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Microcline from
Grandfather Mountain, Linville, Avery County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grandfather Mountain, Linville, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:521137
Long-form Identifier:1:3:521137:1
GUID (UUID V4):8c2e243b-bc75-4cbf-807f-a60ba6388969
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
13.5km (8.4 miles) Cranberry Mine, Cranberry Magnetite Mining District, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
27.7km (17.2 miles) Chestnut Flats Mine, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Hawkins Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) English Mine (English Knob Mine), Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) Wiseman Mine (Old Mart Wiseman Mine; Sullins-Wiseman Mine), Greasy Creek Township, Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Buchanan Mine (Buchanan pegmatite), Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Elk Knob Mine, Watauga County, North Carolina, USA
30.4km (18.9 miles) Deer Park No. 2 Mine, Penland, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) McHone Mine pegmatite, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Poteat Mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Geology of the Grandfather Mountain Window and Vicinity, North Carolina and Tennessee By BRUCE BRYANT...Petrographic nomenclature _______ _______ 9 9 Grandfather Mountain window ----------------------- 59 General...______________________ Brown Mountain Granite __________________ --Grandfather Ddountain Formation _____________...------- ___ Layered gneiss southeast of the Grandfather Ddountain window _________________ _______ Cranberry...--------------------------- 45 Slices north of the Grandfather Mountain window -----------------------------Slices
Report (volume)
Geology of the Linville Falls Quadrangle North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1161-B Geology... Geology of the Linville Falls Quadrangle North Carolina By JOHN C. REED, JR. CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY...structural and metamorphic history in western North Carolina UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...___________________________ _ _ Rocks of the Grandfather Mountain window._____________________ Autochthonous...Rock Gneiss________________________-__-_Brown Mountain Granite_________________________ Upper Precambrian
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK October 21 – 23, 1983 GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN...IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTHWE3STERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by Sharon E. Lewis Virginia Division of Mineral...NRCD Post Office Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1983 OFFICERS...South Carolina 29613 Vice-President: John J. Chapman Department of Earth Science Western Carolina University...University Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr. Department of Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exfoliation in Crystalline Terrane, Grandfather Mountain Area, North Carolina Abstract: Aerial photographs...rock in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge of western North Carolina reveal numerous large-scale arcuate, circular...tectonic joints 982 Joint systems in the Grandfather Mountain area 982 Relation of sheeting joints to...986 Figure 1. Map of the Grandfather Mountain area in western North Carolina, showing major structural...subdivisions 976 2. Geologic map of part of Grandfather Mountain area, showing the location of the most completely
Report (issue)
OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: KEVIN G. STEWART MARK G. ADAMS CHARLES H. TRUPE CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Loren Raymond Banner Elk, North Carolina September 26-28, 1997 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1997 FIELD...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Kevin G. Stewart Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel... Trupe Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 TABLE OF CONTENTS...Evolution Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Complex, Western North Carolina ..........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the sole of the thrust sheet around the Grandfather Mountain window displays numerous small tight or...Appalachians. 2 GEOLOGIC SETTING The Appalachian Mountain system in the south-eastern United States consists...Pre-Cambrian and Palaeozoic age flanked on the north-west by folded and faulted but unmetamorphosed sedimentary...southern Appalachians showing location of the Grandfather Mountain window. From U.S. Geol. Survey and Am. Ass...plate Contact HG.2.-Sketch map of the Grandfather Mountain window and adjacent parts of the Blue Ridge
Report (issue)
North Carolina State Library jleigh ( f t NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN RALEIGH...RALEIGH 1958 G. CONRAD Norffe Carolir* St** NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD...Jefferson F. J. BOLING Siler City H. C. BUCHAN, JR North Wilkesboro SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR Spruce Pine VOIT
Report (issue)
Carolina Geological Society Officers 1966-67 President: William J. Furbish Duke University Durham...Durham, North Carolina Vice President: Maurice Magee Tennessee Copper Company Ducktown, Tennessee Secretary-Treasurer:...Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron Duke University Durham, North Carolina Field Trip Leader: Douglas W. Rankin U.S...S. Geological Survey Washington, D.C. CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1967 Annual Meeting...THE GEOLOGY OF THE MT. ROGERS AREA, VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE Douglas W. Rankin U.S. Geological
Report (issue)
Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INTERMITTENT PONDS ON QUARTZITE RIDGES IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Abstract: Several intermittent ponds and closed...of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Morganton, North Carolina. The unconsolidated fill and debris in the...the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Morganton, North Carolina (Fig. 1). The depressions range from a few...the crest of Linville Mountain 1.3 miles S. 72° W. of Tablerock Mountain in the Linville Falls 73^-minute...1:24,000 topographic maps. Another on Shortoff Mountain is erroneously shown on the Ashford 7^-minute
Report (issue)
Regional physiographic features related to the Pine Mountain belt ______________________ Differential movement...____________ Chilhowee-Walden Creek belt. ._____________ Mountain highlands ______________ Brevard zone and Hendersonville...______________ Dan River capture ________________ Linville River ________________ Evolution of the escarpment...large trench valleys and basins in part of the Mountain highlands _________________________ Geologic map..._______________________________________________ Map of the Linville River and surrounding areas ______________ __
Report (issue)
cise fe Sew a Sh bs LO eae hb tole Ce PEO ER baw Avery Ala Drake, Jr. The geology of the Honey Brook Upland...of the Grenville basement complex of the Pine Mountain window, Alabama and Georgia James W. Sears and...province in North Carolina and Tennessee, as well as smaller gneiss domes of Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia...domes of Maryland; and the Sauras Massif of North Carolina. Still farther east are the isolated Grenville...Goochland area in eastern Virginia and the Pine Mountain window in Georgia and Alabama. To be able to treat
Book
JR. BRANCH DENVER DENVER, OF ROCKY FEDERAL MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY CENTER COLORADO and...of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (deceased). HADLEY, Jarvis... Jr., U. S. Geological Survey Branch of Rocky Mountain Environmental Geology, Denver Federal Center,... Preface The Appalachians are one of the classic mountain ranges of the world. Many concepts fundamental...2, p. Huntington Broedel, Reverse faulting north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull
Report (issue)
Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...Knoxville l°x2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina 2. Paleozoic metamorphic facies map
Report (volume)
Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1988 OFFICERS President: Kenneth A. Gillon BP Minerals America 1112 Mill...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC 28403 Secretary-Treasurer:...Anthropology Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC 28723 H. Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources...of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695 Wayne V...ZONE OF THE SAURATOWN MOUNTAINS ANTICLINORIUM, NORTH CAROLINA TEUNIS HEYN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina ..... 67 Table 12 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina ..... 85 Table 15 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of north-central New York........................65 Figure...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina................................77 Figure 17...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina. ............*......*...........86 Figure 20.
Report (issue)
Winegrapes in Polk, Henderson and Buncombe Counties, NC Carolina Geological Society – Guidebook for the 83rd Annual...Hendersonville, North Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Joseph Forrest, Rick Wooten, Bart Cattanach Carolina Geological...site at 3400 feet on the Blue Ridge escarpment. Carolina Geological Society 2022 Board of Directors President...Engineering Secretary Cheryl Waters-Tormey - Western Carolina University Treasurer Jeff Chaumba - UNC Pembroke...Soil Geomorphology in North Carolina Brad Johnson 105 Western North Carolina Soils, Geology and Wine
Report (issue)
Pennsylvania . 89 Richard P. Nickelsen The North Mountain-Pulaski fault system and related thrust sheet... Contents IV The Rome Formation decollement in the Mountain City window, Tennessee; A case for involvement...landmasses prior to the open¬ ing of the modem North Atlantic Ocean, after LePichon and others (1977)...northern Virginia and in the vicinity of Grandfather Mountain in the southern Appalachian salient. The...Unaka belt in northeast Tennessee and northwest North Carolina, while Woodward and Beets consider the sequence
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC NOTES Volume 13 October 1969 Number 4 Carolina Geological Society Guidebook October 3-5, 1969... A Guide to the Geology of Northwestern South Carolina.................................................Migmatitic Inner Piedmont Belt of Northwestern South Carolina Villard S. Griffin, Jr..........................Part of the Blue Ridge of Northwesternmost South Carolina Robert D. Hatcher, Jr....................................................... ............. 11 Carolina Geological Society 1969 Field Trip Stops #1 through
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, U.S.A. Received July 21,...maximum width of about 300 km in North Carolina and South Carolina and narrows along strike to the northeast...map of crystalline Appalachians in North Carolina and South Carolina. See Fig. 2 for units in Charlotte...synclinorium, GMW Grandfather Mountain Window, GS Great Smoky Mountains, S Stone Mountain granitic pluton...1968; OVERST~ET and BELL,1965b; GeologicMap of North Carolina, 1958; BVTLnR,J. 1%, unpubl. maps, 1961--1968;
Report (issue)
Carolina Geological Society 2008 Fieldtrip and Annual Meeting, Little Switzerland, North Carolina October...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________...__ Carolina Geological Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders...Sponsors Active Minerals International, LLC Imerys North America Ceramics Unimin Corporation Vulcan Materials...Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina __________________________________________
Report (issue)
the Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina by W. R. Griffitts, J. W. Whitlow...the Charlotte 1° x 2° quadrangle, North Carolina and South Carolina, begun in 1978 that is part of a multidisciplinary...muscovite in which are embedded coarser masses of microcline and, in many dikes, spodumene. The latter two...operated by the Foote Mineral Company south of Kings Mountain. The greisen is composed of white mica and quartz...obtained from the Ross mine, near Gaffney, South Carolina (Keith and Sterrett, 1931). The bedrock deposit
Report (issue)
Sc ce i en e T ec tonic s R es earc h nc Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 19-20...southwestern Brushy Mountains, centralwestern North Carolina Guidebook Editors: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr....Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Geological Conultants, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Central Savannah...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...South Carolina Kubal and Furr, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1980 OFFICERS President: J. Robert Butler Department of Geology University...University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Vice-President: Van Price, Jr. Savannah River Laboratory...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika...Radiometric Dating in the Sauratown Mountains Area, North Carolina (P.D. Fullagar and J. R. Butler). . . . . .... 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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