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Plagioclase from
Moccasin, New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA


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 Moccasin, New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:978496
Long-form Identifier:1:3:978496:3
GUID (UUID V4):c9b7cfa6-1bfa-4695-9267-3cfcc69bbacd
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metasomatism along the Melones Fault Zone, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California, USA GEORGE V. ALBINO* Corona...1375 Greg Street, Suite 105, Sparks, NV, 89431, USA Abstract Albitite, locally aegirine- and riebeckite-bearing...dykes and argillites along the Melones Fault Zone near Jamestown, California. Pyrite, magnetite, hematite...in altered dykes. The dykes were originally plagioclase-hornblende porphyritic, and had major and trace...are typical of gold deposits of the Mother Lode Belt. Alkaline fluids responsible for Na-metasomatism
Field Trip Notes
MANAGEMENT º, ſº ºf | LIBRARY UNIVERSITY or California … • * * ** ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING ...field guide follows, with minor modifications, California Division of Mines and Geology Bullet in 141 which...Landefeld and Snow in Yosemite and the Mother Lode Gold Belt, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Book...average value of gold produced in California was $25.00 per ounce. California State Highway 49, variously know...represents an important part of the sierran Gold Belt (49). This entire region has come to be known generally
Report (issue)
frank to return It DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR noy O. West. Secretary U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GeOl"ge Otis..."'::'.'" ., Prepared in cooperation with the California State Mining Bureau ..!' . ,(".1\\. lit ~..._ _ _ _ ___l DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Roy O. West, Secretary U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY George Otis Smith...Professional Paper 157 rfHE MOTHER LODE SYSTEM OF CALIFORNIA BY ADOLPH KNOPF 6-332 (February 1939) Prepared...Prepared in cooperation with the California State Mining Bureau Class,_ _ _ __ Book _____ GPO 16-50254-1
Report (issue)
Seismological Society of America, San Francisco, California, March 1991. This guidebook is available for...NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada Editors DORIS SLOAN University of California, Berkeley...and DAVID L. WAGNER Division of Mines and California Department Geology of Conservation OF MINES...DEPOS GEOLOGIC EXCURSIONS C\j IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Geological Setting of the San Francisco Bay...Pinole C9j Geology Prieta Area. of Sonoma County. of the Berkeley Hills. Regional Shoreline.
Report (issue)
Wallrocks of the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith, California: A Collage of Accreted Tectono-Stratigraphic... Wallrocks of the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith, California: A Collage of Accreted Tectono-Stratigraphic...Wallrocks of the central Sierra Nevada batholith, California. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1255)................................... Evidence for Melones fault .................... Critical differences...terranes, central and southern Sierra Nevada, California ............................................
Book (edition)
j3 ROADSIDE EOLOGY of Northern and Central California David Alt and Donald W. Hyndman Mountain Press...David D. Roadside geology of Northern and Central California / David Alt and Donald W. Hyndman. p. cm. - (Roadside...0-87842-409-1 (alk. paper) 1. Geology-California-Guidebooks. 2. California-Guidebooks. I. Hyndman, Donald W...Sections of Roadside Geology of Northern and Central California. Contents Preface . lX 1 Introduction ...6 San Andreas Fault 6 High Cascades 6 Whither California? 6 2 Sierra Nevada 9 Subduction and Obduction
Report (volume)
-______--_---___._-_-_-________ Mountain Pass district, California..-____-.-_.._______ Central district, Missouri...._________________________ Hansonburg district, New Mexico___________________ Kings Creek district, South...districts___________________________._._. Washington County district, Missouri______.-__.-__ Sweetwater district...in the residual deposits of barite in Washington County, Mo _________________.____-__--__----_- .100 101...deposits are commercially most important in the West. Barite in veins is commonly associated with fluorite
Book (edition)
LIBRARY 3 1111 01599 4096 Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION NATUREGRAPH PUBLISHERS...LIBRARY GA BAPAEL CALIFORALA Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION Color Photographs W...greatly indebted to Dr. Gordon Oakeshott of the California State Division of Mines for his kind examination... Mrs. Eleanor M. Learned, who worked for the California Division of Mines and Geology, for looking over...Lactic ialiv ess Winib baie A wa ar Minerals of California................. 02... OTST TSS IGE Ee a, I RS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
melting of crustal xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico and implications for the contamination and...MartinsviUe, VA 24112, USA 2 IT Corporation, 5301 Central Ave. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA 3 SN-2, NASA/Johnson...NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA Received September 24, 1992 / Accepted January 28, 1993...geochemical data suggest that the rhyolites of Moccasin John Canyon and Diamond Creek could represent...materials The crustal xenolith suite of Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico (Fig. 1) includes pelitic garnet granulite
Report (issue)
Middle Ordovician Rocks of the Tellico-Sevier Belt Eastern Tennessee GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Middle Ordovician Rocks of the Tellico-Sevier Belt Eastern Tennessee • o By ROBERT B. NEUMAN A SHORTER...PAPER 274-F Description of rocks of the outcrop belt containing the type sections of the Tellico and...__________________________ Structure of the Tellico-Sevier belt _ ______-__-__Rocks underlying Middle Ordovician__..._____________ Correlation of the Tellico-Sevier belt with other belts of the southern Appalachians__
Book
^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T 5 w! balJ E...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ... VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE* Copyright © 1983...Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY ~ NEW YORK CINCINNATI TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE ' Copyright© 1983 by Van Nostrand...Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. L35 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966
Report (issue)
--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --...-----------------------------Pima County -------------------------------Pinal County -------------------------------Santa...-------Santa Cruz County --------------------------'ravapai County -----------------------------'ruma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exploration of the great belt of country, one hundred miles wide, extending from California to Colorado and Wyoming...rocks in the Little Belt mountains and at various points in front of the main range, west of Fort Benton,...and diorites. Similar rocks also occur in the Moccasin mountains. They vary much in structure and composition...Stelzner's " Andendiorit," which contain besides plagioclase, hornblende and biotite, a little orthoclase...form dikes consist principally of orthoclase, plagioclase, biotite and a pyroxene, probably malacolite
Report (issue)
square miles on the northern flank of the Little Belt Mountains and in the southern part of the Judith...cliffs and hogbacks along the front of the Little Belt Mountains. It is overlain unconformably by the formations...STANFORD-HOBSON' AREA, MONTANA 407 parallel 47°11 / ), on the west by the meridianal line 110°30 / , and on the south...generally northwest near the northern base of the Little Belt Mountains. It is 40 miles long on the north side...resources of a part of this area appeared in the Little Belt Mountains and Fort Benton folios of the U. S. Geological
Report (issue)
__________ Great Plains physiographic province, west-central United States____________________________...aeroradioactivity and geology of an area in Howard County, ~d---------------------------5. ~ap showing aeroradioactivity...aeroradioactivity and geology of an area in Montgomery County, Md________________________ 6. Profiles showing...Carolina and Georgia__________________ 9. Part of Hart County, Ga-------------------------------------------...Georges County, Md---------------------------------------------------------14. Area in Parker County, Te
Report (volume)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 2158 Application of new geochemical dating techniques, geophysics, and geologic...Central Colorado Plateau Laccoliths in the Light of New Age Determinations, by Stephen T. Nelson Tectonic...Volcanic Rocks in the Marysvale Volcanic Field, West-Central Utah, by Charles G. Cunningham, Daniel M...purpose of the workshop was to present and clarify new field and laboratory data in order to (1) provide...Michael Ross (UGS) and the Paradox fold and fault belt by Hellmut Doelling (UGS) indicate that the northwest-striking
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wyoming* R. S. NAYLOR California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109 and Massachusetts...Massachusetts 02139 R. H. STEIQER California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109 and Eidg. Teohnische... and G. J. WASSERBURG California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109 (Received 24 March...gently uparched during Laramide disturbance. * California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological...rock type collected one mile to the south. Further west the granodiorite retains the appearance and texture
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES D. H. RLOOD, Director MINES DIVISION C FERRY...Mineralogist JANUARY and APRIL, 1933 Nos. 1 and 2 CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE HARRY HAMMOND, STATE...Norte and Siskiyou Counties, North- westernmost California 123 Applications of Geology to Civil Engineering...Engineering 161 The Lakes 175 OIL FIELD of California DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS SPECIAL ARTICLES 238
Report (issue)
Bed in the Eggleston Formation near Hagan, Lee County, Virginia. Photograph taken by Stig M. Bergstrém....2 ra ee Western Outerop Belt ws ia0:2eja Pagan Ae ee Central Outcrop Belt... 2 cele ei Soo eb oe ceaa...Outcrop: Belt... 259 . < sien tees crauseece certian eee Northem Virginia and Eastern West Virginia 2252¢...beds include the mid-Mohawkian Hockett (new), Ocoonita (new), Deicke, Millbrig, and Dickeyville K-bentonites...Member of the Utica Shale in the Mohawk Valley of New York; Charles E. Mitchell, 1994, personal communication)
Report (issue)
valleys. Gently dipping sedimentary strata form a belt of foothills separating the basin from the main...mountains. The Kootenai Formation outcrops in this belt, REGIONAL AQUIFER-SYSTEM ANALYSIS C6 110° 30'...109° 30' Highwood Mountains "*>. J3» iijNorth Moccasin Mountains 47 C 15' EXPLANATION 47° 00' m%%*...wooded Highwood, Little Belt, Big Snowy, Judith, and North and South Moccasin Mountains rise above the...folds, which form the Big Snowy, Little Belt, Judith, and Moccasin Mountains. The Highwood Mountains, consisting
Report (issue)
date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral belt which contains the rich Comstock, Tonopah and Goldfield...Lovelock we pass through Roberts' LovelockAustin belt which contains the Rochester and Nevada Packard...be a split of the Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral belt. The Preble, Pinson, Getchell, Rabbit Creek and...:·~:·:·:~ ~Iineral )7 - I I I I I I I I I I I I , \ belt %5 t FIGURE 1. J I 50 ! I ! I ", Mineral...The Quaternary flows display initial dips to the west, away from their source vent near the summit of
Report (issue)
Cover and title page photo: Atlanta skyline looking west from Glen Iris overpass on Boulevard, May 1984..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Belt terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................................ Murphy belt group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Georgia Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . Sandy Springs Group (eastern belt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
years of research are in. So this is a completely new book that uses nothing from the old one, not so much...the looks of the rocks enough to require another new book. We wrote this book for people who are not...the information for this book, we arrived at a few new ideas of our own. Those, along with the results of...tieascins vosamavdseseccadares 55 Going-to-the-Sun Road: West Glacier—St. Mary...62 Many Glacier Road: US 89—Swiftcurrent...Pass......3....0.....00000+. 207 US 191: Bozeman—West Yellowstone.................. ZNO US 212: Laurel—Cooke
Book
detail those already known. In recent years many new occurrences of alkaline rocks and carbonatites have...that have led to the discovery of many impo1·tant new localities. The present volume is likely to be of...be a considerable source of data, particularly of new occurrences, but a re generally unsatisfactory because...rocks n11d t!te dept!ts of the Enrt/1 . McGraw-Hill, New York. 598 pp. DAWSON, J . B . · t 980. Ki111/Jerlites...(eds}, Cnr/Jo11ntites. 385--4. 1 3. John Wiley, New York. DEANS, T. 1978. Mineral production from c:irbona
 
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