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Vermiculite from
Chestnut Hill, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Vermiculite
Formula:Mg0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)6(Si,Al)8O20(OH)4 · 8H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vermiculite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chestnut Hill, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:132846
Long-form Identifier:1:3:132846:2
GUID (UUID V4):ba7fbd3a-8a41-4fca-a4f1-44a22f25945a
Nearest other occurrences of Vermiculite
51.2km (31.8 miles) Moore's Station, Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
60.5km (37.6 miles) Martin A. Howell Quarry, Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
73.5km (45.6 miles) Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
77.7km (48.3 miles) Jerry O'Neill's Quarry, Tacony Creek Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
78.2km (48.6 miles) Ridge Avenue and School Lane Quarries, East Falls, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
90.6km (56.3 miles) Feldspar Quarry, Mineral Hill, Elwyn, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
92.5km (57.5 miles) Brinton's Quarry, Westtown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
99.6km (61.9 miles) New York - West Shore & Buffalo RR tunnel, Weehawken, Bergen Hill, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA
References
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Report (edition)
STATE LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1 1 II II II nil 3 014 4 00050005 «k. 1 ’^^jklTL% i ^IH ^ 1 k...of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...(icologist G BULLETIN 33 Mineral Collecting Pennsylvania in by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan ...Environmental Geologist JiU-ateJ VanOiden PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG...Commonweath of Pennsylvania book may be pubished if credit this is given to the Pennsylvania Geological
Report (issue)
DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na...Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
Report (edition)
SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU... Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County
Report (edition)
Geyer Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania I COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS... ' BULLETIN G 33 Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan R. Geyer...Geyer Assistant State Geologist PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG First Edition...1965 Copyrighted 1965 b y the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published....... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ..
Report (issue)
(Mg; Fe 3+ ; Al)3(Si; Al)4 O10(OH)2 ² 4H2 O Vermiculite c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1...O10 (OH)2 ² 4:01H2 O: (2) Corundum Hill, Macon Co., North Carolina, USA; corresponds to 2+ ² (Mg 2:68 Al...Distribution: Uncommon in large amounts. In the USA, at Milbury, near Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts;...Westtown, Chester Co., and on Chestnut Hill, Easton, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania; from Magnet Cove, Hot Spring...silicates, 246{257. (3) Mathieson, A.M. (1958) Mg-vermiculite: a re¯nement and re-examination of the crystal
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Nazareth Quadrangle, Northampton County, Pennsylvania By John M. Aaron and Avery Ala Drake... GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NAZARETH QUADRANGLE, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By John M. Aaron and Avery Ala Drake...INTRODUCTION The Nazareth quadrangle, in eastern Pennsylvania, lies across the contact between Mesoproterozoic...this quadrangle have been studied elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and the reader is referred to Buckwalter (1959...part of the requirements for the Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University (Aaron, 1971). At the time
Report (edition)
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 7* < OF ...GEOLOGY REPORT 1976 33 MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Alan R. Geyer Robert C. Smith, John H....Graphics by Albert E. VanOlden COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TOPOGRAPHIC...II Copyrighted 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yolume 72, pages I l3-12 5, 1987 ttEastonite'ofrom Easton, Pennsylvania:A mixture of phlogopite and a new...been used to show that "eastonite" from Easton,Pennsylvania,is a submicrometerlamellar mixture of phlogopite...century. Until 1960, micas from Chestnut Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania (Eyerman, 1904),and Dowerin, We...(1949) also reported a powder X-ray pattern from Easton material in which the strongestpeak occurred at... A light micrograph of "eastonite" from Easton,Pennsylvania,cut normal to the basal planes(crossedpolars)
Report (volume)
THE DELAWARE WATER GAP AND EASTON QUADRANGLES, NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA BY W. S. BAYLEY UNITED STATES...area._________________________________________ Chestnut Hill area_-----_------_-_---______-._-_____Structure... bank of Delaware River about 2 miles north of Easton, Pa.; B, Photomicrograph of quartzsericite schist...of Losee gneiss near Mountainville, Tewkesbury County, N. J.; B, Photomicrograph of Byram gneiss, road...north of Williams mine, Vernon Township, Sussex County, N. J_______---_-_____------______._ 53 4. Sections
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
XXXY. Ueber die Constitution einiger Glimmer, Vermiculite und Chlorite. Von P . W . Clarke und Ε . Δ ...verwitterter Biotit aus der Zirkongrube in Henderson County, North Carolina, und der Protovermiculit von Magnet... 1·. W . Clarke und Ε. Λ. Schneider. Henderson County-Glimmer. Analyse: Prolovermiculit. Molekularverh...und schmilzt leicht. Der Glimmer von Henderson County ist ebenfalls braun, brüchig und verwittert, bläht...zwischen gekreuzten Nicols.« Ueber den Henderson County-Glimmer spricht sich Herr L i n d g r e n folgendermassen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
become kaolin and the mica, in some cases, a vermiculite. Mill Creek flows into the Schuylkill River...about two miles up stream to Fairmount, whose bold hill is composed of a gneiss which apparently rises...bank. When the inclined plane was abandoned the Pennsylvania Railroad made a curved cut through these rocks...that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of coarse orthocl...halotrichite occur occasionally, but on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 59th street there was an old quarry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
essentially a biotite, about half way changed into a. vermiculite, and is interesting as a transition product....Chester Go., Pennsylvania, and of the vermicixlites from Lennie, Delaware Go., Pennsylvania. They also...specimen found at Old Wolf Quarry, Chestnut Hill, Easton, Pennsylvania, a n analysis of which is given by...Abstr., 1891, 1440) on the basalt occurring at the hill known as the Stempel, which rises above the sandstone
Report (issue)
.........................................96 Pennsylvania ..............................................type" talc deposits, based on Waterbury and Barnes Hill localities (Chidester, 1962) ......14, 15 2. Geologic...Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. Districts...talc-chlorite schist. Most of the talc deposits in Pennsylvania are in altered serpentinite and are similar...are located near the east border of the state at Easton and are responsible for most of the recorded production
Journal (issue)
Trias. Leaving Montgomery County and the Trias, and entering Lehigh County we meet a rock like, yet different...10 A. M. finds our friends at Easton. Here, at the well nown Chestnut Hill locality, a fine harvesting was...intervening. Associated with the limestone at the Chestnut Hill quarry is a deposit of serpentine. This locality...biotite) and giving an analysis similar to a vermiculite. SiOfl 42.21 ; A120,, 9.37 ; 1?er 0.68; FeO, none;...shipped over 75 lbs. of excellent material. Leaving Easton and coming down the Valley of the Dela ware, the
Book
JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSIONS ND SOME l^irg OP HILL AND DOWN dale, knapping...OF SELECTED AREAS IN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND GUIDEBOOK OF EXCURSIONS SEYMOUR SUBITZKY...Province between Delaware Water Gap and Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania, by Jack Epstein and Anita Epstein 132 Structural...of stream capture in the Strouds¬ burg area, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, by Jack B. Epstein 206 IC...Mississippian and Pleistocene deposits of northeastern Pennsylvania, by William Sevon 214 Post-Meeting Field Trips
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
be recorded." Pala is in northwestern San Diego County of Southern California. COLORADO: Prof. Richard...came from Iron Hill, New Castle Co., Del. Writes Mr. Pickett: "Iron Hill and Mine Hill are one and the...the same with Iron Hill being the proper name. The U. S. Geological Folio, Elkton-Wilmington N o . 211...211 says that Iron Hill and Chestnut Hill were worked as early as the 18th century and as late as 1891....the abandoned Laurel Creek corundum mine in Rabun County, where it is associated with corundum. The mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(289) 290 F. BASCOM— PIEDMONT DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Page Igneous rocks.................. ........Geologic history o f the Piedmont district o f Pennsylvania.................................. 322 Résumé...R E L A T I O N S The Piedm ont district of Pennsylvania, forming with a width of 65 miles the southeast...user 2U 2 F. BASCOM— PIEDMONT DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Northwest of the escarpment a more rugged topography...Pre-Cambrian or Archean Carolina gneiss. The Pennsylvania Piedm ont shows a sim ilar series of arenaceous
Report (issue)
Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...State Line district__-------___..____.___._... Cedar Hill (Geiger) quarries._--_.-_-----__.____ West Chester...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-...es mine--_-______-_-_--_-__---_---_-_--__Cherry Hill mine_____-______-__---_-------_-_Placer chromit
Book
Jersey: L a k e Hopatcong, Greenwood L a k e Pennsylvania: S c h u y l k i l l R i v e r Vi r g i n i...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple green precious...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
Report (volume)
from Nevada county, California............................. Spessartite garnet from Llano county, Texas ...from Pulaski county, Virginia ...»......... *............ II. Stone from Washington county, Kansas.......altered biotite from the zircon mine in Henderson county, K 0., and the protovermiculite from Magnet cove...water determinations, are as follows: Hen dors on county. Protovorni iculite. Molecular Analysis. Molecular...[BULL. 90. LABORATORY REPORT, 1890-'91. Hendevson county. Protovermieulito. Molecular Analysis. Molecular
Book
Red and gray sandstone shale, and limestone. PENNSYLVANIA 40 I 60 50 Ml I 80 KM 76° -, I II --...l0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mark Schweiker, Governor DEPARTMENT...Geology Slippery Rock University Published by PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PITTSBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...from Hyner View, Hyner Run Slate Park, Clinton County, showing accordant ridges in the Appalachian Plateaus...of the Ridge and Valley province in Huntingdon County. Flooded meanders of Raystown Lake on the Raystown
Journal (issue)
as stone, sand, gravel, clay, rock, salt, and vermiculite. • Municipal officials who interact with and/or...ABIGAIL ADAMS Edith Tucker’s article in the Coös County Democrat. It's official. The Board of Geographic...North Central Joint GSA Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania APRIL 2, 2011 – AEG Spring Symposium, 9:00 AM...Director of Weston Observatory Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Thursday, April 7, 2011 Red Blazer Restaurant
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
 
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