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Tremolite from
Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Tremolite
Formula:◻Ca2Mg5(Si8O22)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tremolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:286772
Long-form Identifier:1:3:286772:4
GUID (UUID V4):aa9d8e5b-5fa7-4117-9887-78d59c780960
Nearest other occurrences of Tremolite
6.3km (3.9 miles) Lee Lime mine (Lee Lime quarry), Lee, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
25.4km (15.8 miles) Allyndale Limestone Corp. quarry, East Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
25.9km (16.1 miles) Maltby's Quarry, Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
27.4km (17.0 miles) Pfizer Company Marble Quarry (New England Lime Co. quarry; NELCO quarry; Specialty Minerals Inc.; Minerals Technologies Inc.; Canaan Limestone Quarry; Connecticut Lime Company; Canaan Lime Company; Lewis Quarry), Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
31.1km (19.4 miles) Conklin Limestone Company quarry (Falls Village Quarry), Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
31.7km (19.7 miles) Redwing Quarry, Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
34.7km (21.5 miles) Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
36.8km (22.8 miles) Serpentinite, Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
39.4km (24.5 miles) Cornwall Hollow, Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON................................... 43 43 Lee-Tyringham area ....................................................................................... Berkshire schist .'......................... ......................................................... Tyringham fault............................................... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC MA.P v. - OF MONTERET QUADRANGIEJ MASSACHUSETTS «. By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe U.S. GEOLOGICAL...quadrangle lies near the western edge of the t 3 Berkshire Higlands (lig. 1) just east of the major west-facing...Paleozoi rocks dominate the western front of the Berkshire massif. From 13 the north end of the South...V7-/ i Tyringham Gneiss and other granitic gneisses.--The type Tyringham Gneiss (Emerson. 1898...paragneiss units. The intrusive contact of the Tyringham against the felsic gneiss unit is unconformably
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND ON CONTACT PHENOMENA LIMESTONE IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS PENTTI ESKOLA Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie...INTRODUCTION The eastern part of Berkshire County in western Massachusetts is underlain by a vast area of...granite gneiss.' 'B. K. Emerson, "Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island," U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull. 597...Hampshire County, Mass.," U.S. Geol. Surv., Mon. 29 (I898), and "The Geology of Eastern Berkshire County, Mass..."Becket conglomerate gneiss" and in part as "Tyringham gneiss." 265 266 PENTTI ESKOLA This gneiss
Report (issue)
geologic map of the Ashley Falls quadrangle, Massachusetts a and Connecticut . 1011 By c/^vv ! Nicholas...i -.'. : Prepared in Cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Ce ot+9 f* %vv^ Works...rocks consist of Precambrian Gneisses of the Berkshire massif above the, Benton Hill fault, the Dalton...map. i j \. These rocks resemble closely the Tyringham Gneiss, Washington Gneiss, and 9 Associated lithologies...different from that of thet 12 : main part of the Berkshire massif. 13 These exposures constitute the deepest
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...Shride Pre-Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Massachusetts .Kenneth G. Bell and Donald C. Alvord Stratigraphic...Wachusett-Marlborough Tunnel, east-central Massachusetts .James W. Skehan. S.J.. and A. Adel Abu-moustafa...stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease, Jr. Pre-Silurian
Report (volume)
SMITH, Director Bulletin 744 THE LIME BELT OF MASSACHUSETTS AND PARTS OF EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT......................... Stockbridge, Lee, and Tyringham ................................. Canaan, New........................... South Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y................................... A slightly...I. Map of Greylock and Berlin quadrangles, Massachusetts and New York, showing areas of calcitic and... Map of Pittsfield and Becket quadrangles, Massachusetts and New York, showing areas of calcitic and
Journal (issue)
“NIORTISED ROCKS” OF TYRINGHAM, LIASS. ETHEE MINERAL COLLECTOR. [Entered as Second-Class Matter at...N0. 5 “MORTISED ROCKS" OF TYRINGHAM, MASS. Br B. K, EMERSON. A'r Tyringham, Mass., quartz pseudomorph...albite from the tour maline-pegmatite veins. The Tyringham specimens present an tnteresting and complete...places wholly or partly replaced by a secondary tremolite 66 THE MINERAL COLLECTOR. or pale-green actinolite...were found at Sodom, in the upper end of the Tyringham Valley, in the pro-Cambrian limestone. I was therefore
Report (issue)
Island, eastern Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts forms a distinctive block separated from the...Fullagar and Odom (1973) for similar rocks in Grayson, County, Va., although Rankin and opening of the lapetus...overprint is relatively tauga County, N.C., and eastern Johnson County, Tenn., minor, the older basement...a discordia intercept age of 1,280 m.y. Grayson County, Va. (Di), yielded an age of 1,149 m.y. (Davis...designated Elk Park facies terrane) from central Ashe County, N.C. (Ji). Plutonic Suite. generating this double
Report (issue)
Tectonic Studies of the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites...at the Western Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report B. Chronology...and Precambrian Rocks at the North End of the Berkshire Massif C. Tectonic and Metamorphic Chronology...History of Part of the East Side of the Berkshire Massif, Massachusetts E. Recumbent Folding of the Goshen...Goshen and Waits River Formations, \.Yestern Massachusetts F. Time and Space Relationships of Structures
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Report (issue)
Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts by Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvin...Radlometrlc Age Data Bank (RADB) of Rocks from Massachusetts Robert E. Zartman and Richard F. Marvln This...contains the records of radlometrlc ages for Massachusetts from the Radlometrlc Age Data Bank of the U...portrayed on a new bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). The compilation Is believed to...they appear on the Bedrock Geologic Map of Massachusetts (Zen, 1983). Steiger, R. H., and Jager, E.
Report (volume)
FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON G 0 V...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf...Chesterfield." C. Dewey : Geol. and Min. of part of Massachusetts; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. VIIT, p. 43...Jour. Sci., 1st series,Vol. VI,p. 227. 1823. Tremolite. Chesterfield, Cuinmingtou. Asbestos with actynolite
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...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
Report (volume)
and 8 mi long, spans the Rutland and Bennington County line. The northern part of the wilderness is in...(Thompson, 1972). The massif extends from near the Massachusetts-Vermont border northward through southern and...similar to the Tyringham Gneiss or Stamford Granite Gneiss. The intrusive gneisses in the Berkshire massif to...quartzose calc-silicate granofels but include tremolite-actinolite rock and some pink marble. Farther...as well as two thick pods of strongly deformed tremolite-actinolite-talc schist with enclosed pods of pink
Book
CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered..." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press, Milliard...of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and...Laminated Calcareous Spar. Rhomb Spar. Jlragonite. Tremolite. Hornblende, resembling hypersthene. Sulphuret...usually in imperfect crystals. (C.) CHESTER. Tremolite, bladed and abundant, near the Devil's den. Graphite
Book (edition)
near Clear Lake, in California; Inferno, Humboldt County, and Rabbit Hole Mines, Nevada; near Evanston,...Y.; Greenville, N. C.; near Attleboro, in Bucks County, Pa.; Wake, N. C. ; on Tyger River, and at Spartanburg...the eastward of Halifax; GOLD. 125 in Beauce County, Canada; also, north of Lake Superior; and in the...North Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, formerly in the County of Wicklow, where a nugget of 22 ounces was found;...600,000. In Colorado, gold mines occur in Gilpin County, among Archaean rocks, and much less productively
Book (edition)
CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Blue Ridge at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. At Bath...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...bituminous coal of the Portage railroad, Cambria county, Penn., he obtained 1 8*2 per cent, of volatile
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs ; in BuncombeAt Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...gas, 5 to 17 of earthy In the bituminous coal of county, Penn., he obtained in that of bustible matter
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebulthe earth, ...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. lition ...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the to,vn of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the ,vater is in violent ebullition from...Blue Ridge at Warm and Hot Springs; in Buncombe county, N. C.; and on the Washita in Arkansas. At Bath...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in 1\ilansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on
Book (edition)
springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Warm and Hot Springs ; in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...railroad to Boston, and also in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Out of the borders of the United States, on
Report (issue)
includes: the Chain Lakes, Green Mountains and Berkshire Massifs of New England; the Reading Prong of the...and Geography University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 ABSTRACT A new stratigraphic...siliceous marble locally with sphalerite, and talc-tremolite schist at top; b, pyritic biotite gneiss (+ tourmaline);...calcitic FA siliceous dolomitic os talc-tremolite biotite, hornblende, = [e} Ee or 1S) | marble...marble would 11 be wollastonite, diopside, tremolite, and other calc-silicate minerals, and not garnet
 
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