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Chalcedony from
Dinosaur National Monument, Moffat County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:National Monument
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dinosaur National Monument, Moffat County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:491447
Long-form Identifier:1:3:491447:1
GUID (UUID V4):5f95ddd4-4b9f-4f8b-92cb-d19f61dc2597
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
49.6km (30.8 miles) ⓘYellow Canary Uranium deposit, Red Creek (Browns Park), Daggett County, Utah, USA
51.9km (32.2 miles) ⓘUnnamed Copper Prospect (MRDS - 10013515), Cross Mountain Area, Moffat County, Colorado, USA
66.5km (41.3 miles) ⓘFantasy Canyon, Uintah County, Utah, USA
99.2km (61.6 miles) ⓘQuaking Aspen Mountain (Aspen Mountain) Occurrence, Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA
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Book (edition)
MILEAGE L OGS. REVISED EDITION Revised Edition, COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE HICllAHD :--1. PEARL...an extensive „em and mineral collecting tour 01 Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature...Swallow, Publisher) 2679 South York Street Denver, Colorado 80210 - , =· - ·, BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL...PEARL Exploring Rocks, Minerals, Fossils in Colorado America's Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak...Atlas of Colorado American Gem Trails Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation of Colorado . Scenery
Book (edition)
— _ ; COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE ! ■ : ' BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL Colorado Gem Trails...Trails and Mineral Guide Colorado Rocks, Minerals, Fossils America’s Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes...Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation of Colorado Scenery Guide to Geologic Literature Popular Gemology...Gemology Mineral Collectors Handbook Colorado Gem Trails The Art of Gem Cutting (With Dr. H. C. Dake)...Dake) * RICHARD M. PEARL ★ COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE ★ SKETCH MAPS BY MIGNON WARDELL PEARL
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when, the first National Park was established at Yellowstone, the Park and Monument areas of the United...which would put two huge dams in the Dinosaur National Monument. Fortunately, the final decision has...vigorous fight against the commercialization of the Monument. Here is a brief report on the factors involved...tortuous road from the headquarters of the Dinosaur National Monument near DECEMBER, 1953 Jensen, 52 miles...Major John Wesley Powell and his Colorado River exwithin the Monument. plorers spent three days here in
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mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville...Luttrell, Another of .78 carat, light yellow, Union County. was reported found in 1888 on the Henry Burris
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Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...a k e w o o d , Colorado 80225 DIANNE L. K I L E 333 S a l e m Street Aurora, Colorado 80011 C O L O...and J. A. Mur­ phy for an update to Minerals of Colorado: A 100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS... Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado residents, as documented by an extensive body...body of literature. The first published list of Colorado mineral localities (in­ cluding quartz) was included
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host the event in Knoxville in October, but the county is still under restrictions, so the meeting location...knowledgeable. Banded chalcedony (Prairie Agate) (White River Badlands area, western South Dakota, USA) Although...roam and snakes are abundant. The nearby Tzavo National Park was considered typical of its habitat, so...WRAPPING THE TRIANGLE from Fossil Club of Lee County 04/2010, via Northwest Federation Newsletter 05/06/2020...recreational opportunities. 6. Wilderness and monument designations are inconsistent with the principle
Book
authorHouseÂź Table of Contents Introduction Foreword * Colorado Gemstone-Aquamarine Vii Vili Fossil-Stegosaurus...Loam Series 29 30 31 * District of Columbia Dinosaur-Capitalsaurus fo, Fossil-Petrified Wood * Arkansas...Maryland Fossil Shell-Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae Dinosaur-Astrodon johnstoni Gem-Patuxent River Stone *...* Massachusetts Gem-Rhodonite Fossil-Dinosaur Track Mineral-Babingtonite Rock-Roxbury Puddingstone Conglomerate...Rock-Plymouth Rock Explorer Rock-Dighton Rock Building & Monument Stone-Granite Soil-Paxton Series Glacial Rock-Rolling
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the establishment of the Petrified Forest National Monument, Holbrook, Arizona. Dec. 8-9—Pro-Amateur Golf...descriptions and observations of this incomprehensible monument to a forgotten people. By FRANK A. TINKER Photographs...petrification of wood in the Petrified Forest National Monument of Arizona. True False 3—-According to fable...a battle. True False 5—Highway 66 crosses the Colorado River at Topock. True False 6—Certain species...formation known as the Great White Throne is in Zion National Park in Utah. True False 8—Wild turkeys may still
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State Fair Grounds, Phoenix, Arizona. Nov. 6-7—Colorado River Roundup, Parker, Arizona. Nov. 6-7—Sierra...to John Lubken, long time chairman of the Inyo County Board of Supervisors. Furnace Creek Golf Course...tumbling barrel, where colorful bits of jasper and chalcedony and moss agate have been semi-polished into natural...which were even then on their way to becoming a national fad. These stones also are called baroque gems...tumbling jaspers, chalcedony, sard and carnelian and bits of agate and chalcedony roses for centuries
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 3. Colorado By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...deposits and the resources of oxidized zin.c ores in Colorado UNITED STATES· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...19180xidized zinc deposits of the United States. Part 3. Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. vi...Bibliography : p. 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale...PLATE 1. Map showing oxidized zinc deposits of Colorado. 2. Map showing ore bodies and location of known
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today. lAZy Rt RANCH P.O. Box 950 D, Boulder, Colorado pick up and go VagaBondia! Get away from it...where the wagons were built. A state historical monument, dedicated during Mojave's October 1958 Gold Rush...the Death Valley 49ers. of Death Valley National Monument Visitor Center. The wagons, 10 of them, were...Salt Lake City SOUWWST CALENDAR Sept. 1 -4: Elko County Fair, Elko, Nev. Sept.' 2-4: Homecoming & Rodeo...1961 Sept. 9-10: Navajo County Fair, Holbrook, Ariz. Sept. 9-10: National Water Ski Races, Lake Mead
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Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK Copyright © 2020 by The Rowman &...publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of...steel file 7 7Âœ 8 9 10 Quartz; agate, chert, chalcedony, and jasper; streak plate Garnet Topaz Corundum...when you pick up agate, jasper, flint, chert, chalcedony, and obsidian samples in the field. There is...them out as you look for nicer specimens. The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American
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and quartz the favorite gem- tention to other chalcedony gems The agate also. is gem of America....form of chalcedony. known how not is among the popular impression rockhounds that chalcedony agate... In the general opinion of most collectors, chalcedony and the color is is usually concretionary...shall make it a practice to call all forms of chalcedony grades agate, all minerals (and nearly all...brecciated or conglomeration of cemented pebbles chalcedony, and is pudding stone in the gem trade. trations
Report (issue)
HISTORY, AND CLAY MINERALOGY OF THE CHIEFTAIN MINE, DINOSAUR RIDGE, PATCH MINE, AND OTHER LOCALITIES ALONG...ALONG THE FRONT RANGE FROM DENVER TO BOULDER, COLORADO Clay Minerals Society 39th Annual Meeting and Field...Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-413 Denver, Colorado 2002 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GALE A........................ 11 The clay industry in Colorado ..................................... 13 Rubey............................................. 19 Dinosaur Ridge .......................................
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There is currently a new ‘‘golden age’’ of dinosaur paleontology that has not been seen since the...endotherms. In the last couple of decades the study of dinosaur eggs and babies, in particular, has proved to...one of the most exciting and profitable areas of dinosaur research. Although it is over a hundred years...years since O.C. Marsh first recognized a baby dinosaur, that of the sauropod Apatosaurus, renewed interest...of baby dinosaur bones, eggs, and embryonic remains can tell us a great deal about dinosaur behavior
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Phoenix, Arizona. Feb. 18-23—Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Fairgrounds, Indio, California...23—Annual Miniature Parade in connection with Maricopa County Fair, Mesa, Arizona. Feb. 24—Twenty-fifth annual...and part quate roads and better mail service. of Colorado. "The road to Missouri (the Santa Commerce on...chipped and faded with age, might have served as a monument to procrastination. On one face of it appeared...100'h Meridian War Department Reverse side of the monument read: Long. hat U.S. ENGINEERS 1871 Evidently
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Moss Drive, P.O. Box 740252 Houston Texas, TX 77074 USA Tel : +1 832 641 5014 ; +234 803 715 8372 Fax : +1...familiar with today’s polar bears, but polar dinos? Dinosaur bones have been found and excavated for some time...report on 80- to 62-million-year-old remains of dinosaur hatchlings, including both herbivores and carnivores...material can be found. Our destination was Seminole County, Oklahoma. The agate and conglomerates are named...made from finds along the back roads of Seminole County WWW.ROCKNGEM.COM | NOVEMBER 2021 15 16 ROCK&GEM
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August 12-14—Wasatch County Fair and Rodeo, Heber, Utah. August 12-14—Sanpete County Fair, Manti, Utah....Square Dance Festival, Flagstaff. August 18-20—Cache County Fair, Logan, Utah. August 24-31—Hopi Snake Dances...August 27-28—Kane County Fair and Horse Show, Orderville, Utah. August 28-29—Tooele County Fair, Tooele,...from the dancer's face. 5 A Balsa was used by the Colorado River Indians as—A weapon for A flip of the head...wore and make River . Rio Grande . Yampa River . Colorado ready to join their feasting families. River As
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
boundary area have been enlarged and filled with chalcedony, which postdates opal formation. These chemical...there have been studies of the silicification of dinosaur bones. For example, Hubert et al. (1996) found...that during diagenetic silicification of Jurassic dinosaur bones, the biogenic apatite-group mineral was...defined edges. These areas are filled by fibrous chalcedony, as are cracks connecting some of the canals...by the sharp reflections of quartz, due to the chalcedony filling the canals and the boundary cracks, and
Journal (issue)
Georgia. By Alfred C. Hawkins ............227 Dinosaur Gizzard Stones. By W. C. Minor .................Geology Chili Co-operates With the R. & M. 5th National Outing. By F. C. Kessler ............. .........MINERALS DINOSAUR GIZZARD STONES By W. C. MINOR, Fruita, Colorado An assortment of dinosaur gizzard ...often found scattered among deposits of fossilized dinosaur bones. It is now generally believed by students...merely attracted by the bright colors. Perhaps Mr. Dinosaur can rightfully be called the world's first collector
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campground which is complete with restrooms. The National Park Service has also f i n i s h e d a covered...launching ramp. Rangers and personnel from the National Park Service, Utah Fish and Game and Utah Park...artist. Numerous petrified forests, fossil beds, dinosaur graveyards for the rockhound and pebblepup. Wilderness...Jacinto Mountains rising 10,000 feet above the Colorado Desert. Photo by David Muench, Santa Barbara,...the major east-west routes, with access to the Colorado River basin, Arizona and the general desert southwest
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there; Or the palo verde in its retreat? Boulder, Colorado Little Navajo, watch your Hock. as duty now demands...California. JUNE, 1955 Volume 18 Number 6 Zion National Park, Utah. Photo by JOSEF MUENCH, Santa Barbara...toward the mesquite and cottonwood jungle along the Colorado River four miles away. Blythe had less than 300...brush, and DESERT MAGAZINE Ehrenberg on the Colorado River in 1905. Once an important boat landing...and Hobson brought in irrigation water from the Colorado River and opened Palo Verde Valley to farm settlement
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for the season. OCT. 6-9 — Santa Cruz, Arizona, county fair and rodeo. OCT. 7-8—Alfalfa Festival at Lancaster...Ambassador hotel, Los Angeles. OCT. 25 — Dedication of monument at spot where first airplane landed at Yuma, Arizona...WEATHER SPORTS HISTORY OCTOBER, 1938 No. 12 Monument Peak, California, Photo by Will N. Fox October...after going as far north as White River in Tulare county. The journey was made especially dangerous because...Yellowstone of the old days, across to Grand Canyon national park and into the land of stone trees, where he
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passed away, he was able to spend some time in Colorado with family members. He was an HGMS member for...the opportunity to spend a semester at Argonne National Laboratory, and, because of Dr. Keizer, Bob went...outer shell or rind (like a melon) composed of chalcedony, which is harder than the host rock in which...Patton concession land next to the Petrified Forest National Park. I did not know much about petrified wood...specimens come from Coeur d’Alene district in Shoshone County, Idaho. Other locations in the United States include
 
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