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Augite from
Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:127206
Long-form Identifier:1:3:127206:2
GUID (UUID V4):7309d859-3d0d-4a95-a267-ceae5f75a517
Nearest other occurrences of Augite
4.9km (3.1 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
33.7km (20.9 miles) Granite Street Quarry (Milk Row Quarry), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
42.0km (26.1 miles) Kallenberg Quarry (Robin Rock Quarry; Jordan Quarry), Lynnfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
44.6km (27.7 miles) Den Granite Quarry, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
48.5km (30.1 miles) Maple Ridge Drive, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
52.0km (32.3 miles) Cumberland Hill, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
53.8km (33.5 miles) Poorhouse Hill, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
56.8km (35.3 miles) Pulpit Road locality, Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
67.0km (41.6 miles) Magnolia, Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
80.1km (49.8 miles) Mount Pawtuckaway, Nottingham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
REGION, MONTANA, BY HEAVY MINERALS BY MARCELLUS H. STOW CONTENTS Abstract Introduction Purpose of work Acknowledgments...675.pdf by Cornell University user 676 M. H. STOW—BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN REGION The investigation indicates...INTRODUCTION PURPOSE OF WORK Previous investigation (Stow, 1938) of the clastic sediments of the Lance, Fort...675.pdf by Cornell University user 678 M. H. STOW—BEARTOOTH MOUNTAIN REGION clature and Correlation...into the Bighorn Basin. The Lebo has been traced (Stow, 1938, and this paper) from its type locality nearly
Book (volume)
greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Pennsylvania Amherst College Library, Amherst, Massachusetts Gail and Victor Blomquist library, Dresden,...Museum Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Richard P. Hauck library, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Report (edition)
much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on...specimens of minerals and fossils in Aroostook County and elsewhere in northern Maine. Most of the bedrock...rocks. There are lime quarries in the Aroostook County agricultural belt, where calcite crystals and other
Report (volume)
Resources of the Hudson and Maynard Quadrangles Massachusetts By WALLACE R. HANSEN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Prepared in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Works UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...geology of the Hudson and Maynard quadrangles, Massachusetts. 2. Map showing surficial geology of the Hudson...RESOURCES OF THE HUDSON AND MAYNARD QUADRANGLES, MASSACHUSETTS By wALLACE R. HANSEN .ABSTRACT The highest... 2 GEOLOGY, HUDSON AND MAYNARD QUADRANGLES, MASSACHUSETTS Late Carboniferous(?) igneous rocks of mruppable
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
astrophyllite—Biddeford autunite—many locations augelite—Newry augite—see diopside aurichalcite—Brooksville axinite group—Bath...Greenwood, Lewiston, Lovell, Newry(?), Stoneham, Stow, Winslow forsterite—Addison, Lincolnville, Saint...)—Stoneham New York Herkimer "Diamonds" Herkimer County is well known for its quartz crystals, some of...phenakite—Greenwood, Hebron, Rumford, millerite—Casco Stoneham, Stow, Waterford mimetite—G arland phillipsite—Stratford...psilomelane—see romanechite pumpeUyite—Aroostock County purpurite—Auburn, Greenwood, Hebron, Newry pyrargyrite—Franklin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Limonite and hematite are stripped mined in Crenshaw County, Alabama, and specimens collected are very interesting..."Limonite and hematite are to be found on most any county road south of Montgomery (Montgomery Co.), Ala...Crenshaw County—Davenport, Highland Home, Bradenton and Petrey are all small towns in Crenshaw County near...Shoup, P. O. Box 756, Salmon, Idaho. "Shoup, Lemhi County, Idaho. Scheelite (Tungsten) has been found in...a man that works in a coal mine in upper Fulton County in Illinois. Since that time I have been unable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1329 Arizona Economic geology Aluminum, Maricopa county, Wickenberg (Sheridan, Michael F , et al.) tt-t2...(Mclean, W. John, er a/.) 7-E 1103 Hemihedrite,Pinal county, Florencemine, Maricopacounty, Wickenburg,Rat Tail...a/.) 7-8 1088 Kinoite, SantaRita mountains,Pima county (Anthony, John W., er a/.) 5-6 7O9 Phoenicochroite...Schoep,Alfred Bibliography (Leenheer,L. de.) 3-4 59'l Stow, Marcellus H. Bibliography (Spencer,Edgar Winston...er a/.) 1.2 224 Breccia Intrusive Utah, San Juan county, MosesRock dike, kimberlite (McGetchin, Thomas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mayfield. N. Y. Hypersthene xls and wemerite— augite xls). Wayne A. Enyeart, 604 South Walnut, Kimball...Will trade). Herman Bodson, 3367 Adaline Drive, Stow, Ohio (Katangese and other minerals). Stephen Ridel...locality should be a tiny settlement or area, give its county. Give as much information as you can. — • • » '
Report (volume)
From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different...From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°. Analyzed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with dark green sediment (Fig. 2f). According to Stow (2005), these traces were made by bivalves, sponges... with microphenocrysts of plagioclase (~35 %), augite (10–15 %), and olivine (5–15 %) in a hyalomicrolitic...dikes contain phenocrysts of plagioclase (~15 %), augite ( < 5 %), oxyamphibole and oxybiotite (~15 %),...texture, consisting of subhedral plagioclase (~35 %), augite (~35 %), and olivine (< 3 %), with minor biotite...Conejos Formation, San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA. – J. of Volcanol. and Geotherm. Res. 139: 185–210
Report (chapter)
Hemipelagites: processes, facies and model Dorrik A. V. Stow and Ali R. Tabrez Geological Society, London, Special...facies model to have been proposed so far is that of Stow (1982, 1985a,b, 1986). This is a very rudimentary...Particle Analyser, with a focal length of 100 mm. Bulk STOW,D. A. V. & TABREZ,A. R. 1998. Hemipelagites: processes...Duke University on January 18, 2013 318 D.A.V. STOW & A. R. TABREZ sediment analysis of dried and powdered...Duke University on January 18, 2013 320 D.A.V. STOW & A. R. TABREZ MKM-468 4 12- 8 I 12 i MKM-468
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
apparently ferro-magnesian minerals are found. One is augite, very pale greenish with low polarization tints...pyroxenic constituent, and gradations from undoubted augite sometimes occur. In a few slides it constitutes...glassy inclusions along crystal planes) and of augite. (2) Volcanic Tuffs.—In a quarry east of Balfe...plagioclase, of green hornblende, and brown-stained augite or olivine. One or two fragments exhibit perlitic...slightly spherulitic, with broken crystals of green augite and of felspar. Other surface blocks from north
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tliis opinion Prof. RamSaT, Prof. Forbes, and Mr. Stow, who lias examined the “ pans’’ of Griqualand West...Constitution of Hatchettolite and Samarskite from Mitchell County, North Carolina. €37 0 S C A R D. R L L K S (Amer...was associated with the samarskite of Mitchell county, and in May, 2877, Lawrence Smith published an...Downloaded on 21/10/2014 23:40:26. A Polysynthetical Augite-twin from Bell, near Laach. By H. L A S P E Y R...with epidote, arid more rare wit,h orthoclase and augite. G. vom Rath (Jahrh. f. AIin., 1876, 404) described
Report (issue)
others, 1978; Stow, Quartzite at two localities have yielded Grenville-age 1982; Stow and others, 1984)...calcite marble, through in the Paulding thrust sheet (Stow, 1982, "Millerville dolomitic marble, to "dirty"..."dirty" sandy and micaceous marsamples" for example; Stow and others, 1984; Ap- ble, and the size of the marble...others, 1982; Stow, banded iron formations (Abrams and McConnell, 1982; 1982; Neilson, 1983; Stow and others...within the alteration zones. Geochemical studies (Stow and others, 1984; Appendix B) indicate that the
Journal (issue)
FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more prolific ...~mberliteisa~kigneousintrusiverockfoundin for Rockbridge County. It wasrecognizedasadistinctmineral species in...the sampleshmtheMidvaleironminesouthofVesuvius. county. Kimberliteisconsideredthechiefsourcerock Inadditionto...t a l t e r a t i o n o f b r o w n b i o t i ~ AUGITE-PYROXENEGROUP(calcium,sodium,magnesium,iron,aluminum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
market town on the Fosse Way between Cirencester and Stow-on-the-Wold, was the only child of Jethro and Mary...have been considerably extended. The series of county memoirs on Water Supply, of which one had previously...pp. 133-44, plate. " On some Quartz-Felsites and Augite-Granites from the Cheviot District " : GEOL. MAG...market town on the Fosse Way between Cirencester and Stow-on-the-Wold, was the only child of Jethro and Mary
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in a slab of Stonesfield slate from Kineton, near Stow-on-the-Wold, the peculiarities of which are such...brown hornblende, many crystals of clear yellowish augite, and several pseudomorphs after olivine, with apatite...varieties are described, one of which contains augite with hornblende. These rocks differ considerably...containing augite. In the latter he finds the essential minerals to be plagioclase, augite, magnetite...characteristic minerals imbedded in a paste of augite and plagioelase:—1. Augite-andesite, with a small quantity of
Report (issue)
Pages 1-16 GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSION IN CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA1 OCTOBER 22-23, 19662 Harry E....minor corrections and reformatted, November 1999 County and perhaps farther. The Charlotte belt consists...Mundorff, 1948). They divided the rocks of Cabarrus County into seven units. These are slate and undifferentiated...surface flow of basic lava and tuff. In Cabarrus County, however, this unit is extremely varied and includes...Carolina and in the vicinity of Concord, Cabarrus County. Among the subjects to be observed or discussed
Report (volume)
black sand beach deposits contain Ti(>2 as sphene, augite, hornblende, and magnetite in addition to ilmenite...Llewellyn (1981). A kyanite-quartz rock in Yuma County contains rutile (Marsh and Sheridan, 1976). Resource...separable with difficulty because of fine grain size (Stow, 1968; Lamont and others, 1972). Georgia. Deposits...1971). Idaho. Residual clays on basalt of Latah County average 6.4 percent Ti0 2 (Hosterman and others...economic. Maryland. A chlorite rock in Harford County (Southwick, 1968) averages 1 percent rutile (Herz
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................of Geology at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He began teaching there in 1931 and he retired...permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Maine's treasure chest; Gems and minerals of Oxford County, second edition: Quicksilver Publications, West
Report (chapter)
reservoir units (e.g. the Brae Formation, North Sea; Stow 1985), hence these results are applicable to reservoir...0-12.39 8.1, 20.5-22.89 0--0.21 Ca salite [] augite Mg Fe Whisky Bay Formation 9 northern outcrop...analysed in this study, and were predominantly of augite composition with lesser amounts of jadeite, diopside...Basin (Pirrie 1991). The abundance of unaltered augite grains with high Na20 and MnO and low Cr203 contents...the Lagrelius Point Formation plot away from the augite field, implying a different source area for these
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Eocks from Aroostook County I............................. 19 19 2. Litchfieldite............................... 23 24 24 27 Massachusetts...............................................56 1. Elliott County dike........................................ 56 2. Crittenden County dike............................................... 3. Colfax County......."............................................... 3. Plumas County .............................. .............. 4. Butte County................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eostral plate of Pteraspis, Old Bed Sandstone, Stow Hill Koad, Newport, Monmouthshire (magnified three...found in the meteorite. It differs from the rhombic augite in exhibiting no cleavage fissures, from olivine...head waters of the Eed Eiver, northward of Young County. 1875. Butler, Bates Co., Missouri.2 This iron
 
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