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Biotite from
Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:244854
Long-form Identifier:1:3:244854:1
GUID (UUID V4):2d325681-caa3-4e37-b5a1-8811b93b2fab
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
20.7km (12.9 miles) Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Old Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
22.2km (13.8 miles) Round Top Hill area quartz prospects, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
22.6km (14.0 miles) Melvin Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
23.3km (14.5 miles) Wright Mine, Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
30.2km (18.8 miles) Blandford mica mines, Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
31.1km (19.3 miles) Crissey Quarry (Crissy Hill), Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Clark Ledge pegmatite locality, Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
32.7km (20.3 miles) Betts Manganese Mines (Anson Betts Mine; Plainfield Manganese Mines; Taconic Manganese Mines), Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
37.6km (23.4 miles) Mount Greylock, Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON...Petrographical description.................................. Lee gneiss ................................................................................... 43 43 Lee-Tyringham area ....................................anticline.................................. East Lee anticline..........................................limestone ......................................... Lee black gneiss ...................................
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC MA.P v. - OF MONTERET QUADRANGIEJ MASSACHUSETTS «. By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe U.S. GEOLOGICAL...quadrangle lies near the western edge of the t 3 Berkshire Higlands (lig. 1) just east of the major west-facing...Paleozoi rocks dominate the western front of the Berkshire massif. From 13 the north end of the South...Paleozoic rocks 17 of the Beartown Mountain and East Lee slices, which are breached IB by erosion to expose...overthrusting *- of the Beartown Mountain and East Lee slices and the ancillary 7 I Lake Buel, Dry Hill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND ON CONTACT PHENOMENA LIMESTONE IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS PENTTI ESKOLA Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...INTRODUCTION The eastern part of Berkshire County in western Massachusetts is underlain by a vast area of...granite gneiss.' 'B. K. Emerson, "Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island," U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull. 597...Hampshire County, Mass.," U.S. Geol. Surv., Mon. 29 (I898), and "The Geology of Eastern Berkshire County, Mass...and Peru, in Hinsdale, and in the valleys of East Lee, Tyringham, and Otis. All the limestone formations
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
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 (issue)
Tectonic Studies of the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites...at the Western Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report B. Chronology...and Precambrian Rocks at the North End of the Berkshire Massif C. Tectonic and Metamorphic Chronology...History of Part of the East Side of the Berkshire Massif, Massachusetts E. Recumbent Folding of the Goshen...Goshen and Waits River Formations, \.Yestern Massachusetts F. Time and Space Relationships of Structures
Report (volume)
SMITH, Director Bulletin 744 THE LIME BELT OF MASSACHUSETTS AND PARTS OF EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT..................................... Stockbridge, Lee, and Tyringham ................................................................................... Lee....................................................marble quarries...................................... Lee ........................................................................... South Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y................................... A slightly
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Shride Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts .Kenneth G. Bell and Donald C. Alvord Stratigraphic...Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, east-central Massachusetts .James W. Skehan. S.J.. and A. Adel Abu-moustafa...stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian
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............................................
Report (volume)
sedimentary rocks of the Espanola basin, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, by Glen A. Izett and C. W. Naeser...Nevada are Late Cretaceous in age, by Donald E. Lee, JohnS. Stacey, and Lynn B. Fischer 31 E. Geochronology...Geochronology of basement granite, Stephenson County, Illinois, by ZellE. Peterman, S. S. Goldich, Lynn B... K. Sims G. Age of the basement straurolite-biotite schist of northeastern South Dakota, by 65 J. R...fission-track age for the Bull Domingo boulder pipe, Custer County, Colorado, by W. N. Sharp and C. W. Naeser 77
Report (volume)
stratigraphic nomenclature in Oregon, Vermont, Massachusetts, and southern Pakistan U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...northern Berkshire massif, Massachusetts, and the southern Green Mountains, Vermont and Massachusetts, by...Foulweather and Euchre Mountain quadrangles, Lincoln County, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations...Northern Berkshire Massif, Massachusetts, and the Southern Green Mountains, Vermont and Massachusetts By Nicholas...Middle Proterozoic age in Vermont and northern Massachusetts consists of metavolcanic rocks, paragneiss,
Report (issue)
THE TALG. SOAPSTONE AND ASBESTOS DEPOSITS OF MASSACHUSETTS by E. Chute Prepared under a cooperative project...investigations in the Coraroonvealth of >! Boston, Massachusetts CONTENTS Abstract .......................... 9 10 Appraisal^ ..^.^.... ........ , Massachusetts Talc Coapany stine^ $*pl°gy..........;.,;,...location^ ..... tt9 ^ I 'f:1'*- 2T 2ff ~» ' ' Berkshire Talc Maijufacturing Ccepany quarries^ ..... 2T... TH2 TALC, SOAPSTOSE, ANB ASBESTOS DEPOSITS OF MASSACHUSETTS Newton E. Chutos Abstract ctal talc and soapstona
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Report (issue)
Island, eastern Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts forms a distinctive block separated from the...Fullagar and Odom (1973) for similar rocks in Grayson, County, Va., although Rankin and opening of the lapetus...overprint is relatively tauga County, N.C., and eastern Johnson County, Tenn., minor, the older basement...a discordia intercept age of 1,280 m.y. Grayson County, Va. (Di), yielded an age of 1,149 m.y. (Davis...whole-rock-isochron age of 1,225 m.y. for layered biotite-muscovite gneiss (Paleozoic amphibolite *The Elk
Report (issue)
.......................................105 Massachusetts ..............................................Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Districts in California...of the recorded production. Talc deposits in Massachusetts are mostly located in a north-trending belt...metasedimentary rocks continuous with that in Massachusetts; some are in Middle Proterozoic gneiss. They...talc has tri-octahedral structure, analogous to biotite. These composite sheets are linked only by van
Report (volume)
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...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Report (issue)
SURVEY GEOLOGY OF THE WINDSOR QUADRANGELE, MASSACHUSETTS Stephen Alien Norton This report is preliminary...Formation General Statement Petrology Thickness Age Berkshire Schist General Statement Schist and Phy11ite Black...129 Mineralogy 131 General Statement Garnet Biotite Chlorite Muscovite and Paragonite Albite 131 132...to recent geologic mapping in northwestern Massachusetts, southern Vermont, and southwestern New Hampshire...geologic map of southern Vermont northwestern Massachusetts. 11 Location of specimens for which modes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institute Troy, NY 12180, USA 2 Department of Geology Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002, USA Abstract. A quantitative...S H that includes the phases garnet, chlorite, biotite, chloritoid, cordierite, staurolite, talc, kyanite...chloritoid + biotite which arises because of the unusual facing of the reaction chloritoid+biotite+ quartz...chlorite at low grades rather than chloritoid + biotite. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to...phase at the invariant point (typically garnet or biotite) equal to 0.9999 or 0.0001. The compositions of
Report (issue)
director United States geoh)gical survey liy Massachusetts in Green mountains of the Geology Raphael Pumpelly...director United States geological survey by Massachusetts in Groen mountains of the Geology Raphael Pumpelly..., XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Raphael Piiinpelly, P. Nelson Dale, and...Upper Devonian, along the meridian of County, IL Y., to Bradford County, Pa., by Henry S. Williams. 1884....cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of )ntario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 8°. 1885. 86 pp.
Journal (issue)
presentations and special reports|GIT Lab Updates|USA lifts ban on Burmese ruby and jadeite|Margaritologia...inclusions|Clinohumite from Vietnam|Lace opal from Utah, USA|Pollucite from Pakistan with polylithionite inclusions|Large...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell Pedersen, Organic Gems, London;...Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;...Galopim de Carvalho, Portugal Gemas, Lisbon, Portugal; Lee A. Groat, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Report (volume)
Black. (F) The Reany Creek Formation, Marquette County, Michigan, by Willard P. Puffett. (G) The Aguada...Formation in the southeastern Kaiparowits region, Kane County, Utah, by Fred Peterson. (K) Summary of Cretaceous...Paleozoic formations of the Mountain City area, Elko County, Nevada, by R. R. Coats________________________________________...City and Owyhee quadrangles, Elko County, Nev., and Owyhee County, Idaho_____ __ 2. Kodiak and adjacent...Revision and reference Corbin Sandstone Member (of Lee Formation).. Early Pennsylvanian____-.. southeastern
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts...............:...............................See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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 S., R. 7 E.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONNECTICUT The Thames Valley Rockhounds, New London County, began the new season with an idea packed program...Brazilian minerals and his trip to Brazil. — The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, went to the Grisson...Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County, Hyatts­ ville were on a field trip in the area...Clifton Mineral and Lapidary Society. — The Bergen County Mineralogy and Pa­ leontology Society, Paramus...Mineral Society, Elmira were guests of the Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca on an exploratory
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...Quartzofeldspathic granofels member (mqfg) 30 Ill Biotite-knot schist member (mbks) 31 Rusty weathering...Description 41 Biotite granite containing less than 6 percent biotite (Dfg) 41 Biotite granite containing...containing 5 to 15 percent biotite (Dfbg) 42 Radiometric Age 42 CHELMSFORD GRANITE 43 Nomenclature,...INTRODUCTION 74 PELITIC ROCKS 76 Chlorite Zone 78 Biotite Zone 78 Garnet Zone 80 Andalusite Zone 80
Report (volume)
FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf...Jiedfct gneiss. I'RK-CAMHRIAN. Washington gneiss. Lee gneiss. Hinsdale. limestone. Monson and ham gneiss...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43
 
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