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Orthoclase from
Coney Island, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Coney Island, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:165665
Long-form Identifier:1:3:165665:7
GUID (UUID V4):9b5c1c2e-08ee-4d89-8cce-2b28a7eec731
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE MASS. IV. COUNTY, BASIC OF ESSEX DIKES By far the greater part of the...foyaite of Salem Neck and, according to Sears, the " augite-syenite " of Coney Island in Salem Harbor are...pyroxene, occasional olivine, plagioclase, a little orthoclase, some magnetite, and rare apatite. Neither biotite...were seen. 284 PETROGRAPHICAL PROUVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 285 The hornblende forms either stout prismatic...Olivine is rare, except in one specimen from Coney Island, in large corroded colorless grains. They are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1899 THE PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE COUNTY, MASS. III OF ESSEX ROCKS OCCURRINGIN DIKES THE rocks described...an approximate idea of the intrusive rocks of Essex county. GRANITIC DIKES of this rock are confined... 536, 1893. PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 107 of Arran it is easy to explain this by...feldspars. These are almost entirely of orthoclase or soda-orthoclase, not usually microperthitic, with a...Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Plate LXXVII. OF ESSEX PROVINCE PFTROGRAPHICAL - - - - - - -
Report (volume)
Geology of Selected Quadrangles In Massachusetts GEOLOGICAL SURVEY This volume was printed as separate...published chapters] (A) Bedrock geology of the Salem quadrangle and vicinity, Massachusetts1, by Priestley...quadrangle, Worcester and Franklin Counties, Massachusetts, by Donald F. Eschman. (D) Geology of the Taunton...Plymouth Counties, Massachusetts, by Joseph H. Hartshorn. o ; Bedrock Geology of the Salem Quadrangle and...Vicinity Massachusetts > w By PRIESTLEY TOULMIN 3d GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN MASSACHUSETTS ~s -GEOLOGICAL
Report (volume)
704 GEOLOGY OF THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS BY CHARLES H. CLAPP WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT....... 9 9 9 10 11 11 11 15 j ( Geology of Essex County...............................................group................:............................. Salem gabbro-diorite....................................... 26; . . 3 4 CONTENTS. Geology of Essex County Continued. Igneous rocks Continued. Subjacent................................................. Salem gabbro-diorite. ...............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROGRAPHICAL MASS. GENERAL SIONS. V. PROVINCE OF ESSEX CO., DISCUSSION AND CONCLU- Analytical methods...Table I are given my analyses of the rocks of Essex county, with one by Dr. Eakle, and in Table II It is...line-syenites, PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 465 and nordmarkite, the tinguaite, s6lvsbergite...alkalis, the prevailing feldspars are albite and orthoclase, with quartz-syenites abundant. The albite molecule...1894, and III, PETROGRAPHICAL PROVINCE OF ESSEX COUNTY 467 It will be seen that in what are obviously
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 (volume)
Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro........................................... Rhode Island..................................................member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
become rounded: In Mineral Water 1. Quartz 23 2. Orthoclase 29 3. Labradorite .. .29 4. Hornblende .. .39...University of Chattanooga. This sand came from Jackson County, Mississippi, from a depth of 4700 to 4900 feet...What are 2000 years to a grain of quartz ! Massachusetts Sand Mr. Hans Thurnauer of Chattanooga has...John Alden and the Pilgrims. 492 ROCKS AND Coney Island, N . Y., Sand In contrast to the quiet dignity...on Coney Island after they got the famous twenty-four dollars for that worthless Manhattan Island. This
Journal (volume)
H. B. Kiimmel The Petrographical Province of Essex County, Mass. II. Henry - S. Washington ----------------... - --- The Distribution of Loess II. of Essex County, Mass. III. Henry 105 Fossils. B. Granitic...Variations of Glaciers. IV. Nantucket, a Morainal Island. Beach A Mark Cusps. S. W. Harry Fielding...Edgar E. Teller The Petrographical Province of Essex County, S. Mass. Reviews : 247 261 272 Henry...VOLUME v VII PAGE Petrographical Province of Essex County, Mass. Henry S. Washington sion and Conclusions
Report (issue)
the calculation all the potash is assigned to orthoclase and all the soda to albite. Analyses of rocks...(essexite) of Salem Neck (Nos. 2 and 3), the phlegrose-nordmarkose (sOlvsbergite) of Coney Island' (phlegrose...only in traces at most. The molecular weight of orthoclase and tilbite is so high" that in any chemicomiueralogical...per cent of K»O corresponds to 5 per cent of orthoclase, and the same amount of Na»O to 8 per cent of...Apparently high soda and low potash in a so-called orthoclase rock may arise from an imperfect description
Journal (issue)
GEM & MINERAL ESTABLISHMENT Route 7, Box 400 — Salem, Ore. I Will Under 25 to to 5 25 50 Ibs....THAN ROCKEFELLER — YOU WILL HAVE MORE FUN THAN CONEY ISLAND. A VISIT TO OUR SHOP IS THE MOST INTERESTING...SCIENCE DIGEST Digest IMPORTED Revere, Massachusetts Just GEMS Arrived FIRE OPAL—Australian rough...interesting of all hobbys. Price: $1.50. SHELF MASSACHUSETTS } THE NOW THEY California with Data Tar...excavations under the guid ance of the Los Angeles County Mu seum. Only nine per cent of the fauna re mains
Book (volume)
BosTONiTic Texture in Bostonite-Porphyry from Coney Island, near Salem, Mass. (2311 U) (M) 48 Flow Texture...MicROPLAKiTE IN Hypersthene. Olivine-Norite, Paul's Island, off the Coast of Labrador (C) 124. Pipe Amygdules...they usually conof radiating intergrowths of orthoclase and quartz needles with occasional inter- Most...in the sodaclase), which is intergrown with orthoclase as microperthite, may be different from the...the albite originally was in solution in the orthoclase and only separated out upon cooling. The second
Book (edition)
Tridymite, Cristobalite 256 a2 Opal (Hyalite), Orthoclase, Albite, Oligoclase, Leucite, Nepheline 257 33...where the mineral is found. The quartz sand of Coney Island has one part of silicon and two parts of oxygen...Gneiss: with feldspar 2. Gabbro (Salem Neck,’Salem, Massachusetts) p. 20 4. Red sandstone (East Longmeadow...chusetts) “p. 21 Massa- E. 24 “eye” (Westchester County, New York) 5. Marble: dolomitic (Bronx, New York)...(Grass Valley, California) 3. Copper (Keweenaw County, AND SULPHIDES 2. Silver (Kongsberg, Norway)
Journal (issue)
Boulder Bec!ch on Lake Mead. Nevad~ The Clark County Gem Collectors, Inc. (Paul 0 . Drury, Publicity...There has been some ~ining done on the nearest island. '-lhe hammer lies on a ledge of a splintery green...northern outskirts of Asheboro, the county seat of Randolph County, N . C. It may be reached by goi ng...included a stop at the Lane quarries in Westfield, Massachusetts, but we evidently chose the wrong time as good...brothers, Mineral dealers, in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and spent an hour or so viewing their many
Book (edition)
where the mineral is found. The quartz sand of Coney Island has one part of silicon and two parts of oxygen...coarse-grained group. It is composed of quartz and orthoclase feldspar, with usually a few grains of a dark...also present and even more abundant than the orthoclase, the rock is called a soda-granite. But when...Roxbury in Massachusetts. Glacial boulders of this formation have been found as far away as Long Island, New...axes) m center of symmetry (gypsum, spodumene, orthoclase, chondrodite, epidote, etc.) 29. Monoclinic
Report (issue)
accurate and con1plete in its is assigned to orthoclase and all the soda to albite. · determination of...Hills (Nos. 10 and 11, I. 6. 1. 4), the essexite of Salem Neck (Nos. 4 and 5, II. 6. 2. 4), the keratophyre...petrographers of the correctThe molecular weights of orthoclase and albite are ness,of his· position. Since,...One percent of K20 corresponds to 6 per cent of-orthoclase, and the same amount of Na20 to 8 per cent of...Apparently high soda and low potash in a so-called orthoclase rock 1nay arise from an imperfect description
Book
beaches which stretch the entire length of Long Island. Yet both of these remarkable and seemingly disparate...WANN SS Ws S va great barrier beaches of Long Island is more obvious than the role of Manhattan’s bedrock...reliable geologic records reveal that Manhattan Island was part (continued on back flap) aati VOY ax...Ocean ae eal LX AKANE RS , C~ “ Nantucket Island states edmont, Trenton Prong 55/7 ot eM tte...Intrusive Bodies in New York City and Westchester County, 96; Bedrock of the Hudson Highlands, 100; The
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Renato Pagano Milan, Italy Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...his family again. He was soon stationed on the island of Ambon in the Malay Archipelago in modern-day...Company’s interests in the northern part of the island of Ambon; his request was granted. He was promoted...researching systematically the natural history of the island. He described and drew all he saw of the natural
Report (volume)
5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Pre-Cambrian : Central southern Virginia (Mecklenburg County). F. B. Laney, 1917 (Va. Geol. Surv. Bull. 14,...Pleistocene : Southern South Carolina (Charleston County). E. Sloan, 190 (S. C. Geol. Surv. geognostic map...West Virginia, southwestern Virginia (Tazewell County), and eastern Tennessee ( ?). D. B. Reger, 1926...Permian : Central southern Oklahoma (Jefferson County). J. R. Bunn, 1930 (Okla. Geol. Surv. Bull. 4OPP
Report (issue)
Department of Geology Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 01063 Copyright © 1995, The Geological Society...Copyright Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970, phone (508) 744-3350 (include title...volume) crop out along North Point, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Photograph by Allen Curran. LOMOS Ss...During Glacioeustatic Sea-Level Fall, Great Inagua Island, Bahamas ............ Brian White and H. Allen...Pleistocene Lake and Lagoon Deposits, San Salvador Island, Bahamas ........... Frances M. Hagey and John
Report (issue)
PROFESSIONAL PAPER ' 82 'THE GEOLOGY· ·OF LONG ISLAND NEW YORK BY MYRON L. FULLER 'V ASHINGTON GOVEl'tNl\iENT...Development of the geologic literature on Long Island ....................................................... : ....................... . Form of the island ................................................... . 53 The great inland scarp of western Long Island ..................................................................... ·.............. . 56 Long Island Sound ........................................
Journal (volume)
Way in which the Calamine occurs at Silvermines, county of Tippe rary. By J. Beete Jukes, M. A., F. R.... there stretches from the neighbourhood of the island of Hainan, in a N.N.E. direction, as far as the...them to be very similar to the same rock from the county Dublin - to which in appearance, when undecomposed...Silurian date . It may be seen to advantage in the island of Hong Kong, though it appears to occur along...tze-Kiang; at Chi-Kiang, below Nan -King ; and in the island of Hong Kong, preserving all through the same general
Report (volume)
introduced for use in North America, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...America, Greenland, the West Indies, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian
Report (issue)
125 Tour of the Wasatch Fault Zone in Salt Lake County. . Warm Springs Fault . . East Bench Fault Main... . . 2. Map of Wasatch fault zone in Salt Lake County ; Utah. . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 3. Geologic...J. Eardley. 257 GREAT SALT LAKE AND ANTELOPE ISLAND, by Ted Arnow and J. W. Hood 261 GEOLOGY OF BINGHAM...near the beryllium depOSits of west central Juab County. He died before seeing this important facility... Salt Lake County; 2. Cambrian to Mississippian formations, Lakeside Range, Tooele County; 3. Pennsylvanian
Report (issue)
501. During fiscal 1963, numerous Federal, State, County, or Municipal agencies listed on page A247 have..._. Federal agencies.___________________ State, county, and municipal agencies. 247 247 247 U.S. Geological...Butte iron deposit in the Gravelly Range, Madison County, Mont., is, like nearby deposits, a metamorphosed...) age in the northern Cortez Mountains, Eureka County, Nev., probably was derived from nearby Early Cretaceous... L., 1963, Aeromagnetic map of central Gogebic County, Michigan., and vicinity: U.S. Geol. Survey openfile
 
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