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Crossite from
Blue Mountains, Portland Parish, Jamaica


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:'Crossite' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:In blueschists.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Crossite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Mountains, Portland Parish, Jamaica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:318399
Long-form Identifier:1:3:318399:1
GUID (UUID V4):5febe47f-e962-4f25-915a-afe1b6e2d25f
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
St., Bloomfield, N. J. sent in a spec, that fl. blue, ROCKS AND MINERALS SW—short wave LW—long wave...found 19 of them were fl. Some colors noted were blue, yellow and pink. The response was strongest under...to explain the fl. in the Herkimer material. The blue il. is very probably water. The general appearance...Springs, Calif. It fl. a really beautiful strong blue-green LW and SW. I suggest you add this to your...hundred mark. We the excess matrix, the very tough crossite, meet every first and third Friday through and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Mt. Hibernia Schist, Union Hill, Parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica a b b Richard N. Abbott , Betsy R...the Mt. Hibernia Schist, Union Hill, Parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica, International Geology Review, 45:1...the Mt. Hibernia Schist, Union Hill, Parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica RICHARD N. ABBOTT, JR.,1 Department...University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica AND PETER W. SCOTT Downloaded by [University...on the southwestern side of the Blue Mountain Inlier in eastern Jamaica. The metamorphosed sediments and
Report (issue)
the greenschist and epidote-amphibolite facies. Crossite, pumpellyite, lawsonite, and stilpnomelane preserved...low-temperature mediumpressure facies minerals crossite, lawsonite, pumpellyite, and stilpnomelane. This...Goodyears Creek and the Melones fault contain crossite, pumpellyite, and lawsonite, typical low-temperature...and ilmenite occur as accessory minerals. The crossite-bearing metavolcanic rocks are well exposed in...about 2 km west of Downieville are typical of the crossite-bearing metavolcanic rocks: greenish-gray basaltic
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and geophysicists— because in these spectacular blue-colored rocks much information is stored regarding...northern extension in Canada, and in the Klamath Mountains facing the Pacific Ocean. The Appalachian blueschists...ophiolite, the 450-Ma blueschists in the Klamath mountains (Potter et al., 1981) are present as small tectonic...Klamath Mountains blueschist. Caledonian (Early Paleozoic) blueschists of the Klamath Mountains in northwestern...belt of the western Cordillera from the Klamath Mountains northward through Pinchi Lake, central British
Report (issue)
MINERAL INDUSTRIES 1069 State Office Building Portland, Oregon 97201 BULLETIN 97 BIBLIOGRAPHY of ...MacColl, Chairperson, Portland Robert W. Doty Talent John L. Schwabe Portland STATE GEOLOGIST Donald...of the Oregon Country, Geological Newsletter. Portland, Oregon. Geol. Soc. Sacramento, Annu. Field Trip...Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Portland. Oreg. Acad. Sci., Proc .......................Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Bulletin. Portland. Oreg., Dep. Geol. Miner. Ind., Misc. Paper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recovered, some samples contain sodic amphibole (crossite) and needles of glaucophane, indicating HP/LT...event is recorded in St. Croix (Larue, 1994). In Jamaica, the volcanic arc section displays an interruption...Caribbean geology: An introduction: Kingston, Jamaica, U.W.I. Publishers’ Association, p. 3–12. Dublan...Caribbean geology: An introduction: Kingston, Jamaica, U.W.I. Publishers’ Association, p. 151–166. Larue...Cretaceous tectonic and sedimentary events in Jamaica: Geologica Acta, v. 4, p. 171–178. Montgomery,
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the Tertiary Period 6 the columbia and rocky mountains Geography Late Cenozoic mountain building 67...rocks in the range core 85 Viii the klamath mountains of oregon 140 The history in brief Pre-Jurassic...Pliocene record 226 233 Blue Mountains structure Glaciers in the Olympic Mountains Miocene orogeny 223...The search for petroleum 12 220 220 the Blue Mountains 163 The Columbia River Basalt 218 The Cordilleran...Geosyncline in 159 Early Tertiary geography the blue mountains province Geography and structure 157 The
Report (issue)
Geology of the Blue Mountains Region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington: Petrology and Tectonic Evolution...Evolution of Pre-Tertiary Rocks of thte Blue Mountains Region U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER AVAILABILITY...CENTER, Mississippi Bldg. 3101 Geology of the Blue Mountains Region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington: Petrology...Tectonic Evolution of Pre-Tertiary Rocks of the Blue Mountains Region TRACY L. VALUER and HOWARD C. BROOKS...tectonic evolution of pre-Tertiary rocks of the Blue Mountains region / Tracy L. Vallier and Howard C. Brooks
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those that form batholiths in the cores of fold mountains are metasomatic in origin, the result of “granitization”...developed by selective melting of the roots of fold mountains built mainly from thick piles of geosynclinal...huge sills of serpentinite common in many fold mountains from the latter. iNTRonucrnox 5 liecaiise...pre¬ dominate in the circum-Pacihc belt of fold mountains, they have been grouped as the Pacific type; and...(globulites) emphasize the fluidal banding. C. Turtle Mountains, California. Diam. 1 mm. Hornblende and sanidine
Book (edition)
editions had Terms such as Washington County and Portland for counties and cities of the United States....unique; for example: Washington County Arkansas and Portland Maine. Each new county Term can now autopost its...South America Specific lakes, rivers, faults and mountains which are within a country have that country as...Overthrust Belt Absaroka Range Range of the Rocky Mountains. IN Index states as applicable. CO N433000N450000...Western U.S. BA United States SA Beartooth Mountains SA Rocky Mountains Absaroka Supergroup Montana and NW
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of rocks from the Sherman batholith, Laramie Mountains, Wyoming, USA Contour diagram showing the regional...quartz (Qz). Biotitehornblende granodiorite from Blue Mountains, Oregon, USA. Field of view for all photomicrographs...are 1.43 Ga plutons that occur in the Laramie Mountains of southeastern Wyoming, USA. Although the trends...of rocks from the Sherman batholith, Laramie Mountains, Wyoming, USA. Most samples plot in the within-plate...thirty-kilometer-wide axial valley bounded by mountains. Within this broad valley is a second, well-defined
Report (issue)
____________ Taconic belt and Reading prong. _________ Blue Ridge and Piedmont. ______________ Central region...Mineral-resources studies ________________ Northern Rocky Mountains _ _______________ Stratigraphic studies of Mesozoic...geology. ________________________ Southern Rocky Mountains. _________________ Precambrian rocks of Colorado...assigned to the upper part of the Silurian Roberts Mountains Limestone and (or) the lower part of the Devonian...of gold in certain deeper beds of the Roberts Mountains Limestone, below the present exposures in the
Report (volume)
County to the southern limits of the San Juan Mountains. They have yielded much of the silver and copper...minerals in the lava flows of North and South Table Mountains, lefferson County, the contact-metamorphic minerals... LOCALITIES 17 Arkansas River and Ruby and Sugarloaf Mountains east of the river-yield gem crystals from lithophysae...Cement Creek on a poor secondary road. The Italian Mountains are about 1 miles northeast of (and 2,000 feet...one-half mile to the mine. Locality 18.-Table Mountains. Analcite, apophyllite, aragonite, calcite, chabazite
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steep west dip on the Gilmore fault in the Snowy Mountains region, It is also an impressive aeromagnetic...alternative interpretation is that it continues Mountains of [Glen, 1982]. a sediment The source to...H., Lower and Middle Devonian Series - Snowy Mountains area, in Geology of New South Wales, edited by... I.R., Tectonic significance Wollond• 1 ly-Blue Mountains gravity of the gradient zone, Aust. J. Earth...Carboniferous Productidina of the Cantabrian Mountains (NWSpain): systematics, stratigraphy and palaeoecology
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mines showing grayly on the flanks of ragged mountains and crumbling ghost towns wrapped in sage and...Some outcrops may be residual bodies, even small mountains of resistant silica rocks, such as quartzite,...from a paved freeway, malt shop, supermarket, or blue-tiled swimming pool. Contrary to popular conception... you will be wise to wear Levi-type pants and a blue denim or khaki shirt, heavy leather boots with packs...themselves in the bright blues and blue-greens of malachite, the deep Prussian blue of azurite and bornite (peacock
Book (edition)
Range of the Rocky Mountains. Index states as applicable. Also search Absaroka Mountains. CO N433000N450000...UF Absaroka Mountains BT United States SA Beartooth Mountains SA Montana SA Rocky Mountains SA Wyoming...age (absolute age) SA age SA Ar/Ar Absaroka Mountains use Absaroka Range Abilene Arch in central Kansas...United Arab Emirates Arabian Peninsula Abukuma Mountains NE of Utsunomiya in E central Honshu. Also search...Plateau BT Honshu Japan Abukuma Plateau use Abukuma Mountains abundance Includes use on level 2 under elements
Report (volume)
Genevieve Limestone Ste. Genevieve Limestone (in Blue River Group) Ste. Genveieve Limestone (in Meramec...formation has been called "Ste. Genevieve Limestone in Blue River Group" in another area. Finally, the name...exposed in Abo Canyon at south end of Manzano Mountains. He gave maximum thickness of 800 feet. Lee stated... v. 57, no. 12, pt. 1, p. 1155. In Los Pinos Mountains, Abo formation disconformably overlies Aqua Torres...northern part of state-in Glorieta Mesa and Zuni Mountains, for example-and consequently cannot serve as
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waterworn crystals of aluminum silicate found as clear blue gemmy pebbles), and turquoise. About 2000 B.c. the...been left to adorn her in the afterlife: opaque blue turquoise and lapis lazuli, clear red carnelian...heavy gold settings that were further decorated with blue enamel. Foreword xv The designs represented...turquoise, well known to the Israelites, this hard, sky-blue mineral was not included on Aaron's breastplate...been discovered on the flanks of the Caucasus Mountains in the land of Colchis (now Soviet Georgia). The
Report (issue)
deformation in a disrupted ophiolite, Klamath Mountains, California: A deep view into the basement of...Seiad complex, Kangaroo Mountain area, Klamath Mountains, California, by Sarah R. Garlick and L. Gordon...Seiad complex, Kangaroo Mountain area, Klamath Mountains, California, by Sarah R. Garlick and Arthur W...(Needy et al., this volume), and the Klamath Mountains (Helper, 1986; Garlick et al., this volume). Another...sections discussed in this volume (e.g., Coast Mountains, Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes, Fiordland
Report (volume)
Eocene. Mtn, Mountain. equiv., equivalent. Mtns, Mountains. est., estimated. Mus., Museum. Extr., Extract...421-432). Abercrombie fm.—Most characteristic type is a blue-gray dense ls. whose thin bedding is caused by thin...fin.— Thin fossiliferous lss. separated by red and blue clays. Thickness 170 ft. Top memb. of Wichita beds... Pre-Cambrian : Eastern New York (Adirondack Mountains). G. H. Chadwick, 1930 (Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.,... granite that intrudes granodiorite in Virginia Blue Ridge region. Is pre-Camb., as Lower Camb. sediments
Report (volume)
rock cement, by Uriah Cumrnings, pp. 576-579. Portland cement, by Spencer B. Newberry, pp. 580-585. Abrasive...United States, etc. Continued. Cement, pp. 881-893. Portland cement, by Spencer B. Newberry, pp. 881-888. American... Geology and mineral resources of the Judith Mountains of Montana, by Walter Harvey Weed and Louis Valentine...Heinrich Hies, pp. 1105-1168. Cement, pp. 1169-1182. Portland cement, by Spencer B. Newberry, pp. 1169-1177...Heinrich Ries, pp. 469-486. Cement, pp. 487-496. Portland cement, by Spencer B. Newberry, pp. 487-494. American
Report (issue)
___________________ Alaska __________________ Rocky Mountains and Great Plains _________ Great Basin and Southwestern...______________———----_Mississippi embayment ——————————___ Rocky Mountains and Great Plains __________ Stratigraphic studies... Montana _____________ Great Basin and Rocky Mountains (chiefly Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona,...Illinois, Wisconsin, and middle Tennessee) Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, and Pacific Coast (chiefly Colorado...features. Geochemical anomalies in the Mystery Mountains, Medfra quadrangle, Alaska M. L. Silberman and
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Chugach-Saint Elias fault system at the base of the mountains. Ongoing deformation is manifested by active seismicity...volcanism in the Alaska Peninsula and Wrangell Mountains, Alaska Thomas P. Miller and Donald H. Richter...plate motion (cm/yr) the east side of the Rocky Mountains. In Alaska, the plain is alluvium covered and... these mountains are dominated by the east-west-trending Arctic Foot¬ hills, Delong Mountains, Baird...Baird Mountains, and Brooks Range, in which average summit elevations are between 1000 to 1500 m in the western
Report (volume)
of the shield and includes high, flat-topped mountains called tepuis (singular, tepuy). Between these...principally sodic amphibole (magnesioriebeckite-crossite) and pyroxene (diopsidic acmite), are common phases...surface remnants mapped in the Los Pijiguaos Mountains and vicinity is 550 km2. The average thickness...of Los Pijiguaos. Nuria Plateau, Los Guaicas Mountains, Los Pijiguaos, ÂŁ1 Pao, and Cerro Bolivar iron...of thorium and associated elements in the Wet Mountains area, Fremont and Custer Counties, Colorado: U
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Canberra. 1031 COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAINS MINERAL BELT The Colorado Rocky Mountains are a N.N.E.-trending young...favourable for a laccolith generation. In the La Sal Mountains, Colorado, laccoliths rose on salt anticlines...Navajo, La Sal, Carrizo, La Plata, Rico, etc. Mountains; Hunt, 1956) and the Cordilleran Foreland in Montana...stock (ds) and adjacent laccoliths (dl), Henry Mountains, Utah, showing diagrammatically the minor ore...Batholith, prevail in the plutons of the Klamath Mountains, except that the latter are more mafic (quartz
 
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