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Epidote from
Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Epidote
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epidote data
Locality Data:Click here to view Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:93086
Long-form Identifier:1:3:93086:2
GUID (UUID V4):3cc6fa57-599c-4e39-b35e-d6e3b3137ca6
Nearest other occurrences of Epidote
8.1km (5.0 miles) Mount Grace, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
10.4km (6.4 miles) Winchester, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
18.1km (11.2 miles) Cheapside Quarry (East Deerfield Quarry; Trew Corp. Quarry), Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
27.2km (16.9 miles) Dummerston granite quarry, Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, USA
30.1km (18.7 miles) Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
33.6km (20.9 miles) Davis Pyrite Mine, Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
33.8km (21.0 miles) Pelham Granite quarry (Ward Quarry; Valley Quarry), Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
37.5km (23.3 miles) Pelham asbestos mine, Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
38.5km (23.9 miles) Massachusetts Talc Company Mine, Rowe, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
39.7km (24.7 miles) Wilmington, Windham County, Vermont, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R E S 18 Singletary Lane Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low­ ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi­ cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...deweylite diopside dolomite dravite elbaite enstatite epidote ettringite fayalite ferrimolybdite ferroactinolite...cities and differ from some states that have strong county governments with jurisdiction over large expans­
Report (volume)
of the Hawley and Goshen Schists in Western Massachusetts By NORMAN L. HATCH, JR. CONTRIBUTIONS GEOLOGICAL...TO SURVEY Prepared in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works Two Paleozoic units...in recently restudied areas of northwestern Massachusetts. _____________________________________________...showing correlation of the rock units of western Massachusetts and southeast Vermont-_-_____-__-________----_...OF THE HAWLEY AND GOSHEN SCHISTS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS By NORMAN L. HATCH, JR. ABSTRACT Emerson's
Report (issue)
^he Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts A. The Pre-Silurian Geology of the Rowe-Hawley Zone B. Stratigraphy...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1366-A-D The Bedrock Geology of Massachusetts NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., Editor A. The Pre-Silurian...Jr. and Rolfe S. Stanley [etc.] 1. Geology Massachusetts. I. Hatch, Norman L. II. Series: Geological...a companion to the bedrock geologic map of Massachusetts (Zen and others, 1983; hereafter referred to... Geological Survey and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was begun in 1938. They also include
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
Report (issue)
Belt, Brattleboro and Newfane quadrangles, Windham County, Vermont By Thomas R. Armstrong1 Open-File Report...Newfane 7.5 by 15 Minute quadrangles, in Windsor County, Vermont. Specifically, this includes rocks of...(Hepburn and others 1984) and the Silurian-Devonian Northfield Formation. The geology of the northwestern part...south by the Shelburne Falls quadrangle, of Massachusetts and Vermont. The eastern border of the study...approximately lies immediately east of the Missisquoi Northfield contact on the 1961 Vermont State Geologic map
Report (volume)
Formation, and Goshen Formation of central western Massachusetts, which are inferred to range in geologic age...based on detailed mapping mainly in western Massachusetts coupled with reconnaissance studies throughout...eastern and western uplands of Connecticut and Massachusetts. in the correlation chart (fig. 2) in the present...(now replaced by Ordovician) age in western Massachusetts that underlay his Hawley Schist and that overlay...and Their Correlation 3 VERMONT AREA AND MASSACHUSETTS REFERENCE CentralWestern SYSTEM AND SERIES
Report (volume)
MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON...Geological Survey, a inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon...States Geological A MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B....within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is...the eastern border of the area find in AVorcester County. TRIASSIC. The Suf/ar Loaf arko*e, or feldspathitf
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Chester Quadrangle, Windsor County, Vermont By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe1 Open-File Report...underlying Northfield by the abundance of punky-weathered limestone and schist Northfield Formation (Lower...that are similar to garnet-rich phyllites of the Northfield Formation. Passes laterally into a darker gray-...Amphibolite member-Varies from dark-green, fine-grained, epidote-knotted well-foliated plagioclase-hornblende amphibolite...Amphibolite member-Dark-green, highly foliated epidote-biotite-hornblende and hornblendeplagioclase amphibolite
Journal (volume)
amphibolites and garnet-epidote amphibolites into chloritemuscovite-epidote greenschists. This is similar...oriented amphibole and, structurally downward, epidote and muscovite, is deformed by isoclinal recumbent...microscope characteristics of the Missisquoi, Northfield, Waits River, and Gile Mountain formations in...unconformably overlain by the Silurian Shaw Mountain and Northfield Formations to the east. A HIGH STRAIN ZONE ON...Ave. Barre, VT 05641 Anthony Brainerd R.F.D. #1 Franklin, VT 05457 Barry L. Doolan Dept. of Geology, Univ
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pelitic schists from the Strafford Dome, Vermont, USA T. M E N A R D ' A N D F. S. SPEAR' 1 Department...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA ABSTRACT Metamorphism of the Gile Mountain Formation...retrograde metamorphism produced the assemblage albite epidote + K-feldspar + muscovite + chlorite, with grade...assemblage garnet + biotite + chlorite + plagioclase + epidote + quartz + muscovite + graphite + fluid, and minor...Appendix. GEOLOGICAL SETTING z Stratigraphy Massachusetts , 43' 15' 43' Fig. 1. Geology of south-eastern
Journal (volume)
arnp;ainphihole; hiot=biotite; chL=chlorite; epi=epidote; epi-ami=epidote amphiholite; gar=garnet; Lb=hornblende;...greenschist facies metamorphic assemblages of albite -epidote -chlorite -biotite with Fe-Ti oxides, apatite,...lithologies are mapped: 1) A dark green amphibole - epidote - albite - greenstone. 2) A green to dark green...green chlorite - muscovite - actionolite albite - epidote - schist. 3) A silvery white quartz muscovite -...and Geography, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02169 The Stamford-Heartwellville-Readsboro
Journal (volume)
Kate Mooney: Postglacial sediments of Addison County, Vermont ................. 12. Lynne Wommack: A...Member of the Pinney Hollow Formation is an alhite-epidote-quartz-chlorite--calcite schist with occasional...twice. The first metamorphism was not greater than epidote-amphiholoite facies. Associated with this metamorphic...a schistoity. The first event is preserved in epidote inclusion trains of albite porphvrohlasts which...determine the subsurface structure of a massive albite-epidote-calcjte-chlorjte schist commonly known as greenstone
Report (issue)
The American Philosophical Society by Benjamin Franklin in 1743; The American Academy of Arts and Sciences...geology in 1816. Amos Eaton had surveyed Rensselaer County, N. Y., and the route of the Erie Canal; further...Both of these undertakings were short-lived. Massachusetts established her survey in 1830; she was the...OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST In Troy, Orleans County, titaniferous magnetite had been discovered in...value as a building stone." He notes that Essex County is practically all granite and gneiss. Gneiss he
Report (issue)
Assistant Geologist. Professor of Geology, Massachusetts Agricultural College. E. J. Fovus, Field Assistant... ALTITUDES IN VERMONT, /GEOLOGY OF GRAND ISLE COUNTY, THE OLDEST CORAL REEF, P. E. TERRANES OF BETHEL...some further account of the Geology of Grand Isle County. Following this is an inter esting study of an...in preceding Reports by Dr. C. F. Gordon of Massachusetts Agricultural College, on the Geology of Western...Vermont and partly in New York, three, mostly in Massachusetts, but taking in a small strip of southern Vermont
Journal (volume)
through the Northfield Quadrangle to look at the Moretown, Cram Hill, Shaw Mountain, and Northfield formations...the interbedded phyllites and quartzites of the Northfield Formation, and the eccentric landowner who had...used to create landslide hazard maps by county. Addison County was previously completed by John Van Hoesen...Springston (Norwich University) is working on Washington County this year. The maps delineate possible areas of... Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753, USA 9:30 AM -- CHARACTERIZING PSEUDOTACHYLYTE VEINS IN
Report (issue)
Tectonic Studies of the Berkshire Massif, Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont A. Blastomylonites...Edge of the Berkshire Massif, Connecticut and Massachusetts-A Preliminary Report B. Chronology of Paleozoic...Part of the East Side of the Berkshire Massif, Massachusetts E. Recumbent Folding of the Goshen and Waits...Waits River Formations, \.Yestern Massachusetts F. Time and Space Relationships of Structures Associated...Associated With the Domes of Southwestern Massachusetts and Western Connecticut G. Minor Folds and Derived
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe-Co-Cu-Au-Bi-Y-REE deposits of the Idaho cobalt belt in Lemhi County, east-central Idaho. The focus is on the Blackbird...Blacktail BT CC CoNiCu HS Haynes-Stellite NF Northfield Ram RM SR Sweet Repose SS Sunshine Uncle Sam...Dandy DY Haynes-Stellite HS ID Idaho Merle MR Northfield NF Ram RM Sunshine SS Uncle Sam (Blackbird) US...quartzose type include Sunshine, Ram, Merle, Northfield, and Sweet Repose, plus several prospects, which...Trace Gangue minerals Fluorapatite Allanite Epidote Ankerite Calcite Stilpnomelane 1094 1A major
Report (issue)
.......... 187 REFORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ........ 189 GEOLOGY OF THE...... 210 REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY CF CHIT'JENDEN COUNTY, G. H. PERKINS ...... 221 GEOLOGY OF NEWPORT...Vermont, Drawn by H. E. Merwin XXI. Terraces in Northfield and Stowe, Merwin.................... XXII. Quarry.......... LIV. Geological Map of Part of Orleans County, drawn by C. F. Richardson ......................Cambrian and Ordovician, the results of work in Franklin and Chittenden counties are given in this volume
Report (volume)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH...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............................................
Journal (issue)
ELECTRIC LIGHT ON OBSCURE POINTS , MINERALS or MASSACHUSETTS , ORIGIN OF AMBER , SINGING SANDS , NAMES OF...Darrock's quarry at Frankford he says : " I have found epidote, stilbite, pectolite ?, apophyllite, natrolite...Magister Magnus in igni." In the Journal of the Franklin Institute! an account of some further work with...made rati er by accident. In the Journal of the Franklin Institute for September, 1893, an account of the...Collector. MINERALS OF MASSACHUSETTS. By J. C. Rand.' PART IV. Western Massachusetts. The western part of
Report (volume)
Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, ' South Carolina, and Massachusetts^and a revised Mississippiari time ,, *" scale...Formation, a Miocene formation in northern Elko County, Nevada, and adjacent Idaho, including a consideration...Revision of some stratigraphic names in central Massachusetts, by Peter Robinson and Gwendolyn W. Luttrell...FORMATION, A MIOCENE FORMATION IN NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, AND ADJACENT IDAHO, INCLUDING A CONSIDERATION...west and east sides of the Jarbidge River, in Elko County, Nev., and adjacent Owyhee and Twin Falls Counties
Journal (volume)
Springston, Dept. of Geology, Norwich University, Northfield, VT 05663 Three new uncorrected carbon-14 dates...University Department of Geology, 158 Hannon Drive, Northfield, VT 05663 Stream channel positions were analyzed...dolomitic Clarendon Springs Formation in Addison County contains uranium and lead in concentrations that... FRACTURED METAMORPHIC BEDROCK AQUIFERS OF MASSACHUSETTS Gregory J. Walsh, U.S. Geological Survey, P...in fractured metamorphic bedrock in eastern Massachusetts indicate distinct structural controls on ground
Journal (volume)
composed of a monolithic sequence of chlorite-epidote greenstones. Felsic volcanic rocks have been reported...Compliance Services 229 Armory St., Springfield Massachusetts 01104 11 TERRANES OUTBOARD OF THE ANCIENT...and Geophysics, Boston College Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167 General Northwestern Maine is located...Geology and Geography University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 R.D. Tucker Royal Ontario...carefully selected zircon separates from central Massachusetts and southwestern New Hampshire gives the following
Journal (volume)
Paul Bierman: Deglaciation of northwestern Massachusetts and southwestern Vermont ...... 3:30 18. Tamra...magnetite deposits in the Mineville District, Essex County, New York was studied for rare earth abundances...Klemic, 1956). DEGLACIATION OF NORTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT Bierman, Paul, Department...coarse-grained albite-hornblende (femaghastingsite)- epidote- chlorite- sphene +calcite assemblage with porphyroblasts...phases at the expense of of epidote. Strontium occupying Ca 2 in the epidote was more incompatable with
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the rocks. The greenstones contain a chlorite-epidote-albite assemblage with minor amounts of biotite...on groundwater availability in central Addison County, Vermont: Geological Society of America Abstracts...plumbing in the Cambro-Ordovician strata of Addison County (abstract): Green Mouitain Geologist, v. 12, no...05150, 886-2215. Districts #4 and #6 (Chittenden, Franklin Counties): 111 West Street, Essex Jct., VT 05452... VT 05405 Earth Science, Norwich University, Northfield, VT 05663 Delaware Geological Survey, University
 
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