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


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Comments:Occurs sparingly as small, thin hexagonal crystals in lithophysae
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Glade Creek, Moran, Teton County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:558107
Long-form Identifier:1:3:558107:8
GUID (UUID V4):b705364f-fcfa-4674-a3d8-b11e578e6b22
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
87.0km (54.0 miles) Silver Creek prospect, Park County, Wyoming, USA
91.0km (56.6 miles) Stinking Water prospect (Crater Mtn), Park County, Wyoming, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
. .. .. .. .. .. .. Mountains south of Panther Creek........................... .............................................. ............... Indian Creek laccolith...... .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. ....... .. .. .. Little Quadra-nt :Mountain and Fawn Creek Valley.......................... ................. .................................... .. Fa.wn Creek Valley. . .. . .. .. . . . .. . .. .. . .. . ......... .................... :............ Indian Creek laccolith...................... ...............
Report (volume)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the prismatic qtrartz in a lava druse from Glade Creek, Wyoming, was formed above 573o' The conclusion seemsto...THE AMERICAN MINERALOGIST more or less melted, biotite is usually melted, orthoclase less commonly, and...minerals is probably also largely by reaction. Biotite melLs or decomposeswithin the range of the temperatures...temperatures of megmas. Lacroix states that biotite is commonly melted, and melted or decomposedbiotite...Richarz, Ramdohr, Goldschmidt, and others. Unaltered biotite is also common in igneous rocks as an early mineral
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cent of glass shards with minor feldspar, quartz, biotite, zircon, other accessory minerals, Downloaded...incipient welding depends mainly on temamounts of biotite and tridymite(?). Most of peratures and water vapor...Na-sanidine, t = time = 8.6 X 104sec cristobalite, and biotite; these groups may have a = diffusivity of tuff...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
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)
.......................................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)
Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer...Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood County _____________________ _ Zirconia district...monazite belt in the Piedmont province __ Stokes County and Surry County_ Wilkes, Alexander, Catawba, Caldwell...Rutherford County and Cleveland County __ --------------Lincoln County and Gaston County _____________________
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
Report (volume)
5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...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...porphyry. Is well exposed at many places along Aaron's Creek [Person and Granville Counties, N. C.]. Assigned
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...Precambrian. Well exposed at many places along Aaron's Creek, Person and Granville Counties, N.C. Abbott Formation...Babylon sandstone, Manley coal, Tarter coal, Pope Creek coal, and Bernadotte sandstone. Report presents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
themselves as true biotite-granites, but there is a constant tendency for the biotite to be replaced wholly...quantity of plagioclase increases in amount, the biotite- or hornblende-granite passes into a common granitite...magnetite, and possibly also by secondary quartz and biotite. The original magnetite and titanoferrite are apparently...and on the similar rocks of Silver Cliff, Custer County, Colorado. The former gentleman has greatly facilitated...Miuerals in Hollow Spheralites of Rhyolite from Glade Creek, Wyoming,' ibid. vol. xlii. (1891) p. 39. ' A Description
Report (issue)
by nodules is ap­ deposits in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, proached, the distribution necessarily...types ranging from approximately equigranular biotite granite to porphyries characterized by aphanitic...New Rambler copper-nickel deposit, southeastern Wyoming Copper-nickel ores of the New Rambler mine in...of Dickie Springs gold placer deposits, central Wyoming The Dickie Springs gold placer deposits at the...in gahnite-bear­ ing anthophyllite-cordierite-biotite gneiss at one of the deposits and is locally abundant
Report (issue)
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...belt ••..••.••••••..•.•••... Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks ••••.• Geological and geophysical...cooperators .............................. . State, county, and local cooperators ................. . Other...raw materials in nature, Tintic district, Utah County, Utah, has confirmed the existto the development...deposit displays a core zone of potash feldspar-biotite alteration surrounded by a zone of argillic alteration
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
Book
Potomac River in Loudon County to the Tennessee-North Carolina border in Grayson County. 4) East of the Blue...Tappahannock, near the north bank of 31 Piscataway Creek, the road passes down section onto the Bacons Castle...and US 50 north to the Potomac River. The Peters Creek schist in this displaced allochthon is predominantly...group. Between the Shenandoah River and Opequon Creek, the route crosses Cambrian to Ordovician limestones...entire Shenandoah Valley. Between 56 Opequon Creek and Winchester, the route crosses Or- {50 50)
Report (volume)
Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...associated basic mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite...Elf amphibolite. Elf gabbro. Shooting Creek dunite. Thumping Creek hypersthenite. 66 66 66 67 68 69 H
Book (volume)
and the jades of Alaska, British Columbia, and Wyoming, are worldrenowned. Handsome and authoritative...Oregon, Kansas, Alabama, Ohio, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Wyoming, Montana and Illinois. Detailed information on...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken.... Map of Cowee Creek area . Cowee Creek gravel washing . Yogo Gulch Mine . Rock Creek, Montana, sapphire
Report (volume)
Arizona. II. Massive structure in diorite, Sliasta County, California.........:. III. Rhombohedral jointing... Thin sections of siliceous oolite from Center County, Pennsylvania, as seen under a microscope: A, in...audesite cutting andesitic breccia, Absaroka Range, Wyoming ........ ............................................ 204 XXX. Thin section of dacite from Bear Creek, California, as seen under a microscope ..........XXXIX. Thin sections.of kiinberlitefrom Elliott County, Kentucky, as seen under a microscope.........
Report (issue)
traced across Pennsylvania into Ohio. Many of the county and other geologic reports concerning the Pennsylvanian...been completed in Ohio. Additionally, all of the county geologic reports for the coal-bearing areas of...districts within the plateau. As a result of their county geologic reports, both Ohio (Bownocker and Dean...much younger Stoney Fork Member (formerly Lost Creek limestone) of the Breathitt Formation in Kentucky...him to accept the miscorrelation of the Wallins Creek coal with the Poplar Lick coal, which underlies
Book
dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...visited the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its...Hidden. The rose-pink rhodo­ lite garnet of Macon County was discovered in the late 19th century and named...the Jackson club with its successful shows. Macon County, North Carolina, has a wide awake Chamber of Commerce
Report (issue)
pinnacles beneath soil cover, Bluegrass, Highland County, Va_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...transverse joints cutting shale at Poverty, Highland County, V a_ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...prospects in.part of Clay County, Ala_____ 79. Graphite deposits in part of Coosa County, Ala_______________...almost entirelv dependent upon the earnings of County, Tenn., for example, is high grade by world men...States and Counties Source: U.S. Bur. Mines] State, county Minerals produced, in order of value Alabama:
Report (volume)
Virginias. Washington. West Indies. Wisconsin. Wyoming. II. STRATIGRAPHIC SUBJECTS. \ Archean and Algonkiau... Transactions, 1887-1889. Utica, N. Y. Orleans County Society of Natural History, Transactions and Archives...of Sciences, Proceedings, vols. 1-7. Madison. Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Publications... 270-273,1882. The pyrites deposits of Louisa County, Va. Am. lust. Mining Eng., Trans., vol. 12, pp...Akerly, Samuel. A geological account of Dutchess County in New York. Discussed by Foster, Hall, Hough
Report (issue)
Paleocene strata in Ballard County, Ky., with the lower part of the Porter Creek Clay, by S.M. Herrick and...landsloides on the course of Whitetail Creek, Jefferson County, Mont., by H. J. Prostka______________________...p. Kral, V. E., 1951, Mineral resources of Nye County, Nevada: Nevada Bur. Mines Bull. 50, 220 p. Lakin...Silver Reef (Harrisburg) mining district, Washington County, Utah: Utah Geol. and Mineralog. Survey Bull. 44...The veins nre associated with a small stock of biotite granite of Late Cretaceous ( ? ) age, and occur
 
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