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Microcline from
Griswold Quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Comments:Major component of the pegmatite.
Quality for species:Rock forming mineral/non-crystalline/little interest for collectors.(##)
Abundance at site:Extremely common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Griswold Quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:763596
Long-form Identifier:1:3:763596:0
GUID (UUID V4):2ec7d1c0-8dca-4a10-9eb8-2272bfb78f35
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
0.2km (0.1 miles) Husband Quarry #4, Husband Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Howe Quarry #2, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Husband Quarry #3, Husband Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Unnamed pegmatite prospect #4, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Howe Quarry #3, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Husband Quarry #2, Husband Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Unnamed pegmatite prospects, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Husband Quarry #1, Husband Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Husband Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Eureka Quarry #3, Eureka Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the Dayton Road District SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT JOHN H. BETTS 215 West 98 Street, Apt...forgotten locations in Connecticut is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury. This region was... They are in South Glastonbury, about 5 miles north-northeast of Portland, Connecticut, just north of...of the Portland-South Glastonbury town line and east of Route 17. The area, roughly triangular in shape...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north
Report (issue)
THE MOUNT CARMEL AND SOUTHIJOTON QUADRAM3LES, CONNECTICUT by Crawford E. Fritts New data concerning the...of approximately 111-square miles in south-central Connecticut were obtained in the course of detailed...the mirror-image of metamorphic zones in Dutchess County, New York. However, garnet appeared before biotite...meta/ basalt extrusives above Derby Hill Schist south of the map area represent more intense volcanic...of rocks of pre-Triassic age, New Haven County, Connecticut oo.....«..».o.»».....o (Pocket) 2. ^ Analyses
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THE GABBROS AND ASSOCIATED ROCKSl AT PRESTON, CONNECTICUT BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING................................................ Griswold quartz mass.....................................Stoniiigtori and Moosup quadrangles, New London County, Conn............................................of Stonington and Moosup quadrangles, New London County, Conn..................................... In pocket...probable thickness of porphyritic granite sheet in Griswold..............................................
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...description. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt. South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...Belsher P.O. Box 636 Golden, CO 80402 303-494-7785 South American Minerals Shows: 170 St. James Collections...the western slope of the Mosquito Range, in Lake County, Colorado, about 128 km (80 miles) southwest of...from Auraria via Colorado City and Ute Pass across South Park, over the Mosquito Range to the west, probably
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State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 13 THE LITHOLOGY OF...OF CONNECTICUT By JOSEPH BARRELL, E.M., Ph.D. Professor of Structural Geology in Yale University...State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut. 1. First Biennial Report of the Commissioners...Hymeniales of Connecticut 3. by Edward Albert White. The Clays and Clay Industries of Connecticut by Gerald...or Smuts, of Connecticut by George 5. Perkins Clinton. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William
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GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE NEW LONDON AREA, SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT Richard Goldsmith Open-File Report 87-328 ...Bedrock geologic map of the New London area, Connecticut................................. FIGURES Location...analyzed rocks from other formations in eastern Connecticut.................. 4, Semiquantitative spectrographic...spectrographic analyses of rocks from southeastern Connecticut................................. 4, Modal analyses...igneous and metaigneous rocks from southeastern Connecticut................................. 4, Normative
Report (issue)
PRECAMBRIAN GNEISSES, LARAMIE RIVER VALLEY, LARIMER COUNTY, COLORADO By F. Allan Hills1 Open File Report...Precambrian gneiss and granite surround the valley on the south, east, and west, and the landslide deposit, which...that the leucocratic granite consists of quartz, microcline, and oligoclase (An 15-25), with minor muscovite...suite are quartz, andesine (An3£-An40), minor microcline in streaks and veins, green hornblende, brown...0.0 0.0 P P P 0.0 P P 1.3 -P P 2 lg Quartz Microcline Plagioclase Hornblende Biotite Muscovite Rutile
Report (issue)
beryl production from the Harding pegmatite, Taos County. Current drilling in the Apache Warm Springs deposit...Iron Mountain deposit, also in the Sierra Cuchillo south of the Apache Warm Springs deposit, is a contact...were discovered in the Victorio Mountains, Luna County in the early 1900s. Gulf Minerals Resources, Inc...W-Mo-Be skarn deposits northwest of Mine Hill and south of Middle Hills. At a cut-off grade of 0.02% WO3...Mountain, Otero County and in the molybdenum porphyry deposit at Questa, Taos County, although not in
Report (issue)
Petrology of the Ashaway and Voluntovm. quadrangles, Connecticut-Rhode Island by Tomas Feininger U.i S. Geological...Petrology of the Ashaway and Voluntown quadrangles, Connecticut - Rhode Island by Tomas Feininger, Ph.D., Brown...Geological Survey in cooperation with the State of Connecticut, Geological and Natural History Survey, and the...quadrangles lie astride most of the south half, of the Connecticut-Rhode Island border (fig. 1). Together...miles, and are a little more £han 1? miles north-south, and 6 1/2 miles east-west. Greater Westerly, which
Report (issue)
MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly Donahue, Michael...New Mexico State Land Office 1 SUMMARY Luna County, in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1) is not well...metals and nonmetals have been produced from the county from 1876 to 2000. Much of this production has...collecting) that are found in 16 mining districts in the county. The Cooke’s Peak district ranks 5th in lead production...dominant force in much of the state, but not in Luna County for some 30 more years. Metals were first discovered
Report (volume)
covering early Mesozoic geology of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland...Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South Carolina...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
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Quartz-Felsite Porphyry Virginia Rhyolite Porphyry South Dakota Rhyolite Porphyry (Nevadite) Colorado Pumiceous...Maryland 55. 56. Cortlandtite Kimberlite New York South Africa Sedimentary Rocks B. I. Breccias and...Michigan Sandstones: 64. 65. 66. Brownstone Connecticut Arkose North Carolina Novaculite Arkansas Argillaceous...Porphyritic Gneiss Connecticut Muscovite-Schist New York Garnetiferous Mica-Schist Connecticut 109. 110. 111...Mica-Schist N. Carolina Tourmaline Mica-Schist South Dakota 106. 107. 108. Hornblende-SchistNew York
Report (issue)
......................... 22 7. Map of Lincoln County showing middle(?) Tertiary intrusives ...........northern Lincoln County, with part of the north flank extending into Torrance County, about 40 miles southeast...Pacific Railway. Carrizozo, the county seat, lies about 45 miles south of the range. Generally, the mountains...closed basins, whereas the drainage on the west and south empties into the Tularosa Basin. * The terms "Gallinas...less prominent mountain range in western Socorro County is also named Gallinas Mountains, and its highest
Report (issue)
MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ORTIZ MINE GRANT, SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Open-file Report 560 By Stephen R...Mountain range in the southwestern part of Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The Ortiz Mountains, physiographically...physiographically and geologically, form part of a north-south trending mountain range known as the Ortiz Porphyry...north to south, the Cerrillos Hills, the Ortiz Mountains, the San Pedro Mountains, and South Mountain...the Monte Largo Hills, about 8 km (5 mi) to the south, and are believed to be approximately 1.6 billion
Report (issue)
................................ 12 Bernalillo County ................................................................................... 12 Sandoval County ................................................................................... 29 Santa Fe County ............................................................................................ 49 South Mountain area (by Tommy B. Thompson) ................................................ Bernalillo County ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abundant gangue mineral and is commonlyaccompaniedby microcline. Calcite is commonin someareas. Other gangue...the monazite-apatiteveins at Steenkampskraal in South Africa, which have been describedonly from this...amount shown; N.D.--no Thorium veins District or County area State Dipof data] Samples analyzedRocks... 6 ,027- .27 NO NO N.D, Steep to .82 Griswold (1959). moderate Gold Hill Grant New Quartzite...Photographtaken by LouiseS. Hedricks. monlyaccompanied by microcline is presentin all minerals in veinsfromthe13Ureas
Report (issue)
Intrusive and extrusive alkaline rocks of the Lincoln County porphyry belt by Theodore J. Armbrustmacher 4...Buckles and northeast-trending faults Roosevelt County fault Alamosa Creek fault Karst................................... Pre-Permian rocks of Lincoln County....................... Pre-Permian rocks of the......................................... Lincoln County porphyry belt................................ Igneous...Permian rocks are mineralized adjacent to the Lincoln County porphyry belt, and include deposits of copper,
Report (volume)
of the booming White Oaks gold district, Lincoln County, N. Mex. Gold was probably the first metallic commodity...commodity to be commercially mined in the Lincoln County porphyry belt and has the highest production value...Intrusive and Extrusive Alkaline Rocks of the Lincoln County Porphyry Belt, by Theodore J. Armbrustmacher ..................................... .. Roosevelt County Fault. ............................................... . Pre-Permian Paleozoic Rocks of Lincoln County ................................. . Pre-Permian
Report (issue)
districts and igneous intrusions forming the Lincoln County porphyry belt (LCPB; McLemore and Zimmerer, 2009)...and prospects in the Gallinas Mountains, Lincoln County........................... 33 5 FIGURE 13. Relationship...Mineral zoning in the Gallinas Mountains, Lincoln County, New Mexico, based upon predominant mineralogy...mineral deposits in the Gallinas Mountains, Lincoln County, New Mexico (modified in part from Schreiner, 1993;...along the eastern Capitan lineament and Lincoln County porphyry belt.................................
Report (issue)
corner of the State, where Archean rocks at the south margin of the Wyoming cratonic age province are...and occupy large areas in the subsurface in the south half of the State. Rocks of the suite are mostly...east-trending sedimentary trough flanked to the north and south by predominantly volcanic materials. Magnetic lineations...and large parts of contiguous States to the east, south, and west, was added to the continent between 1...province and the province of Proterozoic rocks to the south is tectonic wherever it is observable. Within Colorado
Report (issue)
equivalent to Boulder Creek age plutons to the south (Peterman and others, 1968). Descriptions of rocks...others (1975), McCallum and Hedge (1976), and Griswold (1980). The second pluton occupies approximately...and Hedge, 1976, p. 33). Alinement of tabular microcline phenocrysts in many of the porphyritic phases...collected by M. E. McCallum, R. H. Filson, M. L. Griswold, and W. K. Camp during the course of geologic...batholith contact. Increased U content to the south correlates reasonably well with an increase in density
Journal (issue)
1937 .. CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1937 Chips from the Quarry 2 The Editor Goes Afield. By Peter Zodac ......Auodatlon • 2 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY (Formerly the Bulletin Board) WHO SECONDS THIS...another voice. "Then we can go up to the feldspar quarry where the feldspar, rose quartz and mica glisten...incrustation on the rocks in the road cut just south of Graymoor. "What's that?" he yelled to me, but...peculiar looking building about a mile or so to the south and in a large open area. I wondered what it could
Report (issue)
Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine 1 . David C. Roy and Ely Mencher Discussion:...Silurian stratigraphy of northeastern Aroostook County, Maine... Louis Pavlides Lower Devonian Seboomook...Summary of stratigraphy in the Brimfield area, Connecticut and Massachusetts .John D. Peper and M. H. Pease...stratigraphy of the New London area, southeastern Connecticut ..Richard Goldsmith Summary discussion of stratigraphy...Massachusetts and Connecticut .H. Roberta Dixon Pre-Silurian stratigraphy in south-central Massachusetts
Report (volume)
5, nos. 2-4, vol. 6, no. 1. Boulder, Colo. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (Publications of...Conn. Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey: Bulletins, nos. 10-12. Hartford, Conn...Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 3, nos. 2-4, vol. 4, no. 1. Media, Pa. Denison...85, 86. New York. Engineering Association of the South: Proceedings, vol. 19. Nashville, Tenn. Engineering... France. South Carolina Geological Survey: Series 4, Bulletin no. 2. Columbia, S. C. South Dakota School
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous.............................................. Connecticut................................................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike.........rocks from Minnesota............................ 55 South Dakota................................................................................ 3. Colfax County................ I.............................
 
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