 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AMERICA NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND PART II. REMAINING COUNTIES Lrovn W. FrsnBn...Almandite Apatite Asbestus Autunite Chabazite Chlorite Epidote Fluorite Labradorite Lignite Magnetite sand Masonite...Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...consisting chiefly of the Rhode Island formation of shales, con_ glomerates and sandstones. B. K. Ernerson2has...similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth |  | | 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...Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including southern Kent and Bristol...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 |  | | Book | | 1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go � - PRICE $2...Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE INC. JUNCTION...Massachusetts Tantuques Graphite Mine Warwick, Massachusetts Warwick Tourmaline Site Westfield, Massachusetts...Massachusetts Blueberry Mt. Quarry RHODE ISLAND Cumberland State Park, Rhode Island Diamond Hill Quarry Sneech...Sneech Pond Copper Mines Lincoln, Rhode Island Conklin Limestone Quarry FOREWORD The purpose of this book |  | | Report (volume) | | SCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED GRANITES AND PORPHYRIES OF RHODE ISLAND BENJAMIN K. EMERSON JOSEPH H. PERRY WASHINGTON...schist........................................ 14 Epidote-chlorite schist............................................. 18 Nonoccurrence of il vaite in Rhode Island.................. 19 Inclusion of limestone...vicinity of Providence and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island................................ 10 II. Porphyritic...SCHISTS AND ASSOCIATED GRANITES AND PORPHYRIES OF RHODE ISLAND. Bv B. K. EMERSON and J. H. PERRY. INTRODUCTION |  | | Report (volume) | | ~rompton Quadrangle ~bode Island EOLOGY OF SELECfED QUADRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND ' ALONZO W. QUINN EOLOGICAL...1158-B ~repared in cooperation with ~e State of Rhode Island, >evelopment Council ~ITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Conglomerate____________________________________ Rhode Island Formation ____________________ -----__________...map and sections of the Crompton quadrangle, Rhode Island------------------------------------------------...QUADRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE CROMPTON QUADRANGLE, RHODE ISLAND By ALONzo W. QmNN |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | About 40 miles northeast of Montgomery in Coosa County there is an outcrop that carries considerable tin...albite, apatite, beryl, clinozoisite, corundum, epidote, fluorite, garnet, graphite, hornblende, kyanite...might find interesting. It is scheelite from Marin County, California. It is of primary interest as it is...Andreas fault, extending from Marin County to San Luis Obispo County. Included in the Sur Series are limestone...Such beds are found in the vicinity of the Marin County discovery and are probably related to its origin |  | | Report (issue) | | Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A Prepared...Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann EDITOR OPEN-FILE...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Rhode Island Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cut for the begin ning students. The Rockland County Mineral and Gem Club, Spring Valley, went to the...Members Annette and George Hade of the Tompkins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca, spent a part of their...vacation in the Fiji Islands and Australia. The Island Rockhounds, Rockville Center, took advantage of...Mineral Society (N.Y.j and four from Massapequa, Long Island (N.Y.) arrived in West Chester for a week end...Club Rock and Mineral Club, Sayre. of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, MARYLAND went to the Teeter Quarry |  | | Book | | of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and... ERRATA. Page " " " 11 under BRUNSWICK, after Epidote, dele Manganesian. P.) refers to John Pedrick,...Radiated Sulphurtt of Iron. 7, under TOPSHAM, after Epidote, dele Manganesian. 14, 73, 114, 123, and 124, for...contained in granite. Garnet, sometimes orange red. Epidote, arenaceous, on the banks of the Androscoggin,...strata of gneiss. sometimes in crystals, generally Epidote, manganesian, granular or compact, in veins traversing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | resources characterize Rhode Island's complex geology. The Geol Rhode Island J. A L L A N CAIN Geology...Geology Department University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 A T P R E S E N T , R H O D E...Further straining credulity is the suggestion that Rhode Island and some other parts of the eastern United States...is now western Europe and northwest Africa. Rhode Island is part of the southeastern New England platform...glacial deposits on Block Island, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Island. The western margin of |  | | Report (issue) | | clinochlore brucite danburite talc calcite epidote apatite Crystalline schists. most part silicates...such as, for example, the dumortierite of New York island have resulted from excavations for foundations...Mineralogy of the Island of Min. Jour. 1814. 1:191. York. the Minerals of New York Island. New N. Y....2. 1851. 12:6. Lanthanite and Allanite in Essex County, N. Y. Am. Jour. Sci. of Several f2 14 Blum...Jahresber. H. of p, 163; 1863. N. Y. of Erie County. 49th An. Rep't. 1843. nachtrag. Economic Geology |  | | Book (edition) | | GUIDE (Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder River Basin, northeastern Wyoming Bion H. Kent .......... 105 Deposition of deltaic and intermontane...original inland basins, such as the Powder River Basin (Kent, this volume) and the Narragansett basin (Skehan...the coal basins of Alaska (Merritt, this volume). Kent (this volume) envisions that tectonic equilibrium...is in southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island and structurally is one of the most complex...tectonically thickened. Some of the coal at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was used to smelt copper imported from Cuba |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH CREEK MINES CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By F. HAROLD EVANS Doylestown, Pa...Rutter, a smith, on the Manatawny Creek in Berks County. Iron mines, furnaces and forges depend on one...Revolutionary Army. The Warwick Mines were first worked in 1717 at St. Marys (now called Warwick) in the French...French Creek Valley, Chester County. All the mines in the early days were operated as open pits. In 1718 the...Iron Works was built on French Creek in Chester County by an English Quaker named, Samuel Nutt. By 1732 |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | Boyertown, French Creek, Jones, Wheatfield, Fritz Island, Warwick and Bylers Mines). 1 Table 1. Approximate...302) 80, 81 80 No. Name or Location 16 Fritz Island mine 17 18 20 21 Raudenbush mine Wheatfield mine...19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Warwick mine Leighton mine Steels mine Pine Swamp deposit...this class is the Gap Nickel mine in Lancaster County. The deposit consists of pyrrhotite, pentlandite...of deposits is located mainly in western Adams County in late Precambrian metabasalt and adjacent metarhyolite |  | | Report (issue) | | bedrock map (which also showed the geology of Rhode Island) was published in 1917 by Benjamin K. Emerson...Emerson, B.K.. 1917, Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 597, 289 p...eastern edge of pre-Taconian North America, on an island arc-microcontinent complex to the east, or on intervening...dark-green hornblende-plagioclase amphibolite (fig. 6). Epidote is locally abundant, and garnet and sphene are...of green, medium-grained plagioclasehornblende-epidote-chlorite greenstone and amphibolite and lesser |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...formation......................................... Rhode Island...............................................formation........................................... Rhode Island formation .................................................................... 150 Berkshire County............................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral. However, unlike several other states, Rhode Island does not have a state gem, a state stone, or...a variety of serpentine that resembles jade are Rhode Island's official state rock and mineral. Cumberlandite...Cumberlandite became the official state rock of Rhode Island by legisla tive decree in 1966 (Resolution...268 of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations). The rock constitutes...gravity—3.9 to 4.0) is predominantly dark gray to Rhode Island's State Rock and Mineral: CUMBERLANDITE & |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn University Auburn. Alabama 36849-53115 Epidote Downloaded by [University of West Florida] at 13:20...virtually all mineral collections are members of the epidote and garnet groups, for which many fine localities...of this year's Munich Show, a fine Knappenwand epidote has been chosen as this issue's Connoisseur's Choice...Choice. Most of us were introduced to epidote as a massive or gran ular mineral characterized by its...darker material is usually near the epidote end member of the epidote-clinozoisite series, but this is not |  | | Report (volume) | | the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf...in Cummiiigfcon. It appears to bo a variety of epidote. Its color is gray, sometimes with a faint reddish...In mica-slate. A. Nash: Lead Mines of Hampshire County; Am. Jour. Sci., 1st series, Vol. XII, p. 260....1835. Cummingtonite (= epidote. Dewey.) Cummington and neighboring to wn s. Warwick. E.Hitchcock. Ibid....masses. 1801. Hornblende changed to a mixture of epidote and chlorite. Chester. Very attractive specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 31 Dec 2018 at 20:00:07, subject to the Cambridge...https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 31 Dec 2018 at 20:00:07, subject to the Cambridge...https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 31 Dec 2018 at 20:00:07, subject to the Cambridge...include hornblende and felspar, with chlorite, epidote, calcite, quartz, and iron-ores. There is every...https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Warwick, on 31 Dec 2018 at 20:00:07, subject to the Cambridge |  | | Report (issue) | | Dome and Pluton.................................. Warwick Dome and Pauchaug Gneiss .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...Smarts Mountain, Mascoma, Lebanon, Croydon, and Warwick plutons .........................................Smarts Mountain, Mascoma, Lebanon, Croydon, and Warwick plutons and for the Owls Head group of plutons...Smarts Mountain, Mascoma, Lebanon, Croydon, and Warwick plutons..........................................Smarts Mountain, Mascoma, Lebanon, Croydon, and Warwick plutons....................................... |  | | Book (edition) | | springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebulthe earth, ...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. lition ...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...there is a smaller coal region (a fifth) in Rhode Island, which appears near Portsmouth, not far from |  | | Book (edition) | | springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock...there is a smaller coal region (a fifth) in Rhode Island, which appears near Portsmouth, not far from |  | | Book | | searching for silver near Lake Sanford in Essex County discovered magnetite in 1826, but an excess of...Rochester; the main Public Library of Buffalo and Erie County; and the Crandall Public Library (Holden Research...pegmatite-Westchester County .......... . The Mclear pegmatite-St. Lawrence County .......... . Minerals...Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County .................................... . Hematite...Counties .. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County ......... . Clinton hematite ................. |
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