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Plagioclase from
Reed Mine, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Plagioclase' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Plagioclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Reed Mine, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:876977
Long-form Identifier:1:3:876977:0
GUID (UUID V4):a3f52479-ad22-4f82-9821-f8e3ca7d2d52
References
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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 ..........................................
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CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK October 21 – 23, 1983 GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN...IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF NORTHWE3STERN NORTH CAROLINA Edited by Sharon E. Lewis Virginia Division of Mineral...pit”, of the main adit and Stopes of the Cranberry mine Copies of this guidebook may be obtained from:...NRCD Post Office Box 27687 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1983 OFFICERS...South Carolina 29613 Vice-President: John J. Chapman Department of Earth Science Western Carolina University
Report (issue)
15A. Metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Ashe Formation by J.E. Gair ................... 85 ...Slack STOP 16. Open pit, east end of Betty Baker mine by J.E. Gair Drill core, Mineral district by J...4. Geologic map of the Mineral district, Louisa County, Virginia 5. Geology of the Gofer deposit. Plan...following rifting near the eastern edge of the North American continental plate. The rifting initiated...Ridge on the east. These rocks now constitute the Ashe and correlative Lynchburg Formations. Submarine
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CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1988 OFFICERS President: Kenneth A. Gillon BP Minerals America 1112 Mill...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC 28403 Secretary-Treasurer:...Anthropology Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC 28723 H. Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources...of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695 Wayne V...ZONE OF THE SAURATOWN MOUNTAINS ANTICLINORIUM, NORTH CAROLINA TEUNIS HEYN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 29–30...Rogers area, revisited, Blue Ridge, VA–NC–TN Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 29...Merschat, Scott Southworth, Crystal G. Wilson i Carolina Geological Society http://carolinageologicalsociety...University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, SC Lee Phillips Univeristy of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro...................69 Stop 2–1. Amphibolite of the Ashe Metamorphic Suite near Warrensville ...........
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
severalsulfidelayersthat possiblyare structurallyrepeated. The Ashe Formationin the district is a sequenceof metasedimentary...clasticmetasediments of the Ashe Formation.Suchrocksare composed mainlyor whollyof plagioclase feldspar,biotite...deposits,typicallywithin 10 m of massivesulfide.The plagioclase rocks (3.4-7.6 wt % Na•O) consistlargely of ...abundantMn-rich garnet(SpsoAl•3Grl•Pys) andminorquartz,plagioclase, pyrrhotite,andbiotite.The distinctive mineralogyand...massivesulfide deposits within the late Proterozoic Ashe Formation in Carroll and GraysonCounties,southwesternVir-
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Sc ce i en e T ec tonic s R es earc h nc Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip October 19-20...southwestern Brushy Mountains, centralwestern North Carolina Guidebook Editors: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr....Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Geological Conultants, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina Central Savannah...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...South Carolina Kubal and Furr, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Book
HOPKINS BALTIMORE, UNIVERSITY MARYLAND J. C., REED, JR. BRANCH DENVER DENVER, OF ROCKY FEDERAL ...of Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (deceased). HADLEY, Jarvis...Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland 20242. REED, J. C., Jr., U. S. Geological Survey Branch of Rocky...2, p. Huntington Broedel, Reverse faulting north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull...River, Maryland, Guidebook 2. —, and John Calvin Reed, Memorial to Robert Ellsworth Fellows (1915-1949)
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Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...D. Warner Richard M. Wooten Steven P. Yurkovich Ashe-Tallulah Falls Fm. migmatite Acknowledgments and...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
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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)
Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina 28608, USA, (E-mail: abbottrn@appstate.edu) 2 Institute...California 90095, USA ABSTRA CT This work supports a growing body of evidence that the Ashe Metamorphic Suite...(AMS) of the eastern Blue Ridge province in North Carolina has an ensimatic origin and is part of a subduction-related...meÂlange, marking the Taconic suture between the North American craton and the Inner Piedmont. In a palinspastic...mount. Pelitic and ma®c rocks dominate the AMS. North of the Grandfather Mountain window, retrograded
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Carolina Geological Society Officers 1966-67 President: William J. Furbish Duke University Durham...Durham, North Carolina Vice President: Maurice Magee Tennessee Copper Company Ducktown, Tennessee Secretary-Treasurer:...Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron Duke University Durham, North Carolina Field Trip Leader: Douglas W. Rankin U.S...S. Geological Survey Washington, D.C. CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Guidebook for 1967 Annual Meeting...THE GEOLOGY OF THE MT. ROGERS AREA, VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE Douglas W. Rankin U.S. Geological
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sodic-calcic amphibole + chlorite + epidote + plagioclase + quartz is assigned to a medium- to high-pressure...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...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...BZ CB CGC CK CSB DT EDG EQD FG GF GMW GSM HF IP Ashe metamorphic suite Ashland-Wedowee belt Blue Ridge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dismembered ophiolites of the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymond, Arthur...dismembered ophiolites of the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA, International Geology...dismembered ophiolites of the Ashe Metamorphic Suite of northwestern North Carolina, USA Loren A. Raymonda, Arthur...State University, Boone, NC, USA; bUS Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA; cDepartment of Geology and Geography...Statesboro, GA, USA ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Metaultramafic rocks (MUR) in the Ashe Metamorphic Suite
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CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1980 OFFICERS President: J. Robert Butler Department of Geology University...University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. Vice-President: Van Price, Jr. Savannah River Laboratory...Department of Earth Sciences University of North Carolina at Wilmington Wilmington, N.C. William S. Henika...Radiometric Dating in the Sauratown Mountains Area, North Carolina (P.D. Fullagar and J. R. Butler). . . . . .... 7 Metamorphic Gradients in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (J. P. Gregory). . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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
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province in southwestern Virginia and adjacent North Carolina and Tennessee showing thrust faults, Late Proterozoic...area of southwestern Virginia and adjacent North Carolina and Tennessee, the billion-yearold Grenvillian...area in southwestern Virginia and adjacent North Carolina and Tennessee (fig. 1). The Mount Rogers Formation... .Knoxville NORTH CAROLINA ,.....,.,-------------- 100 200 KILOMETERS SOUTH CAROLINA EXPLANATION...called the Grandfather Mountain Formation (Bryant and Reed, 1970). He also delineated a belt of "metarhyolite"
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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)
Trip Leaders: Andy Bobyarchick (University of North Carolina - Charlotte) Ellen Cowan (Appalachian State...State University) Jesse Hill (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) Keith Seramur (Appalachian State...State University) Kevin Stewart (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) Anne Witt (Virginia Department...Rick Wooten (North Carolina Geological Survey) Logistical Support: Tyler Clark Carolina Geological Society...Annual Meeting, October 5-7, 2018 Boone, NC cArOlinA geOlOgicAl sOciety http://carolinageologicalsociety
Report (issue)
Contents Block-in-matrix structures in the North Carolina Blue Ridge belt and their significance for...McKinney Tectonic mélange at Chunky Gal Mountain, North Carolina Alfred J. Lacazette, Jr., and Nicholas Rast...of the Morgan Run Formation (of debated age) and Mine Run Complex, some of which contain possible ophiolite...in the Carolinas and Georgia, that border the Carolina terrane as defined by Secor and others (1983);...(Rodgers, 1968) at the eastern edge of ancestral North America (e.g., Bird and Dewey, 1975). Rowley and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3315, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, USA ReceivedJune l, 1993;...plutonic rocks of the Crossnore Complex in the North Carolina Blue Ridge are considered to have formed in...eastern North America. The Blue Ridge province of eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and southwestern...geologic map of the Blue Ridge in northwestern North Carolina and eastern Tennessee with sample locations...Bryant and Reed (1970); Rankin et al. (1972); Bartholomew and Lewis (1984); North Carolina Geological
Report (issue)
NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE FOR NORTH CAROLINA EON ERA PERIOD EPOCH GEOLOGIC...GEOLOGIC EVENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA Recent Deposition of sediments in Coastal Plain. Erosion of Piedmont...Pliocene o Phosphate deposited in eastern North Carolina (Beaufort and Pamlico Counties). Miocene ...E u o E n Formation of the Atlantic Ocean as North America and Africa drifted apart. Weathering and...Piedmont and Mountains. 240 Final collision of North America and Africa.Thrust faulting in west; deformation
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Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina ..... 67 Table 12 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina ..... 85 Table 15 Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of north-central New York........................65 Figure...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of North Carolina................................77 Figure 17...occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of South Carolina. ............*......*...........86 Figure 20.
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chartoflithologic units in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 31 9. Modal analyses of felsic igneous rocks north of the Brevard fault zone . . . . . . . . . . ....Austell, Sand Hill, Kennesaw and Dallas gneisses north of the Brevard zone. The oldest rocks present in...rocks that have many similarities to lithologies north 1 To produce a geologic map of an area as large...10911 0111 11211311411 511611711B119120- Rome North Shannon Adairsvi lie White West White East Waleska
 
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