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Chloritoid from
Blue Mountains, Portland Parish, Jamaica


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Chloritoid
Formula:(Fe2+,Mg,Mn2+)Al2(SiO4)O(OH)2
Comments:In greenschists.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chloritoid data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Mountains, Portland Parish, Jamaica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:318405
Long-form Identifier:1:3:318405:9
GUID (UUID V4):0322cfa3-9640-4edb-86a2-b7a45820ab50
References
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Report (issue)
augite with rare diopsde), and hornblende (green, blue-green,brown and basaltic varieties). In the clinopyroxene...staurolite, tremolite/actinolite, sillimanite, chloritoid, glaucophane, tourmaline, and topaz(7). Table...are significantly higher in sphene. Rutile and chloritoid are "heavier heavy minerals" (Table 6) present...trace amounts in the samples examined. However, chloritoid was seen in 3 samples south of Klipsan Beach...include aegerine-augite, glaucophane, rutile, chloritoid, andtopaz(?). White (1968, Table 4) identified
Journal (issue)
Note sericite lenticles with oblique cleavage. Chloritoid-sericite phyllite, Rio Seco (Sample BT.472):...100. Spotted phyllite with porphyroblasts of chloritoid (chd.), sericite (ser.), and quartz (qtz.) Ienticles...that they contain abundant porphyroblasts of chloritoid, which give rise to the spotted appearance. Although...mechanical stress (Fig. 7b). The porphyroblasts of chloritoid consist of aggregates of thin, blade-like crystals...through the crystal aggregate, indicating that the chloritoid is in an early stage of development. This appears
Report (issue)
Uganda • • • • Canada • • • • British Guiana • • • Jamaica • • • • Aden • • • • British Territories in Borneo...manufacture the alumina near the bauxite mines. In Jamaica, for instance, two alumina factories with an aggregate...l\1ineral Andalusite Sillimanite Kyanite Staurolite Chloritoid C.ordierite Dumortierite Pyrophyllite Garnet...reddish, yellow, or reddish-brown colour. Green and blue varieties also occur. It is ha1~der than most clays...diaspore designated ferrion--diaspore from the Ural. Mountains was found to contain 77 ·95 per cent. Al2O 3,
Report (volume)
IlaitL ___ ____ ________ __ _______ __ ___ ____ Jamaica-----------------------------------------------...unfavorably situated or otherwise unsuitable for mining. Jamaica, now the leading bauxite producer, has about 600...gibbsite and boehmite as "mixed bauxites." The term "Jamaica type" is also applied to very fine grained highiron...clays and other fine-grained impurities; however, Jamaica-type bauxite cannot be beneficiated profitably...actual AhOs. Mixed monohydratetrihydrate ore (Jamaica type) 3 47.0 4. 0 1.0 3.0 1.0 2.0 40 percent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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)
.......................................... 51 Jamaica ........................................ 52 Other............... 13. Principal bauxite regions in Jamaica ..................................................... Chemical composition of bauxite mined in Jamaica and exported in 1952 ............................Brazil ......................................... Jamaica ....................................... India ...published when this article was prepared. (2) The Jamaica Geological Society held its first symposium on
Report (issue)
CORRELATIONS .............. 139 Northern Taconic Mountains STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY ................. 142 GENERAL........... 222 Staurolite .............'.. 222 Chloritoid ................ 223 Tourmaline ...............stock .............. 215 Photomicrograph of chloritoid in alteration rim around andalusite ...........Maine and includes the Mahoosuc Range, the Blue Mountains, and Mount Katahdin. The northern range trends...Cupsuptic quadrangle lies in the northern range of mountains. The nomenclature of these physiographic features
Book
Garnets A.4.3 Staurolite A.4.4 Cordierite A.4.5 Chloritoid A.5 Ca-Al Silicates A.5.1 Clinozoisite-Epidote...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
Book (edition)
cannot make distinct crystals. Granite mountains are mountains of crystals, each particle being crystalline...the analyzer the color of the centre changes from blue to yellow and red in riff It ^-handed crystals if...minerals are various shades of white, gray, Hack, blue, green, yellow, and brown. There are thus red...bluish-black, grayish-black. Azure-blue, violet-blue, sky-blue, indigo-blue. Emerald-green, olive-green, oil-green...with the addition of tin-foil, assumes a beautiful blue or violet color a result not obtained with hematite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ammonoidea of the Gault, '24, (R) 378 — Senonian, from Jamaica, L. F. Spath, '25, 28 Ammonoidea (New), from the...341 — teretepes, '17, 29 Apuan Alps, Carrara Mountains, T. G. Bonney & H. H. Winwood, '15, 289 ; C. S...District, Geological Excursion Guide, '38, (R) 140 — Mountains, Geological Model of, '15, (R) 280 Assyrian Monumental...Barkerville, B.C., '06, 514 ATKINSON, D. J., Chloritoid in the Hecla Hoek Formation, '56, 63 Atlantic...'30, 77 ; Saltplugs, '31, 335 ; Mechanics of Mountains, '32, 95 ; Glencoul Nappe, '35, 151 ; Ballachulish
Report (volume)
.....'......-....................... 78 78 Chloritoid............--........-.-.-....--....-.-........the elseolite-syenite of Peaked Butte, Crazy Mountains", Montana. See Wolff and Tarr in Bull. Mus. Comp...Hillebrand. K. Augite from granite, north end of Blue Mountains, Silver Cliff, Colo. Specific gravity, 3.225...the sodalitesyenite of Square Butte, Highwood Mountains, Montana. Described by Lindgren in Am. Jour. Sci...BY U. S. GEOL. SUBVEY. [BUT,L.SW. SODALITE. A. Blue sodalite, from Litchfield, Me. Analysis by F. W
Report (volume)
paleontology, progress: Osborn, Ole Adirondack Mountains: Kemp, 92fi Miller (W J), 17a. See also New York...Smith (E A) , 84a. b Tertiary: Smith (E A), 85 Portland cement: Eckel, 04e; Smith (E A), 95 Road materials:...McCormick, 09; Moffit, 08; Stevens (B), 098 Russian Mountains: Maddren, 15 Seward Peninsula: Smith (P S), 08...Brooks, ooa; Knopf, 10; Lewington, 09 Wrangell Mountains: Abercrombie, 04 Co}'per River district: Brewer... 00 Revillagigedo Is land: Chapin, 18a Rocky Mountains: Schrader, 02 Ruby-Kuskokwim region: Mertle, 16
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tonalite–trondhjemite magmatism in the Klamath Mountains. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 123...and trondhjemites of the Cornucopia stock, Blue Mountains, Northeastern Oregon. Journal of Petrology...and chronology of plutonic rocks in the Pontide Mountains, Northern Turkey. Symposium of European Copper...and geochronology of jadeite + glaucophane and chloritoid + glacophane schists from north-west Turkey.
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
Report (volume)
Taipei, Geol. Soc. Jamaica Jour.- The Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica [formerly Geonotes]...West Indies, Department of Geology. Kingston, Jamaica. Geol. Soc. Korea Jour.- Journal of the Geological...of the Oregon Country Geological News Letter. Portland, Oreg. Geologi- Geologi. Suomen Geologinen Seura...Iowa Geological Survey Water Atlas. Iowa City, Jamaica Geol. Survey Dept. Ann. Rept. - Annual Report of...Survey Department, Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica. Jamaica Geological Survey Economic Jamaica Geol. Survey Econ
Report (volume)
Monatsschrift manuscript Mount Meeting Mountain Mountains Museo, Museum, etc. n______:_ new internac___...Oregon Country Geological News Letter vols. 1-5. Portland, Oreg. Geologische Rundschau Bande 20-23. Leipzig... Md. Mazama vols. 17-21, annual numbers only. Portland, Oreg. Meddelelser om Gronland Bande 55, 71-77... 2). Altadena, Calif. Mineralogist vols. 3-7. Portland, Oreg. [Formerly Oregon Mineralogist.] Mines Magazine...19; Short Paper no. 1. Portland, Oreg. Oregon Mineralogist vols. 1, 2. Portland, Oreg. Oregon University
Book
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
Report (issue)
Klamath Mountains, Oregon and California- _____ Tungsten and molybdenum in the Rocky Mountains. _____...Geologic and geophysical studies in the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana.________________ 25 Page Regional geology...probable Devonian 28 age in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains-----28 Geology of parts of Nebraska.______-_---_--28...metamorphism of Upper 35 Triassic rocks, Aldrich Mountains, Oregon. _ 35 Facies changes hi the John Day formation...____________________________________ 37 Klamath Mountains and Coast Ranges of northern California.______________________
Report (volume)
geographic headings are: ALABAMA, ALBERTA, CANADA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, NEVADA, and UNITED STATES. CANADA and...Glaciers, Subcommittee on the American Rocky Mountains Triennial Report; Geophysical Monograph ; Transactions...Puerto Rico Bulletin. San Juan. Geonotes. Kingston, Jamaica. Geophys. Case Histories Geophysical Case Histories...Turkey. Jamaica Geol. Survey Dept. Ann. Rept.; Bull.; Occasional Paper: Short Paper Jamaica Geological...Kingston. Jamaica Geol. Survey Pub. Jamaica Geological Survey Publication. Kingston. Jamaica Handb. Jamaica
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
Report (volume)
Crazy Mountains............................................... 80 5. Little Belt Mountains .-. .^... Highwood Mountains.... ....I.................................. 8. Little Rocky Mountains........................................... 9. Bearpaw Mountains............................................ 10. Elkhorn..... 7. Elk Mountains................................................. 8. West Elk Mountains............................................. 9. La Plata Mountains. ........................................... 10
Report (volume)
and 5. Baltimore, Md. Mazama: vol. 1-2, no. 4. Portland, Oreg. Mexico, Institute Geologico, Bulletin,...New York, N. Y. Portland Society of Natural History: Proceedings, vol. 2, pt. 5. Portland, Me. Records of...(Frank M.). 1. The Neocene basins of the Klainath Mountains [California]. Abstract: Jour. Geol., vol. 9, pp...2. The physiographic features of the-Klahiath Mountains. Jour. Geol., vol. JO, pp. 144-159, 1902. Describes...6. Some crystalline rocks of the San Gabriel Mountains, near Pasadena, California. Abstract: Science
Book (edition)
wdien it cannot make distinct (Iranite mountains are mountains of crystals, each eiTstals. TiiC lava ])artiv‘h^...the polarizer is revolved, this color changes from blue to yellow, then red, right-handed crystals requiring...bluish-black, grayish-black. Azure-blue, violet-blue, sky-blue, indigo-blue. Emerald-green, olive-green, oil-green...without and blue within. The Ijoat is most intense just beyond the extremity of the blue flame. In some...horon^ yellowish green ; copper chloride^ azure blue. Beads should be examined by daylight only, and
Journal (volume)
rave alpine was found grass on the White Mountains by Principal Dawson, to whom lam in- debted...Botanical Socie- common white clover, but has blue flowers, It ty. and name, was exhibited is...Hitchcock amono; the altered strata of the Green Mountains, which seem to show that the pebbles of gneiss... woUastonite, hornblende, pyroxene, olivine, chloritoid, serpentine, diallage and talc. ; muscovite...to be clearly zontal layers. Journal White Mountains stratified of New Hampshire, show sedimentary
Report (volume)
Finland. Geol. Soc. Jamaica Jour.- The Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica. University of the...West Indies, Department of Geology. Kingston, Jamaica. Geol. Soc. London Proc. England. Proceedings...Geological Society of the Oregon Country News Letter. Portland, Oreg. Geologia y Metalurgia - Geologia y Metalurgia...Toronto, Ontario, C::lnada. Ore Bin - The Ore Bin. Portland, Oreg. Ontario Department of Mines Preliminary...Industries Bull. and Mineral Industries Bulletin. Portland, Oreg. XXX Oregon Department of Geology SERIAL
 
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