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Orthoclase from
Safe Harbor Quarry, Safe Harbor, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Safe Harbor Quarry, Safe Harbor, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:646805
Long-form Identifier:1:3:646805:7
GUID (UUID V4):4a53818d-cb02-49b2-9e71-359a8f9c33a9
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
37.5km (23.3 miles) Cornwall Mines (Cornwall Iron Mine), Cornwall Borough (Cornwall), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
50.0km (31.1 miles) Elk Creek pegmatite, Elk Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
55.0km (34.2 miles) Nevin's Quarry, Landenberg, London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
55.8km (34.7 miles) Hopewell Mines, Warwick (Saint Marys), Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
56.7km (35.2 miles) Price Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
56.7km (35.2 miles) King Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
57.4km (35.6 miles) Jauss Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
57.6km (35.8 miles) Grove Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
57.7km (35.9 miles) Bell Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
57.7km (35.9 miles) Altland Mine, Dillsburg Iron Mines, Dillsburg, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
References
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CONTACT-METAMORPHIC EFFECTS OF TRIASSIC DIABASE AT SAFE HARBOR, PENNSYLVANIA BY RANDOLPH W. CHAPMAN CONTENTS Page Af...Page ir*.ex map showing location of Safe Harbor y. Pennsylvania 192 'P^yseal dike of diabase intruding...muscovite, biotite, chlorite, and clino.,- Harbor, Pennsylvania, a vertical, north- zoisite. Heat was the...later played a role. In the outer zone, • 'icep quarry in the diabase affords a splendid hydrothermal...(from forsterite), tremolite, hornfels containing orthoclase, plagioclase, diopside, talc, magnetite, and
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE McCALLS FEBEY-QUABBYVILLE DISTEICT PENNSYLVANIA BY ELEANORA BLISS KNOPF AND ANNA I. JONAS...General geology of the Piedmont province in Pennsylvania. Geology of the Piedmont upland in Maryland..._--_--._-_-._-_---___ Geology of the McCalls Ferry-Quarry ville district. ________________ Pre-Cambrian rocks...___-__-_--__-____.-______----__ Glenarm series in Pennsylvania._---______---.____-__.__ Cockeysville marble...vicinity._ Lower Cambrian rocks of the McCalls Ferry-Quarry ville district..-----._---_-_-..---------_----_---_-______
Report (issue)
LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL...ZINC AND LEAD OCCURRENCES IN PENNSYLVANIA Robert C. Smith, II PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES...1977 Copyright 1977 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published...published if credit is given to the Pennsylvania Geological Survey COVER ILLUSTRATION: Photograph of 1852 lithograph...STATE BOOK STORE, P. O. BOX 1365 HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17125 PREFACE The purpose of this report is
Report (volume)
THE HONEYBKOOK AND PHOENIXVILLE QUADBANGLES, PENNSYLVANIA BY F. BASCOM AND G. W. STOSE UNITED STATES...Beekmantown limestone__________________________ Conestoga limestone.._____________________________ Mesozoic...42 8. A, Limestone conglomerate near base of Conestoga limestone; B, Crinkled thin-bedded impure banded...of part of Chester Valley showing overlap of Conestoga limestone.________________________ 5. Ideal section...across Mine Ridge uplift, showing deposition of Conestoga limestone unconformably on older rocks______ 6
Report (volume)
MINEBAL BESOUECES OF THE MIDDLETOWN QUADRANGLE, PENNSYLVANIA BY GEORGE W. STOSE AND ANNA I. JONAS (fj*O...(fj*O.,/ *S Prepared in cooperation with the PENNSYLVANIA TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC SURVEY UNITED STATES...-__ Cocalico shale....___ . --_._. . 31 33 Conestoga limestone__-_-------___-_-_____._____-__------_Triassic...weathered surface of Vintage dolomite in limestone quarry southwest of Emigsville ____ 18 CONTENTS . ...B, Hill Island...._.____._.._.____ 8. A, Large quarry in diabase at Yorkhaven; B, Baked shale within
Report (issue)
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...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses... Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND NEWS IDIOMORPHIC CORDIERITE FROM SAFE HARBOR, PENNSYLVANIA W. Hanor,o Tourrnsox, Sprin gfield.,P...examination of altered schistsfrom the quarry at Safe Harbor, Pa., the author found small idiomorphic...idiomorphic cordierite has not been reported from Pennsylvania, and it is the purpose of this note to place...to narrow contact aureoles. The cordierite at Safe Harbor occurs in a brecciated zone in a highly micaceous...Harpers formation. The brecciated zone crosses the quarry in a N.E.-S.W. direction, roughly parallel to the
Report (issue)
GEOLOGIC ATLAS of PENNSYLVANIA No. 168 LANCASTER QUADRANGLE JONAS and STOSE PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC ATLAS of PENNSYLVANIA NO. 168 LANCASTER QUADRANGLE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES...the U. S. Geological Survey By ANNA I. JONAS Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey and GEORGE...'930 COPYRIGHTED 1930 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ADDITIONAL COPIES of this publication may...Resources of the Lancaster Quadrangle, to form part No. 168 of the Geologic Atlas of Pennsylvania. The field
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Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located in the Newark basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 110 F. Section F: Occurrences...located in the Gettysburg basin and vicinity, Pennsylvania ..................... 147 G. Section G: Occurrences...given in the categories of : 1. name and location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle
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College, London, England; William M. Myers of Pennsylvania State College; and Heinrich Ries of Cornell...1,444.84 2,368.75 r , 4 6 8. 75 SClshares, Pennsylvania Railroad 4i' shares,American Telephone& Telegraph...southeast part of Park County and in the north-central part of Fremont County, Colorado, is underlain...SYEMTES AND NEPHELINE SYENITES OF STETTIN, MARATIION COUNTY, WISCONSIN ELAINE GEISSE Smith College, Northampton...north-central Wisconsin, Stettin township, 8 miles west of Wausau, central Marathon County. A preiiminary fieid survey
Report (issue)
Serpentine Rocks Of the Piedmont Upland Maryland, Pennsylvania And Delaware By NANCY C. PEARRE and ALLEN V...districts ______ -._-_____-_____-___._. Montgomery County, Md_-_-_---_---_-_-----------_-__--_-_-_Soldiers...___________ 715 716 716 718 719 720 721 721 722 723 Quarry descriptions.-___._-_-_-_-_-_-_---_-___--______-_...___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff "green marble" quarry...._._._-__________ Jarrettsville-Dublin district...descriptions_______________________________________ Montgomery County, Md___-_______________________.__ Etchison mine_____-_-
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Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551-0302, USA Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 1002, Millersville...Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551-0302, USA Department of Geological Sciences, 206 Natural Science...Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, USA A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...northern Piedmont Physiographic Province of Pennsylvania (USA), long-term (103–106 year) watershed chemical...the Piedmont Upland Section of southeastern Pennsylvania (Fenneman, 1938; Cleaves, 1989; Potter, 2002)
Report (issue)
PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FOURTH SERIES BULLETIN M 15 BUILDING STONES OF PENNSYLVANIA By RALPH... COPYRIGHTED 1932 BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION BUREAU...Structure 3 •> 10 Strength 10 Geology of Pennsylvania Physiography Stratigraphy Appalachian Revolut...Adams County Allegheny County Armstrong County Beaver County 19 1" -<» -- 24 -7 Bedford County -'•'...-;"» SO Perks County ;>- Blair County Bradford County Pucks County Butler County 00 03 07 77 Cambria
Report (volume)
RESOURCES OF THE QUAKERTOWN-DOYLESTOWN DISTRICT PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY BY F. BASCOM, E. T. WHERRY,...Well-bedded shales of the Lockatong formation in quarry on Delaware River 1 mile west of Lumberville, Doylestown...quadrangle._________ FIGURE 1. Index map of eastern Pennsylvania, western New Jersey, and parts of Delaware and...RESOURCES OF THE QUAKERTOWN-DOYLESTOWN DISTRICT, PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY 1 By F. BASCOM, E. T. WHERRY...Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, in southeastern Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia; the northeast corner
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Red and gray sandstone shale, and limestone. PENNSYLVANIA 40 I 60 50 Ml I 80 KM 76° -, I II --...l0000unse THE GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Mark Schweiker, Governor DEPARTMENT...Geology Slippery Rock University Published by PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PITTSBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY...from Hyner View, Hyner Run Slate Park, Clinton County, showing accordant ridges in the Appalachian Plateaus...of the Ridge and Valley province in Huntingdon County. Flooded meanders of Raystown Lake on the Raystown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
journals. (Hartwell). 331 Cordierite, idiomorphic, from Safe H a r b o r ,P a . ( T o m l i n s o n ).. . . 646... . . . . Orthoclase and microcline, thermal studies of. (Rosenholtz, Snith) 344 Orthoclase phenocrysts...Rosenholtz, J, L. and Smith, D. T. Thermal studies of orthoclase and microcline 344 Ross, C. S. Presentation of...saPPhires, and rubies Synthetic Thermal studies of orthoclase American, (Kraus, Slawson).. 226 344 and microcline...Tomlinson, W. H. Idiomorphic cordierite from Safe Harbor, Pa..... 646 Tremblay, J. A.. . . 234 Tridymite
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Michigarr. Councilor (1950-53): E. F. Osborn, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsfiv&nla....D. C. Paul D. Krynine, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsylvania. Kathleen Lonsdale, University...shares, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 50 shares, Pennsylvania Railroad. 41 shares, American Telephone and...llr"i'""* Eudialyte and eucolite occur in otero county, New Mexico, in small irregular dikes associated... ORBICULAR TINGUAITE DTKES NEAR BRYANT, SAIINE COUNTY, ARI(ANSAS FREDA. EIIDEBRAND University of Chicago
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Michigarr. Councilor (1950-53): E. F. Osborn, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsfiv&nla....D. C. Paul D. Krynine, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsylvania. Kathleen Lonsdale, University...shares, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 50 shares, Pennsylvania Railroad. 41 shares, American Telephone and...llr"i'""* Eudialyte and eucolite occur in otero county, New Mexico, in small irregular dikes associated... ORBICULAR TINGUAITE DTKES NEAR BRYANT, SAIINE COUNTY, ARI(ANSAS FREDA. EIIDEBRAND University of Chicago
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examples: Ontario Economic geology Beatty Township Garrison Township Gold, Konoeivmi Lake area Porcupine...Am. Jour. Botany American Journal of Botany. Lancaster, Pa. Am. Jour. Sci. American Journal of Science...Annals Association of American Geographers Annals. Lancaster, Pa. Assoc. Canadienne-Frangaise Av. Sci. Annales...des Sciences Annales. Montreal. Auk The Auk. Lancaster. Pa. Beach Erosion Board, Tech. Memo.- Beach Erosion...Gazette. Chicago. Bot. Rev. Botanical Review. Lancaster, Pa. British Columbia Dept. Mines Ann. Rpt.; Bull
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districts, Pennsylvania __ J eronie district, central Arizona --------------Bullfrog district, Nye County, Nev...gular diagram showing normative plagioclase, orthoclase, quartz, and variation in gold content of Precambrian...Butte Quartz Monzonite, Butte district, Silver Bow County, Mont-----------------------------------------...of gold in Precambrian diabase intrusions, Iron County, Mo _____________________________ _ Distribution...-------------------------36. Some rhyolites from Mono County, Calif_ ________________________________________________
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(Greenland, Mi) Delaware Mine (Delaware, Mi) Iron County Museum (Caspian, Mi) Michigan Iron Industry Museum...mile is along a 90' limestone bluff. While at the quarry site, there is a risk of falling rock. Caution...dolomite cliffs, local area forest, and a protected harbor. He immediately purchased the property from the...locality ideal for Fayette’s industry? Protected, deep harbor, massive limestone bluffs, hardwood forest for...several local rock types: Allouez Conglomerate Copper Harbor Conglomerate Jacobsville Sandstone Portage Lake
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology and Geochemistry of Triassic Diabase in Pennsylvania ROBERT C. SMITH I P ARTHUR W. ROSE ROBERT M...J of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION...types of Triassic diabase are recognized in Pennsylvania. The probable oldest type (Quarryville type)...contemporaneous. The trend of Triassic diabase dikes in Pennsylvania parallels the trend of Precambrian and Paleozoic...geochemistry, magma genesis, trace elements, Triassic, Pennsylvania. Prior to about 1970, Triassic diabase bodies
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described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr...Harris, H. B. trolled: Braunstein, J., 3. Escambia County: Cagle, J. W. ,Jr. Pollard field: Jones, W. B.
Report (volume)
B. S. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F. Pennsylvania, eastern: Gray, C., 1... Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...Mining Journal. New York. SERIALS 9 Evolution. Lancaster, Pa. Field & Lab.-Field & Laboratory. Dallas,...Jour. Chem. Physics-Journal of Chemical Physics. Lancaster, Pa. Jour. Geol. Education-Journal of Geological...Bulletin. Portland, Oreg. Pa. Acad. Sci. Proc.-Pennsylvania Academy of Science Proceedings. Grantham, Pa
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INDEX Chlorite-calcite pseudomorphsaf ter Arizona orthoclase, Ray, 301 (Schwartz) Choong, S., New methods..., Blowpipe petrograFoster, dersonMine, Mineral CountY, phy.. . 758 696 Nevada. Franklin-Sylva pegmatite...Magniotriplite (Ginsburg, KrugMicropegmatite at Safe Harbor, lova, Moleva). Pa. (Tomlinson)..... . . . ....breccias from the Blue Jay Mine, Jamestown, Boulder County, Colorado... 659 Phase Transformations in Solids...associatedpseudomorphs at the AndersonMine. Mineral County, Nevada (Goudey) 696 Principlesof Geochemistry(Mason)
 
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