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Prehnite from
Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:760983
Long-form Identifier:1:3:760983:1
GUID (UUID V4):840e08c0-5dc1-4b45-8302-7bb96cf12d85
Nearest other occurrences of Prehnite
10.7km (6.6 miles) Notch Quarry (Lane Quarry; Amherst Quarry; Round Mountain Quarry), Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Pelham Granite quarry (Ward Quarry; Valley Quarry), Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) Monson quarries (Flynt quarries), Monson, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
19.2km (12.0 miles) Mt. Tom Quarry, Mount Tom, Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
23.2km (14.4 miles) Quabbin Aqueduct shaft No. 10 locality, Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
28.6km (17.7 miles) Hampden quarry, West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Lane & Son traprock quarries (Lane's Quarry), Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Cheapside Quarry (East Deerfield Quarry; Trew Corp. Quarry), Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
38.0km (23.6 miles) Interstate 84 (I-84; I-86; State Route 15; Wilbur Cross Highway), Union, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA
46.1km (28.7 miles) State Route 20 road cut, East Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...iuclosures........................................ 2. Prehnite; cross-section of twins.........................Survey, a inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was...Geological A MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 8y RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany, N. Y....Mass~chusetts are ID<:ated within t~e bound.anes of Hampshire County, situated in ~e western half of the. state...all of the recorded gemstone 10Ga;htles of the county from the very earliest recorded ones to the . ...o~fully accurate form. Not being a nat.lve of the county or even the state the wr.ter is at a disadvantage...Amherst Eroded from underlying basalt. _... ? Belchertown Northampton, Mt. Tom Crystals eroded from basalt
Report (chapter)
British Isles, Canada and Maine, broad greenschist, prehnite-pumpellyite and lower-grade metamorphism accompanied...gneiss domes (Thompson et al. 1986). In western Massachusetts and Connecticut the sillimanite zone is attained...interrupted by the contact effects of the synAcadian Belchertown intrusion. Even in the chlorite zone there is...Taconian metamorphism. The eastern high ('New Hampshire high') has a very broad sillimanite-muscovite...(Spear & Chamberlain 1986) and, in central Massachusetts, true granulite-facies assemblages of hypersthene-orthoclase
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................
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
but they may be traced southerly into Litchfield county, where they exist abundantly, and are sometimes...of the veins traversing sienite, (between — Belchertown and Ludlow for example,) are so numerous and...any one pass from Hinsdale, Newthe Connecticut. Hampshire to Winchester and he will see numerous bowlders...north it spreads over a considerable part of New-Hampshire. The White hills though they have are said...range which occupies the eastern part of Litchfield County and appears so decided in its characters in Bristol
Report (volume)
onshore and offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg...Maritime Maryland Massachusetts, Deerfield basin Massachusetts, Hartford basin Massachusetts, other Morocco
Book (edition)
CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........Occurrences located north of the Hartford basin, New Hampshire ...................... .67 B. Section B: Occurrences...located in the Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts .................... .72 C. Section C: 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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CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered..." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press, Milliard...Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and Jacob (Hall.) (Webster.) Hampshire Gazetteer...Sulphuret of Iron, very abundant. (C.) NEW HAMPSHIRE. ALSTEAD. in quartz, abundant. usually in imperfect...Epidote. Hornblende, Talc. (JV*. G.) NEW HAMPSHIRE. 10 Graphite. Pyritous Copper. Red Oxide of
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2£ feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2 feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford There is...at large quantities of this gas. Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...at Warm and Hot Springs ; in BuncombeAt Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Book (edition)
was obtained a few years since at Acworth, New Hampshire, which measured 4 feet in length and 2$ feet in...springs in Columbia county, New York, and a region in the town of Hoosic, Rensselaer county, afford large quantities...gas. There is another locality at Canoga, Seneca county, where the water is in violent ebullition from...Warm and Hot Springs ; in Buncombe At Bath, in county, N. C. and on the Washita in Arkansas. England...been met with, in Rutherford county, North Carolina, (fig. 4,) and Hall county, Georgia. The original rock
Journal (issue)
headed northward towards the gold mine in York County. It was a most enjoyable trip, the mine was reached...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at rhe...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las...chalcedony—almost an agate! Lakeland, in N/W Polk County, is in central Florida. GEORGIA — "The enclosed... Rome, Ga. Summerville is in central Chattooga County in N/W Georgia. MAINE—A few months ago David Dethier
Report (volume)
of the northern Hartford basin and vicinity, Massachusetts 23S By Jeffrey D. Phillips Buried structures...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase...geophysical study of the northern Hartford basin, Massachusetts, and (6) a comparison of new aeromagnetic imagery...and northern Hartford basins and vicinity, Massachusetts, are presented as gray-tone images by Phillips...Geography, Contribution No. 32, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 129 p. Lyttle, P.T., and Epstein,
Report (issue)
--Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia --------Massachusetts ---------------------------]dichigan ------...l cooperators --------------------------State, county, and local cooperators -----------Other cooperators...unidentified, source. Edna Mountain area, Humboldt County, Nevada Detailed geologic and geochemical mapping...Coldrun Creek 71;2-minute quadrangle, Humboldt County, Nev., has revealed areas that contain anomalous...prospect, a coppermolybdenum prospect in Halifax County, N.C., were examined with an ultraviolet light
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous........................................... New Hampshire...............................................................:........................... Massachusetts....:..........................................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike............................................. 3. Colfax County................ I.............................
Report (issue)
—————97 Maryland ___________________________97 Massachusetts ______________________98 Michigan _________________________100...Geotechnical and geohydrological studies in Fairfax County, Virginia _____________________285 Puget Sound...ore in the southern Wah Wah Mountains in Beaver County, Utah, can be treated profitably. occurs in nickel...185,000 ha of peatlands in western Koochiching County, Minnesota, revealed a spotty distribution of deposits...site. Precambrian sulfide deposits in Gunnison County, Colorado Precambrian sulfide deposits in the
Report (volume)
geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290, pis. xliv-xlv...203-528, pls.'vii-xxxi. The geology of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, pp. 529-611...of Monument Mountain, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by T. Nelson Dale, pp. 551-565, pis. Ixxi,...The geology of the road-building stones of Massachusetts, with some consideration of similar materials...brick clays of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, by N. S. Shaler, J. B. Woodworth, and C. F
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Eocks from Aroostook County I............................. 19 19 2. Litchfieldite...associated minerals.....'.........'.......... 21 New Hampshire............................................................................. 23 24 24 27 Massachusetts...............................................56 1. Elliott County dike........................................ 56 2. Crittenden County dike............................................... 3. Colfax County.......".......................................
Book (edition)
Shaftsbury, and Scranton, in Vt. - Cleveland. Massachusetts affords several quarries of marble. Professor...annual value of the marble quarried in Berkshire county alone, amounts to more than 40,000 dollars. The...England, particularly in the counties of Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, and Sussex. France, in various places...Champlain, and on the island of New-York, N. Y. Morris county, N. J. Species 6. FLUATE OF LIME . FLUOR .* ...Derbyshire fine specimens occur. U. S. Shenandoah county, and at Shephardstown, Va. Pe. ter's Creek, 17
Report (volume)
of Kentucky Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky...Analysts. Houston, Tex. Los Angeles County Mus. Contr. Sci. - Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science...Science. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles County Mus. Nat. History...History Quart.- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Quarterly. Los Angeles, Calif. Louisiana Water...Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Maryland Geol. Survey County Geol. Map Geologic Map. Baltimore, Md. Maryland
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...within the hydraulic pit near North Columbia, Nevada County (locality .7, index map), enabled a prediction...through Battle Rock in McElmo Canyon, Montezuma County, (locality ./, index map) was reported by K. A...Conglomerate In the Castle Eock area of Douglas County (loc. 3} , gold in modern stream alluvium is derived
Report (volume)
.......................................... Massachusetts. ..................................................................................... New Hampshire...................................................................-.-..------------- 126 Massachusetts....................................................................................... New Hampshire .................................................................................... 302 Massachusetts..... ......................................
Book (edition)
Shaftsbury, and Scranton, in Vt.- Cleveland. Massachusetts affords several quarries of marble. Professor...annual value of the marble quarried in Berkshire county alone, amounts to more than 40,000 dollars. The...England, particularly in the counties of Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, and Sussex. France, in various places...Champlain, and on the island of New-York, N. Y. Morris county, N. J. Species 6. FLUATE OF LIME . FLUOR. * ...Derbyshire fine specimens occur . U. S. Shenandoah county, and at Shephardstown, Va. Pe ter's Creek, 17 miles
 
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