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Anorthite from
Camptonite Dike, Alder Stream Township, Franklin County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Dike
Classification
Species:Anorthite
Formula:Ca(Al2Si2O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Anorthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Camptonite Dike, Alder Stream Township, Franklin County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:999871
Long-form Identifier:1:3:999871:1
GUID (UUID V4):5aa21d0d-22d2-476f-b7a3-45f0a84087eb
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AMYGDULAR CAMPTONITE DIKES FROI,{ I,IOUNT JO, MOUNT NIARCY QUADRANGLE, ESSEX COUNTY, NEW YORKX Howanr...Washington25, D. C. Asstnact Three small, amygdular camptonite dikes intrude the Marcy anorthosite in Mount...Mount Jo, Mount Marcy quadrangle, Essex County, N. Y. They show a northeasterly strike, 80o to 90" dip, and...thick. They are similar to the post-Ordovician camptonite dikes from the Lake Champlain valley. Three modal...per cent of salic minerals composed of albite, anorthite, orthoclase, and nepheline. The poor agreement
Book
THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL CLIFFORD FRONDEL THE MINEt 4-S OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL...mineralogy, describes the unique ore deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. For over two hundred...hundred different minerals have been identified at Franklin and Sterling Hill, including forty-four that had...helped to stimulate international interest in Franklin and Sterling Hill. Part Two traces the area’s...complete list of current references. The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill is illustrated with over thirty
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CAMPTONITE DIKES NEAR BOULDER DAM,1 ARIZONA' faN Cal,rpeplr* ANo Enwanr T. ScuBNx** Arsrnncr Near...Near Boulder Dam occur camptonite dikes of possible Quaternary age characterized by disamphibole (kaersutite)...volatiles in the dike magma. Chemical analyses of the amphibole and of the chilled margin of a dike are presented...presented and discussed. INrnooucrroN Camptonite dikes occur within a limited area bordering U. S. Highway...uncommon character. 3. Composition: the rock is a camptonite and the amphibole most nearly resembles kaersutite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
............................................ Camptonite..................................................................................... Origin of dike fractures.........................................0.1 per cent of the exposed bedrock. The largest dike is 60 feet wide and is exposed discontinuously for...presumably a part of the same dike (PI. 1). Apparently this same dike reappears north of the limits of...FOWLER-BILLINGS— IGNEOUS DIKES Each point represents a dike, and the lithology of each is indicated by an appropriate
Journal (issue)
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN-OGDENSBURG MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY VOLUMES AUGUST 1968 NUMBER 2 www.FOMSNJ...Hardyston School, intersection of Routes #23 and #517, Franklin, N. J. Pre meeting activities start at 1:00 P...September 21st Cellate Quarry, Cork Hill Road, Franklin. Meeting 2:30 P. A. Speaker, John Albanese on...on "The History of Mineralogy of the Franklin Area" Saturday, October 19th Field trip, 9 A.M. to Noon...P.M. Speaker, John Sebastian on "Mining in the Franklin Area" Saturday , November 2nd Fossil trip -
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and classification in the quantitative system. Camptonite (ourose ( ? ) ) ...............................the occurrence of granite-felsophyre in Alleghany County, Virginia, and several dikes of basalt near the...the State line on the north, in Pendleton County, West Virgima. Recent investigations by the writers, assisted...four new types—quartz gabbro, nepheline syenite, camptonite, and teschenite (feldspar monchiquite)— occurring...study includes the discovery and location of every dike or exposure of igneous rock within the lim its of
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....CROSSITE Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite...sodium potassium alumino-silicate Arizona Final County, Christmas Dark green cleavages in andesite ..
Book
THE MINERALS OF FRANKLIN AND STERLING HILL A Check List By Clifford Frondel This concise and informative...mineralogy, describes the unique ore deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey. For over two hundred...hundred different minerals have been identified at Franklin and Sterling Hill, including forty-four that had...helped to stimulate international interest in Franklin and Sterling Hill. Part Two traces the area's...complete list of current references. The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill is illustrated with over thirty
Report (issue)
.. 30—Pegmatite dike cutting granite-gneiss, Bull Hill, Grafton, Vt 31—Djabase dike cutting Bellows Falls...in Canada and others east in New Hampshire and Maine. (In Professor Wolff's article, page 137 of this...exposed, as great longitudinal ridges and valleys, to stream erosion, and that erosion was retarded as it approached...and those in Vermont, as well as those in Canada, Maine, and New Hampshire are enumerated in Professor Wolff's...Devonian folding that affected New Brunswick and Maine so strongly appeared only as an uplift in western
Book
A Guide to Mineral Collecting rr at Franklin and Sterling Hill, I New Jersey ffi fi.-i'l �� with Notes...ZINCITE CRYSTALS, FRANKLIN, NEW JERSEY • A Guide to Mineral Collecting at Franklin and Sterling Hill...F. Kushner Author of AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL OF FRANKLIN MLNERALS A GUIDE TO MINERAL COLLECTING A T OURAY...the Harri-Anne Studios. Franklin. New Jersey. Mrs. Florence Hansen of the Franklin-Kiwanis Museum. Dana...Divergent in their approach to the mineralogy of Franklin and Sterling Hill but concurrent in their fidelity
Report (volume)
crystalline rocks................................... Maine. ....................................................................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous...Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike.......:....................................... 3. Colfax County................ I................................142 3. Plumas County............................................... 144 4. Butte County..............
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Screen R a ttle s n a k e Dike Rattlesnake. Di ke Mt.Major Dike SECTION A-A’ J o y Hill O uter...uter F ram e Mt. Major Dike Central Stock Mt.Major Dike SECTION B-B’ Vertical and Horizontal Scale ...B E L K N A P M O U N T A IN S R attle sn ak e Dike B U L L ET IN O F T H E G E O L O G IC A L S O.................................................. Dike-rocks................................................................. Rattlesnake composite ring-dike................................................
Report (issue)
representative of the Merrimack (Kearsarge-Central Maine), Putnam-Nashoba, and Avalon terranes; the samples...632 ± 2 Ma, and in the eastern block, a rhyolite dike produced an age of 586 ± 3 Ma. Avalonian volcanic...marked by the de¬ velopment of the bimodal Kingston dike complex (e.g. Rast, 1979; Currie, 1987) and the...Geology of the coastal lowlands, Boston to Kennebunk, Maine: New England intercollegiate Geological Conference...Uchupi, E., 1975, Triassic rift structure in Gulf of Maine: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin
Report (volume)
stock ....................... Great syenite-porphyry dike of Little Ascutney Mountain......... Syenite stock...syenites.....-...-.--------..--.............. Paisanite dike cutting the Main stock ...........................of the Main stock...................... Paisanite dike on Little Ascutney Mountain.......'...............in alkaline hornblende, from the large paisanite dike on northwest slope of Ascutney Mountain -._....______...the Connecticut. Elsewhere Mill Brook, like the stream entering the main river near Ascutneyville, belongs
Report (issue)
Massachusetts ............................... Maine ....................................... California...southerly part of the city of Barre, Washington County, State of Vermont, and extending westerly about...miles to and including \Villiamstown. in Orange County. All granite quarried elsewhere may not legally...mills at West Pawlet, Poultnev, Fair Haven, and in Maine. Products: Roofing, flagging, flooring, etc. VERMONT...leases from the Town of Belvidere, the Lanioille County Grammar School, and the University of Vermont.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRAVIMETRY OF THE MUSTANG HILL LACCOLITH, UVALDE COUNTY, TEXAS ROBERT GREENWOOD AND VANCE M. LYNCH ABSTRACT...known in Texas from Kinney 807 County on the west to Travis County on the east, with the greatest variety...variety and concentration in Uvalde County (Fig. 1). Most of them are plugs of nepheline basalt and related...Oil Company of Houston. This grant also paid for COUNTY Mustang Hill [V] IGNEOUS TERTIARY FAULT FIGURE...geophysical investigation. Sayre (1936) mapped Uvalde County on a reconnaissance scale. The classic report on
Report (volume)
.................... ^................ 19 19 Maine.............................................................. 1. Eocks from Aroostook County I............................. 19 19 2. Litchfieldite and...1. Elliott County dike........................................ 56 2. Crittenden County dike................................................. 3. Colfax County......."............................................... 3. Plumas County .............................. .............. 4. Butte County................
Report (volume)
of igneous and crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook 'County 2. Miscellaneous rocks5 v New Hampshire...Carolina Georgia Kentucky 1.. Elliott County dike 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma...Grande Canyon 5 2. Mount Taylor region 5 3. Colfax County 4. Miscellaneous rocks 5 Arizona 1. Globe district...Plumas County 4. Butte County 5 5. Sierra County5 6. Nevada City and Grass Valley 5 7. Placer County 8. Eldorado...Eldorado County 5 9. Amador County 5 10. Calaveras County5 11. Tuolumne County 5 12. Mariposa County5
Report (volume)
Analyses Igneous and crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook County 2. Litchtieldite and associated...Carolina (ieorgia Kentucky 1. Elliott County (like 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Texas...Grande Canyon 2. Mount Taylor region 3. Colfax County 4. Miscellaneous rocks Arizona 1. Globe district...Butte County 5. Sierra County 6. Nevada City anti (lras Valley 7. Placer County 8. Eldorado County 9. Amador...Amador County 10. Calaveras County 11. Tuolumne County 12. Mariposa County 13. The quicksilver region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
undersaturation. The 'excess' Ca is calculated into anorthite and wollastc~nite (as in $3~,, in- 230 T. V...later experiments. Modifications were found when anorthite was added to the system (Schairer et al. 1968)...liquid crystallizing at this point will carry anorthite or melilite. The incompatibility of plagioclase... Yoder (1969, 197!1)states that melilite and anorthite react to form a clinopyroxene and garnet at low...nodules in the kimt.~erlite-like damkjernite. A camptonite-dike is reported from VenstCp, Gjerpen, by BrCgger
Report (issue)
ENGLAND (CNE) AND ATLANTIC CANADIAN MAGMATISM 1. Mafic Dike Suites Within Mesozoic Igneous Provinces of New...Significance of Mesozoic Dikes in Southern Coastal Maine . Mark T. Swanson 37 4. Petrology and Tectonic...along southern coastal Maine that are associated with the Agamenticus complex of Maine. Swanson interprets...that fed the initial ENA magma pulse (the Higinum dike) is projected into southeastern New Hampshire by...by Sundeen and Huff (Chapter 5) as the Onway dike. In Chapter 9 Jaroslav Dostai and J. Greenough provide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such as basalt and rhyolite. and various pairs of dike rocks, were generally and conveniently assumed to...composition (now crystalline) in porphyritic camptonite a dike in the Monteregian alkalic province, Quebec...textures in these slides. Some single crystals of anorthite were packed with rounded masses of an unknown...rows, but all embedded in a single crystal of anorthite. Some late-forming crystals, later shown to be...Thus, VOGEL and WILBAND (1978) studied a composite dike in South Carolina that consists of masses of basic
Book (edition)
Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...on the market. The mines at Bisbee, in Cochise County, have produced large quantities of gem-quality...mineral stamp issued in 1992. At Morenci, in Greenlee County, gem-quality azurite was also commercially recovered...parallel to the grain. The Blue Ball Mine, in Gila County, has produced thousands of azurite nodules up to
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...• Md G S Maryland Geological Survey Me St S Com Maine State Survey Commission Mex I G .Mexico, Instituto...Brezina, 04a Felix, Perry Co.: Merrill (G P), Ola Franklin Co.: Brush, 69b Leighton: Farrington, 02 Lime...A)~ 88f Indiana, Cincinnati series: Cumings, 08 Franklin Co.: Moore (D R), 86 Niagaran and Devonian: Hall...Colo. (no. 186): Stose, 12 Apishapa quadrangle, dike rocks: Cross, 14 Appalachia, Paleozoic: Willis,
 
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