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Biotite from
Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Creek
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 Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:978549
Long-form Identifier:1:3:978549:6
GUID (UUID V4):27732f2d-98b3-486c-ae45-b04195b55c42
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
32.5km (20.2 miles) Bishop Concentrate and Cleaning Company Mine (Bishop Tungsten Mines mill), Keough Hot Springs, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
33.9km (21.1 miles) Fesler Prospect, Windypah Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
58.7km (36.5 miles) Vanderbilt mine, Silver Peak Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
60.9km (37.9 miles) Pine Creek Mine (Black Monster Mine; Snow Queen Mine; Pine Creek Tungsten Mine & mill; Pine Creek apt plant; Pine Creek custom mill), Scheelite, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
65.4km (40.6 miles) Susan prospect, Tokop Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
79.5km (49.4 miles) Unnamed Beryl occurrence [1], Haystack Mountain (Haystack; Boulder Mountain; Kern Knob), Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
80.9km (50.2 miles) Laurel Mountain, Mono County, California, USA
82.3km (51.2 miles) McGee Creek headwaters area, Glass Mountain, Mono County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California INTRODUCTION I N a previous...contact metamorphic decarbonation reactions. The biotite schists and granitic intrusions associated with...Publications of the Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Contribution No. 1594...http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/ at University of California, San Fransisco on March 30, 2015 ABSTRACT QUjQia...from two contact metamorphic aureoles at Birch Creek, California and Marble Canyon, Texas. The pelitic metasediments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Barcroft Area, Eastern California: Ar/ Ar Geochronologic Study of Hornblende and Biotite from Igneous and Metamorphic...Barcroft Area, Eastern California: Ar/ Ar Geochronologic Study of Hornblende and Biotite from Igneous and Metamorphic...Barcroft Area, Eastern California: 40Ar/39Ar Geochronologic Study of Hornblende and Biotite from Igneous and...University, Stanford, California 94305-2115 Abstract The central and southern White Mountains constitute a well-exposed...analyses were obtained for 8 Ca-amphibole and 13 biotite specimens from igneous and metamorphic wall rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
College, San Diego, California MARK DELISLE Texaco Geophysical, Ba^ersfield, California JR MORGAN Dept. Geology...of investigation Study areas Owlshead Peak White Mountains Vermont-New Hampshire Experiments with color...Peak study, California 2. Sample location and description, White Mountains study, California 3. Sample...and locality map for Owlshead Peak study area, California 879 881 881 882 882 884 888 889 892 897 900... Index and locality map of the White Mountain study area, California 887 5. Index map of Vermont-New
Report (issue)
Central Part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California by Paul C. Batemanl/ This report supplements...87-670, Pre-Tertiary bedrock geologic quadrangle, California. It provides expanded shown on the map and interpretations...does not imply endorsement by the USGS. Park, California Note for New Publications of the U.S. Geological...central part of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California, by Paul C. Bateman. This publication supplements...geologic map of the Mariposa 1° by 2° quadrangle, California by providing descriptions and interpretations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism, Papoose Flat Pluton, eastern California, USA: implications for -cooling and strain histories...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N M 87731, USA (ernail: mwn yman@h ydra .unm.edu) 'Department of...Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2406 1 , USA ABSTRACT Petrological study of highly strained...the crust. The Papoose Flat pluton of eastern California commonly has been cited in the geological literature...pluton (PIT) is located in the White-Inyo Range of eastern California and is one of several similar-age
Report (issue)
Professional Paper 110 A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE INYO RANGE -AND THE EASTERN SLOPE OF THE .~OUTHERN SIERRA...KNOPF ·WITH A SECTION ON THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE INYO RANGE BY EDWIN KIRK WASHINGTON GOVERNl\IENT PRINTING·... Owens Valley ........................... . The Inyo Range .............. ~ ........ . The Sierra Nevada... . Mississippian series ..............·.... . 'White Pine shale ......... : ..·... . Pennsylvanian series...42 Page. Geology-Continued. Stratigraphy of the Inyo Range, by Edwin Kirk-Continued. Carboniferous system-Continued
Report (issue)
Fractionation in a Part of the White Mountains, Mono and Inyo Counties, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Fractionation in a Part of the White Mountains, Mono and Inyo Counties, California By DENIS E. MARCHAND EROSION...weathering and erosion ______ 380 Map of east-central California and adjacent part of Nevada, indicating location...showing part of the upland surface in the White Mountains __________________ __________ 381 Map of generalized...generalized topography of a part of the southern White Mountains _________________ __ _ 381 Photograph showing
Report (chapter)
Emplacement of the Joshua Flat-Beer Creek Pluton (White Inyo Mountains, California): a story of multiple material...Flat-Beer Creek Pluton (JBP) in the White Inyo Mountains, California, is part of the Inyo batholith...Marble Canyon Diorite-Joshua Flat Monzonite-Beer Creek Granodiorite as nested diapirs. In the Marble Canyon...between the Joshua Flat Monzonite and the Beer Creek Granodiorite. Fabrics in the contact aureole document...of intrusion during the emplacement of the Beer Creek Granodiorite into the already existing magma chamber
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Received September 30...Publications of the Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Contribution NTo. 1565...the c o n t a c t zone of a p l u t o n near Birch Creek, Cahfornia (SHIE~ a n d TAYLOr, 1969). E x t...easily separated magnetically from biotite, and since coexisting biotite and hornblende invariably have similar...dike + 1.0 Mineral Quartz Plagioclase (An15) Biotite (H20 4.6%) b Magnetite Quartz Plagioelase (An15)
Report (volume)
mine._______________________________________ Birch Creek district, Idaho__-_______._______________________-__... IV CONTENTS Mine descriptions Continued Deer Creek district, Montana_________________________ Divide...sections of the Trapper no. 1 claim, Beaverhead County, Mont__________________________ In pocket FIQTJEE...Idaho_____ 43. Geologic and index maps of the Birch Creek district, Montana______________ __ ._ 44. Geologic...Montana.. 45. Geologic and index maps of the Deer Creek district, Montana....__________._-__--__----------_---_-_--_
Report (issue)
the Granitoids of the Central Sierra Nevada, California Isotopic U-Pb Ages of Zircon from the Granitoids...Granitoids of the Central Sierra Nevada, California By T. W. STERN, P. C. BATEMAN, B. A. MORGAN, M. F. NEWELL...granitoids, Sierra Nevada and adjacent areas, eastern California ----------------- 2 2. Schematic chart showing...optimum average U-Pb ages on zircon, K-Ar ages on biotite and hornblende, and Rb-Sr wholerock ages------...U-Pb ages of zircon from granitoids of the White Mountains -------------------------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartzite during contact metamorphism in the White-Inyo Range, California P. I. NABELEK1, S. K. STEPHENSON1, S...Sciences University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 USA 2 Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Central...Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA Correspondence: Peter Nabelek 101 Geological Sciences...Bldg. University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 USA e-mail: nabelekp@missouri.edu tel: 1-573-884-6463...Valley-Joshua Flat-Beer Creek (EJB) pluton in the White-Inyo Range, California, reveal the compositions
Report (volume)
Lake Canyon Wilderness Study Areas, Inyo and Kern Counties, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Wilderness Study Areas, Inyoand Kern Counties, California By MICHAEL F. DIGGLES, ROBERT E. TUCKER, and...Lake Canyon Wilderness study areas, Inyo and Kern Counties, California (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin...3:1708-B 1. Gold ores California Owens Peak Wilderness. 2. Gold ores California Little Lake Canyon Wilderness...Wilderness. 3. Tungsten ores California Owens Peak Wilderness. 4. Tungsten ores California Little Lake Canyon Wilderness
Report (volume)
ANGELES; California--Federal Bldg .• Rrn. 7638, 300 N. Los Angeles St. • MENLO PARK, California--Bldg....Rrn. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rrn. 504, 555 Battery St. • SPOKANE...Moore and John M. Murphy Molybdenite in the Huron Creek pluton, western Livengood quadrangle, Alaska 54...of the White Mountains terrane: Evidence from U-Pb data of granite boulders in the Fossil Creek Volcanics...reports on Alaska released in 1988 U2 Ellen R. White, compiler Reports about Alaska in non-USGS publications
Report (volume)
....................................... Cherry Creek group............................................................................ . . Utopia (Birch Creek) district.................................................... 75 Outlying mines in Beaverhead County.................................. 76 Polaris district..................................... Bloody Dick Creek.. ..............................-.----- -- - - .............................. Highland and Moose Creek districts..................................... Location
Report (issue)
Tungsten Mineralization of the Bishop District California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in...in cooperation with the State of California, Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology...Tungsten Mineralization of the Bishop District California By PAUL C. BATEMAN With a section on Gravity...470 Prepared in cooperation with the State of California^ Department of Conservation^ Division of Mines...and Lower Cambrian sedimentary rocks of the White Mountains.-________ Wyman formation__________________________
Report (issue)
OF STINE CREEK (Ksc) 11 UPHILL CREEK GRANODIORITE (Kuc) 14 GRANODIORITE OF DAVID CREEK (Kdc) 21... (Kgl, Kgp, Kgb, Kgm, Ktcl, Kog) 23 CLIFFORD CREEK GRANITE (TKc) 38 GRANODIORITE OF CANNIVAN GULCH...Pioneer batholith as they occur in the east Pioneer Mountains. Two intrusive bodies of uncertain petrogenetic...of mafic to silicic. Within the east Pioneer Mountains, this order approximates the order of older to...helping me to map the plutons in the east Pioneer Mountains. I benefitted from thoughtful and thorough reviews
Report (volume)
relations. ___________--_-_-_-________--_Birch Creek Schist_________..___________________ ___________--__-___...________ Moose Creek Member___-._-__--_____-_______-_-_-______-___---California Creek Member____ __-_-...__________-____-_______-_----Chute Creek, Mystic Creek, and Sheep Creek Members.___________ Age and origin...Metavolcanic schists and associated rocks south of the Birch Creek Schist. References cited.___________________...foliation along the north side of the arch. The Birch Creek Schist underlies a belt fr-10 miles wide along
Report (volume)
the Minister of Mines for 1917. Victoria, B. C. California Academy of Sciences: Proceedings, 4th ser., vol...13; vol. 8, nos. i-7. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 76-78, 82...Preliminary report, nos. 3-5. San Francisco, Calif. California, University of, Department of Geology: Bulletin...Maryland Geological Survey: vol.. 10; Anne Aruiidel. County. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol. 5; no. 3.. Poutkind...Bulletin no. 12, Rapid City, S. Dak. Southern California Academy of Sciences: Bulletin, vol. 17, pts.
Report (issue)
northern part of the Barker quadrangle, Little Belt Mountains, Mont., by I. J. Witkind 20 Mineralogy and petrology...petrology Composition of jadeitic pyroxene from the California metagraywackes, by R. G. Coleman X-ray determinative...First occurrence of graptolites in the Klamath Mountains, Calif., by Michael Churkin, Jr A proposed revision...rocks in the South Groveland quadrangle, Essex County, Mass., by R. 0. Castle Stratigraphy of the upper...Ordovician, Devonian(?), and Cretaceous(?) rocks, White Mountain area, near McGrath, Alaska, by C. L. Sainsbury
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microcline, amphibole, clinozoisite, clinopyroxene and biotite from alternating pelitic and calcareous hornfelses...Wyman Formation, BIanco Mountain Quadrangle, California, were analyzed using an electron microprobe....Formation in the Blanco Mountain Quadrangle, White Mountains, California, contain a wide range of plagioclase...was metamorphosed by the emplacement of the Beer Creek pluton (184-151 million years, MeKee and Nash, 1967)...attributed to earlier metamorphism by the Beer Creek pluton or due to burial metamorphism occur outside
Report (volume)
quartzite and limy quartzite.___-._-_-__ G3 2. Quartz-biotite gneiss. _________________________ 5 3. Hornblende...gneiss___________________________ 7 4. Fold in white, sugary marble._________________ 8 5. Tor of gr...Photograph of abandoned placer mining property on Uhler Creek..-,___________________-___-____--__--__ 29 PLATE...tributaries, including Walker Fork, Jack Wade Creek, and Chicken Creek. L. M. Prindle did considerable geologic...helpful, especially William Meldrum on Stonehouse Creek; George Robinson at Jack Wade; the late Fred Purdy
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the Eastern Pioneer Mountains, Beaverhead County, Montana U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN... Mineral Resources of the Eastern Pioneer Mountains, Beaverhead County, Montana By R. C. PEARSON, B. R. BERGER...E-AN ZEN Several areas in the eastern Pioneer Mountains have high or moderate potential for molybdenum...Mineral resources of the Eastern Pioneer Mountains, Beaverhead County, Montana. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin...neer Mountains. 2. Oredeposits-Montana-Pioneer Mountains. 3. Geology-Montana-Pioneer Mountains. I. Pearson
Report (volume)
rocks___________________________________________ Birch Creek schist and associated meta-igneous rocks.-.-_...system_____---__--------------------------_--Fossil Creek volcanics.___.____.__-___-__._------___.__ Silurian...terraces at head of Woodchopper Creek; B, Falls in South Fork of Birch Creek....._......_._..._....... 4... A, VaUey of Fortymile River at mouth of Steel Creek; B, Contorted schist on ridge north of Mosquito...pre-Middle Ordovician rocks, East Fork of Willow Creek, White Mountains.________________________ 27 50 51 74
Report (volume)
........................................... Birch Creek schist................................................... , Muscovite-biotite granite............................... Biotite granite......................................... 53 53 54 54 54 55 Birch Creek schist.................................................................................... Birch Creek district.......................................5 Gold in the Circle quadrangle Continued. Birch Creek district Continued. Page. Placers...........
 
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