 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...locality which is on Little Friar Mountain, near Albite {cleavelandite variety). Cleavelandite ( F i g |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Basins, Virginia and Maryland C7 ll.S. / PAPER Triassic-Jurassic Stratigraphy of the Culpeper and Barboursville...Barboursville Basins, Virginia and Maryland By K.Y. LEE and AJ. FROELICH U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphy of the Culpeper and Barboursville basins, Virginia and Maryland. (U.S. Geological...Jurassic. 3. Geology Culpeper Basin (Va. and Md.) 4. Geology Virginia Barboursville Basin. I. Froelich, A............................................. 10 Culpeper Group ....................................... |  | | Report (volume) | | assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other Eastern...Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South Carolina...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle...of entries, the basin name and the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle...are not restricted to an exposed early Mesozoic basin. The term "regional" indicates that the reference |  | Lyttle, Peter T., Aleinikoff, John N., Burton, William C., Crider, E. Allen, Drake, Avery A., Froelich, Albert J., Horton, J. Wright, Kasselas, Gregorios, Mixon, Robert B., McCartan, Lucy, Nelson, Arthur E., Newell, Wayne L., Pavlides, Louis, Powars, David S., Southworth, C. Scott, Weems, Robert E. (2017) Geologic map of the Washington West 30’ × 60’ quadrangle, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Open-File Report 2017-1142. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20171142 | Report (issue) | | been radiometrically dated) PIEDMONT PROVINCE CULPEPER BASIN Zfcrr Zfsm Zfbh 37 Ypg 69 78 56 42...Oo 6 26 Kps 201.2 ±1.3 Ma Jdg Jmhs Jmm Culpeper Group Qbc Kpc Ty 199.3 ±3.0 Ma CRETACEOUS...Allen Crider Jr. (2012–2017) 8 10 KILOMETERS 9 VIRGINIA MAP LOCATION Tc Calvert and (or) Choptank Formations...78° Blue Ridge Province Piedmont Province Culpeper Basin Coastal Plain Province 1. Nelson (1997) 2...the southern part of the Culpeper basin and the Barboursville basin, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey |  | | 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) | | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bull Run Quarry Loudoun County, Virginia H O W A R D R. F R E E L A N D 10340 Hollyberry Drive Richmond...Richmond, Virginia 23234 Most collectors are familiar with fine prehnite, apophyl lite, and zeolite specimens...Narsavage, 1977), and at the Fairfax quarry near Centreville, Virginia (Medici, 1972; Mitchell, 1977)...are several other "trap" quarries in northern Virginia which have yielded beautiful and sometimes rare...environments. Bull Run quarry located in Loudoun County, Virginia, is one such quarry. To date, nearly twenty |  | | Report (issue) | | n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Goose Creek quarry, Virginia, USA. 2.931 (10b), 4.06 (7b), 7.37 (6), 5.81...1.3 0.2 [11.8] [100.0] (1) Goose Creek quarry, Virginia, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O by di®erence;...epidote, prehnite, chlorite, actinolite, stilbite, albite, zircon, apophyllite, apatite, titanite, quartz...Creek quarry, Leesburg, Loudoun Co., and the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia, USA. Name:...Co., Virginia, USA. Type Material: National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 149397 |  | | Report (volume) | | to some aspects of the geology of the Culpeper basin of Virginia. The editors are grateful to the authors...stratigraphic section through the northern Newark basin, New Jersey 19 By MichaelS. Fedosh and Joseph P...of early Mesozoic rocks of the northern Newark basin, New Jersey and New York 31 By R.A. Parker, H.F...and Deep Run basins in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia 40 By Eleanora I. Robbins and Robert E. Weems...phytoclasts of the Newark Supergroup in the Hartford basin 68 By R.K. Kotra, R.M. Gottfried, E.C. Spiker, L |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localities as Paterson, New Jersey, or Centreville, Virginia. Recently, however, extraordinarily fine...assemblages quartz-prehnite-chlorite or quartz-albite-pumpellyite-chlorite, or both. It also occurs in...80 in Passaic County, New Jersey. It also occurs in the Roncari quarry, Hartford County, and at Cheshire...Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, and in the Hampden quarry, Hampden County, Massachusetts. It has...respectively, and at the Cornwall iron mine, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It has been found in individual |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun tain...is of Ordovician age. The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount Ida off U.S. 270 near...flank. The wavellite is typical of other Montgomery County Locations which differs from the more common Dug...Dug Hill material from near Avant in Garland County. Here it occurs in various shades of light green with...stable matrix. Variscite has been reported from the quarry, but none was observed in recent material. A few |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | Report (issue) | | chlorite, glaucophane, pumpellyite, lawsonite, albite. Distribution: Many localities. In Austria, on...Norway. From the Ural Mountains, Russia. In the USA, from Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York; Franklin...Windsor Co., Vermont; in the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia; Crestmore, Riverside Co...Cha®ee Co., Colorado. \Nephrite jade" occurs, in the USA, south and east of Lander, Fremont Co., Wyoming; |  | Pavich, M.J., Leo, G.W., Obermeier, S.F., Estabrook, J.R. (1989) Investigations of the characteristics, origin, and residence time of the upland residual mantle of the Piedmont of Fairfax County, Virginia. Professional Paper 1352. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1352 | Report (issue) | | Upland Residual Mantle of the Piedmont of Fairfax County, Virginia U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Upland Residual Mantle of the Piedmont of Fairfax County, Virginia By MJ, PAVICH, G.W. LEO, S.F. OBERMEIER...Upland residual mantle of the Piedmont of Fairfax County, Virginia. (U.S. Geological Survey professional...Weathering Virginia Fairfax County. 2. Saprolites Virginia Fairfax County. 3. Soils Virginia Fairfax County...geology, and climatic history of the northern Virginia Piedmont ----------------General properties of |  | | Report (issue) | | Geologic map of the Loudoun County portion of the Middleburg quadrangle, Virginia by Stephen W. Kline1 ...accompanies J~~" Prepared in cooperation with Loudoun County Department of Natural Resources This report is...the Loudoun County Department of Natural Resources. George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030 2U...2U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092 The Culpeper basin portion of this map is based on the...Miscellaneous Investigation Series maps of the Culpeper basin (MI-1313; parts A-J) were published between |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately...described as the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have been...mines of Chester and from near Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; various other Massachusetts epidote...locality near Roseville, Sussex County. Epidote is widespread in the Virginia Piedmont and Blue Ridge Provinces |  | | Report (issue) | | and C.M. Sears U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Virginia 22092 Open-File Report 92-448 This report is...Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Section A: Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section...Section B: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... ...Section C: Occurrences located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Connecticut ..................... |  | | Report (volume) | | California-Bldg. 3, Rm. 3128, 345 Middlefield Rd. • RESTON, Virginia-USGS National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise...in stratigraphic nomenclature in Maryland and Virginia UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON:...Highly generalized map of part of the Maryland-Virginia Piedmont showing distribution of ultramafic rocks...plots of some ultramafic rocks from the Maryland-Virginia Piedmont .......................................and CIPW norms of some ultramafic rocks from the Virginia and Maryland Piedmont ............. AIO Aii |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mary Lynn White Minerals of the Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia................ John C. Medici ...universi ties in the area, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California Institute...314-726-2236). amlier linritc on ijolilen csilcite! mcailc county* south ilakotn Extensive mining of six miles of...workings. In the 1870’s the Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, Ari zona occurrences were discovered. The list...analysis. The vanadinite is from the Apache mine, Gila County, Arizona, and the arsenopyrite is from Zacatecas |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East D e r r y , N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 (PART INTRODUCTION...mines in Virginia, north of the James River, with the ex ceptions as follows: Albemarle County was very...northern Virginia. Maps used were the U.S.G.S. Topo graphical Sheets. Also used were the county road maps...of H i g h w a y s Richmond, Virginia The price is 2 0 cents per county. Other states could well follow...very high grade iron. Credit should be given the Virginia Department of Mineral Resources in Charlottesville |  | | Catalog/List | | plus post 1147 ■■ ALTAITE Organ Mts, Dona Anna County, New Mexico a few silvery I mm spots in dark matrix...- - - - -~ ---1152 ■ AL UNITE Marysvale, Piute County, Utah Pure orange-pink crystalline mass KAISO/4OH..._ Fcldsp3~ -·· ~ 510 ■■ CHALCEDONY Greystones Quarry, lezant, Cornwall Grey banded massive lx2 £1 2x2...- -- -- - -- - - -- - 134 ■ CHALCOCITE Swinless Quarry, Kilbirnie, near Glasgow, Scotia Rich metallic...127 ■■ DELAFOSSITE Consolidated Copper Co. Nevada. USA Tiny black spheres in while matrix Fairiy rich. Micro |
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