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Smoky Quartz from
Narragansett Pier, Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Narragansett Pier, Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:45175
Long-form Identifier:1:3:45175:4
GUID (UUID V4):f258bab6-ed84-4ddf-a762-67b9e76dfdb5
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
6.9km (4.3 miles) Bonnet Shores, Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Kingston Hill, South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) West Kingston, South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) Sullivan Quarry (Armetta Quarry; Copar Quarry; Westerly Granite Co. Quarry), Bradford, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
28.9km (17.9 miles) Redstone Granite Quarry (Cherenzia Quarry), Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
30.0km (18.6 miles) Smith Granite quarry, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
31.2km (19.4 miles) White Rock Quarry, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
33.4km (20.7 miles) Jackson Granite quarry, Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
33.9km (21.0 miles) Construction Materials Corp. quarry (Fish Road quarry), Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
52.6km (32.7 miles) Harris Quarry (Harris Lime Quarries), Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Quadrangle Rhode Island By GEORGE E. MOORE, JR. GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND GEOLOGICAL...State of Rhode Island Development Council UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1964...rocks______________________________________________ Rhode Island Formation____________________________________...rocks _____________________ -------_____ Narragansett Pier Granite__________________________________...1. Bedrock geology of the Kingston quadrangle: Rhode Island__ In pocket TABLE Page TABLE 1. Modes of
Report (volume)
Quadrangle Rhode Island :ly ROGER B. WILLIAMS }EOLOGY OF SELECTED QUAiDRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND JEOLOGICAL...~tate of Rhode Island Development r:louncil NITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. WASHINGTON : 1964...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract-------..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rhode Island Formation_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rhode Island Formation, undifferentiated________________ Rhode Island Formation, argillaceous
Report (volume)
Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and metamorphism of Narragansett basin sedimentary...age UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.G. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract---__--
Report (issue)
Ashaway and Voluntovm. quadrangles, Connecticut-Rhode Island by Tomas Feininger U.i S. Geological Survey... Muscovitic facies ................ Escoheag Quartz Diorite Gneiss Fine-grained facies 58 59 64 ...Rod Granite Gneiss ..............* 103 Narragansett Pier Granite ............... 105 Ifhite facies............. . . HI Aplite, pegmatite, and vein quartz Mafic dikes Petrogenesis ......... 116 .......158 Mechanism of intrusion ................ 162 Quartz-sillimanite anc. q;^r\,£-sillimanite--muscovite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 R. D. BALLARD Woods Hole Oceanographic...is exposed in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island as well as in the Maritime Provinces to the...granites and calc-alkalic Narragansett Pier and Westerly granites of southern Rhode Island, one must go east...grains surrounded by colorless anhedral crystals of quartz. Many of the large K-feldspar grains clearly exhibit...amphibole (in sample 419) fill interstices between quartz and K-feldspar. In all rocks sparse reddish-brown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hope Valley shear zone, New England Appalachians, USA S. R. GARLICK AND L. P. GROMET Department of Geological...Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA (l_gromet@brown.edu) ABSTRACT Field, petrographic...along the Hope Valley shear zone in southern Rhode Island indicate that late Palaeozoic deformation (c...Scituate granite gneiss of western and central Rhode Island. The Hope Valley terrane contains Late Proterozoic...Esmond-Dedham Terrane Boston MA CT 42°N HVSZ Narragansett basin RI MA Providence WD Scituate granite
Report (issue)
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1968 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price $3.25 CONTENTS HYDROLOGIC...distribution of the Westerly and Narragansett Pier Granites in Rhode Island and Connecticut, by Tomas Fe...and rodingite in Hunting Hill quarry, Montgomery County, Md. A summary, by D. M. Larrabee. _______ Accessory...ages of some igneous rocks in northern Stevens County, Wash., by R. G. Yates and J. C. Engel~_____-
Report (issue)
sulfur content from low in the Pocahontas and Narragansett coal fields to medium (1.0—3.0 percent sulfur)...were tens or hundreds of miles inland like the Narragansett basin. Nearness to a sea (an important source...Powder River Basin (Kent, this volume) and the Narragansett basin (Skehan and others, this volume) were...the New England coal basins, principally the Narragansett basin. Three of these basins are treated in...the Pennsylvania Anthracite region, and the Narragansett basin. Strata in the Eastern Coal Province range
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1917............................................... Washington gneiss......,- .................................................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...formation......................................... Rhode Island.......................................................................................... Narragansett Basin (including the Norfolk Basin)........
Report (issue)
Systems in the United StatesA. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine, by James W. Skehan, S.J., Daniel...UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1979 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock Number 024-001-03174-4 FOREWORD...Geological Survey CONTENTS Page Mass·ach usetts, Rhode Island, and Maine, by James W. Skehan, S.J., Daniel...Systems in the United States.- Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine By JAMES W. SKEHAN, S.J., DANIEL
Report (issue)
separately UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1991 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL...bedrock map (which also showed the geology of Rhode Island) was published in 1917 by Benjamin K. Emerson...their map symbols. Thus the micaceous quartzite, quartz-mica-garnet schist, and calc-silicate unit of the...Emerson, B.K., 1917, Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 597, 289 p...metavolcanic rocks older than the Proterozoic Z Rhode Island and Dedham batholiths.......... Rocks possibly
Journal (issue)
Number Two Articles Amethyst on milky quartz from Hopkinton, Rhode I s la n d by J. Rakovan, D. B. Mitchelltree...across, from A shaw ay Village, H opkinton, Rhode Island. S m ithsonian Institution specim en; p hoto...since it will be held at the giant Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, let’s just call it the “Pomona...74104 Sal Avella 7 Homestead Avenue Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917 Theeastern United States is well-known...overgrowths on milky quartz was discovered in Ashaway Village, Hopkinton, Rhode Island. This deposit has
Report (volume)
AT PRESTON, CONNECTICUT BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1912 CONTENTS.................................................. Quartz-biotite schist. .................................................................. Lantern Hill quartz................................................................................................ Quartz veins............................................similar rock from other horizons.................. Quartz-biotite schist. ..............................
Report (volume)
COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 1923 ADDITIONAL...SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVEENMENT FEINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 50 CENTS A COPY PUECHASEE AGEEES NOT...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...their granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Willi
Journal (issue)
Two Articles Amethyst on milky quartz from Hopkinton, Rhode Island by J. Rnkovn11, D. 8. Mitchel/tree...5 cm across, from Ashaway ViUage, Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Smithsonian Institution specimen; photo by... ince it will be held at the giant Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, let ·s just call it the.../99.'i AMETHYST O N MI LKY QUARTZ FRO M HO PKINT ON, RH O D E ISLAND John Rakovan Department of Earth...04 Sal Avella 7 Homestead Avenue Smithfield. Rhode Island 029 1 7 The eastern Unired States is well-known
Book (edition)
such as Great Smoky Group, Great Smoky Conglomerate, Great Smoky Formation and Great Smoky Quartzite. By...the total of 4,284 new Terms were United States county and city Terms. Counties and Cities in the United...States Earlier editions had Terms such as Washington County and Portland for counties and cities of the...occur in more than one state, e.g. there are Washington counties in several states. In this edition,...unique; for example: Washington County Arkansas and Portland Maine. Each new county Term can now autopost
Report (volume)
Zone UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C, 20402 - Price $13 (paper cover) per set...introduced for use in North America, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...America, Greenland, the West Indies, the Pacific Island possessions of the United States, and the Trust...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone
Report (volume)
WASHINGTON : 1938 'P4 • Q) w o For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C... 5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...publication). Ptg, Printing. Pub., Publication. qtz, quartz. qtzite, quartzite. qtzites, quartzites. qtzitic...called "sandy tuff." It immediately overlies Hyco quartz porphyry. Is well exposed at many places along...Rocks consist of gneissoids, granite, syenite, quartz, mica and hornblende schists and slates, qtzite
Book (volume)
and silver; Oregon, gold, copper, and silver; Washington, coal, iron ore, lead, and silver; Arizona is...to show signs of exhaustion, the Cocur d’ Alene county, Idaho, rose to more than fill the gap. Again and...from one end of the cantilever to the other, the pier or base of the crane being so arranged that the...telpher system employed in a limestone quarry in the island of Cuba, the telpher with its car travels upon...located at Mineville, near Lake Champlain, in Essex county, have long been famous as a source of iron ore
Report (issue)
monazite UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1967 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract-------...Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer...Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County _____________________ _ Zirconia district
Book
eae 149 CONTENTS Cameo portrait of George Washington, c.1800, signed by PART I Teresa Talani who...Seca shea fs aye es, Soy SSeS life mask of Washington in the guise of a classical hero. Courtesy Gol...further use of the significant collection of the Washington family jewelry, as did Kathaleen Betts at the...the Society of Cincinnati Headquarters in Washington, D.C. At Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, Beatrix...and enjoyable. The Society of Jewelry Historians USA in New York has provided a clearing house for information
Report (volume)
Index UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON ; 1965 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402. Price $10.75 per Set of Four Volumes...adjacent islands, and also Guam and other Pacific island possessions but not the trust territories of the...are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous
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iy fa . ‘4 a 5 Bol / U.S. GEOLOGIC WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE PekE Aeros thE ...CHIEF STATISTICIAN OF WILLIAM FOR MANUFACTURES WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1905 OFFICE M. STEUART...Grstelay atesi ope Seep AIR a ola ee TT RIS a Rhode Island s..,...2c2004¢ 52 tec nk sae Sees Se eisai eae...---+--Analysis of petroleum produced in Fresno County, California: 1902 ........-.-----------------------+-------4-The...sc... cece ek oes sic Geese cieee a areieeee re Quartz minerals:.........-2<2..0222 36 Socio snc Bee
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Reunion. Reuss. Reynard the Fox. Rhine Province. Rhode Island. Rhodium. Rhubarb. Rice. Richmond (Surrey)...Amsterdam and New York from 1652 to 1673. On Long Island John T. Polhemus preached at Flatbush in 1654-76...Dutch ministers at Albany and Kingston, on Long Island and in New Jersey; and for years the Dutch and...Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, N. Dakota, S. Carolina, Washington and Maryland—the order being that of rank in...Indiana, Minnesota, S. Dakota, Ohio, New York, Washington, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, N. Dakota, New
 
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