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Sericite from
Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:221885
Long-form Identifier:1:3:221885:4
GUID (UUID V4):102acb78-83f1-4c4a-8e3b-33fbce267f2b
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
26.8km (16.7 miles) Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
28.4km (17.7 miles) Dexter Quarry (Dexter Lime Quarry), Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Poker Hill, Ashton, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
40.2km (25.0 miles) Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
45.3km (28.1 miles) Assonet Village, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
80.3km (49.9 miles) Great Hill cobalt mines, Cobalt, East Hampton (Chatham), Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
94.7km (58.8 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
100.0km (62.1 miles) Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AMERICA NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND PART II. REMAINING COUNTIES Lrovn W. FrsnBn...Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...consisting chiefly of the Rhode Island formation of shales, con_ glomerates and sandstones. B. K. Ernerson2has...similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth... K. Gedney: Notes on the Mineral Localities of Rhode lsland. Arn. Mineral.,11, No. 12, pp. 334-340, (1926
Report (volume)
Geology of Selected Quadrangles in Rhode Island GEOLOGICAL SURVEY This bulletin was published separately...chapters] (A) Bedrock geology of the Coventry Center quadrangle, Rhode Island, by George E. Moore, Jr. (B) Bedrock...quadrangle, Rhode Island, by Alonzo W. Quinn. (C) Bedrock geology of the Wickford quadrangle, Rhode Island, by...Bedrock geology of the Tiverton quadrangle, Rhode Island-Massachusetts, by Samuel J. Pollock. (E) Bedrock...Bedrock geology of the Kingston quadrangle, Rhode Island, by George E. Moore, Jr. ) 3edrock Geology
Report (volume)
Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss-------------
Report (issue)
............... ... Cambrian Schist in Orleans County ....................... ......... Cause of Rill............... ...... ............. .181 Orleans County ........................ ............. 29 Trenton................................... 1(0 t;-i , ns County Dikes of ......... ...... ......... ..................... 72 Wolff, J. E. on Geology of Rutland County......................... 74 STATE OF VERMONT.................................. III. IV. Marble Island, Malletts Bay.................................
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Albemarle Counly, Virginia ... Custer County, Colorado . Albemarle County, Virginia . Near Mesaba, l\linnesola...New York . San Juan County, Colorado Delta, Shasta County, California . Boulder County, Colorado .. ...... Massachusetts Mt. Shasta, California " Lyon County, Nevada Hillsborough, New Brnnswick Keeseville...York " " " .Near Keene, NC\\' York . Essex County, New York Rochester, New York Split Rock, Minnesota... Rhenish-Prus ia J:asalt. fine-gTained Chaffee County, Colorado Hornblende Basalt. coarse " J-lornblenclc
Report (issue)
...... 187 REFORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ........ 189 GEOLOGY OF THE TowN...CF CHIT'JENDEN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ...... 221 GEOLOGY OF NEWPORT, TROY AND COVENTRY, PROFESSOR C....B. Barker,* Photo ................ XLI. Marble Island, Cambrian, Malletts Bay, B. Barker,* Photo.............. LIV. Geological Map of Part of Orleans County, drawn by C. F. Richardson ......................Irasburg, C. H. Richardson, Photo LVI. Anticline in Sericite Schist, C. H. Richardson, Photo ........... LVII
Report (volume)
SCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED GRANITES AND PORPHYRIES OF RHODE ISLAND BENJAMIN K. EMERSON JOSEPH H. PERRY WASHINGTON.............. 18 Nonoccurrence of il vaite in Rhode Island.................. 19 Inclusion of limestone...vicinity of Providence and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island................................ 10 II. Porphyritic...SCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED GRANITES AND PORPHYRIES OF RHODE ISLAND. Bv B. K. EMERSON and J. H. PERRY. INTRODUCTION...Massachusetts, and extends southward across western Rhode Island to Kingston, on the Sound, just west of the
Report (issue)
ALTITUDES IN VERMONT, /GEOLOGY OF GRAND ISLE COUNTY, THE OLDEST CORAL REEF, P. E. TERRANES OF BETHEL...some further account of the Geology of Grand Isle County. Following this is an inter esting study of an...This map covers most, though not all of Franklin County, of which St. Albans is chief, thus giving the...VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST season (1923), and with the Island Pond and Averill quadrangles complete the northern...Enosburg Falls map includes an area wholly in Franklin County, going east through much of Berkshire, Enosburg
Report (issue)
South looking radar mosaic of Connecticut and Rhode Island.............. , ....................in folder...radar imagery of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island indicates that radar shows the topography in...of Massachusetts in 1968 and Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1970. The imagery was made by the Grumman...and a south looking mosaic for Connecticut and Rhode Island. * Geologic Setting Southern New England lies...the western part of the Naragansett basin in Rhode Island where the rocks are in the sillimanite zone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...cities and differ from some states that have strong county governments with jurisdiction over large expans­...Waits River Forma­ tion occurrences, etc.). Addison County Granville talc quarry in Granville: ankerite, chalcopyrite...hematite, kaolinite, limonite, wad. Bennington County Bennington manganese mine in Bennington: wad. Mount
Journal (issue)
Howie Vice-Presidents: E.M. Bruton, AE. Farn, D.G. Kent, RK. Mitchell Honorary Fellows: RA Howie, RT. Liddicoat...relics of late Neolithic Age, located in Yongjing County, Gansu Province, China. This indicates a mining...Yungaisi, Figure 4: Turquoise Yunxian Yunxian County, County,Hubei. Hubei. Figure 2: Turquoise Turquoise...5).This Thisrock rockisisgrey greytoto typical sericite, can be observed (Figure (Figure6),6),together...this district are all controlled by the (10-15%), sericite (3-5%), and albite (<1%). «1%). lithology (Figure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
silicate rocks such as glauconitic sandstone, mica, sericite, ultrapotassic syenite, and phonolite [9,11–17]...ICP-AES (Perkin Elmer Optima 3100 RL, Waltham, MA, USA) after sample acidification with 0.3% v/v HNO3 .... Bread from Stones; AJ Tafel: Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1894; 148p. Jena, S.; Dhawan, N.; Rao, D.; Misra...Dhawan, N. Thermal and Mechanical Activation of Sericite for Recovery of Potash Values. Trans. Indian Inst...N. Investigation of planetary ball milling of sericite for potash recovery. Powder Technol. 2019, 351
Report (issue)
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...leases from the Town of Belvidere, the Lanioille County Grammar School, and the University of Vermont....muscovite, or white mica; biotite, or black mica; sericite and several others. Micas are especially characterized...muscovite is found in some of the schists ; while sericite with its minute scales gives the silvery gray
Book
Red-brown mudstone and impersistent sandst()ne 210m Coventry Sandstone Formation Thick red-brown sar1dstone...Sheet 168 Birmingham (Solid, Drift) Sheet 169 Coventry (Solid and Drift) Sheet 182 Droitwich (Solid and...Formation 8 Keele Formation 9 Enville Group-Bowhills, Coventry Sandstone and Tile Hill Mudstone formations 9...Basin, including the Warwickshire Coalfield 57 Coventry Horst 57 Ten Economic geology 58 Brick clays 58...conformably and is of similar facies. The Bowhills and Coventry Sandstone formations consist of in­ terbedded
Report (issue)
geology in 1816. Amos Eaton had surveyed Rensselaer County, N. Y., and the route of the Erie Canal; further...1839 and under C. H. Hitchcock in 1868; the Rhode Island survey, also under Jackson, in 1839; and the...OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST In Troy, Orleans County, titaniferous magnetite had been discovered in...from about 1793. Serpentine deposits are noted in Coventry, Lowell, Westfield, Troy and Jay but no mention...value as a building stone." He notes that Essex County is practically all granite and gneiss. Gneiss he
Report (issue)
quadrangle, Windham County, Connecticut. 3.--Geologic map of the Hampton quadrangle, Windham County, Connecticut...epidote and sphene from hornblende and biotite, and sericite, epidote and calcite from plagioclase. The Lake...work of Loughlin from the gabbro south to Long Island Sound. The most recent compilation of Connecticut...phyllonite (where recrystallized material is largely sericite) for recrystallized cataclastic rocks. Knopf...actinolite from the pre-existing mafic minerals and sericite, epidote, calcite and albite from pre-existing
Report (issue)
grit and conglomerate alternating with beds of sericite schist. Bird Mountain is an open syncline within...grit and conglomerate interbedded with muscovite (sericite) schist and underlaid on all sides by schist of...150 feet high which is an older delta than Hog Island. Two other sandy flats rise perhaps 40 and 80 feet... some of which should be mentioned. In Rutland County is the Poultney River which rises in Tinmouth,...the same name. This stream is wholly in Addison County. Its sources are in brooks in Monkton and New Haven
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...described by Ludman thins to 2,100 m in Aroostook County, according to Roy and Mencher. Above this, B. A...one of dominantly siliceous schists. In Aroostook County, Maine, Roy and Mencher find that volcanic components...Massachusetts with the Blackstone Formation of Rhode Island and give it a Precambrian age. They also note
Report (volume)
.................................. 10 Franklin County.................................................................................... 11 Lamoille County..................................................................................... Washington County......................................................................................... Orange County........................................................................................ Addison County...............................................
Report (issue)
Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A Prepared...Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann EDITOR OPEN-FILE...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Rhode Island Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...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
Book (edition)
Resource Reviews Series editor John Slack, Reston, VA, USA More information about this series at http://www...Mines in Hohhot; Citadel Resource Group in Jeddah; Coventry Resources in Toronto; and BHP Billiton in Perth.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.3 Oceanic (Island) Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.4 Within-Plate... . . . . . . 6.3.1 Ladolam Gold Deposit, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 6.4.2 Bingham Copper-Molybdenum Deposit, Utah, USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WHITEHEAD. 1923. Geology of the country around Coventry, p. 23. ERIKSON, G. P., and J. L. KULP, 1961....Potassium-Argon Age Determinations on Granite from the Island of Mahe in the Seychelles Archipelago. Nature,...action of hydrothermal solutions. Presence of sericite confirms this. Plagioclase feldspars . Very few...formation. Characteristic network structure of sericite indicates that the rock has been subjected to...subhedral coarse grains with surface alteration to sericite and cracking. Plagioclase feldspars . Phencrysts
Report (volume)
I~ I UJ I l I I I I I J Long 25 I 0 Island Sound 50 MILES I I 50 KILOMETERS Figure 1...described the Savoy Schist as in part a "chloritic sericite-schist * * *; flat, thin-fissile into plates 10-15...(1919, p. 138) gave the name Missisquoi Schists to sericite schist that he considered to be of Late Cambrian...138) gave the name Missisquoi Schists to certain sericite schists (then a possible correlative of the Savoy...defined by Krynine in 1950 for exposures in New Haven County, Conn. In the Bristol quadrangle the strata are
Book (edition)
Resource Reviews Series editor John Slack, Reston, VA, USA More information about this series at http://www...from Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including new maps and sections and additional colour...Mines in Hohhot, Citadel Resource Group in Jeddah, Coventry Resources in Toronto, BHP Billiton in Perth, Singapore.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.3 Oceanic (Island) Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . 6.3.1 Ladolam Gold Deposit, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
Shropshire, while rhyolite .is obtained in the same county near Wellington. Porphyrite is quarried in the...been made of the Cretaceous limestones worked in Kent; another example is to be found in East Yorkshire...Renfrewshire and one in East Lothian; in .the latter county the phonolite of Traprain Law Quarry has been in...slabs. QUARTZITE TRADE GROUP (Q) Only one quarry (county of Aberdeen) is recorded as working quartzite;...Fl. D. G. s. ABERDEENSHIRE la ABERDEEN C.C., County Road Surveyor and Engineer, 25 Union Terrace, Aberdeen
 
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