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Grossular from
Paxton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Grossular
Formula:Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Grossular data
Locality Data:Click here to view Paxton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:201784
Long-form Identifier:1:3:201784:6
GUID (UUID V4):a3345da4-4b1c-40f5-844f-fad14085c839
Nearest other occurrences of Grossular
12.7km (7.9 miles) Millstone Hill Quarry, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
31.9km (19.8 miles) Marlborough Junction locality, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
33.0km (20.5 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) Old Limestone Quarry Site, Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
52.7km (32.7 miles) Sneech Pond copper mines (Copper Mine Hill), Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
56.8km (35.3 miles) Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
57.9km (36.0 miles) Conklin Quarry, Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
63.5km (39.5 miles) Wilton Crushed Stone Quarry, Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
66.2km (41.1 miles) PJ Keating Quarry (Dracut Quarry; Condon Quarry; Essex Bituminous), Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
74.8km (46.5 miles) Joppa Hill, Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, 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)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...ZONE 12 ROCKS IN THE NASHUA RIVER AREA 15 WORCESTER FORMATION 18 Nomenclature, Historical Background...Retrograde alteration of andalusite schists -io Worcester Formation 97 Staurolite-Kyanite/Andalusite (Actinolite)...SYNTHESIS 102 ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION 108 Worcester Formation 108 Merrimack and Oakdale Formations...plagioclase, zoisite, calcic amphibole, diopside, grossular, and scapolite (diagram modified from Ferry, 1978)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reader is referred to Spry 1963, MacIntyre 1964a, b, Paxton 1965, R~heim & Green 1974a, R~heim 1974a. The present... ~e implies an increase in temperature. The grossular content in the eclogite garnets decreases from...change in physical conditions during growth. The grossular component in almandine-pyrope garnets is known...with increasing pressure, and a relatively high grossular content indicates hi~lh pressure rather than high...+cpx also decreased. As with the zoning of the grossular componen~t in garnet, the slight decrease in jadeite
Book
Dinosaur-Astrodon johnstoni Gem-Patuxent River Stone * Massachusetts Gem-Rhodonite Fossil-Dinosaur Track Mineral-Babingtonite...Rock-Dighton Rock Building & Monument Stone-Granite Soil-Paxton Series Glacial Rock-Rolling Rock 65 66 66 68...Indexes * Vermont Soil-Tunbridge Series Gem-Grossular Garnet Rocks-Marble, Granite, Slate Mineral-Talc...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Formation (Fanning et al., 2007). The c.1720 Ma Paxton Granite is the only dated example of syn-Kimban...Orogeny plutonism in the central Gawler Craton. The Paxton Granite is dominantly a coarse-grained porphyritic...to euhedral, 5 mm grains (Fig. 5). Garnet is grossular-rich, typically green or orange coloured and often...results from Minotaur Exploration (2006). twinned, grossular-rich anisotropic rims. In places fine-grained sulphide...grey field defined by 18 samples of the c.1720 Ma Paxton Granite (data from Budd, 2006). a. Primitive mantle-normalised
Journal (issue)
quartz, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. 2 Mineral News The 9th Maine Mineral...paragraph on the "Leidyite" specimen from Delaware County, PA which was proved to be zoisite should not have...micaceous. If you have a specimen from the Delaware County, PA locality that is labeled "Leidyite" and contains...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...problem, i.e. in a description of the occurrence of grossular (the author uses the common, but not proper mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wollastonite, diopside-hedenbergite s.s.s., grossular-spessartine s.s.s., siderite..) and bodies aligned...the field either as a schist or as tremolite, grossular or diopside fels depending upon the prevailing...comparison among the lithotypes (Dill et al. 2014; Paxton et al., 2016). Both element sets in Fig. 10 were...equivalent solid solution series (lithotype 2/ 3a: grossular –dominated garnet  lithotype 3b: spessartine-dominated...metamorphism affecting lithotype 1 diopside and grossular evolved as index minerals to constrain the upper
Journal (issue)
inclusion in pink spinel|Spurrite from New Mexico, USA|Tsavorite mining at the Scorpion mine, Kenya|Mussel...Heasley Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; composite photo by Jeff Scovil. Feature Articles...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Alan T. Collins, King’s College London; John L....Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;...E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; Andrew H. Rankin, Kingston University, Surrey; George
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2 2 8 2 2 3 3 12 +Al SiO +SiO 2 5 2 anorthite=grossular+kyanite+quartz (2) 3 CaAl Si O =Ca Al Si O +2...However, all samples have similar proportions of grossular (24–35%; X =Ca/(Fe+Mg+Ca+Mn)) and spessartine...http://www.gly.bris.ac.uk/jmg/jmg.html) or the equivalent USA and Australian sites and comprises the following:...Mortimer, R. Maier, A. Doulgeris, J. Mya and S. Paxton are thanked for technical assistance. The work...the Hope Valley Shear Zone, southeastern Massachusetts, USA. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
Report (issue)
fluoborite occurrence Crystal Lake (Silver Crater) Mine Paxton Mine Davis Lake corundum occurrence Minden-Norland...the opening of several properties in Haliburton County but there was no commercial production during this...Bancroft 1955-58 Dungannon and Mayo Townships, County of Hastings, Ontario (O.G.S., 1 inch to Yz mile)...F/4 Bancroft 1955-8 Dungannon and Mayo Townships, County of Hastings, Ontario (O.G .S., 1 inch to Yz mile)...F/4 Bancroft 1955-8 Dungannon and Mayo Townships, County of Hastings, Ontario (O.G.S ., 1 inch to Y2 mile)
Catalog/List
Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington...York or Connecticut or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the arbitration shall take place in New York...Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington DC and Washington...2014 stating that the 14.89 carats stone is a Grossular Garnet, variety Hessonite. 2015 LAPIDARY WORKS...Kenya Tsavorite is an intense green variety of grossular garnet; it owes its color to the trace substitutions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterized by minerals such as wollastonite, grossular and clinohumite, local resetting of oxygen isotopic...contain minerals such as wollastonite, tremolite, grossular and clinohumite, indicating infiltration of hot...Unit around the Napperby Gneiss, and produced grossular-andradite-rich skarns and wollastonite in marbles...high-grade terranes, for example the Adirondacks, USA (Valley et al., 1990), and may reflect internal buffering...possible without the mineral separation finesse of S. Paxton and J. Mya, or the considerable assistance we received
Book
Congress guidebook for excursion A-2. Hewitt, William Paxton, 1943, Geology and mineralization of the San Antonio...equivalent to a county in the United States municipio (mun.) —the equivalent of a county in the United...bronzite epidote e psomite erythrite essonite (see grossular) famatinite (?) fayalite feldspar group microcline...argentiferous garnet group almandite andradite grossular pyrope spessartine garnierite (?) gehlenite germanite...goslarite graphite greenockite grossular grossular, var. essonite (hessonite) grossular, var landerite (rosolite
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 1, pages 1–30...arrived at Chatsworth. At 4:30 in the morning Joseph Paxton, then 23 years old, arrived at the House, having...by the leaf structure of a huge water-lily which Paxton had been the first to encourage to flower in England...Petrifaction the Entrochal [crinoidal] “Marble of this County is formed” (Watson, 1811). Watson’s description
Book (edition)
File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Siberia. USSR. Named for locality. An aggregate of grossular. kaolinite. clinochlore. pennine and dolomite:...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed
Corporate Document (Series)
Goslarite Graphite Greenockite Grossularite = grossular Gypsum Halite Halloysite Halotrichite Hematite...contact with dolerite at The Lea, near Hobart, with grossular, microcline, opal, magnesio-arfvedsonite and vesuvianite...occur in pyritic mudstone north of Kingston Beach (Paxton, 1968), but requires confirmation. Alum-(Na) NaAl(S04)2...occur in pyritic mudstone north of Kingston Beach (Paxton, 1968), but requires confirmation. Aluminite AhS04(0H)4...Reports of 'hydrogrossular' (Rubenach, 1973) and grossular (Williams, 1958) replacing plagioclase in these
Report (issue)
Institute's programme of boring. Boreholes at Great Paxton, Huntingdonshire and at Huntingdon itself, where...sub-Mesozoic basement. The first borehole, at Great Paxton [TL 20882 63890], proved a successio11' of Jurassic...maintained with Cumberland, Westmorland and West Riding County Councils on the M6 (where the I 11stitt1te carried...M l and Trans-Pennine motorways. Worcestershire County Cou11cil and the Droitwich Developrnent Authority...Reservoir, and the highway engineers of Glamorgan County Council were assisted in their i11vestigations
Report (issue)
—————97 Maryland ___________________________97 Massachusetts ______________________98 Michigan _________________________100...Geotechnical and geohydrological studies in Fairfax County, Virginia _____________________285 Puget Sound...ore in the southern Wah Wah Mountains in Beaver County, Utah, can be treated profitably. occurs in nickel...185,000 ha of peatlands in western Koochiching County, Minnesota, revealed a spotty distribution of deposits...site. Precambrian sulfide deposits in Gunnison County, Colorado Precambrian sulfide deposits in the
Book
....243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...Marquette County include the Presque Isle body, the Yellow Dog body in the northern part of the county, and...Ishpeming. Several bodies also occur in Dickinson County near the mouth of the Sturgeon River. A distinctive...outcrops in the SW¼ section 27, T44N, R31W, Iron County, about 1.6 kilometers west of Lake Ellen, and about...Falls in Iron County and 16 MINERALOGY OF MICHIGAN Hermansville in Menominee County. Some of these
Report (issue)
llage ofActinolite in Elzevir Township, Hastings County . 31 F /1 5 Chemi cal analysis of a light greenish...actino l ite from Westmeath Township , Renfrew County: Si0 2 56 . 70 , Al 0 3 1. 62 , Fe o 3 . 06 , FeO...Township of St . Francis (Beauceville ) , Beauce County : Si0 52 . 30 , Al 2 o 1 . 30 , FeO 6 . 75, 2 3...syenites near Montreal in H oche laga County, and Beloeil in Rouville County (G. C . Hoffmann, 1 888 - 9 : Geol...Ame ri ca property, Oka district, Two Mou nt ains County, akermanite is a major cons titue nt of the si
Report (volume)
Ky. Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science...Science. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County_Mus. Nat.... History Quart.- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly. Los Angeles, Calif. Louisiana...Dakota Water Comm. County Ground Water Study- North Dakota State Water Commission County Ground Water Studies
Journal (issue)
values indicate the composition of the garnet as grossular 50 to 40 per cent, andradite 50 to 60 per cent...A . W. A. Rushton Graptolite fauna of the Great Paxton Borehole, Huntingdonshire. D. Skevington Bulletin...£'4. 75 The stratigraphy of the Larne Borehole, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. P. I. l\'1annh1g and...Permo-Triassic rocks of the Ballyalton Borehole, County Down, Northern Ireland. R. A. B. Bazley Bulletin...51 1975 (0 118807293) £'2.50 The Portrush Sill, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ] . R. Hawkes and H.
Journal (issue)
fortunate to have some being mined in the San Diego County (California) pegmatites, in Colorado, Idaho and...salmon to peach beryl, can be found in our San Diego County pegmatites, but the Brazilians supply the bulk...the colorless variety, is also found in San Diego County, California, and in Idaho, Connecticut, Colorado...catalog!! • ■OST ITEIS POSTPAID r--------------TO USA DE~TIIATIONS I ALPHA FACETING SUPPLY, • 100% SATISFACTION...exhibits. The Center is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, but relies
Report (volume)
of the northern Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts 23S By Jeffrey D. Phillips Buried structures...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase...geophysical study of the northern Hartford basin, Massachusetts, and (6) a comparison of new aeromagnetic imagery...and northern Hartford basins and vicinity, Massachusetts, are presented as gray-tone images by Phillips...Geography, Contribution No. 32, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 129 p. Lyttle, P.T., and Epstein,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...data of implausible significant almandine in a grossular-andradite garnet, and further depends critically...C., 2004. The 1.73 Ga Payson Ophiolite, Arizona, USA. Developments in Precambrian Geology, 13. Elsevier...123 (2011) 1–20 Nutman, A.P., Friend, C.R.L., Paxton, S., 2009. Detrital zircon sedimentary provenance
 
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