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Glaucophane from
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Glaucophane
Formula:◻[Na2][Mg3Al2]Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Glaucophane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:94807
Long-form Identifier:1:3:94807:4
GUID (UUID V4):19b69594-130b-40d1-aece-09adb005069e
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROGRAPHICAL COUNTY, PROVINCE MASS. I. OF ESSEX THE area of igneous rocks in Eastern Massachusetts, especially...especially in Essex county, has been, as the late Geo. H. Williams said, " more discussed than any other...pages are written. I have visited the region of Essex county several times and collected a large number of...sense of deep obligation to Mr. J. H. Sears, of Salem, who has made this region an object of study for...of its chief features. The igneous rocks of Essex county extend along the coast from Lynn to the New
Report (volume)
704 GEOLOGY OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS BY CHARLES H. CLAPP WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT....... 9 9 9 10 11 11 11 15 j ( Geology of Essex County...............................................group................:............................. Salem gabbro-diorite....................................... 26; . . 3 4 CONTENTS. Geology of Essex County Continued. Igneous rocks Continued. Subjacent................................................. Salem gabbro-diorite. ...............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1899 THE PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE COUNTY, MASS. III OF ESSEX ROCKS OCCURRINGIN DIKES THE rocks described...an approximate idea of the intrusive rocks of Essex county. GRANITIC DIKES of this rock are confined... 536, 1893. PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 107 of Arran it is easy to explain this by...Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Plate LXXVII. OF ESSEX PROVINCE PFTROGRAPHICAL - - - - - - - ...Schmelck anal. Iog09 III II I SiO2 TiO2 A1203 COUNTY Brogger: JOUR Eruptivgest. des The composition
Catalog/List
Albemarle Counly, Virginia ... Custer County, Colorado . Albemarle County, Virginia . Near Mesaba, l\linnesola...New York . San Juan County, Colorado Delta, Shasta County, California . Boulder County, Colorado .. ....... Newlon, Massachusetts Mt. Shasta, California " Lyon County, Nevada Hillsborough, New Brnnswick Keeseville...New York " " " .Near Keene, NC\\' York . Essex County, New York Rochester, New York Split Rock, Minnesota... Rhenish-Prus ia J:asalt. fine-gTained Chaffee County, Colorado Hornblende Basalt. coarse " J-lornblenclc
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROGRAPHICAL MASS. GENERAL SIONS. V. PROVINCE OF ESSEX CO., DISCUSSION AND CONCLU- Analytical methods...Table I are given my analyses of the rocks of Essex county, with one by Dr. Eakle, and in Table II It is...line-syenites, PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 465 and nordmarkite, the tinguaite, s6lvsbergite...granite, and the presence of the MgO-free " glaucophane" molecule in the blue hornblendes" of the region...1894, and III, PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 467 It will be seen that in what are obviously
Catalog/List
AGGLOMERATE: Agglomerate .........................Custer County, Colorado " Volcanic ...............Magnet Cove...Amphibolite ...........................Albemarle County, Virgi11ia " (Fayalitc-bcaring) .......Near Mcsaba...: ........San Juan County, Colorado " Porphyry ...................Boulder County, Colorado " S ........Anhydrite, crystalline ....................Lyon County, Ncvada ANORTHOSITE: Anort?, osite, gray ........Arkose-scc Sandstone " " ............... Essex County, New York dark brown ...Rochester, New York
Report (issue)
Michel 5 12 Folding of the Nahant gabbro, Massachusetts, by C. A. Kaye Relation of laccolithic intrusion...northeastern Massachusetts, by R. 0. Castle Gneissic rocks in the South Groveland quadrangle, Essex County, Mass...use on the low flow of streams in Rappahannock County, Va., by H. C. Riggs Seasonal erasure of thermal...MILLIGALS these valleys, Gem Valley in Caribou County, Idaho, (fig. 2) was surveyed in more detail (Mabey...Gravity and magnetic anomalies in Gem Valley, Caribou County, Idaho: Art. 140 in U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Trachyte obsidian Trachyte............... Glaucophane-s6lvsbergite Hornblende-sl vsbergite.. Hedrumite...PuuAnahulu,Hawaii........ W. F. Hillebrand CapeAnn,Massachusetts....H. S. Washington Laugendal, Norway................ L. G. Eakins Litchfield, SalemNeck,Massachusetts...H. S. Washington Devil'sTower,SouthDakota..."Trachyte" Puu Gran, "Hornblende bergite" ger) "Glaucophane bergite" Mass Laugendahl, "Hedrumite" "Fovaite"...South(Washington) Germany Mountains, Finland trachyte Massachusetts Tower, Hedrum, Yellowstone Litchfield. Tonsenas
Report (volume)
Geology of Selected Quadrangles In Massachusetts GEOLOGICAL SURVEY This volume was printed as separate...published chapters] (A) Bedrock geology of the Salem quadrangle and vicinity, Massachusetts1, by Priestley...quadrangle, Worcester and Franklin Counties, Massachusetts, by Donald F. Eschman. (D) Geology of the Taunton...Plymouth Counties, Massachusetts, by Joseph H. Hartshorn. o ; Bedrock Geology of the Salem Quadrangle and...Vicinity Massachusetts > w By PRIESTLEY TOULMIN 3d GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN MASSACHUSETTS ~s -GEOLOGICAL
Catalog/List
. . . . . . . . Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Cleavable, black;... . . ........ . Xline, white, in dolomite; Massachusetts . .............. Hexagonite Purple :dine mass;...1.50 Xis, in matrix, ends of xis polished; Massachusetts .. ANDESINE (sodium and calcium aluminum silicate)... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 Massachusetts or New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xlcd; Massachusetts or New Jersey .35 1.00 3.00 DELVA UXITE (hydrated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20059, USA Branch, Code 691, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA 3Faculty...rock 399 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. 400 G. Kletetschka, T. Kohout, and P. J. Wasilewski...94 4 Alcalic granite, Quincy, Massachusetts 7.4 5 Aplite, Boulder County, Colorado 6.96 6 Quartz monzonite...Rock, Colorado 7.3 12 Rhyolite porphyry, Chaffee County, Colorado 4.24 13 Hornblende syenite, Cuttingsville...Colorado 7.09 15 Trachyte porphyry (bostonite), Essex County, New York 8.52 16 Trachyte porphyry, Cripple
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bastin, Edson S. Pyrrhotitic Peridotite from Knox County, Maine.-A Sulphide Ore of Igneous Origin 73 124... W., Branson, E. B., Smith, Essie A., Fauna of Salem Limestone of Indiana. Review by C. S.P. Cummins...Geology of the Hay Stack Stock, Cowles, Parker County, Montana ......... Evolution of the Falls of... Meteorite Studies. Review by H. H. . Fauna of Salem Limestone of Indiana. Cumings, E. R., Beede, J....Salisbury District of Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts. Review by C. W. W. ........ 478 Itindraires
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Catalog/List
. . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.... . ... . .. . . .. . 6 FiM, xline, white; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, .2 0 per lb . . . .. .. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 GLAUCOPHANE (sodium, aluminum, iron-magnesium meta-silicate)...Michigan . . 13 Aficaceous (schistose) hematite; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . 6 Massive; Min nesota . ....aluminum silicate) Large phmocrysts in diabase; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Coarse-xline and cleavages;
Catalog/List
enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...Fibrous; South Dakota Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Xls, black, in...00 .60 XI, sections, varnished, in matrix, Massachusetts ......... :. ................ ....... 1 x l½"...DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xled; Massachusetts or New Jersey................ .60 1.26 DESCLOIZITE........... ............. Fine xline, white ; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, 1 6c per lb.............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
interesting item —"A New Mineral Locality", by Salem J. Rice. 662 rystalhrt- crystallized ph phoip'iorc^ces...quarry on the east side of Highway 101 in Mendocino County, 5.4 miles south of Laytonville or 4.8 miles north...at Longvale. The outcrop is a large mass of glaucophane schist that was quarried a few years ago to obtain...minerals to be found are all characteristic of the glaucophane schist assemblage, but some of them are unusually...long. Other minerals present in abundance are glaucophane, crocidolite (riebeckite), garnet, pyrite, phengite
Journal (issue)
examined graywackes, bedded chert, greenstones, and glaucophane schist just south of Blacklock Point (plate 2)...coarsely porphyritic, thick pillow lavas, and glaucophane schist like those at Blacklock Point. Only the...north of the mouth of Sixes River and bluish glaucophane schist southeast of Blacklock Point as well as...of Sixes River (plate 2). Similar very local glaucophane schist or amphibolite occurs in the Port Orford...the beach west of Battle Rock at Port Orford. Glaucophane schists are notably very localized and occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CROSBV, REVIEWER The Petrographical Province of Essex County, Mass. BY HENRY S. WASHINGTON. J . Geol., 6...787-808 ; 7 , 53-64, 1051 2 1 , 284-294.-Although Essex county is a region of great petrographic diversity...hornblendic, but contain also inore or less glaucophane and biotite, and the accessories include danalite...feldspathoids, is confined to the immediate vicinity of Salem Xeck. I t is quite distinct from the nepheline syenites...arid soda. Diorife has a large development in Essex County. It is highly varied and represents transitions
Report (issue)
Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E.
Report (volume)
10,11, 12, pp. 1-94. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 1, nos...features of Maryland; vol. 6; Calvert County; St. Mary's County; State Map. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol...gigantea bird remains from the upper Eocene of Choctaw County, Alabama, originally described as the pelvic girdle...Diatomaceous deposits of northern Santa Barbara County, Cal. See Arnold and Anderson, no. 65. Geology...of the Santa Maria oil district, Santa Barbara County, Cal. See Arnold and Anderson, no. 67. Metamorphism
Report (issue)
THE LYM AND MARBLEHEAD SOUTH QUADRANGLES, MASSACHUSETTS by Kenneth G. Bell 1977 C-t^V«t>i^*-^'-;i'-...unconsolidated Intrusive rocks Dedham Granodiorite Salem gabbro-diorite Nahant gabbro Olivine gabbro Quartz...riebeckite, kataphorite, hastingsite, and * glaucophane may be present, form the bulk of the clots; biotite...is concentrated in the more mafic fades. CAsg SALEM GABBRO-DIORITE Fine- to medium-grained, greenish-gray...including riebeckite, kataphorite, hastingsite, and glaucophane, may be very minor constituents of the dioritic
Journal (issue)
developed. At SMAC's meeting held December 14, 1979, in Salem, State agencies identified topographic mapping priorities...geothermal lease sale held in January. . . .. Josephine County mineral study completed. . . . . .. 23 36 36...Condrey Mountain Schist which also contains glaucophane-crossite and stilpnomelane. The progressively...year in Oregon Geology, the presumption is that glaucophane and crossite ( ± stilpnomelane) are distributed...and (2) green actinolitechlorite schists with glaucophane and stilpnomelane as important additional minerals
Report (chapter)
metamorphism is indicated by mafic schist with glaucophane and omphacite+ quartz+garnet. Mafic schist with...NC NJ Alabama Connecticut Delaware Georgia Massachusetts Maryland Maine North Carolina New Jersey NH...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...Wenlock metamorphism in the northern Appalachians, USA. Abbreviations are defined in Table 1. The stippled...conglomerate Mafic schist 4°Ar/39Ar total fusion, glaucophane Mafic schist '~°Ar/39Ar total fusion, barroisite
Book
lake, analysis of Ore., p. 510. Analysis of a glaucophane schist from Bandon, Ore., p. 603. Analysis of...Legislative Assembly. Eighth regular session, 1874. Salem, 1874, 1880, 22 pp. The Astoria Shales. American....33, p. 350, 1903. Josephinite in Josephine County, Oregon. 76. Cox, Ross. Six years on the Columbia...1905. 139d. 140. The Jurassic Flora of Douglas County, Oregon. Vol. 48, pp. 48-145, 1905. Fremont, John...from Josephine coimty, Oregon., and from Del Norte county, California. 261e. Directions for Taking Soil
 
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