 | | Report (issue) | | GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON, Director...GEOLOGY OF THE STONE MOUNTAIN-LITHONIA DISTRICT, GEORGIA By Leo Anthony Herrmann ATLANTA 1 9 5 4 LETTER...Conservation Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 61, "Geology of...of the Stone MountainLithonia District, Georgia". This report was prepared by Dr. Leo A. Herrmann as a...-------------·.. ·----------------- _ Lithonia gneiss ____________________ _ Metamorphic Rocks ________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Ce()logist BULLETIN No. 9-A A Preliminary Report on...on a Part of the Granites~~ Gneisses OF GEORGIA BY THOMAS L. WATSON, Ph. D. Assistant Geologist ...HARRISON, State Printer Atlanta, Georgia THE GRANITES ANiJ GNEISSES OF GEORGIA FRONTISPIECE PLATE I STONE...STONE MOUNTAIN, DEKALB COUNTY, GEOHGIA, I6 MILES NORTHEA T O F ATLANTA , 0 TilE GEORGIA RAILROAD. A GRANITE...URROUNDING PIEDMONT PLAIN • • GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Geologist BULLETIN NO. 9- |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................................................... 68 Other gneiss quarries.................................................... 79 Gneiss of the Richmond-Fredericksburg area.................. 80 Gneiss of Lynchburg, Va...Alexandria counties ..................." 81 Other gneiss areas......................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial |  | | Report (issue) | | Feldspar quarry Peerless (Diamond) Mine Road-cut Cadieux quartzite quarry Emerald Mine Pedneaud quarry Derry...(Wallingford) Mine Smith Lake Mine Davis Mine Glen-Almond Mine Cole Lake Mine Perkins feldspar mine Little...Guenette granite quarries Canada Marble and Lime quarry Labelle garnet mines Castor Lake (Clot) Mine Anorthosite...Desgrosbois deposit Ivry Mine St-Donat quarry Rockway Valley marble quarry St-Remi china clay mine Laurel diopside...Brownsburg quarries Gaboriault &. Nevers Reg'd quarry Miller (Keystone) Mine McGillivray Lake Mine McGill |  | | Report (issue) | | . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... .. . Feldspar quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .. . .... . ....... . . . . . . . . . . ...... Cadieux quartzite quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . ... .. ..... .. ... ..... . .... . .... . .. .. .... Glen Almond Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . Canada Marble and Lim e quarry . . . . . . . . . Lab e ll e garnet mines . . .... . . . St-Donat quarry................ . .. . . . . . Rockway Valley marble quarry. . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 19 January 2015 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lack and nearly black minerals-no matter...rutile, especially that from Graves Mountain, Georgia. To some, however, the beauty and importance of...to 2 cm across are reported from the Songo Pond quarry at Albany, Maine. It has been found in good specimens...near Waterbury, Vermont; at Poker Hill, Providence County, Rhode Island; and in Essex, Orange, and Warren...kyanite mining oiieration\ at Graves %lorintain, Georgia, hy mine superintendent Logan hIoore. It was subseqiiently |  | | Report (volume) | | Gillis Creek........................... 16 17 Almond Creek southward..................................VI. A, Belle Island granite quarry and crusher; B, Smith granite quarry, 2 miles above Richmond, Va....McGowan granite quarry, 3 miles south of Manchester, Va.; B, Richmond Granite Co. quarry, 4 miles northwest...northwest of Richmond, Va. VIII. A, Granite quarry of J. A. McCloy, in western part of Richmond, Va.; B,...on the east side of the river below the mouth of Almond Creek. GENERAL STRUCTURAL RELATIONS. The cross |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF............................................. 170 County Index ...........................................Page Table 1. Classification and composition of Georgia minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BASEMENT COMPLEX OF NORTH-EAST AFRICA DAVID C. ALMOND School of Geology, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston...1978; revision accepted October 2, 1979) ABSTRACT Almond, D.C., 1980. Precambrian events at Sabaloka, near...Cretaceous sediments north of Khartoum comprises a grey gneiss assemblage intruded by late-tectonic adamellitic...and a shallow-level granitic ring complex. The gneiss assemblage contains evidence that an early granulite...Amphibolite facies metasediments which overlie the grey gneiss to the north and northeast of the Sabaloka inlier |  | | Report (chapter) | | An abandoned quarry near Mulda exposes sills propagating from a dyke into weathered gneiss. The WRT display...Strike orientation of the fiamme varies greatly. Gneiss lithic fragments make up to 2 vol.% of the analysed...fragmented magma, and intra-vent fall-back tuffs (e.g. Almond 1971; Reedman et al. 1987; Branney & Kokelaar 1994;...strike-slip regime. Schreiter (1933) described xenolitic gneiss inclusions in the rhyolitic dyke of the Turmberg...fragments, respectively, consisting mostly of angular gneiss fragments, typically 2 cm in diameter (rarely up |  | | Report (issue) | | POTENTIAL OF THE KAPPES CANYON QUADRANGLE, SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING [Report includes 3 plates] Prepared for...Maps of the Kappes Canyon quadrangle, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. This report was compiled to support the...quadrangle is located in southwestern Sweetwater County, approximately 5 airline miles (8 km) south of...Springs Formation, the Ericson Sandstone, and the Almond Formation. The Blair Formation conformably overlies...origin (Roehler, 1978). The eroded remnants of the Almond Formation crop out in the southwestern corner of |  | | Report (issue) | | POTENTIAL OF THE MAXON RANCH QUADRANGLE, SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING [Report includes 3 plates] Prepared for...Maps of the Maxon Ranch quadrangle, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. This report was compiled to support the...quadrangle is located in southwestern Sweetwater County, approximately 23 airline miles (37 km) south of...Sandstone, and the Almond Formation occur at depth within this quadrangle, and only the Almond and the Fort...shale (Smith, 1961, and Roehler, 1973). -5- The Almond Formation of Upper Cretaceous age conformably overlies |  | Defant, Marc J., Drummond, Mark S., Arthur, Jonathan D., Ragland, Paul C. (1988) An example of trondhjemite petrogenesis: the Blakes Ferry pluton, Alabama, U.S.A. Lithos, 21 (3) 161-181 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(88)90007-2 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pluton that is exposed in southwestern Randolph County, Alabama, U.S.A. The petrogenesis of the Blakes...schist and quartzgraphite-muscovite schist. Biotite gneiss, quartzite and amphibolite units are occasionally...Deininger et al. (1973) and Deininger (1975) into the Almond Trondhjemite, the Bluff Springs Granite, the Rockford...Rockford Granite and the Elkahatchee Quartz Diorite Gneiss. The Blakes Ferry pluton is one of several intrusives...intrusives that have been mapped as part of the Almond Trondhjemite. Gibson and Speer (1986) have recently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | accepted abstracts follow. THE GARNET LINE IN OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses...similar to the model proposed for the San Diego County pegmatites (Webber et al. 1997, 1999). The garnet...shallow level pegmatite-aplite dikes, San Diego County, California. American Mineralogist 84:708–17. ...IN MIAROLITIC CAVITIES IN ALKALI DIKES, AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. L. E. Kearns1, R. Rothenberg2, T. Tucker3 |  | | Report (issue) | | FIREHOLE BASIN 15-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING [Report includes 9 plates] Prepared...Firehole Basin 15-minute quadrangle, Sweetwater County, Wyoming.................... 14 Coal Reserve...Firehole Basin 15-minute quadrangle, Sweetwater County, Wyoming.........................................Firehole Basin 15-minute quadrangle, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. This report was compiled to support the...quadrangle which is located in southwestern Sweetwater County, approximately 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the |  | | Report (issue) | | 27708-0230 Charles Trupe Dept. of Geology/Geography, Georgia Southern University, Box 8149, Statesboro, GA 30460...E. Swanson Department of Geology University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-2501 Scott Southworth U.S. Geological...terranes of western North Carolina and northern Georgia .....................................................126 C. Scott Southworth STOP 1–8 Granitoid gneiss at Plott Balsam Overlook ........................Yurkovich and Arthur J. Merschat STOP 2-3 Addie Quarry: Webster-Addie Mafic-ultramafic complex ........ |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........ Joys of an Argon Bulb. By W . Ritchie Almond ........................ N otes on the Separation...MINERALS Joys of An Argon Bulb . By W . RITCHIE ALMOND ,,e ,Yere showiug off the cut opal collection t...Little Switzel'land on the . 'outh, und )IcDowell county on the East. ) l t. ~fitchell is some 12 miles...(1) igneous and metamorphic roeks represented by gneiss, schist, granite and diorite; and (2) sedimentary...n1etHmorphlc rocks ot Archean age preGneiss coYers 1nost of the Hyalite Area. This is co111posed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Introduction The Sudanese Younger Granite Association (Almond 1979) constitutes an important petrographic province...the exception of the well-known Sabaloka Complex (Almond 1977; Harris et al. 1983) few detailed studies...northern Sudan, and comprises twenty ring-complexes (Almond er al. 1976; Curtis 1979; O’Halloran 1982;’ Barth...Bayuda complexes is being published elsewhere (Almond et af. in press). In this account the structure...Granite rocks of Abu Dom are emplaced into the Grey Gneiss Group of the Basement Complex of northern Sudan |  | | Report (issue) | | POTENTIAL OF THE EARNEST BUTTE QUADRANGLE, SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING [Report includes 3 plates] Prepared for...Maps of the Earnest Butte quadrangle, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. This report was compiled to support the...quadrangle is located in southwestern Sweetwater County, approximately 14 airline miles (23 km) south of...Springs Formation, the Ericson Sandstone and the Almond Formation. The Blair Formation crops out in the...in a fluvial environment (Roehler, 1978). The Almond Formation has been removed by post-Cretaceous erosion |  | | Journal (issue) | | granitic rocks from the Sabaloka Ring Complex (Almond, 1967; Whitema�, 1971), and two basalts from Kerma...on this subject (Clifford, 1966; Ram say, 1979; Almond, 1984; Kroner, 1984), and several others which...parts of Africa in a distinct pattern of mobile gneiss belts surrounding stable cratons. These events...Hills may be part of this magmatism (Almond, 1986a and b; Almond et al., 1984). The distribution of these...biotite age of 1878 ± 32 Ma from a granodioritic gneiss very close to the Sudan border (Hunting Geology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | trajectories: an example from the Northern Alabama Piedmont, USA RICHARD G. GIBSON & J . A . SPEER* Departmenr of...Institute and State University, Blacksburg, V A 24061. USA Abstract. Contact aureoles of plutons emplaced into...interlayers of metaquartzite, feldspathic biotite gneiss, calcsilicate, and amphibolite. It is intruded...Bentley, 1970). Three groups of felsic plutons, the Almond Trondhjemite. Bluff Springs Granite, and Rockford...pluton of the Almond Trondhjernite occupies an 8 km’. subcircular area in western Randolph County, Alabama |  | | Report (volume) | | California. Economic geology. Chromite, El Dorado County: Cater, F. W., Jr. Healdsburg quadrangle: Gealey...W. K. Mercur~·, New Almaden mines, Santa Clara County: Bailey, E. H. San Francisco Bay counties: Bowen...Bowen, 0. E , Jr., 3 Mineral resources, Fresno County: Logan, C. A. Geologic maps. Bitterwater Cre€k area:...Survey BulL-Georgia Geological Survey Bulletins. Atlanta. Ga. Mineral News Letter--Georgia Mineral News...Investigations. Lexington, Ky. Los Angeles County Museum Quart.-Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly. Los Angeles. |  | HARRIS, N. B. W., JACKSON, D. H., MATTEY, D. P., SANTOSH, M., BARTLETT, J. (1993) Carbon-isotope constraints on fluid advection during contrasting examples of incipient charnockite formation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 11 (6) 833-843 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1993.tb00193.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | closely spaced drilled samples across chamockite/gneiss boundaries have been obtained and 6°C and CO, abundances...charnockite (c.50 mm wide) within biotite-garnet gneiss at Kalanjur (Kerala, South India) have developed...characterized by 6I3C values of -8% and from the gneiss, 2 m from the charnockite, by values of -15%. The...signature of the charnockite can be traced into the gneiss over a distance of at least 280 mm from the centre...developed as a patchy network within hornblende-biotite gneiss. CO, abundances rise to a peak near one limb of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | indicated by the gradual change from a two pyroxene gneiss, through rocks containing both granulite and amphlbolite...amphibolite facies assemblages in the same ourcrop (Almond, 1980). The migmatltes are characterised by the...gneisses and metasediments (Dawoud, 1970, 1980, Almond, 1980). In the Sabaloka inlier three types of older...bands of retrogressed amphibolites are abundant (Almond, 1980) probably as rafts. The granitoids are clearly...work on the Sabaloka igneous complex and vicinity (Almond, 1977-1980) and the s o u t h e a s t e r n part |
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