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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
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 Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Griswold Quarry, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:763598
Long-form Identifier:1:3:763598:4
GUID (UUID V4):2e6f6d57-4b1e-40c1-9dd4-8dc542147da3
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.2km (0.1 miles) Husband Quarry #4, Husband Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Gas pipeline excavation, 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 Quarries, South Glastonbury, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Husband Quarry #1, Husband 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 (volume)
SURVEY ISTo. 117 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF CONNECTICUT WASH I NO TON &OVEKIV3IENT PRINTING OFFICE 1894...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Connecticut | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | S A | geographic dictionary | of | Connecticut | by | Henry 3 Gannett | [Vignette] | £ Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Connecticut | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Newberry. 1888. 4°. xiv, 152
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EASTERN BOUNDARY OF T H E CONNECTICUT TR IA SSIC * BY W . M. DAVIS AND L . S. GRISWOLD (Read before the Society...520 Deformation along the eastern Boundaryof Connecticut Triassic........................ 521 General...previous studies of the Triassic formation of Connecticut, carried on by the senior author of this paper...then a popular essay, “ The Lost Volcanoes of Connecticut,” has been published in the Popular Science Monthly...(515) 516 DAVIS AND GRISW OLD— BOUNDARY OF CONNECTICUT TRIASSIC. tu re of the formation w ithin its
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
almost absolute safety of such systems. of Connecticut, which mllde it a criminal offence for a man...be determined by future mining. The rock on the south company is an air-tight apparatus which consists...usual amount of culpable negligence. If ment at South Lee still continues, together with the How of This...incurred by the negligence of sinking a shaft on the south slope of Monument Mountain, employees to a minimum...DEATH OF HON. . .. .. JOHN A. GRISWOLD. John A. Griswold, one of the first in the ranks of American
Report (volume)
2-4, vol. 4, vol. 5, no. 1. Boulder, Colo. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (Publications of...Transactions, vols. 12, 13, pp. 1-297. New Haven, Conn. Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey:...Biennial Report, 1905^6; Bulletins, nos. 6-8. Hartford Conn. Contributions to Indiana Paleontology (Greene)...10,11, 12, pp. 1-94. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 1, nos...81-84. New York. Engineering Association of. the South: Transactions for 1905, vol. 16 and Proceedings
Report (volume)
conglomerate, flint, gravel,. quartz-mica schist, novaculite, massive quartz, quartzite, sand, "sand-clay...Hartselle sandstone, which crops out in Jefferson County in the northeastern suburbs of Birmingham, has...brown iron ore mines, near Woodstock station, Bibb County, is a bed of sand that is also used in steel foundries...Montgomery Counties [Ark.]: Ark .. Geol. Survey County Mineral Rept. 3, p. 66-74, 87-90. Novaculite is...as the Arkansas stone. It has fewer joints and quartz veins than the Arkansas stone but contains more
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
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)
THE GABBROS AND ASSOCIATED ROCKSl AT PRESTON, CONNECTICUT BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING................................................. Quartz-biotite schist. .................................................................. Lantern Hill quartz................................................................................................ Quartz veins............................................similar rock from other horizons.................. Quartz-biotite schist. ..............................
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)
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........................................... Smoky quartz...............................................
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
understanding of our hobby. CHIPS AND BITS CONNECTICUT Anneliese Del Monico, President of the New Haven...Student Teaching Collection, and a display of Connecticut minerals by localities. Our space does not permit...ciety found beryl and tourmaline at the Slocum Quarry in East Hampton. . . . "Drifting of the Continents"...Baltimore Mineral Society, SOUTH CAROLINA Mrs. George Bradley of the Western South Carolina Gem and Mineral...artifacts Dr. I . Wendell Marine spoke on Geology South of the Border to the Aiken Gem and Mineral Society
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Pringle (1940a, b)] in the Callander area of south-western Perthshire, Scotland (Figs 1–4) is a generalised...collected from rocks in the western ‘Leny Old Lime Quarry’, 950 metres north and 8 degrees east of the northern...(1861) was the first to refer to the rocks of Leny Quarry when he regarded their blackness as of similar...Silurian shales in the Southern Uplands, i.e., ‘The South of Scotland’ geological region in the British Geological...Highlands; (5) The Midland Valley of Scotland; (6) The South of Scotland. Road map reproduced with permission
Report (issue)
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)
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................................ 58 Granitic to quartz dioritic gneisses, undivided... 59 iii TABLE
Report (volume)
Photograph showing ripple marks in basal part of Griswold Gap Member of Pocono Formation near the Falling...sandstone is the oldest rock of Devonian age in which quartz granules were noted. The rocks of Late Devonian...the basis of the size of the constituent quartz sand and quartz pebbles. The two lower zones are marine...thick contains scattered grains and pebbles of quartz and pebbles and boulders of sandstone. Rocks of...co~1glomerate are the predominant: roeks of the Griswold Gap Member of the Pocono. The upper part of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with an account of the Triassic formation of Connecticut, maps the boundary between the Triassic and crystalline...and Dutchess counties, whence they extend into Connecticut; and on the west of the river, in Orange and...gneisses, the Fordham Gneiss, consisting chiefly of quartz and orthoclase, with biotite and hornblende, and...The gneisses on the south side of the Highlands extend through Westchester county in a series of folds...JOUR. GEOL. Ann. 2The Triassic formation of Connecticut, by WM. M. DAVIS: Eighteenth With geological
Report (issue)
................................ 12 Bernalillo County ................................................................................... 12 Sandoval County ................................................................................... 29 Santa Fe County ............................................................................................ 49 South Mountain area (by Tommy B. Thompson) ................................................ Bernalillo County ..............................................
Report (volume)
........................................... Connecticut. .....................................................-.............:..................... Connecticut....................................................... 80 South Carolina....................................................... 80 South Dakota..................................................... South Dakota ...................'.............................................................. 302 Connecticut.............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA e-mail: valley@geology.wisc.edu A. J. Cavosie Department...00681-9017, USA J. S. Lackey Geology Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA S. A. Wilde...Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA for zircon crystallization were calculated using...ZrTiO4 þ SiO2 rutile þ zircon ¼ TiIV  zircon þ quartz ð1Þ The resulting titanium-in-zircon (hereafter...Nevada Batholith Middledale, Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, Australia SiO2 d 18O, (wt.%) Zrc (%) Age
Map
byproduct of copper, zinc, or lead production. County District Estimated production (Troy ounces) Gold...USBM Minerals Yearbooks Bernalillo County dera Group. Catron County 3. Mogollon 362,225 (365,000) 4...faults cutting Oligocene andesites, rhyolite and quartz-latite tuffs, rhyolites, breccia, and minor volcaniclastic...Disseminated mineralization in shear zones and quartz veins in Precambrian porphyritic aplite. Soule...Oligocene quartz- Pettit, 1946; Lindgren et al., 1910 Ag, Cu, Pb (W) D,A Cibola County 5. Zuni Mountains
Report (volume)
Vol. XVII; Vol. XVIII, No. 1,1898. Chicago, 111. South Dakota Geological Survey: Bulletin No. 2,1898. Vermilion... Note on the physiography and geology of Kings County, Nova Scotia. Ottawa Nat., vol. xii, pp. 149-150...149-150,1898. Gives brief notes on the geology of the county. 14 - The mastodon in western Ontario. Abstract...(C. I.). The volcanic rock of Alum Hill, Boulder County [Colorado]. Colo. Sci. Soc., Proc., vol. v, pp...92. 19 Austin (W. L.). Copper deposits of Mora County, New Mexico. Abstract, Eng. and Mg. Jour., vol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ScoTt ROCK-RELATED LINCOLN 985 MINERALIZATION COUNTY, NEW MEXICO--A E. DOUGLASS AND ANDREW IN THE...givenby Griswold(1959).This led us to lookat in partbe accounted forbythepresence of secondary quartz. th...conclusively presented. difference in thesulfideto silica(quartz)ratiowasnotedin In thatarticleweequivocated ab...havesincerethought aresomewhat subjective, thedescriptions of Griswold (1959) theevidence andreturnedto the originalconclusion...strongest evidence for a difference be- with a north-south flexure in the area of the Helen Rae and tweendeposittypes
 
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