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Orthoclase from
Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
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 Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:128116
Long-form Identifier:1:3:128116:3
GUID (UUID V4):2d33b659-bcbf-4f30-9b97-bbe821ead601
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
74.6km (46.3 miles) Unnamed quarry, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
75.9km (47.1 miles) Rockside Quarry (Mine Hill Quarry), Mine Hill (Ore Hill), Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
86.2km (53.6 miles) Case Quarries, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
87.4km (54.3 miles) Quabbin Aqueduct shaft No. 10 locality, Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
88.6km (55.1 miles) Strickland Quarry, Strickland pegmatite, Collins Hill, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
89.8km (55.8 miles) U. S. Route 7 Expressway (Danbury line to Iron Works District), Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
91.9km (57.1 miles) Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
92.0km (57.2 miles) Sky Ridge railroad cut, Hawleyville, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
95.1km (59.1 miles) North Street mall, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
96.7km (60.1 miles) Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON................................... 43 43 Lee-Tyringham area ....................................................................................... Berkshire schist .'......................... ......................................................... Tyringham fault............................................... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103
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)
in sediments, whereas others are quite rare. Orthoclase, microcline, and the acid plagioclases are much...oligoclase, oligoclase, andesine, microcline, orthoclase, basic microcline, OF or- andesand oligolabra-...oligolabra- Feldspars crocline ine,orthoclase, ine,thoclase dine me, clase, dorite, microcline COMPOSITION...labradororthoclase and basic andesine albite, microcline orthoclase Fouque. andesine, basic microcline oligoclase... oligoclase, and orthoclase orthoclase oligoclase, Becke clase radorite, orthoclase cline oligoclase
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...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
Report (issue)
Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E.
Report (volume)
FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43...delicately graduated Thoulet's fluid, so prepared that orthoclase will rest near the surface and labradorite near
Report (volume)
content is An19). In the normative albite-anorthite-orthoclase classification of O'Connor (1965) (fig. 2C),...Ab~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A B An EXPLANATION - Tyringham Gneiss Reservoir Gneiss (Ygg) · · · · · · · ·...addition, the compositions of the Tyringham Gneiss of the Berkshire massif and the Stamford Granite of...of the Green Mountains and the Berkshire massif are shown. The Tyringham, the Storm King, and the Reservoir...granites. The Storm King, the Byram, and the Tyringham granite suites contain hastingsite-biotite granodiorite
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Journal (issue)
author's thanks are due to Prof. Crosby of the Massachusetts Iustitute of Technology for assistance in revising...Thomson , consisting of interlaminated albite and orthoclase from Perth , Quebec , Canada . More or less aventurine...1 to 2 M.M. in thickness . It is composed of orthoclase and albite with more or less microcline . Between...the so - called cassiterite pseudomorphs ufter orthoclase , THE MINERAL COLLECTOR . 139 3 which consists...consists usually of a granular mass of orthoclase , quartz and mica , with a variable quantity of cassiterite
Book (edition)
is very similar in general form to Fig. 4, of orthoclase, which is monoclinic. This 46 CRYSTALLOG R...4. ORTHOCLASE. OLIGOCLASE. with one exception; but there is this difference, that in orthoclase, as...triclinic feldspars it conforms to the directions in orthoclase, with only the exception arising from the obliquity...feldspars, and is a means of distinguishing them from orthoclase. Similar twinning occurs also in calcite, and...is said to be 6; if more easily than 1, talc, orthoclase, but with more difficulty than apatite, its hardness
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
Report (issue)
includes: the Chain Lakes, Green Mountains and Berkshire Massifs of New England; the Reading Prong of the...and Geography University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 ABSTRACT A new stratigraphic...exposures can be seen within 1 km of Rossie, along the county road that leads north-northeast from the hamlet...(Lewis, 1969), which itself grades upward into orthoclase augen gneiss. Rocks in this unit are similar...and Leonard’s (1962) geologic map of St. Lawrence County (1:62,500). Recently, some parts of this region
Show/Event (guide)
pegmatite pockets in the Wausau Complex, Marathon County, Wisconsin byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falstei; J. W Nizamoff...ferberite-hiibnerite from the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin by T. W. Buchholz; A U Falstei; and...M T H E N I N E M I L E PLUTON, M A R AT H O N COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T.W. Buchholz', A.U. Falstet2, W.B...deposit (32° 26' N, 104° 31' E) is located in Pingwu County, Sichuan. I t s structural setting belongs to the...South Africa 2, Russia 13, Spain 2, Sweden 1, UK 2, USA 2. Among chemical classes the distribution is: acetates
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (volume)
sedimentary rocks of the Espanola basin, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, by Glen A. Izett and C. W. Naeser... Geochronology of basement granite, Stephenson County, Illinois, by ZellE. Peterman, S. S. Goldich, Lynn...fission-track age for the Bull Domingo boulder pipe, Custer County, Colorado, by W. N. Sharp and C. W. Naeser 77 ...mixed zircon population-The Granite at Yale Farm, Berkshire massif, Connecticut, by Robert E. Zartman, Loretta...compositions of anorogenic granite from Stephenson County, Illinois, by T. Kurtis Kyser 139 99 Contents
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts. ...............................................................-.-..------------- 126 Massachusetts................................................................................... 302 Massachusetts..... .........................................Alabama, McCalley, 3819. Iron ore mines in Jefferson County, Castlcnian, 777. Leaf impressions in the Eocene...French River sheet, Bell, 406. Geology of Kings County, N. S., Coldwell, 1024. Geology of Laurentian area
Report (volume)
Wisconsin____________________ 338 Chippewa River and Barron County ___________ 338 Central Minnesota ______________________...by granites and gneisses. Western Texas (El Paso County). Sediments and schists in Franklin and Diablo...absence of animals and plants at the time the Berkshire limestone and earlier Taconic rocks were deposited...to attain not less than 90,000 feet. In Hastings County, north of Lake Ontario, there is found resting...petrological grounds. The first type consists of quartz, orthoclase, an unimportant amount of plagioclase, and muscovite
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Blue Ridge at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. At Bath...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...bituminous coal of the Portage railroad, Cambria county, Penn., he obtained 1 8*2 per cent, of volatile
Book
e.g. at In more recent times substantial gold Tyringham. produclion has come from the Freehold mine at...Biotite! sillimanite:!: cordlerite ! almandlpe :!: orthoclase SChist, quartzite, amphibolite Unnamed migmatites...open cut in por1.JOOS 59 and 60, Parish Chandlcr, County Clarke. Tbe malO 7..onc of workings ltCnds 0671...silicification involved the introduction of drusy quartz orthoclase veins. Alteration of the granite involves silicification...extending southeast from Marengo through Dundurmbin, Tyringham, and towards Darrigo. The bulk of the granitoids
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebulthe earth, ...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. lition ...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on
Report (volume)
geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290, pis. xliv-xlv...203-528, pls.'vii-xxxi. The geology of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, pp. 529-611...of Monument Mountain, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by T. Nelson Dale, pp. 551-565, pis. Ixxi,...The geology of the road-building stones of Massachusetts, with some consideration of similar materials...brick clays of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, by N. S. Shaler, J. B. Woodworth, and C. F
Book (edition)
750 Louisiana, 100 Maine, 600 Maryland, 350 Massachusetts, 500 Michigan, 900 Minnesota, 1200 Mississippi...represented by the Highlands of New Jersey and Putnam County, New York, and their continuation northward interruptedly...whence the name, signifying cleaving at a right Orthoclase, or potash-ieldsTpar, angle ; the form is...plagioclase, from the Greek plagios, obliqtie. Like orthoclase in composition but the cleavage angle differs...distinctions are optical. Albite. —A soda feldspar, orthoclase occur together, albite 19-6, soda 11-8 = 100
Report (volume)
5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Pre-Cambrian : Central southern Virginia (Mecklenburg County). F. B. Laney, 1917 (Va. Geol. Surv. Bull. 14,...Pleistocene : Southern South Carolina (Charleston County). E. Sloan, 190 (S. C. Geol. Surv. geognostic map...West Virginia, southwestern Virginia (Tazewell County), and eastern Tennessee ( ?). D. B. Reger, 1926...Permian : Central southern Oklahoma (Jefferson County). J. R. Bunn, 1930 (Okla. Geol. Surv. Bull. 4OPP
Report (issue)
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...cooperators .............................. . State, county, and local cooperators ................. . Other...raw materials in nature, Tintic district, Utah County, Utah, has confirmed the existto the development...molybdenum occurrences in the Badlands area, Pennington County, S. Dak., by R. U. King and W. H. Raymond has shown...southeastern part of the Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyo., is a cup-shaped layered complex that is
 
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