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Epistilbite from
Cape Blomidon, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Epistilbite
Formula:CaAl2Si6O16 · 5H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epistilbite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cape Blomidon, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:423364
Long-form Identifier:1:3:423364:0
GUID (UUID V4):84be5000-1f8f-4a33-a796-11b1ee773e0b
Nearest other occurrences of Epistilbite
8.4km (5.2 miles) Arlington quarry, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
8.6km (5.3 miles) Ross Creek, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
12.2km (7.6 miles) Partridge Island, Parrsboro, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
50.1km (31.2 miles) Morden, Kings Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
60.8km (37.8 miles) Margaretsville, Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Survey of Canada Popular Geoscience 97 Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; South Shore, Nova Scotia...career in mineralogy at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in 1952, working in the new field of mineral...for the Collector”, which covers 14 regions of Canada, from Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon-Alaska...(Na4TiZr2O4(CO3)4), which was named in her honour. She was also co-founder of the Canadian Gemmological Association...treasurer for the Mineralogical Association of Canada. After her retirement in the late 1990s, Ann continued
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ECHELLITE 21 EDINGTONITE 23 EPIDESMINE 25 EPISTILBITE 27 ERIONITE 30 FAUJASITE 32 FERRIERITE...Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA Cape Blomidon, Wasson's QUEBEC Mt. St. Hilaire...LOCATIONS: USA Ash Creek, Sonoma and Mendocino Co., California EUROPE Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland...Jefferson Co, Gogle, Columbia Co: Casadia, Linn Co: Edwards, Tillamook Co: Ritter Hot Springs, Lane Co. Gable...Many locations. Creek, Baltimore Co. San Benito CANADA NOVA SCOTIA Bay of Fundy, Was son's Bluff, Five
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Small crystals associated with chabazite and epistilbite occur in basalt on the roadside about a mile...near Cascadia, Linn Co., near Edwards, Tillamook Co., and Ritter Hot Springs, Lane Co., in Oregon. Near...basalts of Nova Scotia, as at Wasson's Bluff, Partridge Island, Peter's Point, Cape Blomidon, Isle Haute...Getting Acquainted with Minerals.< McGraw-HilI Book Co., Inc., 1934. Hurlbut. Cornelius S. Dana's Manual...Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston: 1960. Sinkankas, John. Mineralogy for Amateurs. D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton
Report (Issue volume)
Volume III NEW BRUNSWICK NOVA SCOTIA PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NEWFOUNDLAND Ann P. Sabina MISCELLANEOUS...MISCELLANEOUS REPORT 8 Issued by THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa...mail from information Canada, Ottawa, and at the following information Canada bookshops: HALIFAX i 735...equipment 5 • Care of specimens 6 • Collecting in Canada 6 • Mineral and rock sets 7 • Abbreviations used...used in references 11 • NEW BRUNSWICK 31 • NOV A SCOTIA and PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 67 • NEWFOUNDLAND 89
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brewsterite, cowlesite, dachiardite, edingtonite, epistilbite, erionite, faujasite, ferrierite, gmelinite,...EDINGTONITE PHILLIPSITE HERSCHELITE GMELINITE LEVYNE EPISTILBITE FAUJASlTE POLLUClTE MORDENITE OFFRETITE GONNARDITE...-potassium-rich phillipsite and erionite are the most co,mmon zeolites in saline, alkaline la,ke deposits;....0 ~ ~ "'" .«~, ......:... )';': /'_/ _ - co c:=> & coc::::::> BRECCIA -~ < _ ~~ _ <=-"'" .c>..._ _ "'" c:::._ c:=> - <===-> ~ <=:>. <::::> co _ ~ """" ~ __ -'~;'.<.~':\.: . .:r.r., .. , -'
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brewsterite, cowlesite, dachiardite, edingtonite, epistilbite, erionite, faujasite, ferrierite, gmelinite,...EDINGTONITE PHILLIPSITE HERSCHELITE GMELINITE LEVYNE EPISTILBITE FAUJASlTE POLLUClTE MORDENITE OFFRETITE GONNARDITE...-potassium-rich phillipsite and erionite are the most co,mmon zeolites in saline, alkaline la,ke deposits;....0 ~ ~ "'" .«~, ......:... )';': /'_/ _ - co c:=> & coc::::::> BRECCIA -~ < _ ~~ _ <=-"'" .c>..._ _ "'" c:::._ c:=> - <===-> ~ <=:>. <::::> co _ ~ """" ~ __ -'~;'.<.~':\.: . .:r.r., .. , -'
Journal (issue)
e . Jr . k [ :rrje r o :let B . . . va 17 nova :Lor .0 j"E05I1: :;ri3 -, :z r.c 1•[*3k : : ....Hilaire Québec, Canada ; kristal 4 .5 cm . V :WVT/F :HDI Analciem (radiaalstralig) Glenarm, Co . Antrim, Noord...Hilaire, Québec , en Bay of Fundy district, Nova Scotia, Canada . Kerguelen, Indisch e Oceaan . Flinders...mordenietgroep . ✓ Bikita-pegmatiet, Rhodesië ; Foote mine, Kings Mountain, County, North Carolina, U .S .A . N ...A . Yellow Lake, bij Olalla, British Columbia , Canada . N Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Schots fysicus
Report (issue)
Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada Price 75 cents Catalogue No. ~44.64110 Price...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 CONTENTS Page ...........................Introduction Section 1: St . 1 4 . Stephen .Nova Scotia B o r d e r ............................... ...Brookdalelimestonequarry Joggins deposit Horseshoe Cove .Cape d'Or West Bay P a r t r i d g e Island C l a r k
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
analcime-wairakite series, Na-Ca mordenite series, epistilbite, prehnite and an unidentified phase 2. Phillipsite...optical data are given for heulandite from Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia, and for prehnite from Prospect Quarry...Cruz Co., California. Laumontite cements have been reported by GILBERT (1951) from Mendocino Co., California...interpmt~ation of hydrothermalsyntheses abundant CO, and some H,S, issue at 64°C from a vein-system of...laumontite, ohabazite and mordenite (ptilolite). Epistilbite, heulandite and stilbite are also reported (SAKURAI
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. Dachiardite.............................. Epistilbite.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Gmelinite: Brewster (1825 a) Levyne: Brewster (1825b) Epistilbite: Rose (1826) Faujasite: Damour (1842) Mordenite:...alternation of up and down; b - The dachiardite (also epistilbite and ferrierite) sheet, with a regular alternation...through mirror planes to form the framework of epistilbite (Fig. 0.2W). The dachiardite sheet may also be...>-l ::r (I) decorated with handles in the epistilbite style. b - The same viewed along [201]; fractions
Report (issue)
PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
Book (volume)
Oxford University LONGMANS LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO LTD 48 Grosvenor Street, London W.l Associated companies...typescript and also Longmans Green & Co. for their continued co-operation. October 1962 CONTENTS Vol....... Heulandite, Clinoptilolite, Stilbite, Epistilbite 377 Phillipsite, Harmotome ....... 386 Chabazite...its name from the locality Bytown (now Ottawa), Canada. Anorthite is compounded from the Greek negative...horizontal diad axes. They are rather irregularly co-ordinated by nine oxygens, the K-0 distances being
Book (edition)
photograph their specimens for this book. Front co,·er photos: Turquoise, polished. 55 mm, ZhiJandy...Rhodocbrosite, polished, 50 mm, Capillitas, Argentina, H Back cO\·erphoto: Wolframite. 45 mm. Yaogangxian, China,...crystal optics for reflected light, valid for opaque Co/or, transparenCJ', luster,streak minerals, the general...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada, generally well known to readers. However, the
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The publishers and author thank E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. for permission to quote from “On the Vanity...Random House, Inc. and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto Planned and produced...from the mantle could be examined, their study Canada, embedded in would shed light on our understanding...Bancroft, earlier separated solid portion. Ontario, Canada. (Katherine H. Jensen) Other inhomogeneties may...fragment of plagioclase feldspar from Perth, Ontario, Canada, are the result of repeated twin¬ ning. (Elmer
Book (edition)
graduated In using it, press up between the edges ao and co arc attached. the edge of the crystal whose angle... np, by which the figure, it reads 45. parts ao, co, may be shortened so as to make them more convenient...is got rid of by reflection from the surface of Canada balsam (mn) along which the two pieces of calcite...in Java; in Genesee Co., N. Y., at Tuscarora; St. Davids, and elsewhere, Canada West. Manufactured from...Occurs in Hungary and Transylvania; also, Boulder Co., Colorado, at the Red Cloud Mine; in Magnolia District
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEV OF CANADA COMMISSION GEOLOGIQUE DU CANADA CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS Revised 1980... Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1983 Available i n Canada through authorized bookstore agents...and Services Canada Hull, QuCbec, Canada K I A OS9 and from Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street...Street Ottawa, Canada K 1A OE8 A deposit copy of this publication is also available for reference in public...public libraries across Canada Cat. No. M44-801 l8E Canada: $10.00 ISBN 0-660-11271-6 Other countries:
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY, YALE COLLEGE. ON THE PLAN AND WITH THE CO-OPERATION PROFESSOR JAMES d!^DANA WITH UPWARDS...EDWARD S. DANA 1877. Press of J. J. Little & Co* Astor Place, New York. ; PREFACE. preparation...mathematically it is said to cut it at infinity (co ) ; hence the general expression for a plane parallel...relations, as w^ill appear ciple f : 00 5 makes : CO it ffi is riglit to : : : : : ; '. from...in this system, 0,1, a number greater than 1, or co In this way are derived vertical axis, : : :
Report (volume)
Quebec, Division des Pecheries. Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Adv. Sci. - The Advancement of Science. of Science...Department of Geology Bulletin. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Albertan Geographer - The Albertan Geographer...Geography, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Am. Antiquity- American Antiquity. Society for...Arctic Institute of North America. Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Washington, D. C. Arctic Inst. North America Tech...Tech. Paper Paper. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Arctic Institute of North America Technical Arizona Acad
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY, YALE COLLEGE. ON THE PLAN AND WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF PROFESSOR JAMES D. DANA. WITH UPWARDS...These values may be in this system, 0, 1, a number co than In this way are derived greater l,"or vertical...always be written as a whole number, for the symbol co i Moreover it is seen that when n is oo 2. 1 is identical...w=l, n^> when m^l, n=ao when m-= n >1. when m=co n=\. when m=oo n=vz when m=Q, n=1. . . , , ,...when m=0, when w=oo [/] when m=oo [-&-2] when Tn co when m=l [1] \m\ when m m^l, [w-2] when m^.1, [m-n]
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MINERALOGY, YALE COLLEGE. ON THE PLAN AND WITH THE CO-OPERATION OP PROFESSOR .JAMES D. DANA. UPWARDS...EDWARD S. DANA 1877. Press of J. J. Little & Co* Astor Place, New York. PREFACE. " " Text-Book...wi=l, n=l. when m^l, n=l* when m=i, n=^ when ml, h=co when 7/1=00 n >1. when 771=00, n=l. when 771=00 n=...There are two other series of prisms witli symbols co c nb a and x> c In the latter series the axis 5 is...formed such aa that in f. 190, whose symbol is 2, or co G 2b a. This is a macrodiagonal prism and others
Book (edition)
r simila e r . repr esen ted in fig . : -1 ** s s co mple The ted form Conv erse lf a b 2b yf,orthe ****...is f parts ; whose origi d by a se action , and, co sult of ney are ly liable to de eirnat sely allied...is found ne Mis The laces, whose On the arms ao, co, * C and are seen to be This may be deter Rithe...slits, the parts of the arms below o, that is , ao , co, may be shortened, which is found ne cessary for...to be measured, are applied between the arms ao, co, which are opened till they just admit the crystal
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IiONDOlT PEINTED BT SPOTTISWOODE AND NEW-STEEET SQUABE CO. : aiOSSAEY OP imERALOaY. / BY HENEY WILLIAM...Thomson, 2 vols., 1836. Reports on the Geology of Canada, by Sir William Logan. Montreal. Quarterly Journal...Kammererite. Rhodochrome.^ Piotine. Thalite. Epistilbite. Gigantolite. Liebenerite. Chlorite. Pennine...Yellow Ochre. Carrollite. Bright White Cobalt, Co- Safflorite. Blakeite. Halotrichite. Halotrichine...Magnesium . . Peroxide of Cerium Mg^ •e-e CI . Co . . Chlorine Cobalt . . . . Magnesia Manganese
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dimensions nearly equal, or very different. In the co- and thickgreater than both breadth ness ; and in...to are comprehended under the heads of Lustre, Co/or, and Transparency. 104 TERMINOLOGY. These subjects...de toutes est la meilleure. Des Classien general co?npar6es aux artificielles. De naturelles fications...TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I NEW HAVEN: HEZEKIAH HOWE& CO. AND HERRICK & NOYES. 1835. Entered according...office, of the District Printed by Hczekiah Howe & Co. Court of Connecticut. TO IENJAMIN SILLIMAN,
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DANA AND WILLIAM E. FORD. TECHNICAL COMPOSITION CO. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A. PREFACE TO THE THIRD...localities of minerals in the United States and Canada see the volume See also the volumes on the Mineral...all, of the physical characters, the r^ rr r " T>co ~- f t.hi^ prop nation is true, viz., that unlike...53 52 Prism Basal Pinacoid (110) (001) (/i/cO) 54 Dome Dome (101), (MM) (Oil), (OW) * The...22', and the crystal resembles by Fig. 257; here co closely an octahedron with truncated edges (cf. Fig
Book (edition)
northeast, commences a sixth coal area, that of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, which covers 10,000 square...and what their positions? What is said of ihe Nova Scotia and New Brunswick coal beds I MINERAL COAL...COAL. 2500 square miles of which are in Nova 89 At Cape Scotia. another field of coal. The coal of Rhode...Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Camden, N. J., and at Cape Sable, near the Magothy river, in Maryland. It is...Illinois, It if Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Nova Scotia. abundant also in Europe. Uses. Gypsum, when
 
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