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


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Beach, Calais, Washington County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:618390
Long-form Identifier:1:3:618390:5
GUID (UUID V4):924c5736-41c7-4326-8db7-bbff791310ae
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
26.8km (16.7 miles) Clarence Stream Gold Deposit, Clarence Stream area, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada
29.6km (18.4 miles) Anomaly A Deposit, Clarence Stream area, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada
32.7km (20.3 miles) Lubec Lead Mine (Solomon Thayer Mine), Lubec, Washington County, Maine, USA
43.7km (27.2 miles) Mount Pleasant Mine, Saint George Parish, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada
63.3km (39.3 miles) Eagle Lake Granite, Saint John Co., New Brunswick, Canada
76.3km (47.4 miles) Getchell Mountain pegmatite prospect, Lakeville, Penobscot County, Maine, USA
81.1km (50.4 miles) Lake George Antimony mine (Consolidated Durham mines; Resources Ltd. mine; Prince William mine; Brunswick mine), Lake George, Prince William Parish, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada
92.6km (57.6 miles) Catherine Mountain Molybdenite prospect, Catherine Mountain, Hancock County, Maine, USA
97.0km (60.3 miles) Cape Spencer mine, Simonds Parish, Saint John Co., New Brunswick, Canada
98.7km (61.3 miles) Poplar Mountain (Golden Ridge), North Lake Parish, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada
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. AMOS—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 © 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)
xenotime, uraninite, thorianite, coffinite, biotite, muscovite, lepidolite. K feldspar, and glauconite all have...error. Aldrich et al. (1958) have shown that muscovite and biotite usually give concordant ages by the...Polkanov and Gerling, 1958) the Rb/Sr age of the muscovite is greater than other measured ages, for unknown...unknown reasons, but in granites the muscovite and biotite Rb/Sr ages generally agree. K/Ar measurements...is the case in Jackman, Maine (Hurley, Boucot, et al., 1959), Katahdin, Maine (Boucot, 1954), and in the
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 ©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, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
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...Pegmatite dikes in groups____________________ Muscovite veins___________________________ Zeolite vein...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
colorless through various shades of yellow and brown; red, greenish, aiid pale violet crystals have also been...seveml milIimeters have been reported from several Maine localilies, such as a mad cut dong Route I1 7 in...miarolitic cavities in the Red Beach W i t e along U S . Route 1 at Calais: on Pleasant Mountain at Denmark;...Providence County, Rhade I s W at 3e&lehern, New Hampshire: near Watertown, Litchficld County, Connecticut;...quarry, Wrightsvilk, Yurk County; the Safe Harbor quarry, Lancavter County; the H. J. Smith quarry, where
Book
Geology of Maine. Conte11ts Preface vii Geology of Maine 7 Coastal Maine 25 Interstate 95 (Maine-furnpike)...tli S / Down East Maine: Bangor ;:incl Elli;worll1 to ( ,.i l:tic.; 1/S Maine 3, Maine 102, ancl rh(.;... Bangor (,a ln,s JOI Central Maine 707 M aine 5: Saco-Bethel / 14 Maine 26: Pegmatite Alley, Portland...ton / 49 Maine 7: Belfast-Dover-Foxcrofl I 57 Maine 15: Bangor-Abhot Village.: / 6 / Maine 11: Milo-Millinocket...ountains of Maine 17 3 U.S. 2: Skowhegan-Bcthc: I 179 M aine 4 : Farmington-Rangcley / 91 Maine 27: Farmington-C~oburn
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)...tectonothermal activity in the area. Igneous hornblende, muscovite, and biotite display internally concordant 4~...dates of 350 m.y. (hornblende) and 300-265 m.y. (muscovite and biotite), with an overall southwestward younging
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. (USA) 2National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Md. (USA) Received June 9, 1975...of 123 m.y. has been determined in easternmost Maine. The ages, exclusive of the one distinctly older...large area extending southwestward from central Maine shows K - A t ages disturbed in the Permian [9]...mean of 83 m.y. (Table 2). The apatite from the Red Beach Pluton (sample 25) gives an age of 123 m.y. These...gabbro Hamlin Hill schist Saddleback Mtn. pluton Red Beach pluton Short.* 0.89 0.93 0.87 1.00 0.96 0.78
Report (issue)
Foreland Basin Across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and Adjacent Areas Professional Paper 1624 U.S...Superintendent of Documents Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 Books, Maps, and Other Publications...Spokane, Washington—Rm. 135, U.S. Post Office Building, 904 West Riverside Ave. • Washington, D.C.—Rm...Foreland Basin Across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and Adjacent Areas By Dwight C. Bradley, Robert...Foreland Basin across the Northern Appalachians of Maine and adjacent areas / Dwight C. Bradley... [et al
Report (issue)
gov 3 Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO...63130 4 Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 5-U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926A...Orogenesis............... 11 Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine and New Brunswick.................................................. 11 Fredericton Trough, Maine and New Brunswick ......................................Quadrangle, Maine.................................................................... 15 Central Maine Basin
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______
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
others believed that in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine the age pattern largely reflected unloading, and...(early Middle Devonian) age and that in northern Maine there is an angular unconformity beneath terrestrial...Acadian folding, metamorphism, and intrusion in the Maine—New Brunswick border area. In New Hampshire, the...the Lower Devonian Seboomook Formation of western Maine. Two points are now worth noting: (1) despite the... 156) "Salinic disturbance" (Late Silurian) in Maine may be widespread throughout the northern Appalachians
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 • • • •...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 (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...Dodge (1969), and Gleadow and others (1976). Muscovite was used as an external detector in the zircon...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 70°W, apatite fission-track ages
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
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...with the feldspar; and calcite, chlorite, and muscovite accompanying the biotite. Pikes Peak FIG. 4...been described from the Platte Canyon in Jefferson county for the Educational Series of the United States
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
petrographic within plagioclase mantles (e.g., Red Beach Granite, (and more limited analytical and experimental)...in evaluating any proposed model of their muscovite (Maine; Larabee et al., 1965) and riebeckite genesis...l98l: Deer Island (DI) and Crotch Island (CI), Maine, Stewart, 19591in the pressruerangeof l-8 kbar and...(solid) for a rapakivi granite from Crotch Island, Maine, with renormalized composition AbrorOrrroAnueQz3...stageand decompressiontakes place Buddington, Lawrence County magletite district Northwest Adirondacks, NY U
Report (chapter)
× Io-X°year-1) KF-XtI, t80, I82 (biotite and muscovite): K = 7-87%, a°Ar* = I "37 × xo-4cma/g, 4°Ar*/4°K...rocks, unconformably overlain by unmetamorphosed Red Bay Conglomerates; 3oom above the unconformity there...96z) showed that the lowest faunal horizons of the Red Bay Series can be confidently correlated with the...7o. A. G. Smith (5) C~!_~t_s g r a n i t e Calais, Maine, U.S.A. [45 ° I I' N, 67 ° z6' w]. U. Devonian/L...4°K/K = z.22 × xo-4g/gK) Biotite Red Beach Red Beach Red Beach Red Beach Keene Lake Charlotte Meddybemps
Journal (issue)
pseudomorph after azurite, New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Pima County, AZ. Photo: Bob Cooke. 3 dark green botryoidal...Gem, Lapidary, and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, MD, is will be on March 16‒17. The hours are Saturday...Sunday from 11 to 5. The location is Montgomery County Fairgrounds, Building 6, 16 Chestnut Street, Gaithersburg...brachiopod fragments from Erie, PA; quartz with a few muscovite flakes from weathered schist, collected in South...willemite, fluorescing green; and calcite, fluorescing red, all from a previous Super Diggg in Sterling Hill
Report (issue)
Whitelaw Reid, 1878 - Hamilton Harris, 1885 Daniel Beach, LL. D., 1885 WiLLARD A. Cobb, 1886 Carroll E. Smith...Turner. State Library State State, Kernan, Harris, Beach, C. E. Smith. Academic Examinations Regent Warren;...Regent Bostwick; the Lieutenant-Governor, Regents Beach, Sexton, T. G. Smith. — — — SPECIAL COMMITTEES...group 273 274-275 Chemung group 275-278 new red sandstone 278 279-281 Slate use of stone in cities...character to the mass, and the red varieties are so because of the red color also is or pink feldspars
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 (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: 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 ________
 
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