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Orthoclase from
Green River Formation, USA


Locality type:Formation
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 Green River Formation, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1077027
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1077027:8
GUID (UUID V4):886e076e-9198-47d0-9f6d-0076a483c83c
References
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Report (issue)
PEAK PHOSPHATIC SHALE MEMBER OF THE PHOSPHORIA FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO i By1 01 George A. Desborough...units of the Meade Peak Member of the Phosphoria Formation in measured section WPSB at Enoch Valley mine...Peak Phosphatic Shale Member of the Phosphoria Formation in southeastern Idaho. Quantitative X-ray diffraction...as 35 weight percent of the mineral fraction. Orthoclase in the mudstones is of detrital origin and commonly...solution overgrowths, whereas sparse detrital orthoclase in the dolomites has no overgrowths. Albite is
Report (issue)
= 7.299(15) X-ray Powder Pattern: Green River Formation, Utah, USA. 10.9 (100), 3.77 (80), 7.63 (50)...51 (35), 6.63 (30) Chemistry: (1) Green River Formation, Utah, USA; electron microprobe analysis gave...Association: Albite, orthoclase, pyrite, quartz, mica, dolomite, analcime. Distribution: In the USA, in a drill...localities in or near the Mahogany Zone, Green River Formation, Uintah Co., Utah, and in the Piceance Creek...of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., USA, and Editor of Science. Type Material: The Natural
Report (issue)
Bluish green, pale greenish gray. Optical Class: Uniaxial (–). Pleochroism: O = dark bluish green; E =...= pale yellowish green. ω = 1.646(3)  = < 1.572 Cell Data: Space Group: P 63 mc. a = 5.284–5.320 c...4 Total [104.2] [100.00] 2− (1) Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA; no anions other than CO3 detected...trona beds in dolomitic marlstone (Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA); from carbonatites and hydrothermal...leucosphenite, searlesite, hematite (Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA); kukharenkoite-(Ce), belovite, fluorite
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. 2.942 (100), 4.47 (85), 2.648 (40), 6.40 (35), 3...2] (1) Diamond Alkali No. 3 drillhole, Wyoming, USA; by a combination of gravimetric and spectrophotometric...mineral formed near trona beds in the Green River Formation (Wyoming, USA); in a differentiated alkalic massif...labuntsovite, searlesite, leucosphenite (Wyoming, USA); ewaldite, belovite-(Ce), fluorite, nenadkevichite...kukharenkoite-(Y), burbankite, calcite, barite, orthoclase (Khibiny massif, Russia); dolomite, calkinsite-(Ce)
Report (issue)
apophyllite, euhcdrnl cr,Ystltls of sanidinc and orthoclase, angular fragments of quurtz, and a little volcanic...several thin beds nclt!· 1iho top of the Green River formation in Duchesne County, Utah. It is mixed with...and I Bradley, W. n., Zeolito bods in the Green River formation: Srience, new ser., vol. 07, pp. i:.I-i4...correlative units ·within the part of the Green River formation that contnins the richest beds of oil shale...describe the deposits of analcite in the GreenRiver formation, to compare them with other similar deposits,
Report (issue)
SURVEY Altered tuffaceous rocks of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado By...of the Green River Formation 5 5 The altered tuffaceous rocks of the Green River Formation The altered...27 32 ALTERED TUFFACEOUS ROCKS OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION IN THE PICEANCE CREEK BASIN, COLORADO By...feet of the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin of northwestern...overlying Evacuation Creek Member of the Green River Formation. The altered ash-fall beds of the Parachute
Journal (issue)
...... 350 by Alice Blount and Will Shulman Orthoclase from West Maroon Pass, Colorado................363 by Henry A. Truebe Mineralogy of the Green River Formation..............................368 by Charles...P.J.D. 339 GUSSENS MINERALS f a OFF EPIDOTE GREEN MONSTER Over 5 ,0 0 0 thumbnail to mu­ seum size...Germany Tel. 089260-3662 — FU'ORiTE, Plumosa Mm Az, green cubic xls on matrix. 2in .75 Ll'.ARin. Mouth!.,...of several references on the paragenesis and formation of deposits similar to the one in which the mineral
Report (issue)
Saline Minerals of the Green River Formation GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 405 Saline Minerals...Minerals of the Green River Formation By JOSEPH J. FAHEY With a section on X-RAY POWDER DATA FOR SALINE...SALINE MINERALS OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION By MARY E. MROSE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 405...Pyrite inclusions.... __________ Temperature of formation. Trona. ______________________________ Occurrences...powder data for the saline minerals of the Green River formation, by Mary E. Mrose. _______________ Experimental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sanidine-bearing lavas of Leucite Hills, Wyoming, USA. The empirical formula of the most Fe-rich zone in...–KFefirst Unlike natural so-called Fe-rich Fe-orthoclase. feldspars, synthetic ferri-feldspars areofwell-studied...were were the [7], who synthesized so-called Fe-orthoclase. Later the investigation of the KAlSi3O8– focus...0.50 and 0.75 apfu is named low sanidine. In orthoclase, a pseudomonoclinic (pseudo-symmetry C2/m) due...(Enhanced Spectrometry, Inc., Torrance, CA, USA) with a green laser (532 nm) at room temperature. The output
Report (issue)
(Newfoundland Mountains). Park Valley District (Raft River Mountains). Promontory District (Promontory Mountains)...Sal Mountains). Little Grand District (S.E. Green River). Miners Basin District (North Mountain, La Sal...COUNTY Paradise District (Bear River Range). Richmond District (Bear River Range). Escalante District (Mt...Tintic Mountains). KANE COUNTY Colorado River District (Colorado River). Cedar Mountain District (Cedar Mountain)...Springs) District (Red Plateau). Green River District (S. W. Green River). San Rafael District (San Rafael
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nickelporphyrin'a newmineralfrom the Abelsonite, .Green RiverFormation,Utah CHnnI-rsMIlroN TheGeorgeWashingtonUniuersity...porphyrin with the probablecompositionCa,HsrNoNi, River of the Green shale oil Zone Mahogany the near in or drill...found in Formation in Uintah .County, Utah. Associatedauthigenicminerals include orthoclase' pyrite,...MahoganyLedgein the ParachuteCreekmemberof the Green River Formation.Pink platy abelsonite was found in...mappedby Cashion(1967),arc a 11f 11tr ffi 10r 1F Green Rrw Fumaion ffi.Abelson1e oeruence Fig. l. Map
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Munsell color values from the Colton and Green River Formations (Eocene, central Utah) Neil A. Wells...221 McGilvrey Hall, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242, USA Received 12 December 2000; accepted 5 September 2001...color measurements from the Eocene Colton and Green River Formations in central Utah shows how easily stereoscopic...in Colton Formation show a greater variety of color than those in the Green River Formation, both in terms...apparently reflecting the fact that the Green River Formation represents a single, large, and relatively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorite along with aegirine, elpidite, feldspar (orthoclase), graphite and polylithionite. The Narssârssuk...previously described from the Green River formation, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA (Milton et al. 1965 and...paragenesis itself belongs to a later stage in the formation of the pegmatite, a stage dominated by CO3 – 2-rich...minerals include aegirine, elpidite, feldspar (orthoclase), graphite and polylithionite. 546 O. V. Petersen...mckelveyite – (Y) from Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA (Desautels 1967), which later proved to be polycrystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
apatite and some magnetite, but with no quartz or orthoclase. In the other samplesexamined the phenocrysts...lessabundant but consist of a sodic plagioclase, orthoclase, quartz and minor amounts of zircon. This suggests...Alteration of volcanic rocks resulting in the formation of a zeolite has been describedby various writers...MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA a l l L ' L the Green River formation, described by Bradley,2 has some features...of analcite and meerschaum beds in the Green River formation of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming: U. S. Geot
Report (issue)
......................................... 20 Orthoclase ............................................... __.............. Basalt flows in the Greybull River area.____...____.___ ....... _... __ .... ___. ___.................. La)'ued rocks of the Bear River formation near Evanston ...............................conditions of growth are usually unfavorable for the formation of good crystals, they are not common. These minerals...order to achieve a better understanding of the formation and occurrence of the rocks and minera ls. In
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springs "bathing cure." Steamboats on the Mississippi River and packing cases carried his mark: a " J " in a...pseudoleucite (a mixture of nepheline and orthoclase), orthoclase, black titanium garnet, pyrox­ ene, titanite...cavities they only briefly noted white ortho­ clase, green aegirine (acmite), colorless pseudowavellite (crandallite)...strangely, in the troniferous oil shales of the Green River Formation in Wyoming and Utah, described by Charles...cm to 3 cm. They are characterized by a white orthoclase rim from 0.4 cm to 3 cm thick in the matrix bordering
Report (chapter)
Department of Geological Sciences, Cleveland, OH, USA (e-mail: bzs@case.edu) Abstract: Carbon dioxide (CO2)...downward-directed formation waters. Over time, the injected CO2 will dissolve in the formation waters and,... through reactions with formation minerals, may be converted to carbonate minerals, resulting in permanent...Sandstone, a saline aquifer beneath eastern Ohio, USA. It is estimated that 30 years of CO2 emissions from...saline aquifers. Carbon dioxide is less dense than formation fluids. Once injected, some CO2 dissolves into
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Stratigraphy of Black Shale Facies of Green River Formation (Eocene), Uinta Basin, Utah. A publication...Utah 84119 The black shale facies of the Green River Formation has generated more petroleum than any other...contains the oldest rocks assigned to the Green River Formation in the Uinta Basin of Utah. Sandstone and...represented mainly by microcline and lesser amounts of orthoclase. The dominant carbonate rocks are micrite and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AuthigenicAlbite and PotassiumFeldsparin the GreenRiver Formation,Coloradoand Wyoming Geoncs A. DnssonoucH U.S....part of the Tipton Member of the Eocene Green River Formation in Wyoming. Minor amounts of analcime and...in oil shaleand tuffs of the EoceneGreenRiver Formation of Colorado and Wyoming. Low-temperatureauthigenicvarietiesof...the 3.mm-longalbitecrystals from the GreenRiver Formation,reportedby Moore (1950), had refractive indices...Descriptions of Albites and K-Feldspars in the Green River Formation, Colorado and Wyoming ) , Descrlption
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covering of soil. In cliff faces, mountain sides, and river valleys, for example, we can find naturally exposed...text provides information on their composition, formation and mode of occurrence. How to use the book The...and how they relate to one another and to their formation. The dip is the amount by which the bedding plane...the outcrop patterns accordingly. deposited by river (auli Ml ic Devonian and Silurian sediments Remember...decreasing ske from Ordovician group, through formation and member, to bed. All these divi¬ sions and
Report (issue)
___ (G) Algae reefs and oolites of the Green River formation, by W. H. Bradley (published Mar. 28,1929)...'.. (n) A revision of the flora of the Latah formation, by E. W. Berry (published Apr. 18, 1929)____...________ (.l) Additions to the flora of the Groen River formation, by R. VV-. Brown (published Apr. 22, 1929...Howard County, Ark.; B, Basal gravel of \Yoodbine formation, near Horatio, Sevier County, Ark_ _ _ _ ___ _...C., Orthoclase crystal partly replaced by calcite, Owen place, Howard County, Ark.; D, Orthoclase crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with springs on the floor of the Little Colorado River valley, but travertine deposition appears to be...carbonate cements and detrital feldspars and the formation of dawsonite and kaolinite. Geochemical simulations...interactions, particularly those that lead to the formation of Ca, Fe, and Mg carbonates (e.g. Gunter et al...anhydrite, dolomite, and plagioclase, and in the formation of kaolinite and zeolites. On the other hand,...volcanic field, adjacent to the Little Colorado River (Fig. 2). Gas accumulations occur in Permian rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . , . . . . . . . JOHN I. HEDGES: The formation and clay mineral reactions of melanoidins . ....CHARLU, R. C. NEWTONand 0. J. KLEPPA: Enthalpy of formation of some lime silicates by high-temperature solution...Thermodynamic and kinetic factors controlling the formation of iron phosphate . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Acid-base equilibria of humic acid , . . 1351 P. F. GREEN, R. K. BULL and S. A. DURRANI: The fission track...study of the Uinta Basin: formation of petroleum from the Green River formation . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AUTHIGENIC ZEOLITES AND K-FELD SPAR IN THE ESMERALDA FORMATION, NEVADA Rrcnlno J. Moror,e,Mobil Reseorch and...succession in the 9065-foot sequence of the Esmeralda Formation (Miocene and Pliocene) in southern Big Smoky Valley...predominantly as overgrowths on detrital grains of orthoclase and plagioclase. The zeolites and K-feldspar...alkalinities and salinities necessary for the formation of the zeolites and K-feldspar are attributed...They are especiallyabundant in the Esmeralda Formation (Miocene and Pliocene) of southern Big Smoky Valley
Report (issue)
of alUtlcite and meerschaum beds in the Green River formation of Utah, Colorado, and Wyo- ming, by W...,._______ (E) The varyes and climate of the Green River epoch, by W. H. Bradley ____________________...___,_________ (Ii) The flora of the Frontier formation, by E. W. Berry ____________________________'~...Hills sandstone in the south bank of the Cannonball River 3~ miles west of Solen, N. Dak.; B, Cross-bedding...organic marlstone showing typical varves of the Green River formatioll __. 12. A, Photomicrograph of a specimen
 
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