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Forsterite from
Yancey County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:XRD
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:749371
Long-form Identifier:1:3:749371:3
GUID (UUID V4):3caeede6-b835-49f1-ba8a-0e3f3ca273ad
Localities for Forsterite in this Region
Day Book, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
Unimin Mine, Day Book, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Pine District ! Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN \ Prepared...with the Min\ eral Resources Division of the North \ Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Pine District Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties North Carolina By DONALD A. BROBST ! CONTRIBUTIONS...with the Mineral Resources Division of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development...Spruce Pine pegmatite district, Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties, N.C.__________________ In pocket FIGURE
Report (volume)
Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Buncombe County, North Carolina By F. G. LESURE and A. E. GROSZ, U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Bunc1m County, North Carolina. (Geological Survey bulletin ; 1515) Bibliography:...I 19.3:1515 1. Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina-Buncombe Co. I. Grosz, Andrew E., jof author...Mountain Wilderness Study Area and Extension, North Carolina, that is being considered for wilderness designation...studied is in the Pisgah National Forest in Buncombe County. CONTENTS Page Summary -------------------
Report (issue)
c\ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT GEORGE R. ROSS, DIRECTOR DIVISION OF MINERAL...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT BY JOHN M. PARKER, III GEOLOGICAL...SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT. NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF...Structure of Part of the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina A PROGRESS REPORT By M. PARKER, III Geological...BETWEEN THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Report (issue)
Nortfc C *°<™ Sftfe library °' Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...GEOLOGIST BULLETIN NO. 42 Chromite Deposits of North Carolina BY CHARLES E. HUNTER, THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND...UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...org/details/chromitedeposits1942nort North Carolina State library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...Geologist BULLETIN NO. 42 Chromite Deposits of North Carolina Geology and Mining CHARLES E. HUNTER and THOMAS
Report (issue)
DiTectoT BULLETIN NUMBER 47 FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA By CHARLES E. HUNTER...___________________________ ________ 61 4 FORSTERITE OLIVINE DEPOSITS CONTENTS (CONTINUED) Page...--------------------------------- 100 OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA 5 CONTENTS (CONTINUED) Page..._______________________ 116 ILLUSTRATIONS Plate Page 1. Forsterite olivine showing chromite-Balsam Gap, N. C ·-..._______________ 56 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA 7 ILLUSTRATIONS (CONTINUED)
Report (issue)
Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of
Report (chapter)
Blue Ridge ophiolites, Southern Appalachian Orogen, USA LOREN A. RAYMOND 1, S A M U E L JAMES E. SWANSON... Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA (e-mail: raymondla@appstate.edu) 2Department o f...Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Abstract: Resolution of the petrotectonic history...MHT, Mars Hill Terrane; NC, North Carolina; GA, Georgia; SC, South Carolina; TN, Tennessee. Numbered and...Pacific Ocean, and in the North Caroli- 257 na section of the Blue Ridge Belt of North America (Fig. 1). Hess
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Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...Knoxville l°x2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina 2. Paleozoic metamorphic facies map
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 660506, USA; karrasch@k-state.edu * Correspondence: afarough@ksu...Jackson County in North Carolina (Figure 1e,f), and Newdale from the Blue Ridge province in North Carolina...Pyroxene Serpentine, Plagioclase 10 Jackson County dunite JC Olivine Serpentine, Talc 30 Newdale...number and volume of serpentine veins using 1 thin County dunite JC on the Olivine Serpentine, Talc 30 Newdale...Dunite) The Twin Sisters dunite is located in Whatcom County, Washington. The fabric of the Twin Sisters body
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
incongruentmelting of phlogopite under an hydrous gas phase to forsterite * liquid (yoder and 786 GIARDINI, HTJRST...temperature during welding. The sealed capsule forsterite * liquid under gas-absentconditions. Point D...o.o 7.6 19, 0.3 0.03 0.5 0.05 0.1 Total yancey Initial Cn o, h b i ^ortiirtae 98.5 av. tr O...the Garnet Decomposition Product from Yancey County, North Carolina. Biotite d o (A) 2. 8 8 2.56 L -q)
Report (volume)
Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of oxygen isotope IMF increased linearly with forsterite content by approximately 6‰/amu over a range...matrix effects that varied non-linearly from T forsterite to fayalite, however only a limited number of...end-member (Fa97). All samples are close to the forsterite-fayalite join, with only minor amounts of AC...fayalite sputters IP more quickly than does forsterite. This is important because the ionization yield...N/A Yancey County, North Carolina, USA Victoria, Australia San Carlos, Gila County, Arizona, USA Lake
Report (issue)
0, I y. 50 .r rVv, rv O. ^ NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER...UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JASPER L. STUCKEY, NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...BULLETIN NO. 50 The Vermiculite Deposits of North Carolina BY THOMAS G. MURDOCK AND CHARLES E. HUNTER
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ultramafic rocks and minerals from western North Carolina Departmentsof Terrestriafegotism, Grnegie institution...associatedalpine-type ultramafic intrusions in western North Carolina has revealed variable but high *‘Sr/saSr ratios...543 ALAh’$1. STUEBER 544 area in western North Carolina. For the purpose of comparison, minerals separated... SETTING The ultramafic bodies of western North Carolina are part of a narrow belt of‘ alpine-type intrusions...Province (Fig. 1). They have been intruded into the Carolina-Roan gneiss, a part of the vast metasedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Route 222-72 just north of the Pennsylvania-Maryland state line, in Lancaster County. Deweylite may also...Texas, Pa. (Selfridge, 1936, p.483). Lancaster County, Pa. (Selfridge, 1936, p.483). Delaware, Pa. (Selfridge...clinoenstatite with minor forsterite, (g) forsterite . .Ft:. with clinoenstatite and (h) forsterite from difierential...patterns of the antigorite samplescontain only forsterite. similarly Aruja (1945,p. 72) notes that only...' This correspondin forsterite clinoenstatite in (/) to predominantiy forsterite represents exotherm
Report (issue)
t'ljLf c 2 North Carolina State ttbraJK N.Ob Raleigh DOC NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...KAOLIN DEPOSITS OF THE SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA BY JOHN M. PARKER III PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH 1946 NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT...KAOLIN DEPOSITS OF THE SPRUCE PINE DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA BY JOHN M. PARKER III PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR IN COOPERATION WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
silicates (mainly serpentine, possibly with some forsterite, enstatite and diopside) greatly in- 253 THE...Carbonate minerals from a dunite mine, Yancey County, North Carolina. Geol. Soc. Am. Meet. (Abstr.), 9(2):
Report (issue)
OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS: KEVIN G. STEWART MARK G. ADAMS CHARLES H. TRUPE CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Loren Raymond Banner Elk, North Carolina September 26-28, 1997 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1997 FIELD...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by: Kevin G. Stewart Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel... Trupe Department of Geology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 TABLE OF CONTENTS...Evolution Of The Blue Ridge Thrust Complex, Western North Carolina ..........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AC CE PT Bloomington, Indiana, 47405-1405, USA Corresponding author: L. E. Wasylenki, lauraw@indiana...Webster-Addie AN laterite, near Democrat, North Carolina, USA, as well as results from two sets of experiments...responsible for isotopic fractionation at the North Carolina laterites, continual PT locality are general...Webster-Addie ultramafic complex near Democrat, North Carolina, USA (described in Bish, 1977). These included...2011). Crushed olivine (forsterite) from the Twin Sisters Dunite, Oregon, USA, was sieved to 44-63 m
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1969), in Egypt (Amin and Aria, 1954) and in North Carolina (Kulp and Brobst, 1954). F r o m the Bohemian...reaction zone of vermiculite and chlorite from the county rock. Chemical analyses show two distinct groups...eta1. (1985): a possible reaction is 9 talc + 4 forsterite = 5 anthophyllite + 4 H20; the range of temperature...vermiculite at the Day Book dunite deposit, Yancey County, North Carolina. Econ Geol 49:2tl-220 Leake B (1978)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
garnets in the stockdale Kirnberlite Intrusion, Riley County, Kansas Anandite ordering Ancyl ite crystal structure...in the Stockdale Kinbertite Intrusion, RileY 675 County, Kansas sehoite 48I Be-O force constants 481 infrared...River Foflnation in Rio nent (llinklet) fOS Blanco County, Colorado 295 FAWCETT,J. JEFFREY EGGLETON, RICHARDA...Memorial of E. Gillerman s07 pyroxenes by SEM lss Forsterite Fe absorption by nobleconposition /65 metal capsules...near Black Mountain, western San Luis 0bisPo 1105 County, California H A L L , D A V I DJ . review of Petnogenesis
Report (issue)
____ Districts in Appalachia__________________ North Carolina_____________________ South Carolina_____________________...___________ Ne~ 1:ork_________________________ North Carolina__ _ ________ __ ______ __ Ohio________...Georgia_________________ Deposits in North Carolina__________ Deposits in South Carolina and Virginia____________________________...pinnacles beneath soil cover, Bluegrass, Highland County, Va_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...transverse joints cutting shale at Poverty, Highland County, V a_ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Journal (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NORTH ERN CALIFORNIA MINERAL SOCIETY . . . . . . . . ...from two Greek words from a new locality, Benton County, to meaning ,·ay and stone, as the mineral is Oregon...rtAlbite, a feldspar, is a silicate of alHam, Wolfe County, Quebec Province, lt, uminum and sodium. It gets...blo·wpipe. Some nice white drusy specimens from Benton County, Oregon, ·were present; also crystallized, colorless...blood-red cinnabar in veins in rock from Jefferson County, Oregon, were examined by many collectors. Copper:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymond, Arthur Merschat & R. Kelly...the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA, International Geology Review, 58:7, 874-912...the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymonda, Arthur Merschatb and R...State University, Boone, NC, USA; bUS Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA; cDepartment of Geology and Geography...Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Metaultramafic rocks
Book (volume)
01225 442836) Distributors USA AAPG Bookstore PO Box 979 Tulsa OK 74101-0979 USA (Orders: Tel. (918) 584-2555...anthophyllite and cummingtonite near Chester, Vermont, USA, and which have regularly repeating sequences of...Anthophyllite, anthophyllite-cordierite rocks, north Krivoy Rog district, USSR (Gorosnikov & Yur’yev...Vermont, USA (Spear 1980). ‘ 13 Anthophyllite, cordierite-amphibole-bearing rocks, Outokumpu, North Karelia...Volcanics, Vermont, USA (Spear 1980). 15 Anthophyllite, metagabbro, Hastings County, Ontario (Tilley 1957)
 
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