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Quartz from
Glade Creek, Moran, Teton County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Comments:a) as sharp, stubby prismatic crystals to 5mm (average 2mm) long in lithophysae; crystals are transparent and exhibit pale smoky color.
b) as slender white prisms to 10mm in length, commonly full of cracks and often covered with a crust of hyalite opal.
c) as inclusions in rhyolite host-rock of lithophysae

For a contemporary crystal drawing:
http://www.mindat.org/photo-196234.html
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Glade Creek, Moran, Teton County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:558097
Long-form Identifier:1:3:558097:2
GUID (UUID V4):c7e87511-fd64-45fb-90ba-f47166fe4bde
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
64.8km (40.3 miles) Lower Geyser Basin, Park County, Wyoming, USA
66.6km (41.4 miles) Ojo Caliente Spring, Lower Geyser Basin, Teton County, Wyoming, USA
87.2km (54.2 miles) Clarke's Camp and Union Pass Prospects, Wind River Mountain District, Fremont County, Wyoming, USA
92.0km (57.2 miles) Seven Mile Well, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Park County, Wyoming, USA
97.3km (60.4 miles) Snake River Gravels-Rigby area, Rigby, Jefferson County, Idaho, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Pliocene Conant Creek Tuff in the northern part of the Teton Range and Jackson Hole, Wyoming GEOLOGICAL ...Pliocene Conant Creek Tuff in the northern part of the Teton Range and Jackson Hole, Wyoming By Robert L...Pliocene Conant Creek Tuff in the northern part of the Teton Range and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. (Geological... 2. Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.-Wyoming-Teton Co. 3. Geology Wyoming-Teton Co. I. Love, John David, 1913-...localities referred to in text and relation of Teton Range to Yellowstone National Park __________________
Report (chapter)
University of New York, Potsdam, New York 13676, USA Abstract: The conj unction of detailed goniatite...Renwick, Genundewa, Middlesex, Rhinestreet, Pipe Creek and Dunkirk units. The cycles enable estimates to...RIVER T/OGA RIVER C H E M U N G APALACHIN RIVER CREEK OELAWARE RIVER CATSKILL MOUNTAINS o.. •o .o%...300 SILVER CREEK EIGHTEENMILE HAMPTONWESTFALLS SOUTH CREEK ~OOK P4PECREEK WALES WALNUT CREEK TULLY "ENFIELD"...from the Cashaqua Shale of Eighteen Mile Creek, Erie County x 4.125. (B) Mesobeloceras iynx (Clarke)
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. .. .. .. .. .. .. Mountains south of Panther Creek........................... .............................................. ............... Indian Creek laccolith...... .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. ....... .. .. .. Little Quadra-nt :Mountain and Fawn Creek Valley.......................... ................. .................................... .. Fa.wn Creek Valley. . .. . .. .. . . . .. . .. .. . .. . ......... .................... :............ Indian Creek laccolith...................... ...............
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Abel, Cleburne County. Absaroka Supergroup/Volcanic Supergroup U ABRK03 1. Eocene 2. Wyoming (NW), Montana...m 8. Washburn Group, Sunlight Group, Thorofare Creek Group g. Unconformably underlies Junction Butte...volcanic field, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyo. Academy Church Shale Member (Springer Formation)...W1/2NW1/4NE1/4SE1/4 sec. 1, T. 3 s., R. 2 E., Carter County. Adams Formation ADMS01 1. Holocene 2. Alaska (SE)...Quadrangle, lat 45° N., long 70°50'-55' W., Oxford County. Adamstown Member (Frederick Limestone) U ADMS06
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.. . 125 130 Mill Creek near Walla Walla, Wash ................. . 135 Blue Creek near Walla Walla, Wash......... . Yellowhawk Creek at Walla Walla, Wash ........... . 140 Garrison Creek at Walla Walla, Wash...Wash ............. . 145 150 Mill Creek at Walla Walla, Wash ................... . 155 Walla Walla River.... . Dry Creek: Spring Creek: Spring Creek tributary near Walla Walla, Wash .. 159 Dry Creek near Walla...Walla Walla, Wash .................. . 160 Dry Creek tributary near Milton-Freewater, Oreg .. 160.8 Touchet
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The State Line Kimberlite District, Colorado & Wyoming, USA By Philip Persson, PerssonRareMinerals.com ...The State Line Kimberlite District, Colorado & Wyoming, USA Philip Persson, PerssonRareMinerals.com While...of northern Colorado and adjacent southeastern Wyoming is an exciting target for future diamond exploration...petrologists into the lower crust and mantle beneath the Wyoming craton province. Gem-quality diamonds up to 28... a cluster of 8 diamondiferous pipes near the Wyoming border and the only deposits in the Stateline District
Report (issue)
•••••••••••• Mill Creek near Walla Walla, Wash ••• ,, •• ,.,., ••••• Blue Creek near Walla Walla, Wash...•••••••••••••• Yellowhawk Creek at Walla Walla, Wash, •••••••••• Garrison Creek at Walla Walla, Wash •••••••••••••...••••••••••••• Mill Creek at Walla Walla, Wash ••••••••••••••••••• Walla Walla River at Whitman, Wash ••••••••••••••••••...•••••••••••••••••• Dry Creek: Spring Creek: Spring Creek tributary near Walla Walla, Wash, Dry Creek near Walla Walla...Walla, Wash •••••••••••••••••• Dry Creek tributary near Milton-Freewater, Oreg. Touchet River: East Fork
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Haines, Oregon Chrome Concentrating Plants Baker County Sec. 27 T. 7 S., R. 39 E. Paoific Cut Stone Co...Mutual Materials Seattle, Washington Jefferson County Sec. 9 T. 9 S., R. 15 E. Perma Building Stone...Deschutes County Plant 1n Bend Rainbow Rock Quarry (Tuff) D. A. Temple Brightwood, Oregon Wasco County Sec...ultnomah County Quarry at Rocky Butte Tuff Stone Co. Frank Singletary Portland, Oregon Marion County Sec...Ja.ckson County Sec. 6 T. 39 5., R. 1 E. Birdseye Creek Mill Roy A" Ml11~ and Jaokson County Seo. 27
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or a gabbro porphyry, containing more or less quartz and orthoclase. The study of thin sections of such...feldspar and dark minerals and richer in that for quartz, orthoclase, and sodic feldspar. It thus approaches...at the Iowest temperature of the group and that quartz latite or granodiorite, andesite or diorite, and...the mineral. Ifowever, the melting of orthoclase, quartz, and other inclusions, described in the literature...the temperatures of magmas. Low quartz is stable up to 573o, high quartz from 573" to 870o,tridymite from
Journal (issue)
near the f a l l s of the Jams River in Amherst County as well as several placer mines were opened in...operated a t the Grasty mine t r a c t i n Orange County from 1831-1834. This area has been operated intermittently...Valzinco zinc, lead and copper mine in Spotsylvania County in 1947. Besides the placer prospecting a t the...the old dump a t the Franklin mine i n Fauquier County i n the 1960's. Select assays on material £ran...mine tract, Orange County. quartz vein along Polebridge Creek in Patrick County w a s a l s o prospected
Report (issue)
colluvium. Many landslides in areas of the Rattlesnake Creek terrane, Pickett Peak terrane, and in the Franciscan...southeast part of the quadrangle. In the Rattlesnake Creek and the Hayfork terrane it consists of unconsolidated...levels Volcanic Rocks Qip Basalt flows of Paynes Creek (Pleistocene)--Thin, black to dark-gray basalt flows...similar in texture and mineralogy to the Paynes Creek flows; olivine and clinopyroxene phenocrysts scattered...flow at Tuscan Springs, Gas Pointe, and Antelope Creek to bedded and crossbedded, reworked pumiceous sediment
Report (issue)
.......................................4 Elder Creek Terrane ...........................................................................7 Rattlesnake Creek Terrane ..........................................colluvium. Many landslides in areas of the Rattlesnake Creek terrane, Pickett Peak terrane, and in the Franciscan...southeast part of the quadrangle. In the Rattlesnake Creek and the Hayfork terrane, it consists of unconsolidated...Qba Qab VOLCANIC ROCKS Basalt flows of Paynes Creek (Pleistocene)—Thin, black to dark-gray basalt flows
Report (issue)
Central Metamorphic, North Fork, Hayfork, Rattlesnake Creek, and Western Klamath (Smith River subterrane). The...reconnaissance fashion south of the Trinity-Shasta County line. The Hayfork terrane in the map area was subdivided...strata are considered co-genetic. The Rattlesnake Creek terrane is an ophiolitic melange which occurs along...overlap assemblage and sedimentary rocks of the Elder Creek terrane. The Cretaceous overlap unconformably overlies...basement rock and conformably overlies the Elder Creek terrane. The oldest known fossil from the overlap
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hills south and east of Prosser Spring Creek Canyon, Snipes Creek Canyon, Old Inland Empire Highway, Badger...East Yakima Ridge The Butte Ninemile Canyon Glade Creek Alder Ridge Schmincke (this paper) Laval (1956...diatomite ft o u_ Ro za B asa t Membe r _J_ Squaw Creek diatomite 10 Fr ?nch man Springs 3asa t Me m -...at Selah Gap where cliffs at the mouth of Wenas Creek and in road cuts near Pomona have served as an informal...mentioned. They are tholeiitic basalts with normative quartz and hypersthene. Their chief modal minerals are
Report (issue)
ha ; COUNTY REPORT C56A Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania...RR RRR FP WWWNON VNN SOUTHERN iv SOMERSET COUNTY Page terest amet Mauch Chunk Formations mercies...cee ee Upper Freeport coal-Brush Creek coal interval ........ Brush Creek coal-lower Bakerstown coal interval...163 166 167 167 168 168 vi SOUTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY Page Mississippian limestones #5... 2 oa ats...Titre Appendix A—List of fossils at five Brush Creek limestone localities Appendix B—Measured stratigraphic
Report (volume)
meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S.Williams...cents. 10. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp....57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1...Mountains, New Mexico, and on the occurrence of Primary Quartz in certain Basalts, by Joseph Paxson Iddings. 1890...Virginias. Washington. West Indies. Wisconsin. Wyoming. (2) STRATIGRAPHIC SUBJECTS. Archean and Algonkian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
90 per cent of glass shards with minor feldspar, quartz, biotite, zircon, other accessory minerals, Downloaded...flows in the rhyolite plateau of Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 72, p. 387-426 Carithers...Geology and water resources of a portion of Yakima county, Washington: U. S. Geol. Survey, Water-Supply Paper...13, T. 14, N., R. 17 E. (17) East slope of Rock Creek Canyon, 100 m (300 feet) north of Goldendale-Roosevelt...20, T. 8 N., R. 24 E. (34) East side of upper Glade Creek Valley. SWMSWM sec. 6, T. 7 N., R. 23 E. (35)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thickness. upward into 5-15 feet of micaceous and quartz- Its basal portion is coarsely columnar, tranrich...sandstone and siltstone; several thin layers of quartz-rich micaceous silts, but most of the sand is andesitic...Eastward along the north wall of the canyon of Selah Creek the sedimentary section thins rapidly. In a little...Ellensburg formation westward up the valley of Wenas Creek. Approximately the same section of sediments is...acidic plutonic porphyries, granophyre, chert, vein quartz, phyllite, greenstone, and basalt. These sand-
Report (issue)
1965. 1966. 1967. 1968. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...cooperators________-____________________ State, county, and local cooperators_____________ Other cooperators...deposits are newly identified occurrences at Costello Creek and Lookout Mountain and vein and associated disseminated...part are placer gold deposits of the Cache Creek-Peters Creek basin in the Yentna district. These placers...small but rich lode deposits such as thoE« at Bird Creek and probably from erosion of lower grade deposits
Book
Potomac River in Loudon County to the Tennessee-North Carolina border in Grayson County. 4) East of the Blue...sections. - OV c exes n x O fe) 2fe) D ay O quartz & quartz & rock fragment feldspar graywacke arkosic...composed predominantly of silicate minerals, such as quartz or clay, or of carbonate minerals, such as calcite...amethyst and emerald are varietal names of the species quartz and beryl, respectively. When individual mineral...Tappahannock, near the north bank of 31 Piscataway Creek, the road passes down section onto the Bacons Castle
Report (volume)
5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...publication). Ptg, Printing. Pub., Publication. qtz, quartz. qtzite, quartzite. qtzites, quartzites. qtzitic...Conf. Guidebook, pp. 94, 96). [See under Bachelor Creek is. On p. 21 Aarde sh. is described as consisting...containing Nodaway coal. The underlying Bachelor Creek Is. also interfingers in Severy sh., he stated....Geol. Surv. Bull. 22, pp. 39, 205-207). Bachelor Creek ls. is basal memb. of Howard Is. in southern Kans
Report (volume)
Underlies Church limestone member; overlies Bachelor Creek limestone member. M. R. Mudge, C. P. Walters, and...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...Pittsylvania and Halifax Counties, overlies Hyco quartz porphyry. Varies from nearly pure greenstone to...Precambrian. Well exposed at many places along Aaron's Creek, Person and Granville Counties, N.C. Abbott Formation
Report (issue)
listed on pages A263-A268. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...__________________________ North Dakota.. --_---_-_--_-- --------Wyoming ____.___-_--_---___---_ South Dakota______-----... Yellowstone National Park.__________________ Wyoming._________________________________ South Dakota...cooperators-____-_______-__-___-__-__-__ State, county, and municipal cooperators---------Other cooperators...metals at Cortez and Goldfield, Nev., and at Cripple Creek, Colo.; the construction and development of two
Report (volume)
Graham, and Santa Cruz counties, Ariz.; Grant County, N. Mex.).. ....................................................... Bridgeport quadrangle (Mono County).............................. Antioch, Clarksburg............................... Ballarat, Furnace Creek, and Las Vegas quadrangles (Inyo and San Bernardino.......................... Eaton quadrangle (Weld County)................................... Uncompahgre...counties, Idaho; Baker County, Oreg.)........................... Idaho-Utah-Wyoming-. .................
Report (issue)
by nodules is ap­ deposits in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, proached, the distribution necessarily...about 15,000 photographs recently taken during Quartz Hill molybdenum deposit, Ketchikan quadrangle,...Alaska A large porphyry-type molybdenum deposit (Quartz Hill) has been discovered recently in the heart...observed mineralization is within the northern stock (Quartz Hill stock) where molybdenite occurs in a complex...and occurs within veins accompanied primarily by quartz. Sericite, chlorite, and pyrite also occur locally
 
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