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Augite from
Ammonoosuc Volcanics, Grafton, Oxford County, Maine, USA


Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ammonoosuc Volcanics, Grafton, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:220992
Long-form Identifier:1:3:220992:0
GUID (UUID V4):e618f96b-9007-47e3-8b65-a7377dcfefd3
References
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Report (issue)
Geology of the Old Speck Mountain Quadrangle, Maine by Daniel Jeremy Milton Cambridge^ Massachusetts...Thickness ..................... ,/ Ananonoosuc volcanics .................. 20 20 General statement ...Sphene-flecked diorite from Maine. ............. A-l Gedrite from Oxford County, Maine. ............. B-l.......... Ik 2. Estimated modes of the Ammonoosuc volcanics. ...... 22 5. Estimated modes of the...the kyanite schist member of the. . . Ammonoosuc volcanics .. .............. 55 4. Composition of kyanite
Report (volume)
Formation and a Dike Cutting the Standing Pond Volcanics, Southeastern Vermont John N. Aleinikoff and Paul...Elements in the Vicinity of Mount Ascutney, Windsor County, Vermont Leslie J. Cox CHAPTER 0 Carbonate-Hosted...and Heavy-Mineral Concentrates from the Orange County Copper District, East-Central Vermont John F. Slack...northeast in northern New Hampshire and west-central Maine. S.H.B. Clark describes the sediment-hosted, stratabound...t"' 45°00' ! - = - - - OGDENSBURG- ~/" / I \MAINE 44 ooo·lrun:r:;;rc~A----+--'----*="=::--:-;='-----1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Middle-grade zone High-grade zone Transition zone Ammonoosuc volcanics Distribution and general nature Amphibolite...rocks General statement Albee formation Ammonoosuc volcanics Lost Nation group Basic dikes and sills...glaciation. The region is drained chiefly by the Upper Ammonoosuc River which flows generally westward into the...and somewhat younger amphibolites of the Ammonoosuc volcanics constitute the oldest (upper Ordovician...in the northern part of New Hampshire within the county of Cob's, and includes the whole or portions of
Report (issue)
Related Plutonic Rocks, and Mantling AmmonoosU;c Volcanics of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium, New England...Domes, Related Plutonic Rocks, and Mantling Ammonoosuc Volcanics of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium, New England...gneisses, and mantling but chemically distinct Ammonoosuc Volcanics and related trondhjemite is interpreted...domes, related plutonic rocks, and mantling Ammonoosuc Volcanics of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium, New England...Mountain, and Waits River Formations.... Ammonoosuc Volcanics and Related Rocks . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The oldest formation is Ordovician (?) Ammonoosuc volcanics consisting chiefly of fine-grained biotite...biotite gneiss and amphibolite. Above the Ammonoosuc volcanics is a gneiss correlated with the Ordovician...probably Mississippian and includes the Moat volcanics, the syenite of Cherry Mountain, and the Conway...chunky plagioclase crystals, or plagioclase and augite up to 1 cm. in a patchy groundmass of hornblende...Apparently the hornblende is sec­ ondary from pink augite, which can be seen in the center of the green hornblende
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Boil Mountain ophiolitic complex, northwest Maine, and tectonic implications R.A. Coish 1 and N.W...Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA 2 Department of Geological Sciences, The Open University...metagabbro, mafic volcanics, felsic volcanics and sediments crops out in N W Maine, adjacent to the Chain...contains a large proportion of felsic volcanics. The mafic volcanics are divided into two geochemical groups...to normal mid-ocean ridge basalts. The felsic volcanics are mostly rhyolitic and similar to lowK rhyolites
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC RADON POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont...GEOLOGIC RADON POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Maine Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann 83...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
....................................... Ammonoosuc volcanics.................................................................................. Moat volcanics.................................................quadrangle belong to two formations, the Ammonoosuc volcanics, of Ordovician (?) age, and the Littleton...geological map, PI. 3), of lower Devonian age. AMMONOOSUC VOLCANICS Amphibolites and biotite-hornblende schists...Franconia have been correlated with the Ammo­ noosuc volcanics, because of their lithology and the fact that
Journal (volume)
along the Baie Verte Brompton Line in northwestern Maine ..................................................the most voluminous remnants of lapetan synrift volcanics known. In Waterloo area, Québec, the Tibbil Hill...Therefore, we prefer the view that the Tibbit Hill volcanics formed during a relatively short span of time...blocks and slices of sandstones, mafic and felsic volcanics, granitolds and mafic-ultramafic ophiolitic rocks...continent-ocean transform-type fault. The Ware Volcanics are intermediate to felsic volcanic/pyroclastic
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Report (issue)
cooperation with the Maine Geological Survey GEOLOGIC MAP OF WESTERN INTERIOR MAINE • - Chen-f0e. wit...Augusta, Maine, and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, and...University, Syracuse, New York 4/ --Maine Geological Survey, Augusta, Maine, and Queens College, Flushing,...commonly seen; epidote a common alteration mineral Augite-bearing hornblende-biotite quartz diorite and quartz...variably textured. Contains as much as 10 percent augite, local hypersthene, accessory magnetite, sphene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation (slats and quartzife). .and B.olton volcanics, in Quebec; Sto_we formation f quart z-sericitechlorite...formation (phyllite, slate, quartiite), Ammonoosuc volcanics, and Partridge formation (chiefly slate)...slate) in New Hampshire; Albee and Ammonoosuc in Vermont; Highlandcroft plutonic series Upper and Middle...JO). Enosburg Falls anticline: Tibbit Hill volcanics. Call Mill slate, Pinnacle formation (graywacke...along the international boundary between Quebec and Maine. Two contrasting intergradational lithic assemblages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Connecticut Lakes-Parmachenee Area, New Hampshire and Maine Abstract: The Connecticut Lakes-Parmachenee area...northernmost New Hampshire and northwesternmost Maine, is underlain principally by Lower to Middle Paleozoic...containing the coarse, clastic Magalloway Member in the Maine part of the area. These rocks were folded during...Parmachenee, Mafic tonalite and gabbro stocks 1623 Maine 1614 Metagabbro sills 1623 5. Geologic map of Thrasher...ParmaBiotite adamellite of East Inlet 1626 chenee, Maine 1615 Microgranite lenses 1626 6. Generalized tectonic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to anhedral tabular grains up to 3 mm in length. Augite (Caa1Mg35Fe2a) occurs as finer anhedralgrains in...occurring interstitially to plagio- The rims around augite and brown hornblende usually consist of single...hornblende, have a homoaxial relationship with the augite and brown Metamorphic orthopyroxene, blue-green...latter also formed between plagioclase ilmenite, augite and brown hornblende. The rims around and olivine...of blue-green hornblende rims around ilmenite, augite and brown hornblende; (2) formation of orthopy
Journal (issue)
some-· thing to crow about. The locality is Kern County, Calif. Apatite: This calcium phosphate is always...loose purple crystal from Mt. Apatite, Auburn, Maine; another was a flattened colorless crystal which...in America for autunite is the Ruggles Mine, of Grafton Center, N. H., where it occurs as gre~nish incrustations...Bluish crystals on white natrolite from San Benito County, Calif., is one of the many minerals that has made...crystals in matrix from Crab Tree Mt., Mitchell County, N. C., were also on display. Aquamarine crystals
Report (chapter)
and related rocks that are thought to represent volcanics that were weathered or hydrothermal- ly altered...clase (Hollocher 1985) and quartzorthopyroxene-augite + h o r n b l e n d e - b i o t i t e plagioclase...petrologic studies of the Ammonoosuc Massachusetts. American Journal of Science, Volcanics, north-central Massachusetts...sachusetts. Canadian Mineralogist, 20, 425-39. Ammonoosuc Volcanics, central Massachusetts & ROBINSON,P. 1980...calc-silicate rocks from central Massachusetts, USA, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Bonn, the Vernon-Chesterfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geothermometerfor exsolved monoclinic pyroxenes(augite and pigeonite) on the basis of the orientation...Partridge Formation and the System7000). Ammonoosuc Volcanics (Schumacher1988: Hollocher Heating experiments...ofMassachusetts,Amherst. -(1993) Geochemistry and origin of volcanics in the Ordovician Partridge Formation, Bronson... and Jaffe, H.W. (1977) Exsolution lamellae in augite and pigeonite:Fossil indicators of lattice parameters...(1988) Stratigaphy and geochemistryof the Ammonoosuc Volcanics, central Massachusettsand southwestern New
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with assemblagesof plagioclase * orthopyroxene + augite + quartz + hornblende + garnet.Three particularly...hornblende + qtrarlz: augite + orthopyroxene * plagioclase* HrO orthopyroxene + augite assemblage. This transition...Cummingtonite Gedrite Anthophyllite Biotite Garnet Augite Orthopyroxene llmenite Magnetite Spinel Rutile...actinolitic hornblende that is retrograde after augite. Representative hornblende analysesare given in...to pale pink and, in has clinopyroxeneexsolution augite-bearingassemblages, lamellaeon {100}. Orthopyroxenehas
Report (issue)
the Sherbrooke and Lewiston 1° x 2° Quadrangles, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont Edited by Richard B...the Sherbrooke and Lewiston 1° x 2° Quadrangles, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont as part of the Conterminous...Report 84-650, map of the Sherbrooke-Lewiston area, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont (Robert H. Moench, ed...of the project, I have focused mainly on the volcanics in the Milan and Old Speck Mountain quadrangles...the Canadian Shield. Another is Bald Mountain in Maine. As far as I am aware, people have told me there
Report (issue)
COUNTRY.......... STATE CODE....... STATE............ COUNTY........... UNITED STATES 25 MASSACHUSETTS BERKSHIRE...COUNTRY.......... STATE CODE....... STATE............ COUNTY........... UNITED STATES 25 MASSACHUSETTS BERKSHIRE...COUNTRY.......... STATE CODE....... STATE............ COUNTY........... SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION RECORD NUMBER...COUNTRY.......... STATE CODE....... STATE............ COUNTY........... SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION RECORD NUMBER...CODE....... UNITED STATES 25 STATE............ COUNTY........... MASSACHUSETTS HANPOEN QUAD SCALE 1:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Five samplesare from the Post Pond and Ammonoosuc Volcanics in east-centralVermont, collectedfrom areasstudiedin...locality known as Amphibole Hill in the Ammonoosuc Volcanics in southwesternNew Hampshire and have been...eralogist,18, 89-99. (1977) Exsolution lamellae in augite and pigeonite:Fossil indicators of Gable, D.J....of pigeonite exsolution lamellae in metamorphic augite: Correlation Kinetics of the Fe'?*-Mgorder-disorder...amphiboles from the Post Pond Springer-Verlag,Berlin. volcanics, Vermont. Carnegie Institution of Washington Year
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clinojimthompsonite-like lamellae have been reported in altered augite by Nakajima and Ribbe (1980),Veblen and Buseck(1981)...geochemical,and petrologic studies of the Ammonoosuc Volcanics, north-central Massachusettsand southwesternNew...(1981)Wonesite:A new rockforming silicate from the Post Pond Volcanics, Vermont. American Mineralogist,66, 100-105. Veblen
Report (issue)
as the pioneer in the geology of west-central Maine, for his expertise on the mineralogy of pegmatites...paleontology: two on the Merrimack Synclinorium in Maine and three on the so-called Pennsylvanian basins...(prehnite-pumpellyite) metamorphism in Massachusetts and Maine, respectively, are the subjects of two of the...nickeliferous pyrrhotite deposits of southeastern Maine, gravity studies of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series...polymetamorphism in the Merrimack synclinorium of western Maine ....... Robert H. Moench and Robert E. Zartman
Report (issue)
Massachusetts ............................... Maine ....................................... California...southerly part of the city of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about...miles to and including \Villiamstown. in Orange County. All granite quarried elsewhere may not legally...mills at West Pawlet, Poultnev, Fair Haven, and in Maine. Products: Roofing, flagging, flooring, etc. VERMONT...has been quarried in Vermont at Athens, Chester, Grafton, and Perkinsville since 1850. The uses to which
Report (issue)
(Zp) extends into Massachusetts in the Webster-Oxford area (fig. 4) from eastern Connecticut and western...State bedrock map, trending northeast through Grafton towards Westborough, are on strike with the Plainfield...unit) "The Plainfield extends into the Webster-Oxford area of Massachusetts from eastern Connecticut...Weymouth Formation Group in the Eastport area, Maine, on the basis of around the Boston basin can be...Argillite were deposited in relatively shallow region, Maine, are also temporal equivalents. On the water but
 
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