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Sillimanite from
Falls of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Waterfall
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Falls of Schuylkill, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:502268
Long-form Identifier:1:3:502268:7
GUID (UUID V4):434b4556-2ccf-4f5a-a8b9-58d4328301c7
Nearest other occurrences of Sillimanite
1.2km (0.7 miles) Ridge Avenue and School Lane Quarries, East Falls, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Wissahickon Valley, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Horrock's Quarry, Frankford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Bullock's Quarry, Brandywine Summit, Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
44.6km (27.7 miles) Dickson's Quarry (Dixon's Quarry), Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
52.1km (32.4 miles) Nevin's Quarry, Landenberg, London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
93.8km (58.3 miles) Hoit Mine, White Township, Warren County, New Jersey, USA
References
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DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA 104 Na 2Al 2 Si3 Oi .2H 2 O; SiO 2 47.4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na...Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis: Fe 2 O3 CaO...LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses of colorless...quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating
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corner of Kimball Co. where it overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire...Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution of 100 million years ago that closed the Mesozoic era...west reaches rise to the high, arid sagebrush plains of eastern Wyoming, disclosing spectacular bedrock formations...Nebraska contains most of the gem fields in the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and...scenic Badlands thrust long spurs into this part of the state. In this rough, uncurried region are found
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sea which received successively enormous quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and...and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks...rocks appear within the state, but every one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris....produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite...dolomite, and second in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal
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sea which received successively enormous quantities of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and...and Pennsylvanian sediments; the erosional products of some 200 million years. Few, if any Mesozoic rocks...rocks appear within the state, but every one of Ohio’s 88 counties is surfaced with Pleistocene debris....produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite...dolomite, and second in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH...SMITH, Director Bulletin 624 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES**-^ COMPILED BY FRANK C. SCHRADER...SCHRADER, RALPH W. STONE AND SAMUEL SANFORD A revision of Bulletin 585 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE.................................... 102 District of Columbia ..................................................................................... Pennsylvania............................................
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTI8 SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 585...585 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES COMPILED BY SAMUEL SANFORD AND RALPH W. STONE WASHINGTON...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Compiled by SAMUEL SANFORD and...EDWARD W. PARKEH. The final chapters of two of the earlier volumes of the Geological Survey's annual report...Mineral Resources of the United States" (the volumes for 1882 and 1887) consist of lists of the useful minerals
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This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve...INTRODUCTION ΤΟ MINERALOGY ; ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATE STUDENTS. ILLUSTRATED BY NEARLY...According to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by ROBINSON, PRATT, & CO. In the Clerk's Office of the District...District Court of Connecticut. STEREOTYPED BY F. F. RIPLEY , NEW YORK 量1 mineral Sei fit I verbeeld...Introductory part of this volume is entirely new , and par St9-80 has been prepared with the intention of making
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