 | | Book | | MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...Mass. Apr 7, 1987. pg. 45 Abstract (Summary) BRAINTREE - By most accounts, land near the intersection...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...south to Brockton and from Braintree west to Needham and Wellesley. BRAINTREE - By most accounts, land |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 839 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AREA MASSACHUSETTS BY LAURENCE LAFORGE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Cambrian series.------------------------------. Braintree slate....__--_----------__-_-____--_-__-_ Early...geology of the Boston and Boston Bay quadrangles, Massachusetts--____-.-_____ In pocket. 2. Map showing surficial...42 7. Fossils of Middle Cambrian age from the Braintree slate._-__ 42 8. Plutonic breccia in cliff at...-----------81 GEOLOGY OF THE BOSTON AEEA, MASSACHUSETTS By LAURENCE LAFORGE INTRODUCTION* POSITION AND |  | | 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............................................ |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-E-J The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | R E S 18 Singletary Lane Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...at Harvard University. Good cubic to elongated pyrite crystals (to 7 cm) were found in considerable abundance...magnetite octahedra (to over 1.5 cm), and cubic pyrite crystals (to over 2 cm). Chester is the type locality |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Longman Illustrated Dictionary of Geology, 290 Pyrite, 49 Pyrope garnet, 215 Quartz, 216 Radioactive...by the Ventura Gem and Mineral Society. Ventura County Fair grounds. Information: Mia Kelsey, Box 514...Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45231. April 7, 8—Braintree, Massachusetts. 15th An nual Gem and Mineral Show sponsored...sponsored by the Southeastern Massachusetts Mineral Club, Inc. Braintree High School, off Granite Street...Chairman: David DeCourcy, Box 111, Brain tree, Massachusetts 02184. April 7,8—Idaho Falls, Idaho. Annual |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | F I E L D I N V E S T I G A T I O N S in Pierce County, western Wisconsin, have led to the discovery of...result of epitaxic overgrowths of marcasite or pyrite. The specimens were found in vugs in an Ordovician...minerals are calcite, goethite, pseudomorphs after pyrite, dolomite, and quartz. Locality and Accessibility...State Highway 35 (the Great River Road) and Pierce County Highway S intersect in the center of Maiden Rock...in the past. The quarry is leased to the Pierce County Highway De partment and at present is not posted |  | | Book | | GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION IN THE BRAINTREE DISTRICT Calcareous tufa lime-rich spring-line deposits Peat...¢.108 m 66m Geology of the country around Braintree The landscape of the district described in this...Merriman and SURVEY Geology of the country around Braintree Memoir for 1:50 000 geological sheet 223 (England...Lake, R. D. 1986. Geology of the country around Braintree. Mem. Br. Geol. Surv., Sheet 223, 69pp. Memoir...British Geological Survey, Keyworth (222) and Braintree (223) Maps 1:625 000 Solid geology (South sheet) |  | | Book | | V/C/N/TY ^^o Red beds MAP of fhe. /=zh NORFOLK SELL IS(^HAM ° HARVARD CONGLOMERATE andL SCI...Department of Geology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 to; PREFACE In 1966, John Rodgers...Davis in the Connecticut Valley of western Massachusetts, and gradually extended itself. oo over New...Brown University The Foxboro Co., Foxborough, Massachusetts Geography, University of Toronto U. S. G, S...Boston State College Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Marine Sciences, Virginia Institute |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank Dr. Carl Francis of Braintree, Massachusetts, John White of Stewartstown, Pennsylvania...Among the better known are Dognecea, Caraş-Severin County, Romania (formerly Dognácska, Hungary; D), where...mine, Baia Mare (formerly Nagybánya), Maramures County. Nice groups of aragonite, as well as postmining...calcite, quartz, and pyrite, have also come from the Cavnic mine, Cavnic, Maramures County. From Slovakia come...(formerly Fülek, Hungary; D), both in Banská Bystrica County, Banská Bystrica region. In the late 1980s exceptional |  | | Report (issue) | | 13 Ely (173) Sheet Braintree and Sudbury Sheets 20 Sudbury (206) Sheet 20 Braintree (223) Sheet 20 London...Ely Ely Ely Ely Ely Ely Ely Ely Sudbury Braintree Braintree Swindon South London Devizes South-Western...limestone bands, phosphatic nodules, cementstones and pyrite nodules: includes evidence of A rnioceras semicostatum...Lower Cretaceous. The discovery of a structure in Norfolk which was active until at least Cenomanian times...features as the marked thinning of the Lower Chalk in Norfolk (Hunstanton-Diss uplift of Peake and Hancock, 1 |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of the land area of the Boston 2° sheet, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 10- New Hampshire... 16 17 18 U. S. Geological Survey Boston, Massachusetts 19 ,U. S. Geological Survey* OPEN FILE REPORT...GEOLOGY OF THE LAND AREA OF THE BOSTON 2° SHEET, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE...Milford Granite from the Milford quadrangle, Massachusetts, yielded 19 a 620 + 15 my,Precambrian,zircon...igneous rocks of probable Devonian age in eastern Massachusetts is comprised in a great group of intrusive rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Longfellow Mine, Red Mountain District, San Juan County, Colorado Are all things beautiful? Are all types...Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County, Colorado. Specimen is 2.5 cm across. Dave Bunk...familiar example is pyrite and marcasite. Both are iron sulfide in composition, but pyrite crystals are isometric...chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrite, calcite, and quartz, to name but a few. It is...Figure 2. Enargite trilling from Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. Twin is 5 mm across and is on the specimen |  | | Catalog/List | | . . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3...DIGENITE (cuprous sulfide-isometric form) Massive with Pyrite; Montana ..... .. . . . . .... . .. . . 150 DIOPSIDE-See.... . ... . .. . . .. . 6 FiM, xline, white; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, .2 0 per lb . . . .. .. ...EMMONSITE (hydrated ferric tellurite) ,Hassive with pyrite; New lVlexico, 1 x 2•, .50 . . . . . . . . 109... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 17 Xli11e, with Pyrite; Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Catalog/List | | enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...Fibrous; South Dakota Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Xls, black, in...00 .60 XI, sections, varnished, in matrix, Massachusetts ......... :. ................ ....... 1 x l½"...DATOLITE (basic calcium boron orthosilicate) Xled; Massachusetts or New Jersey................ .60 1.26 DESCLOIZITE........... ............. Fine xline, white ; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, 1 6c per lb............. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania. The sta ble isotope composition...in the Gates Road quarry, Jamesville, Onondaga County, New York, have morphology identical to the crystals...Wol lastonite and Titanite, Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York" (March/April 1987). Volume 64, September/October...thereof. Figure 4: Biogenic pyrite of organic origin. These groups of pyrite cubes formed along hydrocarbon...Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. Virtually all such matrix-bound sedimentary pyrite formed as the result |  | | Report (issue) | | so-called Pennsylvanian basins of southeastern Massachusetts. Three papers deal with the geology of alkali...alkali plutonic-volcanic areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. High-grade and low-grade (prehnite-pumpellyite)...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the papers...and the geology of the Ayer Granodiorite of Massachusetts. JOHN R,. GRIFELN STUDIES IN NEW ENGLAND...Brownlow V1 Vil iX Part I. Geology of eastern Massachusetts INaTOROVGNNE TON “5. B bo 8 OR Bo ee ek 5 ee |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | image courtesy of DUMC PhotoPath/Steven R. Conlon. pyrite, and tetrahedrite. It has been estimated that the...in superb crystals with goethite on quartz with pyrite. Although no specimens of crocoite from Bertewaja...Bǎiţa (formerly Rézbánya), Nucet town, Bihor County, Romania, occurs on galena associated with pyromorphite...Auburn University, Dr. Carl Francis of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Mr. John S. White of Stewartstown...Smithsonian collection, is Constellation, Yavapi County, Arizona (locality information supplied by Tony |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lake-Winnipeg River, the Herb Lake, and East Braintree-West Hawk Lake districts, Manitoba; and the P...Lake-Winnipeg River, the Herb Lake, and East Braintree-West Hawk Lake districts, Manitoba; and in the...tourmaline,garnet, titanite, apatite,molybdenite,pyrite, and arsenopyriteare lesscommonaccessory minerals...wall-rock contact. PEGMATITIC EAST LITHIUM BRAINTREE-WEST DEPOSITS IN CANADA HAWK LAKE 511 DISTRICT...region of the Preissac-L,acorne batholith, Abitibi county, Quebec, showing occurrences of beryllium, colurnbium-tantalurn |  | | Report (issue) | | Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Massachusetts ....... 34 Table 7 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of eastern Massachusetts.........................36 Figure 9. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of western Massachusetts.........................37 Figure 10. Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a |  | | Report (volume) | | ___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______ |  | | Report (volume) | | .................................. Eastern Massachusetts ......................................_......................................... Eastern Massachusetts ................................................................................ Eastern Massachusetts ................................................................................ Eastern Massachusetts ..............................................Potsdam sandstone of the Adirondacks, the Dutchess County limestone of New York, the upper Knox shales of |  | | Report (issue) | | Georgia .......... 236,720 20,114 969,140 19,660 Massachusetts 360 5,470 17,566 576 Missouri ......... 120...Minnesota ................................... Massachusetts ............................... Maine ........southerly part of the city of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about...miles to and including \Villiamstown. in Orange County. All granite quarried elsewhere may not legally...INCORPORATED Main office, 10 High Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Officers: President, M. \Valker Jones; vice-president |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...origin that often are associated with late dolomite, pyrite, and occasionally sphalerite. Many such occurrences |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | argillite, 5 mm in diameter, with grains of quartz and pyrite in a grey calcareous matrix. Unit 4 is overlain...speckled limestone with quartz grains and small pyrite cubes scattered throughout the matrix; unfossiliferous...euhedral dolomite, graphite, quartz, feldspar and pyrite. (Pringle noted that where the intrusive bodies...early-paradoxidid sequences of Morocco (Geyer 1998), Braintree, Massachusetts (Fletcher et al. 2005, fig. 2; Fig. 7)...p. 96; 2007, pl. 34.18) and in the Braintree area of Massachusetts (Fletcher et al. 2005, fig. 2). Except |
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