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Marcasite from
Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Garfield County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Formation
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:488723
Long-form Identifier:1:3:488723:2
GUID (UUID V4):0e8f2df1-384b-4175-82ff-6b72653575a5
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Vanadium-Uranium Deposits of the Rifle Creek Area, Garfield County, Colorado By RICHARD P. FISCHER With a section...1910Vanadium-uranium deposits of the Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado, by Richard P. Fischer. With a section...ores-Colorado-Garfield Co. I. Botinelly, Theodore, 1916II. Title: Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colorado...Rifle Creek area, Garfield County, Colo. 2. Fracture-pattern map of the .Rifle and Garfield mines showing...the Rifle and Garfield mines. 4. Sections through the ore bodies in the Rifle and Garfield mines. 5. Photograph
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfur geochemistry of the Paleogene Green River Formation, western USA: Implications for interpreting depositional...25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA (Received June 25, 1992; accepted in revisedform...the lacustrine Paleogene Green River Formation (Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, USA) is unlike that of most...mineralogical characteristics of the formation are pyrrhotite and marcasite, high contents of iron mineral...depositional and early diagenetic conditions in the Green River lakes. When the lakes were brackish, dissimilatory
Report (issue)
TH~ ORIGIN AND OF JUL SHALE OF THE GREEN RIVER FOR~~TION OF COLORADO AND UTAH ,, . BY I WILMOT H. BRADLEY...__________________________ _ Wasatch formation ____________________________ _ Green River formation ________________________...of Bitter Creek, Utah _______ _ Duchesne-Uintah county line section ___________________________ _ Gate...zones in Uinta and Piceance Creek Basins ___________________ _ Bridger formation ________ ----- ________________...ations of the Tertiary formations in the Uinta Basin ____________________________________ -The oil shale
Report (issue)
tuffaceous rocks of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado By Roy-L. Griggs Open-file...of the Green River Formation 5 5 The altered tuffaceous rocks of the Green River Formation The altered... Outline of the part of the Piceance Creek Basin between the Colorado and White Rivers. Columnar sections... 8. 9-10. Index map of Colorado showing location of Piceance Creek Basin Diagrammatic sketch from west...TUFFACEOUS ROCKS OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION IN THE PICEANCE CREEK BASIN, COLORADO By Roy L. Griggs ABSTRACT
Report (volume)
Sedimentological Studies of the Green River Formation, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN... Rm G-84 DENVER, Colorado-Federal Bldg., Rm. 169,1961 Stout St. LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg...sedimentological studies of the Green River Formation, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The final paragraph on page...Sedimentological Studies of the Green River Formation, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado Edited by MICHELE L TUTTLE...sedimentological studies of the Green River formation, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado / edited by Michele L. Turtle
Report (issue)
Total 99.0 100.00 (1) Alta mine, California, USA; by electron microprobe and gravimetric methods,...Pyrite, marcasite (Starkey mine, Missouri, USA); konyaite, blödite, gypsum, halite (Great Konya Basin, Turkey);...gunningite (Goldstrike mine, Nevada, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from the Starkey mine, Madison Co...California; in the Green River Formation, northern Piceance Creek Basin, Garfield and Rio Blanco Cos...Cos., and at Garden Park, Fremont Co., Colorado; from the Goldstrike mine, Lynn district, Eureka Co., Nevada;
Report (issue)
PROVINCES, COLORADO, WYOMING AND UTAH NORTH DAKOTA YAMPA RIVER WHITE RIVER LITTLE SNAKE RIVER PICEANCE CREEK...GREAT PLAINS AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN COAL PROVINCES, COLORADO, WYOMING AND UTAH BY NANCY E. DRIVER, J. MICHAEL...INVESTIGATIONS OPEN-FILE REPORT 83-765 LAKEWOOD, COLORADO SEPTEMBER, 1984 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF...25046, Federal Center Mail Stop 415 Lakewood, Colorado 80225 CONTENTS Page Abstract .................water-quality stations for the Yampa and the White River basins ........................................
Report (issue)
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Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Book
Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA Syntheses in Limnogeology Volume...Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch Department of Geological...Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA Aims and Scope The aim of this book series is to...information as is available for a particular lake basin or system of basins to offer readers one distinct...areas. The books will synthesize the tectonics, basin evolution, paleohydrology, and paleoclimate of these
Report (issue)
THE SALINE FACIES OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, RIO BLANCO COUNTY, COLORADO By John R. Dyni Open-file...THE SALINE FACIES OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, RIO BLANCO COUNTY, COLORADO By John R. Dyni ABSTRACT...lacustrine Green River Formation (Eocene) in the Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colo., was...that grade laterally into halitic rocks toward basin center. The original upper limit of the nahcolite...short tons. The total nahcolite resource in the basin is conservatively estimated at 32 billion short
Report (issue)
Composition Data on Samples from the Green River Formation, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah By Michele L. Tuttle...stratigraphic nomenclature. 1986 !USGS, Denver, Colorado CONTENTS Page Introduction...................ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Areal extent of the Green River Formation.................. 8 Figure 2. Geologic...Geologic section of the Green River Formation within each core........................................... ...mineralogy of Green River Formation samples................. 12 Chemical data for Green River Formation samples
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
generation of large amounts of carbon dioxide, and the formation of highly mineralized sodic waters, which upon...alteration during lithogenesis result in the formation of a variety of mineral deposits: oil shale, coal...basins, it promotes the formation of sodic groundwater, which leads to the formation of mineral deposits...that are rich in organic matter. The Green River Formation in the USA is typical of this sort of association...However, knowledge obtained in recent years on the formation of domanikoids and the alteration of organic matter
Report (issue)
COMPANY SKYLINE CORE HOLE 1, PICEANCE CREEK BASIN, RIO BLANCO COUNTY, COLORADO By John R. Dyni Introduction...Creek Member of the Green River Formation in the northern part of the Piceance Creek Basin in northwestern...northwestern Colorado. Several years ago drill core from this well was made available to the U.S. Geological Survey...interest in the commercial development of the Colorado oil-shale and nahcolite deposits, the lithologic...1/4 sec. 26, T. 1 S., R. 98 W., Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The surveyed location within the section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Netherlands 1 TRACE AND MINOR ELEMENTS IN GREEN RIVER OIL SHALE ( C O L O R A D O , U.S.A.), C O N...Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 (U.S.A.) {Received March 9...1984. Trace and minor elements in Green River oil shale (Colorado, U.S.A.), concentrated by differential...elements and 9 trace elements in fine-grained Colorado oil shale. The separatory procedure involved low-temperature...t i o n , P i c e a n c e C r e e k Basin, northwestern Colorado, U.S.A. A combination of low-temperature
Report (issue)
localities of shale and sandstone of the Fort Union Formation in the northern Great Plains Coal Provmce.......stream-sediment and soil samples in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado.......... 5. Stream-sediment sampling...Province, and sampling localities along the Powder River...................................................soils were sampled, in the Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins, Utah and Colorado............................... 8. Sampling localities within the San Juan Basin coal region....................................
Report (volume)
DIRECTOR BULLETIN 415 COAL FIELDS OF NORTHWESTERN COLORADO AND NORTHEASTERN UTAH BY HOYT S. GALE WASHINGTON...................... Western Yampa, lower White River, and Vernal fields maps..... Accepted geodetic control................................................ Colorado Plateau................................................................. Upland north of Yampa River...................................... Juniper Mountain...Mountain........................................ White River Plateau........................................
Report (volume)
White River National Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado U.S...White River National Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado By MARGO...White River National Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado / by...mineral resources Colorado White River National Forest. 2. Mines and mineral resources Colorado Arapaho National...National Forest. 3. Geology Colorado White River National Forest. 4. Geology Colorado Arapaho National Forest
Report (volume)
Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
Book (volume)
Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
cuts, breaks, river banks, stream beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma...Fm. On Elm Cr. Near its jct. with the Missouri River (about 15 mi. S of Chamberlain) gray Barite rosette...rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides, ridges...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles
Book (volume)
Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
traceelement characterization studies on the Green River oil shales (Fox et al., 1982; Desborough et al...of the Hillsborough Basin. The geology of the deposit was first described by Green and Bateman (1981)...stratigraphy has been described by Green et al. (1984). The Hillsborough Basin is a graben that developed towards...within the deposit (Green et al., 1984). In ascending order these are the Green Swamp Subunit (basal...the Gunyarra Unit). According to Green and Bateman (1981), the Green Swamp Sub-unit was laid down in a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Georgia, including some frorn Linwood, Bartow County, Georgia, were examined by *-ray and optical methods...reported by H. S. McQueen near Swiss and Stolpe, County, California. - P"blt.h"d Interior. by p"rmission...million' This is about the same as one finds in river waters, but much lower tJran the figures given by...BATHOLITII MARGARET FUIIER Denver, Ontario BOOS Colorado WITH from data PROCEEDINGS OF TEE TWENTY-SEVENTE...their by-products. SEARLESITE FROM TEE GREEN RIVER FORMATION OF WYOMING' JosEprr J. rannv (witha-ray
Report (volume)
A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
 
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