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Zircon from
McCarthy Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view McCarthy Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:682529
Long-form Identifier:1:3:682529:4
GUID (UUID V4):92ef80cb-dc19-4457-b7d2-86cde0bb712e
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
0.5km (0.3 miles) Harris Quarry, Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Chelmsford Lime Quarries, Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
15.6km (9.7 miles) Bolton Lime Quarries (Bolton Quarry; Whitcomb Quarry; Hildreth Quarry), Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
23.2km (14.4 miles) Blueberry Mountain Quarry (Blueberry Hill), Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
29.4km (18.3 miles) Mystic River Quarries (Mystic Quarries), Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
33.2km (20.7 miles) Rollstone Hill Quarries, Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) Kallenberg Quarry (Robin Rock Quarry; Jordan Quarry), Lynnfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
33.8km (21.0 miles) Barker Hill Quarry (Rusk Quarry; Townsend Quarry), Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) West Roxbury Crushed Stone Quarry (West Roxbury Trap Rock Co. Quarry; Grove St. Quarry), West Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
References
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Report (issue)
VARIEGATED MARBLE SOUTHEAST OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3£ miles a little...body of marble could be obtained in an open-cut quarry, but ultimately the rock would have to be mined... SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS. By T. NELSON DALE. INTRODUCTION. The granites..."granites" here described, as well as the others of Massachusetts described in Bulletin 354, are commercially...crushed stone have been excluded, but the felsite quarry of Revere has been included, although it is not
Report (volume)
___ 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 __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______
Report (volume)
Black. (F) The Reany Creek Formation, Marquette County, Michigan, by Willard P. Puffett. (G) The Aguada...Kane County, Utah, by Fred Peterson. (K) Summary of Cretaceous stratigraphy in part of the McCarthy quadrangle...Smith, and C. S. Ross. (Q) The Skolai Group in the McCarthy B-4, C-4, and C-5 quadrangles, Wrangell Mountains...Paleozoic formations of the Mountain City area, Elko County, Nevada, by R. R. Coats________________________________________..._____-_-____Three newly named Jurassic formations in the McCarthy C-5 quadrangle, Alaska, by E. M. MacKevett, Jr
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
Book (volume)
publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UK 48 Page Brook Road, Carlisle, MA 10741, Massachusetts, USA Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn,...phases such as brannerite, monazite, pyrochlore, zircon and zirconolite are resistant generally to dissolution...potential for cracking, which is a major concern for zircon. In spite of recent success in describing the behaviour...waste, perovskite, pyrochlore, thorium, uranium, zircon, zirconolite. Introduction AFTER ~50 years of...release of radionuclides into the environment (e.g. McCarthy, 1977; Ringwood, 1978). Focussed research activities
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found. — T h e Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless H i l l s , visited the American Cop­...N D MINERALS ALABAMA MARYLAND T h e Calhoun County Rock and Min­ eral Club, Jacksonville presented...fluorite. A field trip was made to the L u c k Quarry for zeolites. — Members of the Gem, Lapidary and...and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County, Md., Hyattsville, found a lot of very excellent cutting...t i n g Hill) Quarry. ( P r i o r permission re­ q u i r e d ) . Member Raymond McCarthy volunteered to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 INTRODUCTION Considerable...Pennsylvania State University (Roy 1980, McCarthy 1 976, McCarthy & Davidson 1975, 1976). In a lengthy study...nitrates and Si02 as suspension additives, McCarthy (1976) and McCarthy & Davidson (1975, 1 976) found that...dissolved from the pollucite framework structure (McCarthy & Davidson 1976). Among the structural groups...relatively low temperatures as demonstrated by McCarthy et al ( 1978), who reacted radwaste calcine with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TRIRUTILE STRUCTURE FROM THE DETROIT DISTRICT, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH MARK F. COOLBAUGH§ AND JOHN K. MCCORMACK...Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA MATI RAUDSEPP, EDITH CZECH, AND RHY MCMILLAN ...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...Wildcat prospect in the Detroit district, Juab County, Utah. The mineral has a yellow-brown to brownish-black...trirutile structure, Wildcat, Detroit district, Juab County, Utah. INTRODUCTION Andymcdonaldite, with the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Colorado 80225, USA 2 Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA Abstract. A...900 km 2 in the southern Snake Range, White Pine County, Nevada, six igneous masses are well exposed in...RANGE^ TWO-MICA GRANITE Oseeola BOX ELDER COUNTY TOOELE COUNTY ~.EVADA ~ Area of Fgu i re2 1 ~ 2 6 Tertiary...' - ~ K - - ' ~ z~,..~\ _ < Zl ELKO COUNTY WHITE PINE COUNTY i NT" S'ON I <;~ I ........ /~ Snake...Creek-Williams/ ~ Canyon Area GOLD HILL TOOELE COUNTY JUABC O U N T Y Young CanyonKious Basin Area
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,...PGE DEPOSITS IN THE GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT, CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA 383 b NE SW 7000 6000 st ys 3000 ...PGE DEPOSITS IN THE GOODSPRINGS DISTRICT, CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA R57E R58E Ds Cg col KE YS N TO 28
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1985; Winter, 1987; Beukes, 1990; Stanistreet and McCarthy, 1991; Catuneanu, 2001; Mossman et al., 2008;...1988; Roering and Smit, 1987; McCarthy et al., 1982, 1986, 1990a,b; McCarthy, 1994; Jolley et al., 2004;...units of the Dominion Group (3074 ± 6 Ma, single zircon U-Pb SHRIMP; Armstrong et al., 1991), either conformably...Stanistreet and McCarthy, 1991; Jackson, 1994; Phillips and Law, 2000; Frimmel, 2005; McCarthy, 2006) and...Formation (ca. 2729 ± 19 Ma, igneous-detrital xenotime/zircon aggregate, Kositcin et al., 2003), and the Klipriviersberg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from www.annualreviews.org by University of Massachusetts - Amherst on 08/24/12. For personal use only...from www.annualreviews.org by University of Massachusetts - Amherst on 08/24/12. For personal use only...from www.annualreviews.org by University of Massachusetts - Amherst on 08/24/12. For personal use only...Africa, with distribution of large folds (after McCarthy et al 1990) and goldfields (after Myers et al...from www.annualreviews.org by University of Massachusetts - Amherst on 08/24/12. For personal use only
Report (volume)
___________ 2. Lead-alpha age determinations of zircon and monazite from some rocks of southeastern Connecticut...zones. Eight new lead-alpha age determinations on zircon or monazite range from 280 to 530 million years...calcite-biotite schist of the Hebron Formation, as in the McCarthy Brook area. The Lebanon Gabbro of Rodgers and...Stony Brook, as in the southern part of the Barrett quarry. Amphibolite is well exposed in the lens southwest...epidote, and sphene. Accessory minerals are apatite, zircon, allanite, garnet, and pyrite. Major minerals of
Report (issue)
Plescia PACE seismic refraction experiment ~ Jill McCarthy Lead isotopes - Joe Wooden Gravity and magnetics...Lucchitta A brief report on COCORP results -- //// McCarthy The evidence for short-lived, rampant extension...report ~ //// McCarthy Refraction results from the 1985 PACE Whipple survey - Jill McCarthy 1989 The Tertiary...barbeque and crustal structure seminar - Jill McCarthy SYMPOSIA PACE-Pacific to Arizona Crustal Experiment...America Cordilleran Section Meeting, 1986 Southwestern USA xenolith suite of the lower crust and upper mantle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1997) 0 Meteoritical Society, 1997. Printed in USA. Meleorilics Original size of the Vredefort Structure:...planar deformation features (PDFs:l in quartz and zircon, have been used to identify the Vredefort structure...roughly concentric structural features as shown by McCarthy et al. (1990). The largest diameter estimate of...observational uncerBasin, South Africa (after McCarthy et a/., 1990), with distribution of planar deformation...PDFs and a so-called granular shock texture in zircon clasts in a number of breccia samples from Vredefort
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controlled by minor phase crystallization; apatite, zircon, sphene and allanite are dominant at intermediate...cumulate crystals and trapped interstitial melt (McCarthy and Groves 1979). Only very rarely is there good...1978); 4. Accessory minerals, such as apatite, zircon, sphene and, more rarely allanite, monazite, and...crystallization (Dodge and Mays 1972; Condie 1978; McCarthy and Kable 1978). These minor phases are difficult...(LIL) elements, Rb, Sr and Ba (e.g. McCarthy and Hasty 1976; McCarthy and Groves 1979). These elements are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA 2 Geology Department, Federal University of Pernambuco...Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA Abstract. A 4 km 2 exposure of shallowly-emplaced...early-crystallized quartz had been partially resorbed. Zircon is embedded within all of the other phases. Iron...suggest that the sequence of crystallization was: zircon and allanite, followed by quartz and alkali feldspar...(Collins et al. 1982), and the Quincy granite, Massachusetts (Buma et al. 1971). Diagnostic features of the
Report (chapter)
Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA (e-mail." dfoster@geology, ufl.edu) 3Department of...Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, W Y 82071, USA Abstract: The Colorado River extensional corridor...exhumation. Biotite and K-feldspar 4°Ar-39Ar, and zircon and apatite fission-track ages from metamorphic...apatite, and up to about 240-280°C using sphene and zircon (e.g. Gleadow & Duddy 1981; Green et al. 1989;...east, geological and seismic-refraction data (McCarthy et al. 1991; Wilson et al. 1991) suggest that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
depth of erosion range between 5 and 10 km (e.g., McCarthy et al. 1986, 1990; Gibson et al. 1998; Henkel... 1093 © Meteoritical Society, 2003. Printed in USA. 1094 C. Lana et al. dome that place constraints...decorated planar deformation features in quartz and zircon, in rocks of the dome leaves no doubt that the...1998) and regional stratigraphic correlations (McCarthy et al. 1990), and they explain the absence of...a) Trondhjemitic gneiss with S1 foliation. Otavi quarry, northeast of Parys; b) Migmatite with subvertical
Journal (issue)
slices from Myanmar|Wurtzite from Tanzania|Star zircon| Amber processing in Lithuania|Shungite|Gem-set...and Katrien De Corte 692 Age Determination of Zircon Inclusions in Faceted Sapphires By Klemens Link...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Alan T. Collins, King’s College London; John L....Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;...E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; Andrew H. Rankin, Kingston University, Surrey; George
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Grenville Province (Owen, 1981), central Massachusetts (Tracy & Robinson, 1983; Tracy, 1985), the Moines...are concen- 443 trated in the remaining melt (McCarthy & Hasty, 1976), thus anatectic leucosomes representing...crystals, and on how fractionated that melt is (McCarthy & Hasty, 1976), and so can vary widely (Fig. 4e;compare...1979). Similarly, the common presence of rutile, zircon, titanite and other resistant phases along pressure...in the melt compared with the residual solid (McCarthy & Hasty, 1976). However, it has been suggested
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright 0 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved Pergamon 0016-7037/94$6.00...Glen Member of the Normanskill Formation, New York, USA B. BOCK, S. M. MCLENNAN, and G. N. HANSON Department...University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA (Received December 21, 1993; accepted in revisedform...mainly to the north along the axis of the trough (MCCARTHY,1985). Samples of sandstones and shales were collected...the Hudson River, in the Town of Lloyd, Ulster County (Fig. I). This roadcut is the longest continuous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
partial melting and neosome/palaeosome separation (McCarthy, 1976) or metasomatism (Robinson and Leake, 1975)...locally enriched in apatite and coarse poikiloblastic zircon with biotite inclusions (unpublished data, Andreoli)...Mwanza fault zone? 3 I Resetting ? of P b - ~ zircon ages m Tambani i nepheline gneisses :~ J Cooling..., Von Backstr~m,1964; Lipson,1980;Lipson and McCarthy,1977jNicolaysen. 1982, personal con~nunication...Reference 00 O Bancrof,Ont.,, Adirondacks,N.Y., USA Wheeler Basin, 1094 - 1200 1450 + 20 Radium Hill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
during the Palaeoproterozoic (Tankard et al., 1982; McCarthy et al., 1986; Andreoli, 1988; Bumby et al., 1998;...rim downwarp (the Potchefstroom syncline), which McCarthy et al. (1990) considered to be largely responsible...fold hinge trends in the area of Figure 2 (after McCarthy et al., 1986; Hilliard and McCourt, 1995; Killick...These commonly held views were challenged when McCarthy et al. (1986) documented broadly north-verging...than the compressional structures observed by McCarthy et al. (1986) and Gibson et al. (1999). Field
 
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