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Microcline from
Red Beach, Calais, Washington County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Beach, Calais, Washington County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:618388
Long-form Identifier:1:3:618388:2
GUID (UUID V4):fdf6baff-dc3f-445a-81d5-4b225c9043c6
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
28.6km (17.8 miles) ā“˜American Molybdenum Company Mine, Cooper, Washington County, Maine, USA
76.3km (47.4 miles) ā“˜Getchell Mountain pegmatite prospect, Lakeville, Penobscot County, Maine, USA
92.6km (57.6 miles) ā“˜Catherine Mountain Molybdenite prospect, Catherine Mountain, Hancock County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Age of Plutonic Rocks, Extreme Southeastern Maine Abstract: A detailed field and petrographic investigation...part of the plutonic belt in extreme southeastern Maine to determine the age and origin of the plutonic...plutonic rocks. Work was concentrated in the Calais area, Maine, because of the diversity of plutonic rock types...diorites. Contact features establish that the Red Beach Granite is slightly younger than the other granites... 170 D. H. AMOSā€”PLUTONIC ROCKS, SOUTHEASTERN MAINE . 182 General . 182 Ohvme . 182 Plagioclase . 183
Report (edition)
BULLETIN 41 Third Edition A Collector's Guide to Maine Mineral Localities by Woodrow B. 7KaSVRQ Donald...Vandall T. King Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey Natural Resources Information...OF CONSERVATION 1998 Copyright Ā© 1998 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers Mining and currently...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
their source rock. A test on quartz from the Red Beach Granite Introduction The provenance of sedimentary...sedimentary rocks of the Perry Formation of southeastern Maine shows the granite to be the source of the sedimentary...trace elements in quartz from two phases of the Red Beach Granite and two arenaceous members of the Perry...source. Red Beach Graniteā€”Perry Formation The area studied is in easternmost Maine, between Calais and Eastport...memberā€”basalt, 250 feet; (2) upper sandstone memberā€”coarse red and brown arkose and conglomerate with small amounts
Report (volume)
COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 1923 ADDITIONAL...SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVEENMENT FEINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 50 CENTS A COPY PUECHASEE AGEEES NOT...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...their granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Willi
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright Ā©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, Ā©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Three Mile Pond Granodiorite Plutons, South-Central Maine: Their Bearing on Post-Acadian Cooling History R...Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA 2 Scottish Universities, Research and Reactor Center...Silurian-lowermost Devonian metasedimentary rocks near Augusta, Maine. R b - S r whole-rock isochrons (8 points each)...extends from Long Island Sound to southwestern Maine (see summaries in, Hurley et al. 1960; Faul et al...of the Merrimack synclinorium in south-central Maine (Figs. 1 and 2). Descriptions of general geologic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
north-northwesterly across New Hampshire and southwestern Maine. A few isolated stocks also occur in Vermont. Early...m.y.; X = 6.85 X 10~17 y - 1 ) in southwestern Maine. Zimmerman and others (1975) sampled in this study...Rb/Sr ages for ten Paleozoic plutons of coastal Maine and have used the age differences to estimate (with... W. Naeser, 1975, written commun.). In coastal Maine east of longitude 70Ā°W, apatite fission-track ages...are sparse and somewhat inconsistent. Near the Maine-New Brunswick border, Abbott (1978) has used the
Report (volume)
AND SAMUEL SANFORD A revision of Bulletin 585 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 1917 CONTENTS.................................................. Maine............................................................................................... Washington................................................prepared for the Southern Commercial Congress, Washington, D. C., 1909. Purdue, A. H., Compendium of the...Rapid City. v Tennessee____Mr. G. H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville. Texas______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sixteenth Ann. Rept. Dir. U. S. Geol. Surv., II, Washington, 1895, pp. 13-217. W. O. CROSBY: The Great Fault...that the squeezing 1 Pikes Peak Folio No. 7, Washington, 1895. GRANITIC ROCKS OF PIKES PEAK QUADRANGLE...2 Geological sheet. Pikes Peak folio, No. 7, Washington, 1895. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., VI, 1894, pp. 471-473...following proportions by weight: - 33.4 Quartz Microcline "Biotite" Oligoclase - - - - - - - 53...feldspars. It is probably secondary in both the microcline and the oligoclase, though in the former it may
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INrnooucrroN "ovoid" rnegacrystsof perthitic microcline or orthoclase Many felsic igneousrocks are compositionally...petrographic within plagioclase mantles (e.g., Red Beach Granite, (and more limited analytical and experimental)...evaluating any proposed model of their muscovite (Maine; Larabee et al., 1965) and riebeckite genesis. (e...l98l: Deer Island (DI) and Crotch Island (CI), Maine, Stewart, 19591in the pressruerangeof l-8 kbar and...(e.g., plagioclasepoikilitically included in microcline, ERB, Hutchinson, 1956; oligoclase inclusions
Report (issue)
Rock Assemblages in the Machias-Eastport Area, Maine GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1184 Bimodal...Rock Assemblages in the Machias-Eastport Area, Maine By OLCOTT GATES and ROBERT H. MOENCH GEOLOGICAL...belt in southeastern Maine UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1981 UNITED STATES...rock assemblages in the Machias-Eastport area, Maine. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1184) Bibliography:... no.: I 19:16:1184 1. Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.-Maine-Machias region. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Silurian
Book
MA5SACHUSSETS WORCESTER .W o] ~P- FM V/C/N/TY ^^o Red beds MAP of fhe. /=zh NORFOLK SELL IS(^HAM ...Secretary of NEIGC, stated in the Mt. Katahdin, Maine, Guidebook that the New England Intercollegiate... GENERAUZED BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP EASTERN MA5SACHUSSET3 Red bec/i WORCESTER VICINITY a^o of fht. HARVARD...correlate with a major volcanic belt along the Maine and New Brunswick coasts, where the volcanics and...correlation with the Perry Basin of easternmost Maine, noting that the clast lithologies can best be explained
Report (volume)
Zone UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON:1981 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Introduction ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢...Highway 49 (Skyway Road) near town of Abel, Cleburne County. Absaroka Supergroup/Volcanic Supergroup U ABRK03...volcanic field, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyo. Academy Church Shale Member (Springer Formation)...W1/2NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 3 s., R. 2 E., Carter County. Adams Formation ADMS01 1. Holocene 2. Alaska (SE)
Journal (volume)
H. ROSENBUSCH G. K. GILBERT H. WILLIAMS Washington, D. Germany CHARLES BARROIS S. Yale University...H. William Earths. Cavern in Nitrates of Origin County, Calcareous Concretions of Kettle Point, Lambton...liminary Report on the Copper-bearing Rocks of Douglas County, Wisconsin, by Ulysses Lower Huronian Sherman...Stanton (W. N. Logan), 371 The Glacial Gravels of Maine and their Asso; Deposits, by George H. Stone (T...Reviews : fourth ; 479- NUMBER The Origin of Beach Cusps. J. VI. ----------- C. Branner A Contribution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Il-estern i Red Rock contaminated by early anorthosite Anorthosite (upper facics) Aplitic red rock Main...Pine granite, Lady Bight, Labrador GG 17 Brownish-red granite, 1\Ienifieid Ray, Labrador GG I3 Coarse pink...granite, Red Sucker L., S. of L. Wiinipeg GG 20 GG 21 Pink-grey granite, Gods Lake, Xanitoba GG 2ā€ Red granite...101 AG 102 AG 103 Granitic gneiss, Clarks Islands Red Felspathic Grttnite, Great Duck Is. nr. Mt. Desert...Granite (Riebeckite), Nt. Agamenticus Granite, Red Beach Red granite, Stony Creek Griznite, Kermebunkport
Report (volume)
1267 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1970 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $4.25 (paper cover) CONTENTS...obtained by writing to the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 20242. The principal contributors to this...American Antiquity. Society for American Archeology. Washington, D.C. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Pub. - American Association...Association for the Advancement of Science Publication. Washington, D. C. Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull.
Report (issue)
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1972 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTER...UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1972 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock Number 2401-00270 FOREWORD...A293-A298 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and... Oregon .................................. . Washington and Idaho ...................... . Alaska ..
Report (issue)
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1968 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1968 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $3.50 FOREWORD "Geological...A253-A258 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...____ Alaska. _______________________________ Washington- ___________________________ Oregon ________
Report (volume)
Zone UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C, 20402 - Price $13 (paper cover) per set...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian
 
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