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Sericite from
Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:650624
Long-form Identifier:1:3:650624:7
GUID (UUID V4):adaa2cd0-d590-4c18-8653-0d3f98df9f49
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
22.4km (13.9 miles) Poker Hill, Ashton, Cumberland, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
25.5km (15.8 miles) Dexter Quarry (Dexter Lime Quarry), Lime Rock, Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
48.6km (30.2 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
53.3km (33.1 miles) Assonet Village, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
54.4km (33.8 miles) Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
69.9km (43.4 miles) Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
87.2km (54.2 miles) Chipman Mine (Merrimac Mine; Newburyport lead-silver mine), Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
88.6km (55.1 miles) Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
whole rock date of 460 ^ my, Late Ordovician. mg Milford Granite, light-gray to light pinkish gray, weathering...varieties, only minor chlorite, accompanied by some sericite, is i1 present. Some of the rock is only slightly...foliation. Samples of the Milford Granite from the Milford Quadrangle, Massachusetts, yielded a 620 + 15 my...like the Milford Granite and V appears to be a slightly more mafic border phase of the Milford. The unit...(Peck, 1975). The rock consists of mainly quartz, sericite, chlorite and carbonaceous material, with accessory
Report (issue)
Geology of the land area of the Boston 2° sheet, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and 10- New Hampshire... 16 17 18 U. S. Geological Survey Boston, Massachusetts 19 ,U. S. Geological Survey* OPEN FILE REPORT...GEOLOGY OF THE LAND AREA OF THE BOSTON 2° SHEET, MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND AND NEW HAMPSHIRE...of Rhode 7 Island. 8 the Oxford, Grafton, Milford, and Blackstone quadrangles. 9 10- They underlie...intrusive rocks. 22 Northbridge is cut by the Milford Granite (Emerson, 1917), that has 23 been assigned
Report (issue)
Geology of Massachusetts E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedharn Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Avalonian... Stratigraphy of the Nashoba Zone, Eastern Massachusetts: An Enigmatic Terrane G. Stratigraphy of the...Belt, Central Massachusetts H. Structural and Metamorphic History of Eastern Massachusetts I. Intrusive...Intrusive Rocks of Eastern Massachusetts J. Radiometric Ages of Rocks in Massachusetts L.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor E. Stratigraphy of the Milford-Dedham Zone,
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Maryborough Quadrangle, Massachusetts by Patrick J. Barosh U.S. Geological Survey...Marlborough quadrangle, Middlesex and Worcester Counties, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open File... The Salem in the type area around Salem, Massachusetts, has a radiometric age of about 450 my Hh 10...perhaps Devonian age (Dermen, 1976, p. 271). mg Milford Granite, light-gray to light pinkish gray, weathering...varieties only minor chlorite, accompanied by some sericite, is present. Much of the rock is only slightly
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON............................................ Worcester County, Mass.......................................member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
Report (issue)
Marlborough Quadrangle, Middlesex and Worcester Counties, Massachusetts by J. Christopher Hepburn and Richard...Geologic Map of the Marlborough quadrangle, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report IS...MARLBORO QUADRANGLE, MIDDLESEX AND WORCESTER COUNTIES, MASSACHUSETTS by J. Christopher Hepburn and Richard...contact with the underlying Westboro Formation and Milford Granite. 14 peas Altered and Sheared Rocks (Late...granitic rocks in this zone are related to the Milford Granite. These rocks were included in the Wolfpen
Report (volume)
..................... 26 Contact rocks on the Milford granite................................... 26 General....................... 29 Contact effect of the Milford granite on inclosed Cambrian schists at the Saylesville...towns of Sutton, Northbridge, and Douglas, in Massachusetts, and extends southward across western Rhode...the Cambrian rocks is greatly interrupted in Massachusetts by broad areas of intruded granite, and farther...O., Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts, 1880, pp. 127-128. PKE-CAMBRIAK KOCKS. V
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geoloqy of the Nashua River Area, Massachusetts - New Hampshire By Gilpin Rile Robinson, Jr...ZONE 12 ROCKS IN THE NASHUA RIVER AREA 15 WORCESTER FORMATION 18 Nomenclature, Historical Background...Description 38 275- TO 280-M.Y.-OLD GRANITE IN THE MILFORD-MASON, N.H., AREA________ :~ 39 Nomenclature...Retrograde alteration of andalusite schists -io Worcester Formation 97 Staurolite-Kyanite/Andalusite (Actinolite)...SYNTHESIS 102 ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION 108 Worcester Formation 108 Merrimack and Oakdale Formations
Report (issue)
HOT SPRINGS SYSTEM AND ADJACENT FORGE EGS SITE, MILFORD, UTAH Miscellaneous Publication 169-O Utah Geological...Hot Springs System and Adjacent FORGE EGS Site, Milford, Utah. https://doi.org/10.34191/MP-169 Bibliography...Hot Springs system and adjacent FORGE EGS site, Milford, Utah BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOTHERMAL CHARACTERISTICS...HOT SPRINGS SYSTEM AND ADJACENT FORGE EGS SITE, MILFORD, UTAH This bibliography of papers on the RHS and...Temperatures—an example from FORGE 58-32, near Milford, Utah, Proc. 43rd Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
......................................... 4H2 Milford granite..........................................feature of the petrology of th<; eastern part of Massachusetts and which reach their most important development...particularly for that part of the map which lies in Massachusetts and in the vicinity of the Blackstone River...Rock granite Fiue granite Grants Mills granite Milford granite m Qnartz diorite C u m bei In u d ite...porphyry dikes. Middle Devonian. Quartz diorite. Milford granite. Grants Mills granite, including fine granite
Report (volume)
___ 89 Waldoboro, Maine____________________ Milford, N. H________________________ Westerly and Charlestown...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________
Report (volume)
BUL.L.ETIN 354 CHIEF COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND BY T. NELSON................. Massachusetts................................................. Milford..................Descriptions of the granites and quarries Continued. Massachusetts Continued. Quincy.............................quarries........................................... Milford..................................................of granite and gneiss, Milford, N. H.; B, Pegmatite dikes, Young quarry, Milford, N. H................
Book
MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust
Report (issue)
Devonian (?) metasedimentary rocks . . . . 0 185 Worcester (?) Phyllite ......... 185 Harvard Conglomerate...Undifferentiated Worcester(?) Phyllite ............ 187 Correlation and age of the Worcester (?) Phyllite... 19. Photomicrographs of specimens from the Worcester (?) Phyllite and the Dracut Diorite. ...........the Andover Granite and surrounding rocks, Massachusetts by Robert Oliver Castle Doctor of Philosophy...South Groveland, and Reading quadrangles of Massachusetts. The Andover Granite and Sharpners Pond Tonalite
Report (issue)
PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MILFORD QUADRANGLE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH By Dwight M, Lemmon and Hal...quadrangle. quadrangle Locally about 100 m thick in Milford Tr RHYOLITE OF WILLOW CREEK AREA (MIOCENE) Scattered...interlocking grains of quartz with minor amounts of sericite and andalusite (Butler, 1913, p. 79) and locally...quadrangle and the adjacent northwestern part of the Milford quadrangle, where it overlies the Isom Formation...crystal-rich, dacitic ash-flow tuff. Exposures in Milford quadrangle probably include parts of the Cottonwood
Book
GENERALIZED BEDROCK GEOLOGIC EASTERN MA5SACHUSSETS WORCESTER .W o] ~P- FM V/C/N/TY ^^o Red beds MAP...Department of Geology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 to; PREFACE In 1966, John Rodgers...Davis in the Connecticut Valley of western Massachusetts, and gradually extended itself. oo over New...Brown University The Foxboro Co., Foxborough, Massachusetts Geography, University of Toronto U. S. G, S...Boston State College Botany, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Marine Sciences, Virginia Institute
Report (issue)
erroneous within the eastern strip. Intense quartz-sericite alteration hosted by the Horn Silver Andesite...mapped in the Beaver Lake Mountains northwest of Milford. Clay-rich zones of quartz, kaolinite and (or)...removed by the majority filtering process. Quartz, sericite, and ferric iron were mapped in disturbed ground...Unaltered quartzites typically contain abundant sericite with little to no clay content (central panel)...mixed Na-K alunite, kaolinite, and high-aluminum sericite was detected adjacent to a Tertiary calc-alkaline
Report (issue)
POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE...POTENTIAL OF EPA REGION 1 Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Massachusetts R. Randall Schumann and Linda C.S. Gundersen...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
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Field Trip Notes
inplace theory for the southern part, as in Dutchess County, New York. Whether such a combination of theories...(1914) Geology of the North Creek quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 170. (1919)...Geology of the Schroon Lake quadrangle, Warren County, New York, New York State Mus., Bull. 213-214....end of the Green Mountains near North Adams, Massachusetts, the Vermont Valley sequence is in contact with...south* The quartzite north of Williamstown, Massachusetts p where Walcott (1888) found trilobite fragments
Report (issue)
gold-silver mineralization of low-sulfidation (adularia-sericite) type (White and Hedenquist, 1990). This near-surface... Gd N Ths I Section Corner T27S RI3W Beaver County LEGEND GEOLOGY Qa Alluvium Gdp Porphyritic grandiorite...range, approximately 30 miles due southwest of Milford. Evaluation of the property by Earth Sciences,...source. Hofstra (1984) mapped several quartz-sericite-pyrite veins and sporadic quartz-carbonate veins...FEET ~ I8lI7 Section Corner T29S RI3W Beaver County LEGEND GEOLOGY 00 Alluvium AL TERATION Tsb Boaolt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...occurrence is particularly noteworthy for Carroll County Albany, Blackberry Crossing (includes the Moose...tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil specimen and photo. Downloaded by...tall, Middle Moat Mountain, North Conway, Carroll County. Canadian Museum of Nature specimen, Jeff Scovil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Element Deposits in the Goodsprings District, Clark County, Nevada PETER VIKRE,1,† QUENTIN J. BROWNE,2 ROBERT...94305-2115 Abstract The Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada, includes zinc-dominant carbonate replacement... Introduction THE GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT, Clark County, Nevada, is notable for the wide distribution,...kilometers 3 miles 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6.00 Milford Mine 382 FIG. 1. a. Generalized geologic map...PGE DEPOSITS IN THE GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT, CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA 383 b NE SW 7000 6000 st ys 3000
Report (issue)
the mirror-image of metamorphic zones in Dutchess County, New York. However, garnet appeared before biotite...Analyses of rocks of pre-Triassic age, New Haven County, Connecticut oo.....«..».o.»».....o (Pocket) 2...Intruslves of Late Triassic (or younger) age, New Haven County, Connecticut ...... (Pocket) 3. Stability of...Gneiss a few hundred feet southwest of junction of County and Rauson Hall Roads, Town of Volcott, Southington...Lake Member of s Waterbury Gneiss* on west side of County Road about A. 167 Metamorphosed pegmatite on
Journal (issue)
Gold Mines Middle Buttes Volcanic Complex Kern County, California Allan R. Blaske allan.blaske@gmail...volcanic complex is located in southeastern Kern County, approximately 9 miles southwest of the town of...veinlets with adularia, and widespread sericite (adularia-sericite type). The Mindat.org page Alunite [KAllSO...Gold Mines, Middle Buttes Volcanic Complex, Kem County, California, Mineral News, Vol. 34, No. 4, April...dome-hosted epithennal precious metal deposit, Kern County, California: Unpub. M.Sc. thesis, Michigan Tech
 
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