 | | Report (volume) | | SCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED GRANITES AND PORPHYRIES OF RHODE ISLAND BENJAMIN K. EMERSON JOSEPH H. PERRY WASHINGTON.............. 18 Nonoccurrence of il vaite in Rhode Island.................. 19 Inclusion of limestone............................... 24 Beds west of Providence and Pawtucket ................... 25 Cranston......'.................... Vein quartz at Diamond Hill.............................. "Warnsutta group"...crystalline rocks in the vicinity of Providence and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island............................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND. I. PROVIDENCE COUNTY Lr,ovo W. Frsunn.q,Nt Enwrx K. GnlNav...recent survey of the minerals of the state of Rhode Island which are included in the museum collections...Brown University and of Roger Williams Park of Providence, together with a careful study in the field by...the chief rnineral localities and occurrencesin Providence Countvr is here recorded. r A paper is being...Aragonite Arfvedsonite Augite Azurite Barite Beryl ' Biotite Boltonite Bowenite Calcite Chalcopyrite Crocidolite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NORTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND 286 ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S The adjacent towns of Cumberland and Lincoln...Lincoln in northeastern Rhode Island offer col lecting in several localities, including the Conklin Limestone...Old Dexter quarry, Diamond Hill, the Route 114 road cut, and the Iron Hill mine. T H E T O W N S H I...northeast corner of Rhode Island is not so famous mineralogically as Cumberland in England; however,...both the state mineral and the state rock of Rhode Island. Much of this area coincides with the Pawtucket |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A GEOLOGY OF THE DIAMOND IIILL-CUMBERLAND DISTRICT IN RHODE ISLAND-M ASSACHUSETTS 1 BY CHARLES H. WARREN........................................... 441 Cumberland quartzite............................................................ 4ri8 Comparison of the biotite granites............................................................................ 461 Diamond Hill felsite...........................................(435) 436 WARREN AND POWERS----DIAMOND H ILL—CUMBERLAND DISTRICT Page Riebeckite-iegirite granite. |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...and Webber Hill, El Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral...Corral, Nevada County; Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | moderately enriched mantle, similar to an ocean island basalt (OIB)-type source (Faure and Mensing, 2005)...(Romer and Kroner, 2014), probably phlogopite/biotite-rich mid14 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT crustal metasedimentary...Maritimes Basin in Nova Scotia (western Cape Breton Island, Antigonish Highlands SC and Cobequid Highlands)...Carboniferous trachytes (~335 Ma old) from the Cumberland Hill Formation (Gander Terrane) TE of southern...continental crust material (probably phlogopite/biotite-rich metasedimentary rocks) with primitive basaltic |  | | Journal (issue) | | headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...Rd., Ardsley, N.Y. Chairman—Gene Jacob, 10 Beacon Hill Rd., Ardsley, N. Y. Oct. 2. 3. 1965—Topeka Gem &...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at rhe...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las...in some microcline and deavelandite cavities. Biotite was observed as cleavages only. Spodumene crystals |  | | Report (volume) | | 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...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Central Railroad, sees. 5-7, T. 11 S., R. 5 E., Pope County. Named for Abbott Station. Abbyville Gabbrol Precambrian |  | | Report (volume) | | 5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Pre-Cambrian : Central southern Virginia (Mecklenburg County). F. B. Laney, 1917 (Va. Geol. Surv. Bull. 14,...formation. Middle Cambrian : Western Utah (Gold Hill district). T. B. Nolan, 1930 (Wash. Acad. Sci. Jour...Abercrombie Peak, on ridge S. of Dry Canyon, in Gold Hill dist., is underlain by this fm., hence the name...Pleistocene : Southern South Carolina (Charleston County). E. Sloan, 190 (S. C. Geol. Surv. geognostic map |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...twin, YvT V / v> / -f repeated twin o( rutile Cumberland, England, \ m m " '.^y^ penetration penetr;...OF ROCK COLLECTING Suppose you are climbing a hill top of which at the only to avoid making ers |  | | Book (edition) | | and is a of these complex often called is biotite and its distribu- involving magnesia in silicate...characteristic cwuiilc, siUinianite, staurolite, biotite, results I'^pidote when afforded may in ^'arnet...j^rouj) of the ores. called silicates, olivine, biotite, Next follow the blende. mains, ; show rocks...at Meissen, near Dresden, in Saxony, and on the island of Arran,. vania. off the west coast of Scotland...belonging in the series from albite to oligoclase. Biotite is much the commonest dark silicate, although hornblende |  | | Journal (issue) | | (Germany); Chihuahua and Zacatecas (Mexico). In the USA, there are large quantities of acanthite at Leadville...in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska and California, USA. The Alaskan deposits are found close to significant...byssolite is found mainly in Pennsylvania and Virginia, USA. FACT FILE ACTINOLITE Group: Silicates Crystal...in the yellow Bernadino County, mineral limonite, and in the California, USA; in Cap sulphide-rich upper...(Scotland); Magnet Cove, Arkansas, and Libby, Montana (USA). cc LU z □ LU cc a... C/.) LU □ Many orthopyroxenes |  | | Book (edition) | | anthracite region 10. Structure section in Tazewell County, east of Richlands, southwest 8. 9. 12. 13. ...grahamite fissure to anticlinal fold, in Ritchie County, W. Va Plan of Trinidad pitch lake Section of gilsonite...formations of Arkansas Volcanic ash from Madison County, Mont Section showing occurrence of corundum around...areas of barite Bennett barite mine, Pittsylvania County, Va. Map of barite veins near Lexington, 109...Plan of pyrite lenses at Sulphur Mines, Louisa County, Va., showing 401 pyrite (a) and crystalline schists | | | Book | | topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...wi th tin beak. 5 Fluorite penetration twin, Cumberland, England. 5 The famous pegmat1te rock mass...OF ROCK COLLECTING Suppose you are climb ing a hill at the top of wh ich is a mineral deposit. If you'...mine , canyon) district where found (township, county, state) how obtained (found , given , etc., with...in pegmatite Mount Antero , 12,000 feet Chaffee County . Colorado from the Smith co llection 1/10/74 |  | | Book (edition) | | here expresses thanks to the publishers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, for kind permission...394-404, I 932. 2 8 INTRODUCTION mixture of biotite (H = 2) and quartz (H = 7) cannot be said to have...actinolite, hornblende. Mica group, muscovite, biotite. Olivine, garnet, tourmaline, epidote, andalusite...rarely vitreous ( san idine) 5. With quartz and biotite in light colored rocks 1. Plagioclase Striated...weathered brown, it may be more r eadily identified. Biotite has commonly a brownish black color and is much |  | | Book (edition) | | has a graphic formula like this K O O For biotite which the acid as follows is more complex we...for muscovite will be variety of biotite given above will be Biotite is the dark mica and is 2 12...leaves with cleavage the point of a knife. It Biotite is often called magnesia-mica. enters into the... tourmaline, topaz, andalusite, scapolite and biotite are especially characteristic of the former; garnet...garnet, cyanite, silUmanite, staurolite, biotite, and muscovite of the latter. Details of the development |  | | Book | | Freiberg, E. Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at Corocoro...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area of north...Czechoslo¬ vakia and Romania; in the Alps of South Island, NewZealand;fromCharters Towers, Queensland, from |  | | Book | | ians Mr. Atkins and Mrs. Brunton; Dr. or Morgan Hill, William Larson, CA; R. Fallbrook, W. Dr....crystals Assuming prehistoric separating the island of known since to them in is Ceylon curiosities...3 early beryl even narrow straits of that island, must also have gemstone still found there today...always is Theophrastus Theophrastus. gazing John Hill by and J. F. Caley make it doubtful whether...gold links National Museum of Naples. McGraw Hill Book Co., After emerald The and and necklace |  | | Book (edition) | | Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...of Canada. Clay Mineralogy, by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968). Crystal Chemical Classification of Minerals...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous | | | Book (edition) | | Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in |  | | Report (issue) | | Survey oj the vicinity' oj Belle Plaine, Scott county, Minnesota. A. Winchell. June 17, 1871. 8vo. 16...assisted by M. W. Harrington; 162 pp. 8vo; with jour county maps and a number of other illustrations. Also...the southeastern portion of the state, where the county of Houston, which borders on the Mississippi river...Silurian which will necessitate changes in the colored county maps that have been published. This evidence is...the field work. In the western part of Fillmore county the Niagara limestone seems to be wanting, or at |
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