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Kyanite from
Tower Hill, Dillwyn, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tower Hill, Dillwyn, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:346063
Long-form Identifier:1:3:346063:4
GUID (UUID V4):a9187702-298d-4d26-81b8-346e1de915eb
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Journal (issue)
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard
Report (issue)
Kyanite, Sillimanite, and Andalusite Deposits of the Southeastern States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 336 Kyanite, Sillimanite, and Andalusite Deposits of the Southeastern States By GILBERT...Deposits in quartzose rocks _________________ Kyanite-quartz deposits . ._._ __ ____ _________________...in micaceous schists and gneisses__-_________. Kyanite schist and gneiss _____ ______________________...__ Kyanite group minerals in micaceous schists and gneisses, quartz veins, and pegmatites Kyanite group
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
Journal (issue)
August 1988 No. 3 SCENIC LANDFORMS OF VIRGINIA . Harry Webb Virginia has a wide variety of scenic landforms...level. Two natural lakes occur in Virginia, Mountain Lake in Giles County and Lake Drummond in the City of...alphabetically by county or city. Features along county lines are described in only one county with references...of the topographic maps can be ordered from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources' sales office or...of) The Dismal Swamp, located in southeastern Virginia, is about 10 to 11 miles wide and 15 miles long
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF THE No. 2 SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS Central Virginia Volcanic-PlutonicBelt as a Host for MassiveSulfide...GeologicalSurvey,Reston, Virginia 22092 Abstract Strata-boundmassivesulfidedepositsof the central Virginia Piedmontoccurin...magneticand gravity featuresindicate that the central Virginia volcanicplutonicbelt is not related to the Carolinaslatebelt...linear belt, about 175 km Virginia (Fig. 1). This belt, knownasthe central Virginia volcanie-plutonic belt...MetamorphicSuite (TRS), and other rocksin central Virginia. Abbreviations: Arvonia Slate within the Arvonia
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection. An ideal and inexpensive...“The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001 issue...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite pegmatite, 12 miles W of Bosler...s, ColoradoWyoming State Line district, Albany County: largest crystal is approximately 0.Y carat. Karl
Report (issue)
alteration of andalusite schists 82 Staurolite-Kyanite Zone 83 Sillimanite Zone 84 CALCAREOUS SILTSTONES...schists -io Worcester Formation 97 Staurolite-Kyanite/Andalusite (Actinolite) Zone 97 Sillimanite Zone...in the western Merrimack Synclinorium and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation...ALUMINOUS SCHIST OAKDALE FM, AND MERRIMACK FM, TOWER HILL QUARTZITE WORCESTER FM, Figure 1. PROPOSED...in the western Merrimack Synclinorium and Bronson Hill Anticlinorium of Vermont and Massachusetts. Deformation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...Wisconsin mineralogy. The index is arranged county by county (fig. 1). Where possible, township and range...I apologize for any I may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4...Geological and Natural History Survey. Ashland County Ballou Creek. Outcrops of iron formation occur
Book
CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townď‚ľagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityď‚ľagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.ď‚ľchalcedony roses, Celestite crystals
Report (issue)
the Taconic-Berkshire, the RoweHawley, the Bronson Hill, the Nashoba, and the MilfordDedham. Their mutual...Blackstone Group: Greenstone and amphibolite (Hunting Hill Greenstone) (Zbv)........................ Metamorphosed...the mafic metavolcanic rocks (Zv) and the Hunting Hill Greenstone (Zbv).................... Metamorphic...and measured sections on the east side of Hoppin Hill, Attleboro, Mass..................................the Hoppin Formation at the north end of Hoppin Hill Reservoir......................................
Report (volume)
with low-amplitude flexural-slip folding, Greene County, southwest Pennsylvania, by J. B. Roen Significance...within the Frontier Formation, northwestern Carbon County, Wyo., by E. A. Merewether and W. A. Cobban Elemental.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staurolite, kyanite, and sillimanite from the Narragansett basin of...water Nitrogen content of ground water in Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., by G. E. Kimmel . . . . . ...WITH LOW-AMPLITUDE FLEXURAL-SLIP FOLDING, GREENE COUNTY, SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA By JOHN B. ROEN, Beltsville
Report (issue)
with low-amplitude flexural-slip folding, Greene County, southwest Pennsylvania, by J. B. Roen Significance...within the Frontier Formation, northwestern Carbon County, Wyo., by E. A. Merewether and W. A. Cobban Elemental.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staurolite, kyanite, and sillimanite from the Narragansett basin of...water Nitrogen content of ground water in Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., by G. E. Kimmel . . . . . ...WITH LOW-AMPLITUDE FLEXURAL-SLIP FOLDING, GREENE COUNTY, SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA By JOHN B. ROEN, Beltsville
Report (volume)
morphic and .igneous.rock units in the area near Great Hill. .The pegmatites are composed essentially of perthite...cities of Middletown and Portland in Middlesex County; the Glastonbury quadrangle, north of the Middle...Middle Haddam quadrangle, extends into 'Hartford County. Access to the district is provided by a close network...studied the Strickland-Cramer pegmatite on Collins Hill and outlined a paragenesis of the minerals based...the Connecticut River to about 730 feet at Great Hill. The cause of the abrupt deviation of the Connecticut
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Virginia ........... 96 Table 18 Selected references arranged...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of southwestern Virginia.........................98 Figure 23. Uranium...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of north-central Virginia........................99 INTRODUCTION Uranium...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...1969; Ui radioactivity is 5 to 7 times background. Hill copper mine. RM 1968. Source ol informal Phyllite
Report (issue)
Gneiss Ammonoosuc Volcanics Partridge and Collins Hill Formations Glastonbury Gneiss Structural character...- FIGURE 1. Simplified geologic map of Bronson Hill anticlinorium 2. Geologic sketch map of Glastonbury...Massachusetts along the west side of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium. Structurally and stratigraphically...recent plate-tectonic models involving the Bronson Hill anticlinorium. INTRODUCTION The Glastonbury dome...Glastonbury dome constitutes part of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium (Billings, 1956; Thompson and others
Report (issue)
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...constraints, it was impractical to examine county soil reports for each county in the United States, so more generalized...(geologic provinces) rather than political ones (state/county boundaries) in which the geology may vary across...general information in these booklets as a guide. EPA COUNTY RADON POTENTIAL MAPS EPA has produced maps of
Report (issue)
trending about 65 km along the axis of the Bronson Hill anticl inorium in south-central Massachusetts and............i......... 10 Partridge and Coll ins Hill Formations ...................... 10 Ammonoosuc...Massachusetts along the west side of the Bronson Hill anticl inorium. The Glastonbury is overlain by...Ordovician Ammonoosuc Volcanics and^over lying Coll ins Hill Formation Structurally and stratigraphical ly the...Glastonbury body constitutes a part of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium (Billings, 1956; Thompson and others
Journal (issue)
high. Once at Tomahawk decided to camp at The Red Hill. What was left of the tracks was all washed out...serious work. We set off to have a look at The Red Hill which is where we started our fossicking 10 years...biggest and the best sapphires to this day. The Red Hill was so named because every night when we had finished...still known by all out in the gemfields as The Red Hill. Well worked over We looked around and noticed...lunchtime each day. When we first started at The Red Hill we would go from first light to dark but those were
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...synclinorium, 1 2 Lincoln R. Page the Bronson Hill-Boundary Mountains anticlinorium, and the Merrimack...described by Ludman thins to 2,100 m in Aroostook County, according to Roy and Mencher. Above this, B. A...littoral deposits formed along what is now the Bronson Hill-Boundary Mountains anticlinorium in New Hampshire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY OF THE LOWER GREENSAND IN THE DORKING-LEITH HILL DISTRICT, SURREY. By H. A. HAYWARD, F.G.S. WEALD...Mole. The Milton Br ook rising a mile south of Bury Hill, also flows in the direction of th e dip for about...about 7 0 0 yards north-east of the summit of Leith Hill immediately below a pass through the hills, like...last-named br ook is LOWER GREENSAXD, DORKIKG-LEITH HILL DISTRICT. 3 the Holmbury St. Mary stream. The...along the escarpment, roughly westwards from Leith Hill summit, drain into the Arun. Mention has already
Report (issue)
include cordierite and sillimanite. Sparse relict kyanite grains are locally mantled with sillimanite and...and Middle Allochthons al- yom and others, 1979b; Hill, 1980), and occasional solitary gabbros and ultramafites...geology, 75th Anniversary Vol- ume: Blacksburg, Virginia, Economic Geology Publishing Co., p. 179-213....in Wones, D. R., ed., The Caledonides in the USA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,...Norges Geologiske Undersokelse, no. 213, p. 93-95. Hill, T., 1980, Geochemistry of the greenschists in relation
Report (Issue volume)
Utah Geological and Mineralogical Sur\'ey. Virginia: Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Washington:...Division of Mines and Geologv. \Vest Virginia: ,.vest Virginia Geological and Economic Sur\cv. Wisconsin:...Fulkerson ___ ___ __ _______ ________ ______ _ 7 _]3_9 Virginia, by Charles E. Vannoy ____________________________...disclosed: Aµlite, brucit..-, emery, gmphite, fodine, kyanite, lithium rnincrnls, mugrw,sit.e, greensand marl...Mex., N.Y., N.C., Pa., Tex., Utah, Wise., Wyo. Kyanite.. ...... ...... ....... Va., Ga., Fla. Lead (mine)
 
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