 | | Report (issue) | | blasted, a test core drilled, a mine shaft sunk or a gravel pit dug—additional mineral discoveries may be made...gratitude. I also wish to thank the many quarry, gravel pit and mine operators in Iowa, and many private................................... Minerals from gravel deposits and drift boulders Epidote.......................................................... Orthoclase................................................fragments of black sphalerite Polished stones from gravel pits. Epidosite rock with feldspar. Zeolite minerals |  | | Report (issue) | | teachers and students for geologic information in the area in Khich they live. In response to this demand in...Melanterite Meteorites Mica Muscovite Opal Onyx Orthoclase, Plagioclase Pyrite Pyrolusite Pyroxene Quartz...about the minerals and gemstones that occur in the area where they live. Others collect minerals and gemstones...to a long-obliterated mountain range; or to the gravel deposits of a former stream. This book will help...GEOLOGIC TIME UNITS Sandstone, siltstone, clay, gravel, marl, volcanic ash. I I I Limestone, dolomite |  | | Book (volume) | | FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation... CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite...COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps...the United States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY |  | | Book (volume) | | FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel deposits, pits, bars...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw formation... CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional deposits⎯Siderite...COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps...the United States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY |  | | Book (volume) | | rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more settled...Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup River with the...petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially to the...wood, agate, jasper; in draws and washes and gravel beds of Spring Cr. and the Keya Paha R. agatized |  | | Book (volume) | | mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. ...BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: area barite pitsBarite, Geodes... Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals; area mines, as important producersBarite, Manganese...extensive area depositsBarite, Graphite; US 41 bridge over the Etowah R., area Barite pitsBarite, geodes...geodes (crystal lines). KINGSTON, S, in area fields, streams, rd. cuts, etc.agate, (banded, various |  | | Report (volume) | | ---------------------.-------------Unclassified sand and gravel deposits.---.________________ Varved lake clays---...____-______-_-_--________-_-----___-_ Sand and gravel-______________________________________________... ABSTRACT The Norwood 7%-minute quadrangle, an area of about 55 square miles, southwest of Boston, Mass...possible Cambrian age in the southwestern part. The area has four distinct groups of late Precambrian(?)...Devonian or Carboniferous age underlies a small area in the northeastern part of the quadrangle. The |  | | Book (volume) | | and a Southern Section, covering a somewhat larger area around Harney Peak. The northern section is characterized...excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm Cr...wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds, etc. petrified wood...Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye... CUSTER: N, (1) near Laughing Water Cr., many area minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops are scattered...NovemberlDecernber 2002 405 Locality Cross-Reference Acme gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Downloaded by [University of...Creek, Shefield, Franklin Co. Bellevue Sand and Gravel Company, Jackson Co. Bellevue State Park, Jackson...Mound, Clinton Co. Guttenberg, Clayton Co. Hahn’s gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Harper quarry, Kcokuk Co. Harvey...= Cedar Rapids quarry, Linn Co. Mason City shale pits, Cerro Gordo Co. McGowen Crevice, Dubuque Co. Mediapolis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gamston, and elsewhere. The ploughed fields and gravel-pits situated on these terraces all yield facetted...but that when it reached the level of the older gravel terraces it paused in the process. During this...were collected from the Triassic ' dreikanter' gravel of Arnot Hill. I V . — N O T E ON THE SOUKCE OF...of the Bunter material found in the Drift of that area was only pursued as a side issue to my study of...speculation as to whether they were derived from the area in which the fossils are to be found at the present |  | | Book | | is a square hammerhead on the other. raking gravel, poking about having a collection of minerals... to soil A often is or gravel, and a sieve when examining gravel much small shovel, the army...the friends trip Among them, there with the area you re planning to sound advice as give Plan...chosen are provided drawing to locate a collecting area, describe the condition of the roads, and mark out...Maine, around the town of Paris, and the rugged area north and east of San Diego, several years. stuff |  | | Book (volume) | | CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek...COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington...(on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay...FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite...SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA exposures throughout |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Memoirs—Mineralogical Observations. 319 extensive gravel-pits are worked, as at Beeston and Sawley. The pebbles...however, as is the amount of alluTium and low-level gravel contained in the present valley, there can be little...sufficient to allow for the denudation of the present area of Trent drainage, and the contemporaneous cutting...invariably contain mica and large crystals of orthoclase; and may thus represent a highly quartziferous...minerals in these limestones, he mentions quartz, orthoclase, hornblende, magnesia-mica, titanite, garnet | | | Book | | hammerhead on the other It 1s useful for raking gravel poking about in rubble and working on brittle rock...needed to remove so il or gravel. and a sieve is called for when exam in ing gravel in stream beds. /\ EQUIPMENT...Among them there may be one who Is familiar with the area you re planning to v1sIt and who can give sound...HARD SURFACE Field drawing to locate a collecting area, describe the condition of the roads, and mark out...Southwestern Maine around the town of Pans. and the rugged area north and east of San Diego Cal1forn1a, have long |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | undertaken along Giffard Bay, an intensely complicated area, mainly consisting of lavas and breccias of the...and scattered hornblend e, together with pink orthoclase. pale plagioclase and quartz. In the shore exposures...was next examined, the large Carlsbad twins of orthoclase being specially noted. This granite was also...by Tring Station Mr. Barrow pointed out some gravel-pits close to the line about half a mile south. These...soil overlying the deposit has the appearance of a gravel composed largely of broken flint. Ploughing brings |  | | Book (volume) | | CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD, area creek...COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington...(on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay...FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite...SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA exposures throughout |  | | Book | | CANADIAN COUNTY: South Canadian Rivers. In the gravel bars of both the North and the Also in sand plant...River. Agate is widely scattered in the Black Mesa area. DEWEY COUNTY: Agate is found 2 miles east of Seiling...23W. Moss, plume, banded, jasper. Very prolific area. jaspagate; : There are many locations in Harper...material. HUGHES COUNTY: NE Sec. 35, T.4N., R.10E. A gravel pit with petrified wood, jasper, and chert. Also...NE% Sec. 18, T.4N., R.10E. A gravel pit. Secs, 8, 9; T.8N., R.9E. Gravel pits. JOHNSON COUNTY: bed. Sec |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | out of the Boulder-clay, and some few from the gravel,beds which underlie it. The "~illage of Felstead...all levels, even to the very tops, beds of loamy gravel, alternating with a considerable thickness of stiff...thick, overlying some twelve feet of reddish loamy gravel, consisting of large and small subangular flints...similar manner. But besides the numerous beds of gravel, the surface is everywhere strewn with fragments...resembling that which the Romans imported from Germany for use as millstones. Yet, making all allowance |  | | Report (issue) | | and examined deposits of copper-zinc, fluorspar, gravel and sand, manganese, and pegmatite in part of the...Quaternary deposits _ __ Pleistocene deposits __ Gravel ____ _ Holocene deposits ____ Alluvium ____ _ Fan...__ __ Base metals __ ______, Fluorspar __ ____ Gravel and sand ______, Manganese ____ ___ _ Pegmatite...Union Formation _________ 4. Coarse Pleistocene gravel unconformably overlying Dry Union Formation __...deposits, Poncha Springs quadrangle, Chaffee County Gravel pits in the Poncha Springs SE quadrangle, Chaffee |  | | Journal (issue) | | WEISS, S. (1994) The Minerals of the China Clay pits in Cornwall 14:21-33 WOOD, M. (1993) Strontianite...Boldelva Pit, St Blazey Gate cassiterite 14:32 orthoclase 14:32 Bunny Mine, Stenalees arsenopyrite 14:27...anatase 16:14 bertrandite 16:14 brookite 16:14 orthoclase 16:14 phenakite 16:14 stolzite 16:14 tourmaline...18:9 Melbur China Clay Pit, Treviscoe orthoclase 14:11 orthoclase 14:26 Mullion island, Lizard stilpnomelane...monazite-(la) 20:7-37 natanite 20:7-37 olivenite 20:7-37 orthoclase 20:7-37 parnauite 20:7-37 pharmacosiderite 20:7-37 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | brownish). Some of the feldspar are good xls of white orthoclase. "Sand from Pacific Grove Beach, famous for marine...us). Quartz sand from Ballantine, Mont. From a gravel pit south of Ballantine, Yellowstone Co., Mont...who collected them in Russell Ward's Sand and Gravel Pits on Pennsauken Creek, Camden Co., N.J. One of...Feb. 2, 1954. A section of a road map on which the pits were located (about a mile east of the Delaware...County, Utah, is on the Nevada border. From this area we have a sample of halite sand (common salt) that |  | | Report (volume) | | on granite thinly covered with clay, sand, and gravel. A portion of this terrace lies on the north side...Topography by M.Hacket-t and L.C.Barnard. X D Gravel pit Pits tin molding sand MAP SHOWING ECONOMIC GEOLOGY...UndifTerentiated. Character. Loam, sand, and gravel on terraces. Pliocene ( ' *) of orange tint. ...Aquia. Dark sand; gravel at base. 0-25 Patuxent (may possi- A r kos i c sand with gravel, cross-bedded...Cretaceous sediments. The Potomac group present in this area probably comprises only the Patuxent formation of |  | | Report (issue) | | describes the geology and economic mineralogy of ~n area on which he commencedfield work in 1929 and on which...Sukulu. vii Map (in pocket). Introduction The area described in this memoir was made the subject of...The survey is described, therefore, as a special area forming part only of a degree sheet and is bounded...information has been gained in this region by numerous pits and drill-holes. The writer here wishes to express...Geologist in the Tororo area, and of R. Taylor as Field Assistant in the Bukusu area. The work of these officers |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chrysocolla from Arizona, Mojave Desert agate, orthoclase feldspar from California, obsidian from Nevada...Vermont Publication The Geology of the Lyndonville Area, V t . By John G. Dennis. 98 pps., 15 figs. 23...mines, limestone mines and quarries, sand and gravel pits, and other mineral producers. This map accompanies |  | | Book (volume) | | matrix, road cut, pegmatite, shoreline, quarry, gravel pit, prospect, mine, etc.). Let’s take, as an example...corresponding entry is as follows: 21. Tonopah area; from I-10 follow good unmarked road 3 miles south...extends from the north face of the mountain over an area 1.5 miles wide and 2 miles long; better specimens...map; in the directions, the first portion—Tonropah area—initially directs the reader to the closest municipality...Mountain. The third portion narrows the location area even more by identifying it as an alluvial fan with |
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