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Gypsum from
Bay of Fundy, North America


Locality type:Bay
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Habit:fibrous aggregates, fine-grained massive, cleavages
Colour:colourless, white, pink, orange
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bay of Fundy, North America
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1327400
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1327400:3
GUID (UUID V4):c815fabf-fff7-415c-b683-31f5fda993ed
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals in N o va Scotia Downloaded by [University of Connecticut] at 13:05 19 February 2013 and a Report... he province of Nova Scotia has long been renowned for its geologic resources. Some of the earliest mines...mines in North America operated here, producing coal, gypsum, and barite. The first gold rush in Canada...the Bay of Fundy, which produces the highest tides in the world. This article gives an overview of the...testament to the limited amount of erosion that occurs here. Still, some sections of this shore have produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Famous Mineral Localities of Canada Joel D. Grice Sammendrag pa norsk Canada kan inndeles i fire fysiogeografiske...fargelose, heksagonale tavler av catapleiitt. Ved Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, finnes vidstrakte omrader med...traveled part or all of the six thousand kilometers that comprise the breadth of Canada will have noted...noted stunning differences in the surface features of the countryside. Four main physiographic regions divide...mountain ranges of the Cordilleran rim the west side of the Continent; great expanses of flat prairies
Book
Last Billion Years AGeological History of the Maritime Provinces of Canada ATLANTIC GEOSCIENCE SOCIETY...Last Billion Years A Geological History of the Maritime Provinces of Canada Atlantic Geoscience Society...Donald JJ. Carroll, All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means, electronic...Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), Gordon Dickie, Robert A. Fensome, Andrew Flanagan, Fundy Chapter...Patricia G. Gensel, Eldon George, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Peter Hacquebard, Stephen Horne
Report (issue)
COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia;...at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral identification based...based on X-ray diffraction. Ann was the author of the very popular GSC series “Rocks and Minerals for...for the Collector”, which covers 14 regions of Canada, from Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon-Alaska...was named in her honour. She was also co-founder of the Canadian Gemmological Association, and a long-serving
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOLUME XXIV NUMBER I THE OF JOURNAL GEOLOGY JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1916 THE ACADIAN TRIASSIC SIDNEY... General Relations General Geography and Geology of the Region Topography Geology THE NEWARK GROUP IN...12, 2016 07:49:04 AM All use subject to University of Chicago Press Terms and Conditions (http://www.journals...Mountain-Truro Truro-Wolfville Wolfville-Scots Bay Scots Bay-Bennetts Bay Digby Gut Rossway-Brier Island Age PART...Folds Faults Theories of Origin IGNEOUS ROCKS Distribution Five Islands Volcanics North Mountain Basalt ORIGIN
Report (Issue volume)
REPORT 8 Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa ©...to look 4 • Tools and general equipment 5 • Care of specimens 6 • Collecting in Canada 6 • Mineral and...collecting has captured the interest of an increasingly large group of amateur mineralogists or 'rockhounds'...them by providing a list of known mineral occurrences which are bt:lieved to be of particular interest. Included...mineral occurrence is followed by a brief description of the deposit together with precise location and how
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
June 2016 1¢4~ Geological Society. is no part of mv intention to enter into such considerations as...Yours, &c., MICHAEL FARADAY. X X I V . Proceedings of Lear~ed Societies. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Continued...the Temperature of the Earth, as (eontlnued). Va mode of aeeounting for the subsidence of the Ocean, and...and for the consequent formation of Sea-beaches above its present level." By Robert Harkness, Esq., Ormskirk...have boen transported by the action of glaciers, and the remains of ancient sea-beaches. The so-called
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 1215-1232 (2000) MODE OF OCCURRENCE, CHEMICAL VARIATION AND GENESIS OF MORDENITE AND ASSOCIATED ZEOLITES...NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA GEORGIA PE-PIPER§ Department of Geology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia...homogeneous amygdales and veins of zeolite from the earliest Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, in Nova Scotia...sequences of zeolites in amygdales and veins in the North Mountain basalt show a succession of clinoptilolite-Na...precipitation of labradorite and mordenite, the repetitive zonation in some amygdales, and the occurrence of metal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ERICAN M I N ERALOGIST last July. The general geology of the area was described with emphasis placed on the...intrusions of that period' A modeL showing the peculiar conditions existing about the Bay of Fundy has been...started at Yarmouth, continued along St. Mary',s Bay, beup the Annapolis valley to Wolfviile, across Minas...all north shore localities. Exceptional stilbite and Recrossing Minas Basin, Blomidon, Scotts Bay and...Margaretville were visited' localities' also the gypsum mines at Winsor along with many other }ess noted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JOURNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 487 abandoned some 40 years ago and now al_nost hidden...miles west of Hot Springs, is Murfreesboro. Here is the famous A connr;crro*. The o index of the 5/6 sodium...Goldschmidt, of oslo, Norway, has been carled to a proressorship of mineralogy at the University of Gdttingen...Bassler has been appointed head curator of the department of geology of the u. S. National Museum to succeed...$'ith the division of paleontology of the Museum since 1901. on the last pages of this Journal will be
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOLUME XXIV NUMBER 2 THE OF JOURNAL FEBRUAR GEOLOGY Y-MARCH 1916 THE ACADIAN TRIASSIC SIDNEY... II Gerrish Mountain.-Gerrish Mountain consists of a basalt flow capping Triassic sandstones (Figs....west side of the mountain are horizontal, those on the east side dip northward at angles of 150 or less...less. Opposite Moose Island is a cross-section of the basalt flow (Fig. 22), showing sandstone faulted...east of the agglomerate, and probably separated from it by a fault; and red sandstone, east of the dike
Report (chapter)
K. JOHNSTON3 1 Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta...waldron@ualberta.ca) 2 Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta...separating the Early Palaeozoic Meguma and Avalon terranes of the Appalachians, experienced dextral strike-slip...localized dextral transpression, immediately south of the zone, probably associated with a restraining...Excellent exposures on wave-cut platforms of the Bay of Fundy show structures developed in transpression
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the north shore of the Minas Basin about 850 miles from New York City. It has a population of around...Nearby Partridge Island, from which a beautiful view of Minas Basin and Blomidon may be seen, figured in...Glooscap the Indian man-god of the Macmac Indians. The tides of the Bay of Fundy along Parrsboro are among...Island, one mile from town, the stone schoolhouse of the the first settlement can be seen near the Ottawa...was once the summer home of Sir Charles Tupper who became Prime Minister of Canada in 1896. Mineral collectors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in limestone of the subcretaceous series at the village of Sarjento-mSr, six miles north of Coimbra. PLATE...b. Internal cast. Fig. 4 e. Section. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Fig. 1. Nerin~eanobilis. Fig 2. Nerin~ea...Conimbrica. 2. Section of the LOWER COAL-MEASURES of the SYDNEY COALFIELD, in t~e ISLAND OF CAPE BRETON. By...[Communicated by the Secretary.] THE coal-measures of Nova Scotia Proper have been carefully examined and..."Section of the Nova Scotia Coal-Measures, as developed at the Joggins in the Bay of Fundy," which appears
Journal (issue)
THE JOURNAL OF OF GEMMOLOGY GEMMOLOGY AND AND PROCEEDINGS PROCEEDINGSOF OF THE THE GEMMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION...ASSOCIATION OF G R E A T BRITAIN B R I T A I N OF GREAT No.5 JANUARY 5 Vol. I,I,No. 1948 JANUARY 1948 ...by the the new star corundums manufactured in America by Air Products Co. Co. have already been briefly...briefly described the " Journal of of Gemmology." Gemin the the last issue of the" Gemand dealers in in precious...new products of of the furnace. concerning these startling new the Verneuil furnace. of aa leading importer
Book
REMARKS ON THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF NOV A SCOTIA. -~- Bv ABRAHAM GESNER, EsQ., " THE...suu;;TA:-ICES THE THE WANT S M US 1': U M , TH t: COHDS OF liER OWN TO 13~; CO:'JTAINS WITHIN ONLY MOo...Cattse of Science, ancl stimttlatecl others in ?lWTe humble stations, to enter upon pursuits of the highcst...following Remarks on the Geology ancl •.7tfine~·alogy of the Province . .llncl although they are but limited...acceptable to one, who delights to cultivale studics of the most useful and important cha racler. 1 have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ardara, Donegal, staurolite, 672 Bray Head, Wicklow, gypsum (in railway tunnel), 818 Bunnahowna, Renoyle Point...Connemara, granite, biotite, 498 Inishcrone, Killala Bay, Sligo, killalaite, afwillite, scawtite, cuspidine...Leinster, granite, zircon, 253 Rathdrum, Wicklow, gypsum (in railway tunnel), 818 France Bauzot uranium...Africa Potgietersrust, stibiopalladinite, 528 AMERICA Greenland Frederikshdbs Isblink, zircon, 587 Kfingndt...Ontario, ferrotschermakite, 36 Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, basalt, plagioclase, 867 Wilberforce
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE SEA By JOE ROTHSTEIN Lapidary and Gem Society of New York Downloaded by [Purdue University Libraries]...tongue strangely, seemed alien. This was in the summer of 1956 and we were thinking about a change in our daily...many "New England Journeys", but it hadn't been much of a preparation. Rolling up from St. Stephens at the...only way we knew that we were in a coastal province of Canada was that the legal tender no longer featured...fashioned Cardigan sweaters and flat caps straight out of "How Green Was My Valley"; but at lunchtime in Parrsboro
Book
MINERALS OF NEW BRUNSWICK, |j BEING A r DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE TREES, SHRUBS, ROCKS AND MINERALS OF THE...Prof, of Natural History University of New Bruris,vvick, EDWARD JACK, Esq., C. E., Surveyor of Crown...COLLECTION of CANADI ANA The Queen's University at Kingston THE WOODS AND MINERALS OF NEW BRUNSWICK...15EING A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE TREES, SHRUBS, ROCKS AND MINERALS OF THE PROVINCE, AVAILABLE FOR...IN 1 876. Ph. D., Prof, of Natural History Enmswiek, in the University of EDWARD New JACK, Esq.
Book
AT E R S, AN D P E AKS A HIGH-ALTITUDE TOUR OF NORTH AMERICA’S SPECTACULAR VOLCANOES, CANYONS, GLACIERS...design by Kimberly Glyder and Anna Eshelman Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Morton...Caperton. Title: Aerial geology: a high-altitude tour of North America's spectacular volcanoes, canyons, glaciers...Subjects: LCSH: Geology—North America. | Landforms—North America. | Landforms--North America—Pictorial works...2 More than 4 billion years of geologic history have shaped the North American continent. The results
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at University of California-San Diego on February 1, 2017 50 P R O C E E D I N G S OF T H E GEOLOGICAL...not only the roots of the ancient forest which flourished upon the under-clay of the main coal, but also...accumulated, whether in the shape of a peat-bog or otherwise, and, in consequence of a slight submergence under...water, had been covered with a few feet of mud, that another forest of Sigillarim*, Lepidodendra, &c. immediately...a further subsidence of larger amour~t, was submerged, and buried by a deposit of coarse sand 24 feet
Report (issue)
PAPER 64-10 GEOLOGICAL SUWVEY OF CANABA DEPARTMENT OF MINES LND TECHNICAL SURVEYS ROCKS AND MINERALS...MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: BAY OF FUNDY AREA (Report, figure, and 8 plates) Ann P. Sabina Price, 75 cents...MINERALS FOR 'THE COLLECTOR: BAY OF FUNDY AREA Ann P. Sabina D E P A R T M E N T OF M I N E S A N D T E C...the Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following...West or through your bookseller A deposit w p y of this publication is also available for reference
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin M. Coates, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 2016, 352 pp., paper $34...978-1552388594) DOI: 10.1111/cag.12449 The new collection of essays curated by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin...approaches. While both sections of the book attend to questions at the intersection of nature and mobility, Chapters...the context of industry and commerce, while Chapters 8 through 12 bring the dynamics of leisure and tourism...thematic commitments of the collection are mobility, defined as “the expenditure of energy . . . to move
Report (volume)
Stratigraphic Nomenclature of the Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN... Stratigraphic Nomenclature of the Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America By GWENDOLYN W. LUTTRELL ...correlation chart of Newark Supergroup stratigraphic nomenclature, including a review of the origin and...and characteristics of the early Mesozoic basins of eastern North America UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1989 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL LUJAN, Jr., Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL
Book (edition)
VICE-CHANCELLOR OF il'CILL COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMV OF NATURAL SCIENCES...SCIENCES, PHILADFl PHIA FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND OF 'IHE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL...CORRESPONDING FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL history;...MACKINLAY. : : I 18 7 8. COFV RIGHT SECURED ACT OF ACCOBDING TO Vio » 1' AKLIA^IEN ADVERTlSEMEiNT...appearance of the much has been added second edition of this work, our knowledge to of the Geology
 
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