 | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless o therwise noted Map of...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved |  | | Book (volume) | | permission of the publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen)...first mineralogy of the United States of America (Robinson, 1825). The mineralogy of New York (Beck, 1842)...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (November-December 1986). Anonymous. 1960. Gentleman of Oxford County. Rocks and Minerals 35:28-29. A tribute to "the...periences beginning with early-day collecting in Oxford County. . 1965. Fifty years of mineral collecting (Part...Minerals 40:645-47. The mica workings of Black Mountain, Rumford, Maine, are described together with de...at the Mt. Rubellite mine near Heb ron, Oxford County. Buckley, B. W. 1973. Maine tourmaline strike....Black Mountain. Rocks and Minerals 52:317-19. Located northwest of Rumford in Ox ford County, Black |  | | Book (volume) | | .......... 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H. Perry . .......Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................Eugene E. Foord Mineral Photographs (Black-and-White Plates) ..........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified |  | | Report (issue) | | at Spor Mountain, Utah___-__ Beryllium in the Mount Wheeler area, White Pine County, Nevada-__________...________________________ Pegmatites of the Spruce Pine district, North Carolina.______________________...Development of the Fredonia anticline in Wilson County, Kansas._________________________ 22 Austin chalk...______________________________ 22 Water withdrawal in Reeves County, Texas____ 23 Aquifer filled in Haskel and Knox...Province_____________---------32 Thrust faults in Nevada and Utah.----------32 Other structural features |  | | Report (issue) | | A253-A258 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...investigations Continued Water resources Continued Rocky Mountain region_--__________________ Montana _________..._______ Idaho- _ __ _________ ____ ___ __ ____ Nevada __ _ ___________________________ Saline water __...cooperators_-____ ---------_____-____ 209 State, county, and municipal cooperaters__________ 209 Other... HEAVY METALS GOLD Geology of gold deposits in Nevada Cortes. Gold at Cortez occurs in a window of carbonate |  | | Report (issue) | | geol·ogy Occurrence of refractory clay in Randolph County, W.Va., by K. J. Englund and H. J. Goett______________________...Chemistry of primary minerals and rocks from the Red Mountain-Del Puerto ultramafic mass, California, by G....apatite-bearing ultramafic chlorite rock, Harford County, Md., by D. L. Southwick_______ Quartz diorite-quartz...Wash Members of the Thirsty Canyon Tuff, southern Nevada, by D. C. Noble, G. D. Bath, R. L. Christiansen...Formation (Paleocene) in southeastern Hardeman County, Tenn., by S. M. Herrick and D. R. Rima------- |  | | Book | | exist. The theory of isostasy explains why. As a mountain mass is worn down, it pee? igher and higher. Eventually...play an important part in mountain building. Almost all of the great mountain ranges of the world have..."general turning"). When diastrophism results in mountain building, it is known as orogeny; when it results...to move toward the area of less pressure. (Many mountain chains have igneous rock cores). The cooling igneous...satisfactory method is to rub the mineral on a piece of white, unglazed porcelain, called the streak plate. The |
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