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Gneiss from
Pomona Quarry, Pomona, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Type:Gneiss
Comments:Granite gneiss.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gneiss data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pomona Quarry, Pomona, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1015517
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1015517:8
GUID (UUID V4):29654571-527d-4a8f-9ad6-6bb06ebdf1da
Nearest other occurrences of Gneiss
79.6km (49.5 miles) Polebridge Creek Prospect, Patrick County, Virginia, USA
85.1km (52.9 miles) Unnamed Chromite Mine (MRDS - 10078677), Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, USA
85.1km (52.9 miles) Kentuck Prospect, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
92.5km (57.5 miles) Gneiss Quarry (MRDS - 10227810), Mabry Mill, Floyd County, Virginia, USA
95.7km (59.5 miles) Gneiss Quarry (MRDS - 10301233), Hog Mountain, Floyd County, Virginia, USA
99.5km (61.9 miles) Unnamed Gneiss Quarry DL-005 (MRDS - 10106107), Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, USA
99.8km (62.0 miles) Buckhorn Mine (Includes Douglass Mine), Harnett County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zeolites and prehnite have been found in North Carolina in a wide variety of excava­ tions for power...ZEOLITES IN NORTH CAROLINA D O N A L D R. P R I V E T T One Circle Street Great Falls, South Carolina 29055...low-grade metamorphic rocks. Zeolites occur in North Carolina in a wide variety of igneous and metamorphic...weathered, and geo­ logically complex area of North Carolina extending from the Blue Ridge to the Coastal...from south central Georgia to Virginia. In the North Carolina Piedmont, most zeolites are pres­ ent in a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
along with some other fossil fishes from the same county. During the late visit of the philosopher of Neufchatel...and finely preserved in a quarry at Skaill, on the western coast of Pomona, the largest of the Orkney...Orkney Islands, at about two miles to the north of a granite ridge which traverses part of the island for...in Hoy, in Edey, at Holland-head and Getnip in Pomona. The principal rocks in all those islands is a...sandstone-flag. In two or three points, as at Yesnaby in Pomona, and at How in Shapinshey, thin beds of limestone
Report (volume)
Formation (upper Pleistocene) in the Charleston, South Carolina, area, by Lucy McCartan, Robert E. Weems, and...Mountain Formation in southwestern Massachusetts, and north-central Connecticut, by Rolfe S. Stanley, Douglas...The Putney Volcanics in southeastern Vermont and north-central Massachusetts, by Newell J. Trask ........geologic map of southwestern Massachusetts and north-central Connecticut showing the distribution of...Massachusetts and north-central Connecticut, p. A127 7. Putney Volcanics, southeastern Vermont and north-central
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TWO ANDALUSITE PEGMATITES FROM RIVERSIDE COUNTY. CALIFORNIA RonBnr W. Wnnn, Uniaersity of California...rich in andalusite, have been found in Riverside County, California. One dike containing giant crystals...rocks in the block are a metasedimentary banded gneiss,mica schist, and marble. Hornblende gabbros with...report. r Reported in a pegmatite from magnesite quarry near Winchester, 3 miles from Winchester locality...San Diego County, identified by the writer; and from the Jurupa Mountains, Riverside County, found by
Report (issue)
olivine basalt flow and cinder on Bethel Ridge north of Rimrock Lake (Swanson, 1978) and flows erupted...erupted from numerous vents in the Cascade Range north of the Columbia River (Hammond, 1980). Probably mostly...1979). Normal magnetic polarity. Occurs only north of Dworshak Keservoir in the Clearwater embayment...microphenocrysts. Bears some resemblance chemically to Pomona and Dodge chemical types (V. E. Camp, unpub, data...developed on Asotin Member Pomona Member Slightly phyric basalt flow of Pomona chemical type (Wright and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from west of Glendora to the vicinity of Pomona, Los Angeles County, where they either rest on or are interbedded...original extent was probably at least 35 miles from north to south and almost as much from east to west. Local...However, along some of the margins, especially to the north and east, there are scattered areas, which, taken...west-to-east arc from west of Glendora to south of Pomona throughout which marginal facies of the basin sediments...unpublished report submitted to the Los Angeles County Flood Control District in 1931 by the late Willis
Journal (issue)
by Vandall King. from Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...1 White fluorite, 2 mm, Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ,/" 2 Minero!...About 7 miles above Canyon [sic] City. Fremont County, Colorado." My best guess is that the gem pegmatite...short jaunt over to the Snowbird Mine, Mineral County, Montana to meet with the Forest Service and other...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • E-mail: lream@comtch.iea
Report (issue)
in much of eastern Washington and northern Idaho north of the Clearwater embayment. Large unmapped areas... only in and surrounding the John Day Basin in north-central Oregon, where feeder dikes comprise the...for the one or more flows in this area is just north of Clarkia, Idaho. The Frenchman Springs Member...in any one section. Flows were erupted from north-north- west trending dikes extending through the Walla...The occurrence of the Roza near the north margin of the plateau north of Wilbur appears to violate this
Report (volume)
Santa Fe group, sec. 17, T.19N., R.9E., Santa Fe County, N. Mex. R. S. Cannon, Jr., R. L. Smith. ____.do__-______...Southern edge of intrusive, west-central part of North Mountain, La Sal Mountains, Utah. D. R. Shawe. 21...altered. LS-8-55. South side of Miner's Basin, North Mountain, La Sal Mountains, Utah. D. R. Shnwe. do...Aztec wash, 4 miles southeast of Nelson, Clark County, Nev. E. H. Pampeyan. _-__.do__. -----P-2-cc. NEM...miles northeast of center of Boulder City, Clark County, Nev. E. H. Pampeyan. Granodiorite_ _______ _ _____
Journal (issue)
xi. 3 x 3 x 2 (2 lbs.) •••••••• Samanldte, N. Carolina. Solid mass. 2 x 2 ¼ x 1 . ...••.•.•.. . ... E111boliN...MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1946 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...........................................................489 MINERALS FROM A VERMONT ASBESTOS QUARRY. By Clifford Frondel ...............................................................491 SHELDON QUARRY, RUDEVILLE, N . J. By Peter Zodac ...............nature which is found at Graftoa, N . H., or in North Carolina. Madras Mica District o ti e b f o p \1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been found; metaplutonic parts of the Charleston Gneiss, previously mapped as Precambrian, are probably...apparently the entire exposed pre-Gretaceous basement of North Island. The Foreland Province crops out only in...Province in South Island (Fig. 2). One sample is from North Island. The results delineate three episodes of...Marginal Zone and syncline extend into western North Island. ~atthey composition standard ranged in...South Island, and along the middle west coast of North Island. The Alpine Zone is east and may extend aaross
Book
Cattle Swakopmund View of the the Road Farm in North-west in background View Namaqualand . Abbabis...Chalk. . . .116 • 117 .118 . Limestone Quarry . 119 ILLUSTRATIONS. Military Station at... Grootfontein, Namntoni of View Khan in the North Fort, Outjo, Bridge Khan River is A Sycamore... . . the . the water . Calabashes the North in Land on on in the District Swamp . Wood...dry, . . in the North ..... the Otavi surface in the North ..... in the North over xxix. .
Journal (issue)
Contents for January - February, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ........................................................... THE OAKS CORNERS, N. Y ., LIMESTONE QUARRY By Claude H . S1nith ............................AND MINERALS 2 ---~;~------~-~ CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ..,...,..,..,_--...,-, w,..,.......,.., ,..,_____...edge of Morrill County which is in western Nebraska. Flowing south of Bayard is the North Platte River....of the Platte River as it carved the now broad North Platte Valley from the original Miocene and Pliocene
Journal (issue)
Contents for November-December, 1948 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................····························905 VESUVIANITE CRYSTALS FROM ESSEX COUNTY, N. Y. By E. B. Rou iey 906 MONAZITE OCCURRENCE.........................................912 ONYX QUARRY AT TOLENAS SPRINGS, CALIF. By R. F. Henley ...... 882 R OCKS AND ~ l lNl'.HAI.~ CHlPS FROM THE QUARRY Grieger'• Encyclopedia and Super- Catalog of his...folio\\·ing facts. In Geological Literature on North America, 1787-1918, by Nickels, there is no mention
Journal (issue)
Contents for January-February, 1949 CHIPS FROM TH.E QUARRY .................................................Auociation • 2 ROCKS AND MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY Mr. Truman, President! We voted for Governor Dewey...front, immediately southwest of Emmaus in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, has for many years aroused considerable...there. Those f avoriog the pre-Cambrian carry the gneiss across the gap. Evidence favoring the Hardyston...Hardyston, or along contacts of the Hardyston with the gneiss. If this is so the Hardyston is faulted down into
Journal (issue)
Albite. 1 ½xl . . . . ..... . 1.50 CORUNDUM, No. Carolina. Pink xlline. mass, bright fl. under LW. 2x2 ...MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1947 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................. 516 DAUPH INY, FRANCE TRIPLITE FROM EL PASO COUNTY, COLO. By Arth11r / . Bo11cot .....................,,., ..__,.,,..,,..,.,..._, CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .......... ,., ~ ..,., o.,W..,,O,:.. ... "'1...Connecticut-Massachusetts line ( Conn.15) and go north into Massachusetts for 1.5 miles where a dirt road
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aragonite which she had collected at the Government Quarry in Bermuda. It should be stated at this point that...which had been collected late in the Fall at a quarry in Pennington, N. J. Since there appeared to be...location, the field trip committee decided that the quarry did not warrant a club outing and chose this method...Mineralogical Club held a field trip to the limestone quarry at Sparta Junction, N . J., by chartered bus on...actinolite. This locality is recommended since the quarry is actively operated and the minerals are fresh
Journal (issue)
MONTHLY Contents for July, 1948 CHJPS FROM THE QUARRY ............................................................... 591 THE LEAD MINES OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASS. By E. C. Foster ···-···594 ~NERAL COLLEC11NG...Association ROCKS AND MINEJW.s 578 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY COMING EVENTS Mineralo1ical Club of Hartford OUTINGS...OUTINGS FOR 1948 July 25-Lancaster, Mass. .August 15-North Groton, N. H. (2 day trip) .August 29-T•illy Foster...Mines, Tilly Foster, N. Y. Sept. 12-Upper Merryall Quarry Sept. 2~ester, Mass. Blanford, Mass. Oct IO-Roxbury
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Whitman, Alfred R., 716 North Harvard BIvd., Los Angeles,Calif. Wilkerson, A....University, Columbus,Ohio. Woodford, Alfred O., Pomona College,Claremont, California. Wrede, Frank, 143...garnets which he had previously reported from Kinkles Quarry, Bedford; N. Y. in which Mr. Shannon pointed out...question had come from Arizona and not from the Kinkle Quarry. The meeting then adjourned. HmsnRr P. Wmtrocx...from the Wynnewood Road Station quarry, Haverford township, Delaware County. The first consisted of beryl
Report (issue)
clasts of augite andesite; near Burnett in Pierce County, poorly sorted, unstratified, matrixsupported breccia...and others, 1963), and Stevens Ridge Formation north of Mount Rainier #vw #vg #vig Qvp Qvl Volcaniclastic...siltstone; north of Manastash Ridge, microporphyritic olivine basalt with interbedded mafic tuff; north of the...hornblende dacite to porphyritic diorite stock north of Wind Mountain; in the Simcoe Mountains, light-...monzonite—Fine- to medium-grained quartz monzonite; north of Mount St. Helens, fine- to medium-grained, commonly
Journal (issue)
pyromorphite in the Montezuma District, Summit County (Eckel et al., 1997): 1. “Pyromorphite, galena...flat-topped mountain on the eastern side of Summit County, in the Montezuma Mining District (Figure 1). Access...From the parking area, a pleasant stroll to the north along the top of Teller Mt. accesses the Montague...the possession of Summit County, at which point it was offered up by the county to be incorporated back...northward along Teller Mountain. Bottom photo taken north of the Montague Claims, looking southward along
Journal (issue)
.................. 594 NATIVE COPPER IN AN. J. QUARRY. BY T . ORCHARD LISLE ................ 597 MOUNT.................................. .... . 603 NORTH CAROLINA GOLD RUSH OF 1842. BY JEFF HILL ............. 562 ROCKS AND MlN ERALS - CHIPS ~-,ROM THE QUARRY (!I~risintas Oireetings ! - Again it is the happy... And now in our twenty foot cruiser let us run north with the incoming tide to Croton Point. It is a...an- pleasant. Soon an officer of the Westchester County Police informs us that this portion of Croton Point
Report (volume)
uranium minerals along joint planes and fissures. In North America, the average thorium/uranium ratio of granitic...dikes, in schists, in the Ohio City area, Gunnison County, Colo. The microlite, associated with lepidolite...the pegmatite-schist contact in the Strickland quarry, Portland, Conn., have an average uranium content...samples of uraninite from pegmatite from the Hale quarry, also in Portland, Conn., have an average uranium...found in several pegmatites in Georgia. In Lamar County, yellow and green secondary uranium minerals occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction. (described by Mr. Salter). Fundamental Gneiss. OverlyingQuartzose and l~[icaceous Cambrian Red...Red Sandstone and CongloFlagstones and Younger Gneiss. merate of the West Coast. The crystallineStratifiedRocks... the Caithness Flags. Old Red Sandstone of the North-East Upper Old Red of Caithness. of Scotland. Old... of Scotland and the OrkLias and Oolite in the North of Scotland. ney Islands. INTROJ)uc~oN.---In this...own work, ' Siluria,' published in 1854, these North-Western conglomerates and sandstones, which I had
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contents. Introduction. Fossils of the Fundamental Gneiss. Cambrian Red Sandstone and Conglo- Overlying...Vegetable Remains of Old Eed Sandstone of the North-East the Caithness Flags. Caithness. Old Red of...Old Red or Devonian Rocks. Lias and Oolite in the North of Scotland. Crystalline Upper Old Red of of...own work, ' Siluria,' published in 1854, these North- Western conglomerates and sandstones, which I had...station at Wick to visit a wrecked ship on the north coast of Sutherland, discovered certain organic
 
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