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


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Beach, Calais, Washington County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:618389
Long-form Identifier:1:3:618389:9
GUID (UUID V4):31a0e8a5-fc3b-4dc4-882f-dc338cd890b4
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
10.7km (6.7 miles) Gin Cove, Perry, Washington County, Maine, USA
13.1km (8.2 miles) Loring Cove, Perry, Washington County, Maine, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Digdeguash road cut, Saint Patrick Parish, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada
18.3km (11.4 miles) Big Hill Mine, Pembroke, Washington County, Maine, USA
22.2km (13.8 miles) Wheal Louisiana mine (Johnson mine; McLeans mine; Back Bay mine), Saint George Parish, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada
23.1km (14.3 miles) Oliver Cameron mine, Saint George Parish, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick, Canada
26.8km (16.7 miles) Clarence Stream Gold Deposit, Clarence Stream area, York Co., New Brunswick, Canada
26.9km (16.7 miles) Dendon Point Mine, Washington County, Maine, USA
28.6km (17.8 miles) American Molybdenum Company Mine, Cooper, Washington County, Maine, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Anomaly A Deposit, Clarence Stream area, 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TRACE ELEMENTS IN QUARTZ AS INDICATORS OF PROVENANCE Abstract: Trace elements in quartz provide a means...grains with their source rock. A test on quartz from the Red Beach Granite Introduction The provenance of...material. The only common resistate mineral is quartz, whose presence in source rocks is too widespread...of correlative value. Microscopically, however, quartz does show distinctive physical features, such as...inclusions. Since the shape and nature of inclusions in quartz were described by Sorby (1858), they have been
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
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...tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by...Photo by John B. Poisson. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is the case in Jackman, Maine (Hurley, Boucot, et al., 1959), Katahdin, Maine (Boucot, 1954), and in the...in the composite Rocky Boy stock in western Hill County, Bearpaw Mountains, Montana. The stock is correlated...points of the time scale of Holmes (1947,206Gilpin County, Colorado). The ages are y^/Pb on uraninite from...later In central California, the Guadalupe Mountain quartz monzonite intrudes the Mariposa formation (Oxf...About 100 miles northwestward, the Horseshoe Bar quartz diorite is surrounded by the Rocklin granodiorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
colorless through various shades of yellow and brown; red, greenish, aiid pale violet crystals have also been...commonly xsociated with brookite, rutile, hematite. quartz. titanite, and o r t h d a s e ( v x . adtilaria)...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;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
opaque mineral that occurs in various shades of red- and yellow-brown through dark brown to black. Its...where it is found with anatase, rutile, titanite, quartz, adularia, albite, hematite. calcite, and chlorite...are reported from near Bridgton and at Red Beach, Calais, Maine. It is also reported as pale amber to...mm, associated with anatase. rutile, zircon, and quartz, in cavities exposed in a small prospect pit near...Consolidated No. 2 quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine (King and Foord 1994). It occurs with anatase
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...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...their granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Willi
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...granite (Merrymeeting) Winnipesaukee quartz diorite Winnipesaukee quartz diorite 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Agamenticus
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Hallowell Quartz Monzonite and Three Mile Pond Granodiorite Plutons, South-Central Maine: Their Bearing...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)...ages of 394_+ 8 m.y. (Togus quartz monzonite), 387_+ 11 m.y. (Hallowell quartz monzonite), and 381+_14 m...extends from Long Island Sound to southwestern Maine (see summaries in, Hurley et al. 1960; Faul et al
Report (chapter)
....................... I Ditton ~,,~?,i.~,~,~ Red Milford ~6;'~u~ Old Gedinnian i[i::ii.a.;.o u ;...Group. Column 9: UORS, upper Old Red Sandstone; Lv & ORS, lavas and Old Red Sandstone; C. & L. Bds, Coldingham...Riccarton; F, fault contact. Column 10: LORS, lower Old Red Sandstone. Column 11 : Strath Gp, Strathmore Group;...G, Stonehaven Group. Column 13 : UORS, upper Old Red Sandstone; JOGSG, John O'Groats Sandstone Group....show a major break between Silurian and lower Old Red Sandstone beds, but at Marloes Sands marine beds
Report (volume)
AND SAMUEL SANFORD A revision of Bulletin 585 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 1917 CONTENTS.................................................. Maine............................................................................................... Washington................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...prepared for the Southern Commercial Congress, Washington, D. C., 1909. Purdue, A. H., Compendium of the
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)
ages: Kinsman Quartz Monzonite, 411 ± 19 m.y.; Bethlehem Gneiss, 405 ± 78 m.y.; Spaulding Quartz Diorite,...others believed that in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine the age pattern largely reflected unloading, and...the Bethlehem Gneiss, (2) the Kinsman Quartz Monzonite, (3) quartz diorites and related rocks here considered...considered to be correlative with the Spaulding Quartz Diorite, and (4) two-mica granites herein equated...porphyritic granite (Kinsman?) in Winnipesaukee Quartz Diorite (Bethlehem?); therefore, the Kinsman is
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)
Mid­ dletown, Conn., Trinity Church,Brooklyn, etc. Red sandstone (Potsdam �andstone), Pot.sdam, N. Y. Several...and Gatelaw Bridp:e, Scotlano; in shl1des of dark red to bright pink. Fronts of several reo sidences, trimmings...of Fundy, N. S. Columns in Stock Exchange, etc. Red granyte, Blue Hills, Me. U. S_ Barge Office. Gray...Zedul1g building,etc. Also, varieties from Calais, Red Beach, East Boston, Clark's Island, Mt. W aldo,... Gray gneiss, New York Island, and Westcbester county. N. Y. A large number of cburches, Bellevue Hospital
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 (issue)
Geologic map of the Planet 2 SW quadrangle. Mohave County, Arizona. [Menlo Park, Calif.] : U.S. Geological...Brushy Mountain and Timber Mountain areas, Taos County, New Mexico. [Denver, Colo.] : U.S. Geological...PAGE Wilson, Charles William. Geologic map of the Red Boiling Springs quadrangle, Tennessee. [Nashville...Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C. : U.S. General Accounting Office, RECD...Winston. Acid deposition : science and policy. Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future, Quality of
Report (issue)
BASIN IN SOlJTHEASTERN MAINE • BY GEORGE OTIS SMITI--:[ and DAVID WHITE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRIN'l'IN... . . . . APPENDIX. Coal in other localities in Maine...................................................the geology o£ the Perry lms!n, in 'Jouthcastern Maine, hy George Otis Smith and David White, and to recommend...alleged coal deposits, made in cooperation w1th the Maine State Survey Commission. \Vhile £rom an economical... THE GEOLOGY OF THE PERRY BASIN, IN SOUTHEASTERN MAINE. By GEOHGE OTIS SMITH and DAVID . vVHITE.
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...volcanics N.H./Wn-6-73 Belknap stock Albany Quartz Syenite N.H./Wn-7-73 Merrymeeting stock Conway...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(occasionallywith inclusions of plagioclaseand quartz), embayed early-formed quartz, and the presenceof two generationsof...decompressionon the phase stabilities ofplagioclase, quartz, and alkali feldspar. These calculations indicate...in their trace usually contain two generationsof quartz and alkali feldelements,etc.) become potential...interpret the origin of rapakivi texture have tic quartz often shows embayment of euhedral forms (e.g.,...Sederholm (1891) Gold Butte, Montana; Volborth, 1962). Quartz is also on the Fennoscandianrapakivi granites,yet
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... Granites. Typical granite ture of feldspar, quartz essential constituents, is a crystalline, granular
Book
MA5SACHUSSETS WORCESTER .W o] ~P- FM V/C/N/TY ^^o Red beds MAP of fhe. /=zh NORFOLK SELL IS(^HAM ...I 5 iiJ DIORITE ANDOVER QUARTZ QU/NCY SHARON GRANITE SYEN/TE DIORiTE ^, ^^^...Secretary of NEIGC, stated in the Mt. Katahdin, Maine, Guidebook that the New England Intercollegiate...Northbridge Gneiss may be metamorphosed, Late Precambrian quartz-dacite volcanics related to the other volcanics... GENERAUZED BEDROCK GEOLOGIC MAP EASTERN MA5SACHUSSET3 Red bec/i WORCESTER VICINITY a^o of fht. HARVARD
 
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