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Quartz from
Paxton Quarry, Paxton, Alpena County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Paxton Quarry, Paxton, Alpena County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:106188
Long-form Identifier:1:3:106188:8
GUID (UUID V4):73c9a9ca-3fb5-4721-8780-f14de746bf7d
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
13.6km (8.4 miles) Squaw Bay, Alpena County, Michigan, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Michigan Mineralogy: A LOCALITY INDEX TOM MORRIS, JR. 4553 Shenandoah Allen Park, Michigan 48101 Tom...occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...compiling this information was The Mineralogy of Michigan (Heinrich, 1976), which should be consulted by...locality labeling of Michigan specimens. It should be pointed out that the list of Michigan mineral localities...None­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful
Report (issue)
Upper Devonian Antrim Shale gas reservoir of the Michigan basin: A review Robert T. Ryder* Open-File Report...Midcontinent.... 17 Post-Paleozoic uplift of the Michigan basin............... 18 Unusual stratigraphic........... 26 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Map of Michigan showing the Antrim Shale gas accumulation and...showing Upper Devonian and adjoining strata in the Michigan basin (Gutschick and Sandberg, 1991)................ 4 Figure 3. Map of part of Otsego County, Michigan showing location of Antrim Shale gas wells
Report (volume)
Correlation of the Oakdale Formation and Paxton Group of Central Massachusetts with Strata in Northeastern...Henry, 1922Correlation of the Oakdale Formation and Paxton Group of central Massachusetts with strata in northeastern...Geology-Massachusetts. 4. Geology-Connecticut. 5. Paxton Group. 6. Oakdale Formation. I. State Geological...Distribution 9 General description 9 Thickness 12 Paxton Group 12 Dudley Formation 12 Distribution 12 General...strata in eastern Connecticut with the Oakdale-Paxton sequence of adjacent Massachusetts 1. Contents
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Mineralogy of Michigan by E. W. Heinrich updated and revised • by George W. Robinson M By E W~ Hellnr]ch...Museum Michigan Technological University Houghton, Michigan 49931 2004 © MINERALOGY OF MICHIGAN 3 FOREWORD...FOREWORD Michigan has a long and varied geologic history that includes repeated episodes of volcanism...before the first Europeans set foot here. When Michigan became a state in 1837, one of the first actions...and we continue to learn more about them today. Michigan minerals helped to build the state and nation
Report (issue)
their map symbols. Thus the micaceous quartzite, quartz-mica-garnet schist, and calc-silicate unit of the...this The Westboro Formation (Zw), the Westboro Quartz- group (Bell and Alvord's Greenleaf Mountain Formation...Intrusive rocks Diabase dikes and sills Massive quartz and silicified rock Alkalic granitic rocks Includes...quartzite, and minor rusty-weathering feldspathic mica-quartz schist occupies a belt from the town of Blackstone...to littoral sands, fine-grained mafic quartzite, quartz-feldspar gneiss, micaquartz feldspar gneiss, amphibolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
area has produced over 75 000 ounces of Au from quartz veins crosscutting Proterozoic shallow marine sedimentary...(predominantly Au¡Ag in structurally controlled quartz veins) similar alteration mineralogy of sericite...network of Tertiary age, and Pleistocene to Recent quartz dunefields of the Great Victoria Desert. Recent...mineralization is hosted mainly in quartz veins that cut across the Palaeoproterozoic Paxton Granite (y1715 Ma) and...(y1656¡7 Ma) sedimentary rocks5 (Figs. 2 and 3). The Paxton Granite is a predominantly homogeneous coarse-grained
Report (volume)
catalogs, announcements, and publications. The Paxton Group of Southeastern New England By PATRICK j...JR. The Paxton Schist -is herein elevated to group status. The upper part of the former Paxton Schist...Southbridge Formation, and the lower part of the former Paxton Schist is now called the Dudley Formation U.S...Cataloging in Publication Data Barosh, Patrick J. The Paxton Group of southeastern New England. (U.S. Geological...Stratigraphic-Pre-Ordovician. 2. Geology-New England. 3. Paxton Group. I. Moore, George E. II. Title. Ill. Series
Report (issue)
granitic gneiss with a composition approximating quartz 11 monzonite. 12 rock is locally hydrothermally...coarse-grained equigranular to locally porphyritic, chiefly quartz monzonite, but ranging from granite to granodiorite...(Nelson, 1975] 15- - 16 Principal minerals are quartz, perthite and microcline, The Milford Granite...mostly granodiorite but ranges from granite to quartz diorite (Hansen, 1956, Nelson, 1975). Weathering...equigranular to slightly porphyritic in places. 12 are quartz, microcline, perthite and plagioclase, mostly oligoclase^
Report (issue)
Monzonite--Light to madium gray, medium grained biotite quartz raonzonite, sligbtly to moderately well foliated...Monzonite--Light gray, coarse grained porphyritic biotite quartz raonzonite, slightly to moderately wall foliated...Porphyritic Quartz Konzonite Light to medium gray, '. coarse grained porphyritic biotite quartz tnonzonita...phcnocrysts are generally \v*3ll fractured and the quartz granulated. Locally has compositional variations... Drr.q;a Muscovite Quartz Monzonite Light gray, fine'to medium grained muscovite quartz monzonite, slightly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Silurian, 81 - - , Upper Triassic, 252 Brown End Quarry, Staffordshire, Carboniferous, II BSE = backscatter...Coal Measures, 161, 169,309 - - , Lower, Brown End Quarry, Staffordshire, II - - , Pennant Sandstone, gravestones...Sheppey, Kent, 119, 134 Conservation, Brown End Quarry, Staffordshire, II Cretaceous, Lower, Gault, Bedfordshire...19, 222 Derbyshire, Chatsworth, gardens, Joseph Paxton, 77 - - , Lower Carboniferous, II Deserts, geomorphology...brickearth, Hertfordshire, 261 - - , Brown End Quarry, Staffs.-lime, roadstone, 21 - - , White Lias as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and coal matrix, and Fe-, Al-rich chlorite and quartz in the third joint set. The chemical components...sources:AI and Si from preexisting kaolinite and quartz, N from local organic matter, Mg and Na (for tosudite...underclay in this region contains illite, kaolinite, quartz, and chlorite. In addition to these clays, Hosterman...the expenseof kaolinite and quartz during peak metamorphism. Recently, Paxton (1983) and Juster et al. (1987)...NH4+substituting for K* in the illite interlayer. Paxton (1983) suggestedthat the N source was dispersedorganic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in New York. New information on the Devonian of Michigan and the Midwest is furnished by Cooper and Warthin...Kentucky. From Ohio the sequence is extended to Michigan and the Midwest. This arrangement shows well the...of brachiopods alone from the Traverse group of Michigan, and most are new. Through­ out the Appalachians...pinches out to the southeast from Presque Isle County, Michigan. Nevertheless, the position of this zone is...Eifelian. This is borne out by the fact that in Michigan the Stringocephalus zone rests not on the Onondaga
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
South Australia is hosted by the Paleoproterozoic Paxton Granite and Tarcoola Formation metasedimentary...deposit in the Tarcoola goldfield is hosted by quartz veins in both granite and the lower parts of the...Formation. Primary fluid inclusions from mineralized quartz veins at Perseverance are dominated by two-phase...150° and ~340°C. They occur together in single quartz grains, which suggests the coexistence of aqueous...similar to Kfeldspar and whole-rock samples of the Paxton Granite. This is consistent with a common source
Report (volume)
.................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...quartzite......................................... Paxton quartz schist........................................................................ 150 Berkshire County..................................................aplite.................................. 152 Lee quartz diorite.......................................................................... 167 Ironstone quartz diorite.......................................
Report (issue)
H., 1921, Geology of the igneous rocks of Essex County, Massachusetts: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 704, 132...motions in eastern New Hampshire; Petrology of exeter quartz diorite. Page, L.R., 1968, Devonian plutonic rocks...geologic map of the Clinton quadrangle, Worcester County, Massachusetts: U.S. Geol. Survey open-file report...includes discussion of subdivision of the Newburyport quartz diorite, separations of mafic igneous rocks from...the granite - syenite complex near Salem,, Essex County, Massachusetts: Internat. Geol. Cong,, 21st, Copenhagen
Journal (issue)
route 743 you had better have an aquatic vehicle. Paxton Creek in Wildwood Park near Harrisburg Area Community...ra each went on new rampages. Within the city, Paxton Creek again did its dirty work along Cameron Street...Survey watched our former 1972 quarters again hit by Paxton Creek flooding, we had the satisfaction of having...discovery was made in Vernon Townsh ip, Crawford County, where the No. 1-A Dwight L. Moody well had an...well in Pennsylvania was drilled in 1975 in Beaver County, on the Metropolitan Industries property. The well
Book
Fossil-Basilosaurus cetoides Gemstone-Star Blue Quartz Soil-Bama Series Mineral-Rhodochrosite Rock-Yule...Florida Gem-Moonstone Stone-Agatized Coral Mineral-Quartz Crystal Soil-Myakka Fine Sand Series Rock-Bauxite...Mineral-Gold Mineral-Staurolite Fossil-Shark Tooth Gem-Quartz 35 36 36 38 38 38 Rock-Serpentine * Hawaii ...Soil-Paxton Series Glacial Rock-Rolling Rock 65 66 66 68 68 69 69 70 70 ie 72 ea: * Michigan 2, ...Hampshire Rock-Granite Mineral-Bery] Gem-Smoky Quartz 2B) 100 100 116 116 LI7 118 118 Gemstone-Sunstone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is more than 100 million years younger than the Paxton Granite, which is part-host to the mineralisation...Volcanics, geochronology, gold, Hiltaba Suite, Paxton Granite, Tarcoola Goldfield. INTRODUCTION The...(dominantly gold in sulfide-poor structurally controlled quartz veins) and alteration mineralogy (sericite–pyrite–chlorite...Domain, and is hosted by the Palaeoproterozoic Paxton Granite (new name defined in Appendix 1) and Tarcoola...Tarcoola Formation sedimentary rocks. The Paxton Granite is considered at present to be of very limited
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between Shafts 4 and 5. I t corresponds to the Paxton schist of Emerson ( 7 , pp. 130-140 ;2, pp. GO...GO, 62,8647,226,234). The other is a brown quartz-mica schist most typically developed hetween Shafts 3...the gray by an even distribution of feldspar and quartz. The biotite is black when in contact with the...hornblende. The greater part of the remainder is quartz with a small amount of oligoclase. There are also...lenticular appearance caused largely by lenses of quartz and pepatite, which range in thickness from a few
Report (volume)
Section of south wall of Lynn Griffin mine //I, Henry County, Ala., type locality of Baker Hill Format ion....H28 9. Core-hole section at Highland Park, Henry County, Ala., lithologies of the farthest downdip part...coastal plain area and representative values for quartz sand fraction to total sand fraction ............Avenue valley in Bronx County and the Bronx River valley in Westchester County, N.Y., consists of a series...the subject terrane from Scarsdale, Westchester County, on the north to Eastchester Bay (fig. I; also
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boreholes [1890 5922; 2090 6389] and the cored Great Paxton Borehole [2088 6389] which lie a few kilometres...comprises limestone with pebbles of ironstone, quartz and chert ('lydite'), and a fauna d ominated by...probably belong to the Ja1nesoni Zone as in the Great Paxton Borehole (see Donovan et al., 1979). Above, the...fonnation. This bed is also present in the Great Paxton Borehole '"'here the formation is 10.1 m thick...to be shown by the amm.onite record of the Great Paxton Borehole. There is no indication of the presence
Journal (issue)
welcome and should be sent by email or on disc to Jo Paxton (sussexoldbag@gmail.com) by 1st Septembe1· 2017...of years to learn the fascination history of the county as told by its rocks. The Exhibition will be accompanied...and Mike Goodchild, WSGS. 28/29 June 1980 Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and sites around Kit Hill (no leader...comer of the county of Hampshire, bordering on the county of Sussex, and not far from the county of Surrey;...for exten sion of stone extraction at Hermitage Quarry, near Maidstone. In order to provide a proper access
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reconnaissance study of the Iron Crown, Iron Hill, Lake, Paxton,and Prescottskarn deposits.All mineralcompositions...Py Sch Sp Tr rangein composition from gabbroto quartz monzonite, Sangster(1969) concludedthat skarnformationis...Average Igneous Rocks e Nockolds Iron Hill ¸ Paxton [] Prescott o Iron e Merry (1954) 10. ...Widow mutsenvolcanicrocksandthe multiphaseNimpkish quartz monzonite(Fig. 3; Hoadley, 1953), In the mine area...severalskarnson TexadaIsland adjacent to the Gillies quartz monzonitewhich differ mainly in the proportionof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elsevier.com/locate/gca Optically continuous silcrete quartz cements of the St. Peter Sandstone: High precision...Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Received 15 January 2007; accepted in revised form...of detrital quartz and authigenic quartz overgrowths from shallowly buried (<1 km) quartz arenites of...temperature and fluid sources during diagenesis. Quartz overgrowths are syntaxial (optically continuous)...luminescent zonation by cathodoluminescence. Detrital quartz grains were separated from 53 rocks and analyzed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
H+) XRD-identified hexagonal birnessites Paxton Cave Paxton Cave, VA (Na0.02Mg0.06Ca0.17K0.03)(Mn(IV)1...Identified phases Hexagonal birnessiteb,c, diatoms (or quartz?)c,d, quartzb, calciteb, todorokiteb Hexagonal...National Museum of Natural History. Mn oxides from Paxton Cave, Virginia (Smithsonian Institution NMNH no...ranciéite-like samples included specimens from Paxton Cave, Virginia, Granada, Spain, and the French...were only tens of nanometers thick (Fig. 4). The Paxton Cave sample, on the other hand, appeared as fluffy
 
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