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Kyanite from
Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Species:Kyanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kyanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:863922
Long-form Identifier:1:3:863922:6
GUID (UUID V4):a26aa531-6ce3-4260-811d-db94f5d689d2
References
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Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1975 Officers President: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr Department of Chemistry...Clemson, South Carolina Vice President: Carlton J. Leith Department of Geosciences North Carolina State University...University Raleigh, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr. Department of Geology Duke...Duke University Durham, North Carolina Chairman of Membership Committee: Robert E. Lemm Department...South Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Stephen A. Kish Department of Geology University of North Carolina
Report (volume)
Geology of Some Copper Deposits in North Carolina Virginia, and Alabama By GILBERT H. ESPENSHADE CONTRIBUTIONS...of the Fontana and Hazel Creek mines, Swain County, North Carolina, the Toncrae mine, Virginia, and the..._______________________ Deposits in Great Smoky ~ountains, North Carolina__________________ Generalg...---------------------------------Geology of Swain County copper district__________________________ Sedimentary...of the Swain County copper district, North Carolina. 2. Geologic map of the Fontana mine, Swain County
Report (issue)
North Carolina State Library jleigh ( f t NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN RALEIGH...RALEIGH 1958 G. CONRAD Norffe Carolir* St** NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...NUMBER 71 EXPLANATORY TEXT FOR GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA By JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD...Jefferson F. J. BOLING Siler City H. C. BUCHAN, JR North Wilkesboro SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR Spruce Pine VOIT
Report (issue)
Geotraverse East of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping financial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and field checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat
Report (issue)
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...Fluorspar 51 Garnet 51 Gem Stones 52 42 Graphite 53 Kyanite Group of Minerals 53 Phosphate 54 Rutile 55 Oil
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
Report (issue)
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK WITHIN THE FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY...COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth U.S. Geological Survey Reston, Va. Open-File Report 95-264 Prepared...Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade,...THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK WITHIN THE FONTANA DAM AND TUSKEEGEE QUADRANGLES, SWAIN COUNTY...COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA by Scott Southworth INTRODUCTION AND GEOLOGIC SETTING The geology of the Great Smoky
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eastern Great Smoky Mountains of the North Carolina Blue Ridge contain futile grains only in kyanite and...Adjacent non-pelitic rocks do not contain futile at kyanite grade but commonly contain sphene. Detrital rutile...metamorphic isograds. Thin sections of rocks from North Carolina and eastern Connecticut were examined for futile...highgrade metamorphic terrane in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina, considered by him to be an original source...known. THE BLUE CAROLINA RIDGE OF NORTH The Blue Ridge of western North Carolina consists of a core
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OFFICERS OF CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (1951-1952 President: Stephen Taber, Columbia, South Carolina Vice President:...Broadhurst, Raleigh, North Carolina Secretary: E. Willard Berry, Duke University, North Carolina PROGRAM COMMITTEE...Maryville, Tennessee Roy L. Ingram, Chapel Hill, North Carolina EXCURSION LEADERS Philip B. King, Jarvis B...maps Introduction Outline of geology of Great Smoky Mountains area Method of presentation Four sequences...rocks Rocks of Tennessee Valley and cove areas Great Smoky fault Rocks of Chilhowee Mountain Miller Cove
Report (issue)
Geology of the Eastern Great Smoky Mountains North Carolina and Tennessee By JARVIS B. HADLEY and RICHARD...GOLDSMITH GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...ement complex _____________________________ _ Carolina gneiss_ ______________ ___________ - Definition...Amphibolite _________ - ___ --- __ -- __ -Origin of the Carolina gneiss ___________ -Plutonic rocks ___________________...tratigraphic relations _____ ---- __ -------Great Smoky group __ ------_---------------Definition __
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK SEPTEMBER 29-30, 1990 GEOLOGY OF GRENVILLE-AGE BASEMENT...CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA BY CARL E. MERSCHAT AND LEONARD S. WIENER NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...OBTAINED FROM NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P.O. BOX 27687 RALEIGH, N.C. 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources Commission Greenville, South Carolina Vice-President: John...Geology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2004 Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/04 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA (Received June 6, 2002; revised 1...Abstract—Three lines of evidence from schists of the Great Smoky Mountains, NC, indicate that isogradic monazite growth...hundred grains per thin section) in staurolite- and kyanite-grade rocks. (2) Many monazite grains are spatially...Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. 101 102 M. J. Kohn and M. A. Malloy chemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA (staceycorrie@mail.boisestate.edu)...silicates in garnet through kyanite-grade pelitic schists from the Great Smoky Mountains, western Blue Ridge...Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.  2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd amphibolite facies...systematics of metapelitic rocks from the Great Smoky Mountains were investigated, particularly the LREE...GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee is part of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRATIGRAPHY OF OCOEE SERIES, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA BY PHILIP B. KING, JARVIS...Much of the Great Smoky Mountains, which span the boundary between Tennessee and North Carolina, is formed...gneissic rocks, and on the northwest side of the mountains it is overlain by the Cochran formation, or basal...Cambrian and Precambrian (?) age. South of the mountains it is overlain by rocks of the Murphy marble belt;...designated groups and named the Snowbird group, the Great Smoky group, and the Walden Creek group. The groups
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 (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)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK OCTOBER 23-24, 1976 INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY OF...Geology Clemson University C1emson, SC 29631 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1976 OFFICERS President: ...Department of Geosciences North CarOlina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Vice-President: Charles...Department of Geology Duke University Durham, North Carolina Chairman of Membership Committee: Arthur...Department of Geology University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina Field Trip Leader: Robert D. Hatcher
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been helpful. I have a deep respect and indeed great love f o r this lovely p a r t o f o u r c o u n...CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...t v i e w of these m a j e s t i c g r e e n mountains. W h i l e t h e g r e a t peaks a t Colorado
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh W hen the North Carolina Museum of Natural...the state capitol. Appropriately enough, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences celebrated its 125th...125th birthday with Treasures Unearthed: North Carolina’s Spectacular Gems and Minerals, a one-year exhibit...with a private collector who specialized in North Carolina minerals to create the 4,000-square-foot exhibit...showcased nearly three hundred specimens of North Carolina gems and minerals. At the close of this successful
Report (chapter)
amphibolite Chlorite and biotite Garnet Staurolite-kyanite Northern Appalachians Staurolite-andalusite ...that indicated for mafic schist associated with kyanite-bearing pelitic schist in Vermont. The Appalachians...the terminology of Miyashiro (1973, pp. 71-8), kyanite- or andalusite-bearing pelitic schist indicates...Delaware Georgia Massachusetts Maryland Maine North Carolina New Jersey NH NY PA PQ RI SC TN VA VT New...Province of Quebec, Canada Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Vermont Northern Appalachians
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...on the east by high ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. It is geologically diverse. Traveling east from...Plateau. Continuing east beyond the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau escarpment, the collector...Valley and Ridge, which change crossing the Great Smoky Thrust Fault to lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure
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of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (deceased). HADLEY, Jarvis...2, p. Huntington Broedel, Reverse faulting north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull...Washington County, in The physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey, Washington County (Rept...physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey Washington County (Rept. 14), 17-94. ——, Igneous...physical features of Washington County. Md. Geol. Survey, Washington County (Rept. 14), p. 95-97. ——., Structural
Report (issue)
alumina-rich gneiss and schist from the Blue Ridge, North Carolina and Georgia by Frank G. Lesure U.S. Geological...Geological Survey (USGS) in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Georgia were analyzed for major and trace...Company quarry, 3 mi southwest of Franklin, Macon County, N.C. F20-23 Coarse-grained, pale red-purple to...Sevier County, Tennessee. TA197R1 1-ft chip sample, medium- to coarse-grained biotite-kyanite-quartz...NE quadrangle, Habersham County, Ga. NCC015 3-ft chip sample, garnet-kyanite-mica schist from road cut
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form a large part of the southern Appalachian Mountains in northeast Georgia U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Introduction 1 Previous work 1 General geology 1 Great Smoky thrust sheet 2 Hayesville thrust sheet 2 Mafic...that is overturned to the northwest, western Union County, Georgia 9 7. Photograph showing an exposure that...exposure that shows a small conjugate F3 fold pair, north of Ebenezer Church, Georgia 10 10. Map showing generalized...units. From northwest to southeast, they are the Great Smoky thrust sheet, the Hayesville thrust sheet, and
Report (issue)
Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina By Robert M. Kernon Open-file report 1968...omerate Pseudodiorite Relations of rocks of Great Smoky age to those of the Murphy marble belt- 5 6...Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina. Map of Ducktown, Isabella, and Persimmon Creek...Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina, that was being written by Robert M. Hernon...Persimmon Creek quadrangles, Tennessee and North Carolina By Robert M. Hernon GENERAL GEOLOGY The three
 
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