHARD...GOLDSMITH GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...ement complex _____________________________ _ Carolina gneiss_ ______________ ___________ - Definition...Amphibolite _________ - ___ --- __ -- __ -Origin of the Carolina gneiss ___________ -Plutonic rocks ___________________...tratigraphic relations _____ ---- __ -------Great Smoky group __ ------_---------------Definition __
Report (issue)
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK WITHIN THE FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY...COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Va. Open-File Report 95-264 Prepared...Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade,...THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK WITHIN THE FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY...COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth INTRODUCTION AND GEOLOGIC SETTING The geology of the Great Smoky
Report (issue)
5-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA by Art Schultz USGS...Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...report was prepared at the request of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as part of a U.S. Geological...bedrock and surficial geologic map of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This geologic map was prepared...study. GEOLOGIC SETTING The geology of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is summarized in King and
Report (issue)
OFFICERS OF CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (1951-1952 President: Stephen Taber, Columbia, South Carolina Vice President:...Broadhurst, Raleigh, North Carolina Secretary: E. Willard Berry, Duke University, North Carolina PROGRAM COMMITTEE...Maryville, Tennessee Roy L. Ingram, Chapel Hill, North Carolina EXCURSION LEADERS Philip B. King, Jarvis B...maps Introduction Outline of geology of Great Smoky Mountains area Method of presentation Four sequences...rocks Rocks of Tennessee Valley and cove areas Great Smoky fault Rocks of Chilhowee Mountain Miller Cove
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of a staurolite-zone assemblage in western North Carolina David W. Mohr I, Robert L. Barnett 2, and Joanna...College Station, TX 77843, USA 2 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, USA Abstract. A detailed...muscovite + 3.561 chlorite + 0.273 ilmenite + 0.110 chloritoid + 0.039 garnet + 0.339 ZnCI2. Non-systematic...incompatible mineral assemblages, which include chloritoid well within retrograded staurolite but biotite...Staurolite 1 Garnet Ilmenite 1 Quartz I Chloritoid Chlorite ~ I Muscovite Fine-grained muscovite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pelitic units in the eastern Great Smoky Mountains of the North Carolina Blue Ridge contain futile grains...metamorphic isograds. Thin sections of rocks from North Carolina and eastern Connecticut were examined for futile...highgrade metamorphic terrane in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina, considered by him to be an original source...known. THE BLUE CAROLINA RIDGE OF NORTH The Blue Ridge of western North Carolina consists of a core...Nelson (1971), south and southeast of the Great S m o k y Mountains. Force (1976a) found that in a study of
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Delaware Georgia Massachusetts Maryland Maine North Carolina New Jersey NH NY PA PQ RI SC TN VA VT New...Province of Quebec, Canada Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Vermont Northern Appalachians...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...Mount Grant MP Manhattan Prong NM Northfield Mountains NP Newburyport complex NZ Nashoba zone PG Preston...Sharpners Pond diorite TM Taconic Mountains WD Waterbury dome WM Worcester Mountains Central Appalachians AA
Report (issue)
Geotraverse East of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping financial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and field checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY STUDIES OF PRECAMBRIAN AND PALEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY IN THE WESTERN BLUE RIDGE...edited by STEPHEN A. K ISH November 9-10, 1991 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1991OFFICERS President: Vice-President:...Mitchell 1991Bill Hoffman Don Hathaway Vic Zuello Carolina Geological Society Field Trip 1991 Joseph G. Aylor...Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1410 Carl Merschat North Carolina Geological Survey 59 Woodfin Place Asheville...Box 6666 New Haven CT 06511 Leonard Wiener North Carolina Geological Surve 59 Woodfin Place Asheville
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/01 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, USA 2 6324 Sandchain Road, Columbia, MD 21045, USA 3 Metals & Ceramics Division...Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA (Received March 23, 2000; accepted in revised form...evaporite assemblage at Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. Electron microprobe...evaporite assemblage at Alum Cave Bluff (ACB), Great Smoky Mountains Park, Tennessee, Coskren and Lauf (1996)
Report (issue)
Geology of the Central Great Smoky Mountains Tennessee GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 349-C Geology...Central Great Smoky Mountains Tennessee 9f By PHILIP B. KING GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE...TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 349-C UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...belt_______________ Cove areas__________-_-_________ Great Smoky Mountains proper Climate. ___________________________...higher formations. ___--______-___---_------Great Smoky group... _______-___-_-_------_ General features
Report (issue)
Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina By Robert M. Kernon Open-file report 1968...omerate Pseudodiorite Relations of rocks of Great Smoky age to those of the Murphy marble belt- 5 6...Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina. Map of Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek...Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina, that was being written by Robert M. Hernon...Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina By Robert M. Hernon GENERAL GEOLOGY The three
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
breakdown, this in nature, the Precambrian terrane of north-central New would require the Al2SiO5invariant point...occur in the Picuris Range together with either chloritoid or staurolite, and Holdaway (1978)inferred conditions...l. Geologicmap of the southernSangrede Cristo Mountains, New Mexico,showingsamplelocalities.Geology takenfromMontgomery...fault-bounded uplifts in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains,New Mexico (Fig. l). Each uplift consistsof a...Al2SiO5mineralsin the southernSangrede Cristo Mountains. Data from the Truchas Rangeand Rio Mora area:re
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
patterns are summarized from observations on a great variety of schistose rocks in my collections (deposited...include transverse post-tectonic crystals of chloritoid, of staurolite, of hornblende, in places of micas...was noted in the Skagit Metamorphic Suite of the North Cascades. At widely scattered places within this...base of central Schell Creek Range, White Pine County, northeastcentral Nevada. Blank areas mainly quartz...quarter of Republic quadrangle, eastern Okanogan County, northeastern Washington. Discussion in the text
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...on the east by high ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. It is geologically diverse. Traveling east from...Plateau. Continuing east beyond the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau escarpment, the collector...Valley and Ridge, which change crossing the Great Smoky Thrust Fault to lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GUIDE BOOKS TO MINERAL COLLECTING LOCALITIES IN NORTH AMERICA Essential to the successof mineral collecting...mineral localities are arranged alphabetically by county. The guide includes an index map of the state's...Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Includes atso...Occurrences are arranged alphabetically by state, by county, and by town. Profusely illustrated with both black...mineral collecting areas in the Nelv Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, central Atlantic States-Maryland
Book
of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (deceased). HADLEY, Jarvis...2, p. Huntington Broedel, Reverse faulting north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull...Washington County, in The physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey, Washington County (Rept...physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey Washington County (Rept. 14), 17-94. ——, Igneous...physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey, Washington County (Rept. 14), p. 95-97. ——., Structural
Report (issue)
chartoflithologic units in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 31 9. Modal analyses of felsic igneous rocks north of the Brevard fault zone . . . . . . . . . . ....Austell, Sand Hill, Kennesaw and Dallas gneisses north of the Brevard zone. The oldest rocks present in...interpreted as a lithostratigraphic equivalent of the Great Smoky Group as defined to the northeast of the study...the Murphy synclinorium conformably above the Great Smoky Group. The Murphy belt group is composed predominantly
Report (issue)
Little Cottonwood and Bells Canyons, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, by Gerald M. Richmond. New data on the...related to bullfrog Hills caldera, Nye County, Nevada, and Inyo County, California, by Henry R. Cornwall and...assemblages in sandstones from wells in an approximate north-south traverse of the Peninsular arch (line A, fig... The dominant subsurface structural feature of north-central- Florida and southeastern Georgia is a large...Marion County, Fla. Union Producing Co. E. P. Kirkland 1, sec. 20, T. 7 N., R. 11 W., Houston County, Ala
Book
been helpful. I have a deep respect and indeed great love f o r this lovely p a r t o f o u r c o u n...CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...t v i e w of these m a j e s t i c g r e e n mountains. W h i l e t h e g r e a t peaks a t Colorado
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA ReceivedFebruary 12, 1990/Accepted July 13, 1990...The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA ** Current address: Smithsonian Institution~ Conservation... Museum Support Center, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA Offprint requests to: Y.H. Shau Introduction Coexisting...Wood BJ (1977) The occurrence of paragonite in chloritoid schists from Stonehaven, Scotland. Min Mag 41:211...Petrol 96:192-200 Cruickshank RD, Ghent ED (1978) Chloritoid-bearing pelitic rocks of the Horsethief Creek
Journal (issue)
( \ \ J A T T TTl Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 9265 A '...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Howard The Pezinok antimony mine, Male Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia.......................................Vitdlos The minerals of Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains, T ennessee...............................*Fossils * Gems *Jewelry * \ Holiday Inn (Denver North) & Best Western (Central) 0 j t. ^ Sunday Easter
Journal (issue)
■b m m m M ' Wayne & Dona Leicht. 875 North Pacific Coast Highway. Laguna Beach, CA 926 ^ (949) 494-7695...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...it has been a boon to all collectors to see that great land become fully integrated into the world mineralogical...transparent and range in color from milky white to smoky, citrine, red, pale green and pale Figure 51. Quartz...has produced pale amethyst crystals to 15 cm and smoky crystals to 5 cm. Chalcedony is also found in the
Report (volume)
The Crystalline Rocks of South Carolina By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces of South Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________ Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...crystalline rocks in South Carolina. 2. Map showing geologic belts in South Carolina. 3. Map of the main metamorphic...metamorphic facies in South Carolina. 4. Map showing location of samples used for age determinations of
 
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