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Andalusite from
Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Andalusite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andalusite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:128616
Long-form Identifier:1:3:128616:8
GUID (UUID V4):91e8aa9f-339c-4fd1-9b31-0c037c849e8c
Nearest other occurrences of Andalusite
44.3km (27.5 miles) Oak Hill Quarry, Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
52.8km (32.8 miles) Bare Hill Pond locality, Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
61.6km (38.3 miles) George Hill, Clinton, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
62.3km (38.7 miles) Lancaster chiastolite localities, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
62.4km (38.8 miles) Blood Town Forest, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
62.5km (38.8 miles) Rye, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
71.5km (44.5 miles) Malden Hill, West Boylston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
92.9km (57.7 miles) Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA
93.4km (58.0 miles) Spence & Coombs quarry, North Berwick, York County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...foliated and deformed gneisses 16 and schists of andalusite to sillimanite metamorphic grade. 17 Newbury...Milford Granite from the Milford quadrangle, Massachusetts, yielded 19 a 620 + 15 my,Precambrian,zircon
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
Catalog/List
. . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3...York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ANDALUSITE (aluminum silicate) /11assii,e; California ....via express. CASSITERITE (tin oxide) Massive in andalusite; Washington . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . 31...CHALK-See Calcite CHERT-See Quartz CHIASTOLITE-See Andalusite CHINA CLAY-See Kaolin CHLOR-A PATITE-Sce Apatite.... . ... . .. . . .. . 6 FiM, xline, white; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, .2 0 per lb . . . .. ..
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...35 .75 .30 .60 1-.25 .30 .40 2.50 3.60 ANDALUSITE (Aluminum silicate) !\lassive; California .....00 .60 XI, sections, varnished, in matrix, Massachusetts ......... :. ................ ....... 1 x l½"...columbite in albite; Maine ... .......... Massive in andalusite; Washington .................. Botryoidal and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration zone of the Lar Cu–Zn deposit in the Lynn Lake volcanic belt, in Manitoba; in some altered...cordierite–cummingtonite, metamorphism, Lar deposit, Lynn Lake belt, Manitoba. SOMMAIRE L’assemblage cor...Cu–Zn de Lar, dans la ceinture volcanique du lac Lynn, au Manitoba; la cummingtonite est aussi présente...métamorphisme, gisement de Lar, ceinture du lac Lynn, Manitoba. INTRODUCTION In the alteration zone...equilibrium in rocks within the stability field of andalusite and, on that basis, defined a low-pressure facies
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Shride Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts .Kenneth G. Bell and Donald C. Alvord Stratigraphic...Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, east-central Massachusetts .James W. Skehan. S.J.. and A. Adel Abu-moustafa...stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
--... _-----_._~---_.-- ALABAMA The Calhoun County Rock and Mineral Club, Jacksonville, is the newest...speak on the minerals, kyanite, sillimanite and andalusite, _._.____ The Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society...subject of Forrest Cole when he talked with the Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta. A field trip to...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Rockville, presented the pro~ram of the Society...from the field trips of the 762 past year. MASSACHUSETTS Prof. C. S. Hurlbut, Jr. of Harvard University
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............................................
Catalog/List
. . . . . . . . Fasciculite Xis in schist; Massachusetts Hornblende Common Hornblende Cleavable, black;... . . ........ . Xline, white, in dolomite; Massachusetts . .............. Hexagonite Purple :dine mass;...10 .30 .76 .60 .15 .26 .10 .40 .50 1.00 ANDALUSITE (aluminum silicate} l\lassi,·e; California ....1.50 Xis, in matrix, ends of xis polished; Massachusetts .. ANDESINE (sodium and calcium aluminum silicate)...various localities ....... ..... 1.00 l\tassh·e, in andalusite; Washington . .. . . . . . .... . . .. .. ..
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Humboldt County and the crystalline quartz collecting area on Petersen Mountain in Washoe County, permission...Nickel-chromiumcobalt-platinum mineralization in Nye County was deposited in serpentinites thought to have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Keystone Trap Rock Quarry at Cornog, Chester County, Pa. thru the courtesy of the owners Messrs J....Limestone Products Company, Lime Cr,est, (Sussex County) N . J. There were 187 persons registered, the...Shulman. The Loux family's showing of local (Bucks County) fossil wood was outstanding. There was also a...field trip to the Middleville section of Herkimer County, N.Y. proved to be an unusual success. More than...his summer's work in the Guildhall Quadrangle, Essex County, Vt., where he was employed by the Vt. Geological
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs... Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph by J. Scovil....Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121 Gregory...Hurnbo ldt County and the crystalline quartz collecting area on Petersen Mounta in in Washoe County, permission...Nickel-chromiumcobalt-platinum mineralization in Nye County was deposited in serpentinites thought to have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
equivalent to the combined states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The semi-arid...and marcasite, rutile, sillimanite, kyanite and andalusite, staurolite, tourmaline, zircon, minor accessory...(13 yrs.), 676 Humboldt St., Brooklyn 22, N . Y. Lynn Wilder (16 yrs.) Box 51, East Randolph, N . Y.
Report (issue)
Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1757-D...Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming By WARREN C. DAY, RANDALL H. HILL, and...Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming. (Mineral resources of wilderness study...Canyon Wilderness Study Area (WY-030-101), Fremont County, Wyoming. CONTENTS Abstract Dl Summary Dl Introduction...Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming By Warren C. Day, Randall H. Hill, and
Report (issue)
Geology and Geophysics Boston College Weston, Massachusetts 02167 Geoffrey W. Smith Department of Geological...portion of the Boston Bay Group at Nantasket, Massachusetts. Brunton compass is for scale and also points...Mattapan Volcanic Complex, greater Boston, Massachusetts . 85 Margaret D. Thompson and O. Don Hermes...valon Boston terrane, Massachusetts . 133 A valon zones, eastern Massachusetts Martin E. Ross iii ...associated volcanics and volcaniclastics of the Lynn and Mattapan Complexes (Smith and Hon, 1984; Hermes
Report (issue)
lies mainly in Halifax County, and it includes a small area of Charlotte County on the north side of the...v.32, no. 2, p. 61-82. Baird, R.A., and Glover, Lynn, 1997, Tectonics of the west flank of Carolina terrane...Carboniferous orogen-parallel ductile shear: hi Glover, Lynn, and Gates, A.E. eds., Central and Southern Appalachian...Potter, D.B., 1960, Kyanite, sillimanite, and andalusite deposits of the southeastern states: U.S. Geological...336, 121 p. Gates, A.E., Simpson, C. and Glover, Lynn, III, 1986, Appalachian Carboniferous dextral strikeslip
Report (issue)
Virginia. The map area lies mainly in Charlotte County, and it includes parts of Prince Edward, Campbell...Appomattox Counties, and a very small part of Halifax County on the north side of the Roanoke River. Topographic...Geology, v.32, no.2, p.61-82. Baird, R.A., and Glover, Lynn, 1997, Tectonics of the west flank of Carolina terrane...Carboniferous orogen-parallel ductile shear: in Glover, Lynn, and Gates, A.E. eds., Central and Southern Appalachian...Potter, D.B., 1960, Kyanite, sillimanite, and andalusite deposits of the southeastern states: U.S. Geological
Book (volume)
C. H. Hitchcock, 3 GEOLOGY OF THE COOS AND ESSEX TOPOGRAPHICAL DIS- TRICT. By III. J. H. Huntington...Me., locations of specimens collected in Coos county, Section lake to the Fig. 30 Mount Desert...observations map of Bruns- The au- in the four Massachusetts of 1844, Pcrcival's published attempt first...the north-east, partly in Connecticut and Massachusetts, are Formations as Laurentian by Profs. Hall...Hall of the latter area in The K3 and Massachusetts of Percival, The and are accepted correctness
Report (issue)
the Andover Granite and surrounding rocks, Massachusetts by Robert Oliver Castle Doctor of Philosophy...South Groveland, and Reading quadrangles of Massachusetts. The Andover Granite and Sharpners Pond Tonalite...over 90 to 95 square miles of northeastern Massachusetts, is typical of many of the two-feldspar granites...approximately 270 square miles of northeastern Massachusetts and about 2 square miles of southeastern New...northeastern half of the Massachusetts part of the map area is in Essex County, and the remainder is in
Report (issue)
Carolina Slate Belt leaders: Charles W. Harris, Lynn Glover, III sponsored by: Orogenic Studies Laboratory...CAROLINA SLATE BELT leaders: Charles W. Harris, Lynn Glover, III sponsored by: Orogenic Studies Laboratory...tholeiite-bearing arc erupted 1 CHARLES W. HARRIS AND LYNN GLOVER, II Figure 1: Regional geologic map of Virginia...Gibson et al., 1984). 3 CHARLES W. HARRIS AND LYNN GLOVER, II tances within volcanic arcs where similar...Cid or lower Millingport Formations in Stanley County, NC. The new localities are near the site of an
Book
Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...DELANEY, Madison Co. Quartz, (clear crystals) GARLAND COUNTY Quartz Crystals HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite...Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK Quartz Crystals MAGNET COVE,
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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...Marine Sciences University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts Geology, University of California, Los Angeles
Report (chapter)
1979, Ray & Wanless 1980). On the south-east, the Lynn Lake, Rusty Lake and Flin Flon volcanic belts are...Indian gneiss belt - 3 Baldock ~ i batholith Lynn Lake Rusty Lak.e. ?~JJ~'/~" ~ ~ + + + + o~...1987). Similar relationships are recorded in the Lynn Lake belt, where 1875 Ma granodioritetonalite plutons...et al. 1987). Evidence for the thermal state of Lynn Lake rocks during this episode is not available...north flank of the Kisseynew belt, south-west of the Lynn Lake belt, southverging structures also pre-date
Journal (issue)
Gilgit. The pegmatite at Morefield Mine in Amelia County, VA, has also produced topaz. Imperial topaz (see...questions or further submission details, please contact Lynn Varon at Rock & Gem, 5235 Mission Oaks Blvd. #201...& Gem Kids” section. Rock & Gem Managing Editor Lynn Varon asked for my help in soliciting articles for...I did my field work at Boston University in Massachusetts. Right out of college, I worked for an oil service...and the low-temperature, low-pressure form is andalusite. Like carbon, the rate of transformation is extremely
 
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