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Microcline from
Clark's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Clark's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:361214
Long-form Identifier:1:3:361214:9
GUID (UUID V4):be936947-d693-442a-9a9f-8aec51a27b44
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
0.2km (0.1 miles) Horrock's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Barber's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Hoffman's Quarry (Hoffmans Quarry), Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Holmesburg Granite Company Quarry, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) Fowler's Quarry, Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Falls of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Ridge Avenue and School Lane Quarries, East Falls, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
10.5km (6.5 miles) McCrea's Quarry, Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Flat Rock Tunnel, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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Book (volume)
375 9 f-2. 162 fiQl c, THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO JOHN ETEKMAN < 1 > w Q O UJ 5...>CQ uf S B o i s UJ THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA PART TWO CHEMICAL ANALYSES JOHN EYERMAN EASTON...Localities. a few exceptions, have omitted the Philadelphia zone localities, as an excellent directory of... CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA: PART 1 490: 425: 426: A:...pink Lenni, Delaware county VIII crystals green crystals. Rocksville, Bucks county light green crystals
Report (issue)
DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na...Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...(Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia: Fairmount Park...Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC Transparent to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upnor, Kent. Cornwall Bosahan quarry, Falmoath, biotite, 21o. Dean quarry, Coverack, The Lizard, analcime...Durga Gourishankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, microcline perthite, I35. Bhavani Sankar mine, Tummalatalupur...I4o. Kodandarama mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, microcline perthite, 135. Kondapalli, biotite, hornblende...hornblende, 362. L.N. mine, Chaganam, Nellore, microcline perthite, 135. Madiga Inam mine, Kalichedu, Nellore...I4O; biotite, 39I. Orupallirachapalem, Nellore, microcline perthite, 135. Palamani mine, Chaganam, Nellore
Journal (issue)
except possibly at the Stinson mine. The marble quarry on the Hope-Danville road, seemed to promise something...failed to yield anything of value; and, as a marble quarry, it shows very little value; the ophicaloite of...limestone belt and a little east of the marble quarry—is magnetite, and is associated with the snuff-like...be found in the regions around New York and Philadelphia, nevertheless quite a number of beautiful and...expecting much in that line, when I came upon a quarry recently opened in Brook line, on or just off from
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES Bulletin M 18-C THE MINERALS of PENNSYLVANIA NON-METALLIC... CONTENTS Introduction Asbestos Barite Franklin County Fulton and Bucks Counties Corundum Page 1 1 5...Magnesite Phosphate minerals Cumberland County Juniata County 18 23 25 25 26 Potash 29 Quartz-Mint...Quartz-Mint 32 Rock salt 36 Crawford County Elk County 36 37 Erie and Forest Counties 38 McKean, Potter...inquiries about the occurrence of minerals in Pennsylvania that cannot be answered by referring the inquirer
Journal (issue)
p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...MINERALS MAY-JUNE 1978, Volume 53 Number 3 PENNSYLVANIA! EXECUTIVE EDITORS Rudy Bradbury John Hanahan...Hanahan Jr Richard S. Mitchell GUEST PENNSYLVANIA EDITOR Delbert L. Oswald FOUNDER Peter Zodac MANAGING EDITOR...Schmerling 94 Pennsylvania- A Geological Gem Beth Schooler 99 The Paleontology of Western Pennsylvania Richard...Chert in Western Pennsylvania Richard L. George 108 Rare Earth Minerals from Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells
Report (volume)
and grain...................................... Quarry site.............................................76 . Cumberland County.......................................... 76 Franklin County.......................... Hancock County............................................. Kennebec County .........;.................. Knox County................................................. Lincoln County ........................ Oxford County............................................... Penobscot County...............
Book
York 89. Diatomaceous Earth 90. 91. Flint Pennsylvania Chert Missouri 94. 95. Travertine V. VI...Geyserite 93. Siliceous Oolite 96. 97. Gypsum Pennsylvania 101. 102. 103. Porphyritic Gneiss Connecticut...Sillimanite-Garnet-Gneiss New York Quartzites and Slates Pennsylvania Crystalline Limestones Vermont Dolomite-Marble...California 98. 99. 100. 116. 117. 118. Indiana Pennsylvania Chemical Precipitates: C. II. Oolitic Limestone... 1. Glasses Scoria Near Black Rock, Millard County, Utah. O. E. Meinzer. Ref. : MACROSCOPIC MICROSCOPIC
Report (issue)
QUADRANGLES, CARBON ANP NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA Jack B. Epstein W. D. Sevon J. Douglas Glaeser...Lrf 4-B * #- I s c-&,__ COMMONWEAL TH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES BUREAU...COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA by Jack B. Epstein U. S. G eolog ical Survey W. D. Sevon Pennsylvania G eological...the Pennsylvania Geological Survey in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL...1974 Copyright 1974 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations fron1 this book n1ay be published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489...see KASHKAI(M.-A.), 128. BABU (V. R. R. M.), Microcline perthites, I35; Muscovite from Nellore, I4O;...Gourishankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, India, microcline perthite, 135 BALDANZA(B.), LEvI-DONATI(G. R...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.)...H.), Arthurite from Potrerillos, Chile, 519. Clark's Ghut, Jessup Village, Nevis, West Indies, coquimbite
Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE GEOLOGY EASTERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON WASHINGTON... 101 101 Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County .... .... ....'.......... .......... 103 Albite......................................... 113 Microcline................................................-CONTENTS. Mineral lexicon of eastern Berkshire County Continued. Page. Opal........................................................... 29 2. Steatite quarry near Windsor Falls ...........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
up to 2.0%0 between pegmatite dikes in San Diego County, California, U.S.A., can also be explained by exchange...in this paper, and the location of the San Diego County pegmatites (B.E. Taylor et aI., 1979). 129 localities... +9 .2 +8.4 GA pegmatite at large Landsverk quarry +8. 7 +7.3 (GA)-l qtz-ab pegmatite; mottled...dark-gray, highly fractured +9 .1 L1 large microcline crystals with qtz and/or bt attached +8 .8 ...cross-cutting and interior to dike +10.5 H-lO microcline perthite crystals with cleavelandite + qtz in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Resources, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, USA Department of Geological Sciences, University of...Denver, USA Branch of Geophysics, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, USA Topometric, Bedminister, USA With...micas. Principal associated minerals are quartz, microcline perthite (mostly amazonite), and albite, with...near Pikes Peak was studied by Clark (1887). From Clark's analyses, it appears that a core of vermiculite...no. 1 mine, LGR. Associated with quartz, white microcline, albite and minor zircon. medium brown zinnwaldite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORBICULAR GABBRO-DIORITE FROM DAVIE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.' GENERAL STATEMENT. SPHEROIDAL or orbicular...The Orbicular Gabbro Diorite at Dehesa, San Diego county, California," The University of California Publications... El Doradocounty, California;the granite from Clark's Peak, Medicine Bow Range, Colorado; orbicular granite...Ontario; and the orbieulargabbroat Dehesa, San Diego county, California. The nodules of spheroidalrocks are...in the field an orbicular gabbro-dioritein Davie county,3and later to study, microscopically,thin sections
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
seen so I didn't mind it at all. 2745.0 miles—Clark's home in Aurora, 8:30 p.m. With Royce's Mother in...Augusta, El Dorado, and at mileage 3288.0—Marion County line was crossed; a mile further (3289.0) was the...the river but we did not stop. 3306.0 miles—Chase County line on U.S. 50S. 567 3307.0 miles—Ceder Point...Hamm limestone quarry which we saw before but never stopped. 3446.2 miles—Park at quarry. No one was around...so we had it all to ourselves. Unfortunately the quarry did not look too interesting from a collector's
Book (volume)
Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . ........................................permanent photographic exhibits in the northeastern USA. The Shaubs have been active in ornithological research...gratefully dedicated. Gene Foard (right) at Swamp #1 quarry, Topsham. Gene Foard speaking with Frank Perham...Gene Foard with Yan King, 1994 (left) at Nevel quarry, Newry. In Memoriam Gene Foord Gene [Eugene Edward]...tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified
Report (issue)
{J) {K) The Helderberg limeston~ of central Pennsylvania, by J. B. Reeside, jr. (publ~shed Dec. 13, 1917)...of Caballos Mountains near Apache Canyon, Sierra County, N. Mex.; B, 34 Paleozoic rocks on granite at Capitol...Capitol Dome, Florida Mountains, Luna County, N.Mex .. XVII. A, Sierra Cuchillo west of Palomas Springs...limestone at Palomas 35 Gap, Caballos Mountains, Sierra County, N.Mex ..........................................Socorro County, N. Mex. ; B, East face of San Andres Mountains at Rhodes Canyon, Socorro County, N. Mex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
San Bernardino County, California, and in deposits of PleistoceneLake Tecopa, Inyo County, California....long remain elusive. Contrary to Appleman and Clark's (1965)suggestion,it may in fact be virtually impossible...of authigenic feldsparsaway from the maximum microcline-high sanidine sideline of the 6-c plot (Figure...Onvrr-r,o, P. M. (1967) Unit-cell parameters of the microcline-Iow albite and the sanidinehigh albite solid...value in the Barstow Formation, San Bernardino County, California. U. S. Gutr. Sun. C i r c . 5 A O
Book
Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...listed by county and community, range and distance. Whenever the collector crosses a county line, he will...of the county he is entering posted alongside the highway. By looking up the state and county, the user...guide can determine the collecting sites in that county by range and distance from the major cities and...information to reach a specific spot within a particular county. Many old localities listed here have, literally
Report (issue)
miles northwest of Big Creek settlement, Valley County, Idaho, and 1.2 miles northeast of Elk Summit,...Biotite are not identical : the New Snowbird microcline has a ldaite(?) '1Calcite 1 Ilmenite(?) Chlorite...Chlorite triclinicity of 0.4; the Red Bluffs microcline has a triClay minerals 1 Marcasite clinicity of 0...for a most *Pyrite Hornblende highly triclinic microcline. These measurements of Pyrrhotite K-feldspar...lattice of sulfides was not detected by microprobe. Clark's (1960, p. 1375, 1379-1381, 1645-1647) experiInental
Report (issue)
at Cornwall, Pennsylvania Davis M. Lapham and Carlyle Gray COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF...Diabase at Cornwall, Pennsylvania by Davis M. Lapham and Carlyle Gray PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological...PUBLICATIONS, TENTH AND MARKET STREETS HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 FRONTISPIECE View of Cornwall open...magnetite iron ore deposit at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The investigation was begun to learn where
Report (issue)
Sierra Foothills Melange and Adjacent Areas, Amador County, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Sierra Foothills Melange and Adjacent Areas, Amador County, California By WENDELL A. DUFFIELD and ROBERT V...Cosumnes River and the ~okelumne River, Amador County, In pocket California ------------------------...SIERRA FOOTHILLS MELANGE AND ADJACENT AREAS, AMADOR COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By WENDELL A. DuFFIELD ABSTRACT...mapping in the western Sierra foothills of Amador County, Calif., has resulted in some major changes in
Journal (issue)
TeHurium Sulphur Dinmond Gra1,hitc GOLD Albemarle County.-"Streaks" occur in quartz veins in slate belt...east of South­ western Mt. (ll. 8). Buckingham County.-A placer gold specimen about 7 x 10 x 17 mm. which...collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Culpeper County.-Two specimens with flakes of gold up to 1 cm....collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Dinwiddie County.-Two specimens from the Whitehall Mine with gold...error and should refer to Spotsylvania County.) Fairfax County.-A specimen of gold with galena in quartz
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles , CA Joseph A. Mandarino...503-284-5361; E-mail: pdxpounder@hotmail.com Pennsylvania Chapter Order now!! Reminiscences of a Mineralogist...group are found associated with the carbonates. A quarry at Vsechlapy near Teplice, about 20 km north of...columnar aragonite. Another good locality is a quarry at Stribrnik Hill near Merunice, 3 km north of...described in detail. However, a small abandoned quarry on the northeastern slope and several small, old
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
probably The Vail slate member is not recognized. Clark's because of nondeposition, for in several places...ia northern Vermont. Without additional data, Clark's Lower Cambrian correlation (1934, p. 6) of the...feldspar is chiefly orthoclase; minor amounts of microcline, sodic plagioclase, and perthite occur. Estimates...calcium. It is probably replacement. Except for the microcline granites and the trachytic porphyries all these...euhedral to subhedral, but most of them Microcline granites—microcline, albite-oligoclase, are anhedral. Skeletal
 
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