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Calcite from
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:359441
Long-form Identifier:1:3:359441:4
GUID (UUID V4):ae267a13-a66b-4ccc-9a7d-cda67098063b
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Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR LIMESTONES OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA BY -.) FREDERICK G. CLAPP . :··.. .••• :••••...__ _ Indiana County ________ _______________ ___ ___ ____ ____ _________ _ Armstrong County __ _: __ ____...____ ____ ________ __ _________________ __ Clarion County _____ ___ __________ _____ ____ _____ ___ __________...37 Beaver County _______ ___ _____ _________· ____ __ __ ____ _____ _~ __ _ 37 Lawrence County __ _____...sandstone of the Pocono formation, Allegrippus, Blair County, Pa.; B , Weathered sur~ face of the Loyalhanna
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCCURRENCE OF POLYMORPHOUS WURTZITE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO* Davru M. Soaua'N, Haraaril...wurtzConemaugh Formation near Etna, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania' fifty square miles ite- H and wurtzite-6H...horizon, one half mile northwest of Shelocta, Indiana county, Pennsylvania'alongU.S.Route422.Inhissearchforfossilsthejunior...had not previously been reported from western Pennsylvania' Additional first polymorph proved to be wurtzite-6H...polymorph at the Wittmer locality near Etna, pennsylvania, of rhombohedral (trigonal) crystalrization
Report (edition)
SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU... Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County
Journal (issue)
..... .--: .... ;·a·--~-~-~> Rock climbs in PennSylvania .....;'.... ~ :{·. ........... ·: :g·_ .. ....RogerS:~ir:r:·tf)~·:·.j.84o'.s to illustrate The Geology of Pennsylvania, a Goverdmeilt~Liiveyi:published in Philadelphia...and the changes which have taken place in the Pennsylvania Geological Survey over the past 150 years. It...geologic achievements of the First and Second Pennsylvania Geological Surveys which spanned the era from...non-metallic mines across the state. The Third Pennsylvania Survey in its brief history between 1899-1919
Journal (issue)
VOL. 27, NO. 3 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Tom Ridge, G overnor DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL...Silurian) at the Mexico railroad cut, central Pennsylvania..................... 2 An unusual occurrence...occurrence of ooids in the Speechley sand of western Pennsylvania...............................................cut in central Pennsylvania (see article on page 2). PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY is published...the Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Report (edition)
STATE LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1 1 II II II nil 3 014 4 00050005 «k. 1 ’^^jklTL% i ^IH ^ 1 k...of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...(icologist G BULLETIN 33 Mineral Collecting Pennsylvania in by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan ...Environmental Geologist JiU-ateJ VanOiden PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG...Commonweath of Pennsylvania book may be pubished if credit this is given to the Pennsylvania Geological
Journal (issue)
>·-.·i:;/;·~.--':;'~-:: _. 'COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA'·:.~<"~:> :·. - ,~ __..,_.:: ..- ·Milton J....tinued on page 30) GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN PENNSYLVANIA 1974 IN TRODUCTiON This publication is the seventeenth...report on Geological Research and Publications in Pennsylvania. Because of the extensive response and large...Department of Environmental Resources, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120. RESEARC IIIN PROGRESS AREAL GEOLOGY...prepare a reconnaissance geologic map of Cumberland County in cooperation with A. Becher and W. Wetterhall
Report (edition)
Geyer Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania I COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS... ' BULLETIN G 33 Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania by Davis M. Lapham Mineralogist Alan R. Geyer...Geyer Assistant State Geologist PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES HARRISBURG First Edition...1965 Copyrighted 1965 b y the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published....... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
subsequent weathering sufficient only to leach calcite. Much has been published on the ceramic and refractory...isolated flint-clay deposits, particularly those of Pennsylvania and Missouri. However, except in Illinois (Grim...Quartz, feldspar, muscovite, coal, pyrite, and calcite were the major coarse-grained constituents. Quartz...in the top of the underclay. Concentration of calcite and iron as concretions and fracture fillings in...sandstone at the base of the underclay Vermillion County, Indiana (outcrop 28), a contains about the same
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained...(petrified wood) are found 3 miles west of Piggott, Clay County, Ark. California—A new California mineral is perovskite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Little Rock city limits on State Hwy 65 in Pulaski County, Ark." — letter dated July 31, 1963 from Richard...rounded dark gray mass is a section of a large calcite nodule. It should take a nice polish. COLORADO...very, very high. But how many specimens of xled calcite do you see from Florida? This specimen was given...brought it home to me. Now just how much orange calcite xls do you hear of coming from Florida? I'll probably...Checking the item in the price list we read: "Calcite xls on coquina. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Size 6x5x5
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Amarga Basin sedimentation 113(1-2)27-53 Aiken County South Carolina sedimentary Petrology 108(1-4)...Allegheny Group see Freeport Formation Allendale County South Carolina sedimentary Petrology 108(1-4) 163-180...see Famatina System argon-argon see Ar/Ar Armstrong County Penasylvania sedimentary Petrology 109(3-4)...141161; 108(1-4) 181-194; 108(1-4)207-228 Atlantic County New Jersey Miocene 108(1-4) 3-18 Atlantic Ocean...barite deposits Quebec 107(1-2) 121-139 Barnwell County South Carolina sedimentary petrology 108( l-4)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on U. S. 30 in Pittsburgh. 712.3 miles — Beaver County Line (Perm.). 725.9 miles—West Virginia Line on...etc., were to be seen anywhere, since we left Pennsylvania. 781.4 miles—City limits of Canton on U. S....part of Canton, a nice city and the county seat of Stark County, on our way out. 785.4 miles—The Klinks...Tuscarawas River which we crossed. 800.1 miles—Wayne County line. 814.8 miles—Wooster, on U. S. 30. 820.2 miles—Jefferson...silvery flakes of muscovite. 826.9 miles—Ashland County line. 831.7 miles—We turn right on Ohio 80. ROCKS
Journal (issue)
AUSTRALIA, GERMANY, RUSSIA, NORWAY, ITALY, NEW ZEALAND., USA & MEXICO Write for free list. Dealer prices avaflable...cavities of beautiful mineral specimens into so much calcite. quartz, pyrite, garnet, feldspar o.r what-have-you...this year: "Best of Species". - this year that is calcite. with competition for thumbnail. miniature. small...Terlingua was well represented by several showy calcite crystals. spectacular ramshorn selenite, lenses...aragonite crystals f .rom Needle Peat. Brewster County were shown in a variety of sizes. shapes and colors
Journal (issue)
� ... ��: ;... �. .. .' ·COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA · Robert P. Casey, Governor 1 DEPARTMENT...viewer. Thus geologic art is doubly valued. Pennsylvania is not represented in The Art of Geology. Yet...International Geological Con­ gress, 49 images of Pennsylvania geology were one of the main focuses of a large...the 1989 meeting of the Field Con­ ference of Pennsylvania Geologists and the 1990 meeting of the Northeastern...site near Allen­ town. At many localities in Pennsylvania, holes have been drilled into rocks to extract
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bastrop Baylor Bell Bexar Blanco...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in
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...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (edition)
mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Journal (issue)
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Robert P. Casey, Governor DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES Arthur... . . . . . . . . . 1 Geological research in Pennsylvania, 1988 ....... ...... : . . . 2 Areal geology...Gap, about 3 miles northeast of Bellwood , Blair County. Photograph by R. T. Fail!. / PENNSYLVAjiiiA GEOLOGY...tal Resources, P. 0 . Box1 2357, Harri sb urg, Pennsylvania 171 20 . Edlto~. christine M. Dodge. Associate...limitations and ambiguities of geology, we, too, in Pennsylvania have our believers in the occult-in the secret
Report (issue)
.................................... Guadalupe County............................................ Santa...Mesa-State Route 156 road-cut section......... Quay County...................................................... Page 1 4 4 4 4 9 11 11 15 20 23 26 Armstrong County.............................................- Pleasant Creek section............... Borden County..................................................section............................... Briscoe County.............................................. The
Report (issue)
Paleozoic rocks in Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia showing intervals...the subsurface of Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia Conversion Factors...cover all or parts of Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (fig. 1), and the...geological surveys of Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (see Acknowledgments)...elements recovered from samples in New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are reported in Weary and
Journal (issue)
•••••••••. 10.00 Vear Jvfle •· Cr,riN, Fnaldia. W . Calcite, Biotlte, etc. polished. 3 ¼ X 2 1/4 X 1 ~ . ....Wil1mllw v. Troo11l1e, ,._.,,.. Very good ¾" xi. in Calcite ••••••• . 3.00 Aswllc. Phl:11, Fine xld. rosette...¾" xi. In Calcite. 2 x 2 •••••• 2.SO Maltw. FraaU.. Fine ¾" brilliant dark blue xi. In Calcite. 2 x 2 •...00 Py,ttc. ,....._ Brilllant ~" modified xi. In Calcite. 2 x 1 ½ . . • . •••• I.SO .As•lll, Tnmsl. Group...THE (llJ..4ltltY San Diego County-A Great GemBearing Area San Diego County, California, was at one time
Book (edition)
entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky, USA . This was surpassed only by Lindbergh's flight across...University, POBox2194, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA, Mylroie@geosci.MsState.edu. Ira D. Sasowsky, Dept...Geology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4 I0I USA, ids@uakron.edu. v vi J. E. MYLROIE & I. D. SASOWSKY...degree, and paleomagnetic analysis in a Virginia, USA cave can be used to determine the timing and climatic...advance and retreat events in the Colorado Rockies, USA, in an area of difficult logistics. The clastic section
Book (edition)
of Akron, Ohio, USA and John Mylroie Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA o) Springer AC...photo: Stalactites in Poor Farm Cave, Pocohantas County, West Virginia. Photo by Ira D. Sasowsky. Background...by Lindbergh's flight across the Cave, Kentucky, USA. Atlantic (Murray and Brucker, 1979), Cave science...Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA, Mylroie@geosci.MsState.edu. 44325-4101 USA, ids@uakron.edu. Ira D. Sasowsky...degree, and paleomagnetic analysis in a Virginia, USA cave can be used to determine the timing and climatic
 
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