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| ...... 434 COLLECTING SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES IN FLORIDA. By James G. Manchester .........................Whole No. 125 COLLECTING SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES IN FLORIDA 0 By JAMES G. MANCHESTER INTRODUCTION Many years...labelled "Chalcedony Pseudomorph after Coral, Tampa, Florida." This particular specimen was so attractive...been spent collecting minerals in the vicinity of Tampa, the writer feels that a brief description of one...Middle Atlantic States and the experience in the Tampa area is the rulmination of all previous collecting |
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| Middle Tertiary Rocks in Part of West-Central Florida GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns...Middle Tertiary Rocks in Part of West-Central Florida By WILFRED J. CARR and DOUGLAS C. ALVERSON GEOLOGICAL...of middle Tertiary rocks in part of westcentral Florida, by Wilfred J. Carr and Douglas C. Alverson. Washington...69-71. 1. Geology Florida. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary. 3. Borings Florida. i. Alverson, Douglas...rocks__ -_____.-..__._____..___;_..._.__.-__._____-__ Tampa limestone.___-_-____--______-__--.____,_-___-______ |
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| Please Send Them In. Downloaded by [University of Florida] at 03:03 07 August 2017 Beach Sand from Alabama...Shores,' southernmost part of Alabama in Baldwin County and am pleased to send it to you." The sand sample...note is a coarse gray sand consisting entirely of quartz (colorless, with a little white and some brownish)...and nicely rounded), and quartz (smoky, brownish). The brown color of the quartz is due to earth staining...north of bridge crossed by U.S. 6 in Fairfield County (H/, miles west of the bridge U.S. 6 goes through |
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| Alabama 35486. Downloaded by [University of Florida] at 14:34 04 August 2017 CHALCEDONY PSEUDOMORPH...CALL (Chips and Facets) In Florida, the varied and numerous species of quartz, agate, and rare speci mens...agatized coral, found only in Hillsborough Bay at Ballast Point, Tampa, Florida. The best time to hunt for...westerly winds help to sweep the water out of the bay and away from the shore for the lowest tide. The...you will find one of glittering, sparkling drusy quartz crystals lining the cavity—other times the speci |
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| xline—crystalline CALIFORNIA — From near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif, we have a deep blue dumortierite that was... This fine 3x5 inch specimen comes from Teller County, Colorado. ARIZONA — "Would you please identify...identify this specimen for me? I know it is quartz but what is the silvery particles? I have had it lying around...for 3 years believing it to be just a piece of quartz til the other day when I sawed off this piece sent...was found July 2, 1959, near Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona." — sent in by Clyde N. Hall, Elbridge |
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| geologic map of the Roosevelt Hot Springs area, Beaver County, Utah, is now on open-file at the Utah Geological...CALL (Chips and Facets) In Florida, the varied and numerous species of quartz, agate, and rare speci mens...agatized coral, found only in Hillsborough Bay at Ballast Point, Tampa, Florida. The best time to hunt for...westerly winds help to sweep the water out of the bay and away from the shore for the lowest tide. The...you will find one of glittering, sparkling drusy quartz crystals lining the cavity—other times the speci |
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| FIFTY YEARS OF MINERAL COLLECTING FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA By JAMES G. MANCHESTER (Address at the Mineral...collection presented me. with a quartz crystal from Herkimer County, New York, and from that day to this...glacial boulder of white quartz exposed at low tide on the shore of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. This...rounded and the rock deposited on the shore of the bay. That this crystal should remain loose in the pocket...teacher told his class that the mineral was rose quartz but later changed his determination when he was |
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| about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...our intruding." ARKANSAS—"Enclosed is a very odd quartz crystal (s). It seems to be above 7 in hardness...hardness. It will make a mark on any average quartz crystal. What do you think of it? It comes from about 7...more like the average epidote group than quartz but it is quartz."—letter dated March 27, 1958. from Capt...specimen is a lxlí'2-inch, flat, platv, colorless quartz (rock crystal), doubly terminated but instead of |
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| at 12:51 04 August 2017 LURE THOUSANDS TO FLORIDA Tampa, Fla.—Twenty million years ago nature started...attraction: agatized coral, known locally as Ballast Point diamonds. Ten thousand members of the Eastern...assist many of the thousands who plan to fly to Tampa for the convention, Eastern Airlines is setting...registration and information desk in the Tampa terminal. Headquarters for the Tampa convention will be the new Curtis...travel to the beach by boats operating across Tampa Bay. The agatized coral that encouraged the Federation |
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| ANCIENT SEAS OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA ANCIENT SEAS OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA THE GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF...David P., author. Title: Ancient seas of southern Florida : the geology and paleontology of the Everglades...Subjects: LCSH: Geology--Florida--Everglades Region. | Geomorphology--Florida--Everglades Region. | P...Paleontology--Florida--Everglades Region. Classification: LCC QE100.E9 P48 2021 (print) | LCC QE100.E9...and Jeremy Coker v ANCIENT SEAS OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA The Geology and Paleontology of the Everglades |
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| Ornamental Minerals, Rough Durham, went to the Hillsborough Pyroand Cut" was enjoyed by the Montreal phyllite...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton. Mr. Wilson is with the Naval Ordnance...for the Tampa Show, so this was a most timely subject, as well as pertinent for those FLORIDA who will...nual Show on May 4 and 5 at the Aiken trip to ballast Point under the Leadership Regional Campus of the...sharing. This Society too saw the The Central Florida Mineral and Gem passing of one of its faithful |
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| coral geode from the Econfina River near Perry, Florida, exhibits nice banding in the agate surrounding...COM | JUNE 2022 7 Sale MADEIN INUSA USA MADE MADEIN INUSA USA MADE !)Fydmveft!Bmbtlb!'!Ibxbjj* Sale...sandstone block that had fallen to the beach at Howick Bay in Northumberland some 40 miles north of Newcastle...reefs off the western coast of central and south Florida must have been beautiful when living. Now, agatized...beauty to the present. HOW AGATIZED CORAL FORMED Florida agatized corals are the skeletal remains of colonial |
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| corals and mollusks from the Tampa formation at Ballast Point, Florida are well-knownfor their intrinsic...beauty and exceptionally good preservation.Ballast Point has been a popular collectingground for professionalscientistsand...mud adjacent to the point at low tide. The silicified coral massesfrom Balast point are of varying sizesand...coiloform chalcedony,a {ew are lined with small quartz crystals,and lesscommonly specimensare partitioned...size,shape,thicknessof charcedonybands,and size of quartz crystals. rn the specimenshown in Fig. 1, the wall |
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| Bergen Matrix, monthly pub lication of the Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology Society, Inc., Paramus...trioxide for several hours. FLORIDA'S STA TE GEM Florida has a State Bird, the Mocking bird; a State Flower...from the Ballast Point area of Tampa Bay has been known for well over 50 years. These Tampa Bay Geodes...lined with colorful botryoidal chalcedony or drusy quartz over chalcedony, in colors of reds, yellows, blues...the material chosen, however. The State Gem of Florida is the moonstone, presumably chosen in recognition |
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| some distance apart. The schist is composed of quartz, muscovite or sericite, pyrite and graphite with...chrysocolla associated with malachite, chalcedony and quartz, forming specimens of great beauty, have been found...native copper as small masses in gray novaculite (quartz). CALIFORNIA—The following letter, dated Feb. 22...very well written and most interesting. The main point is that we have good chiastolite xls here in ROCKS...reference to the quartz crystals found in the Josephine Mine near Volcanoville, Eldorado County, California |
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| org/details/roadsidegeologyo0000brya OADSIDE 4 JrEoLocy « FLORIDA JONATHAN R. BRYAN Tuomas M. Scott Guy H. MEANS...image: Geologic map of Florida. —From Scott et al. (2001) and courtesy of the Florida Geological Survey ...Group, Econfina River, Bay County; top right, the Anastasia Formation, Martin County; bottom right, sand...n Data Bryan, Jonathan R. Roadside geology of Florida / Jonathan R. Bryan, Thomas M. Scott, Guy H. Means...978-0-87842-542-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Geology—Florida—Guidebooks. 2. Florida—Guidebooks. I. Scott, Thomas M. II |
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| Alaska. The specimens received was a greenish quartz and two rocks — gray phyllite and reddish mica...brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a... The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO — "Would you please...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...term "astonishing" is not an exaggeraSan Miguel County is in southwestern tion ! W e were lucky in being |
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| Bergen Matrix, monthly pub lication of the Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology Society, Inc., Paramus...trioxide for several hours. FLORIDA'S STA TE GEM Florida has a State Bird, the Mocking bird; a State Flower...from the Ballast Point area of Tampa Bay has been known for well over 50 years. These Tampa Bay Geodes...lined with colorful botryoidal chalcedony or drusy quartz over chalcedony, in colors of reds, yellows, blues...the material chosen, however. The State Gem of Florida is the moonstone, presumably chosen in recognition |
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| were the quartz pits near Hot Springs (Garland Co.), Ark. Here I found about 40 nice quartz xls ranging...long. FLORIDA—The cavities of some of the coral geodes found at Ballast Point, Hillsborough Bay, near...near Tampa (Hillsborough Co.), Fla., are sometimes encrusted with fine grained drusy quartz. Watch for it...conglomerates in fields and in gravel bars here in Putnam County, Indiana."—item received from Walter Reeves, R3...attractive specimen. It is a 2x3 inch mass of smoky quartz and embedded in its very center is a mass of deep |
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| the Intermediate Aquifer System in Southwestern Florida U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 2122 AVAILABILITY...the Intermediate Aquifer System in Southwestern Florida By Lucy McCartan, Suzanne D. Weedman, G. Lynn Wingard...the intermediate aquifer system in southwestern Florida I by Lucy McCartan ... [et al.]. p. em.- (U.S....no.: 119.3 I. Floridan Aquifer. 2. Groundwater-Florida. I. McCartan, Lucy. II. Series. QE75.B9 no. 2122...showing the location of boreholes in southwest Florida............................................... |
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| Data from the South Venice Corehole, Sarasota County, Florida by G. Lynn Wingard 1 , Suzanne D. Weedman...Green 2 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 2 Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee, FL Open-File Report...Report 95-3 Prepared in cooperation with the Florida Geological Survey, Tallahassee FL This report is...corehole (Florida Geological Survey # W-16814) was drilled in September, 1992, by Florida Geological...is located in Sarasota County, on the southwestern coast of peninsular Florida (N 2r3'52", W 82°25'52"; |
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| beryl and rose quartz. "Hunting Gold in Maine" in the July- The gem quality rose quartz is superb. We...highway glad to pass along to the readers of R & ballast made of matrix filled with small M the localities...coral on Tampa Bay, Fla. Go Our garnet specimens look much like around the Bay at Ballast Point. I can...Rambler was riding tosh, 8409 El Portal Drive, Tampa, Fla. in a 45 degree angle. Our friends laughed |
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| beryl and rose quartz. "Hunting Gold in Maine" in the July- The gem quality rose quartz is superb. We...highway glad to pass along to the readers of R & ballast made of matrix filled with small M the localities...coral on Tampa Bay, Fla. Go Our garnet specimens look much like around the Bay at Ballast Point. I can...Rambler was riding tosh, 8409 El Portal Drive, Tampa, Fla. in a 45 degree angle. Our friends laughed |
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| the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. What you cannot collect in person you can obtain...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized |
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