	*Penick, D. Allen (1985) Virginia, Mineral Locality Index. Rocks & Minerals, 60 (4) 164-170 doi:10.1080/00357529.1985.11764398*	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l
	*(1987, February) Virginia Mineral Locality Index. Virginia Minerals* Vol. 33 (1) Division of Mineral Resources**	Journal (issue)
	February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed
	Clay, P.L., Kelley, S.P., Sherlock, S.C., Barry, T.L. (2011) Partitioning of excess argon between alkali feldspars and glass in a young volcanic system. Chemical Geology, 289 (1) 12-30 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.07.005	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	excess argon between alkali feldspars and glass in a young volcanic system☆ P.L. Clay ⁎, S.P. Kelley, S.C....Reisberg Keywords: Ar–Ar dating Excess Ar Alkali feldspar Volcanic glass Arico Formation Tenerife a b s...behavior in a young volcanic system has been investigated through analysis of alkali feldspar phenocrysts...despite this, step-heating of co-existing alkali feldspar revealed a total gas age of 0.644 ± 0.038 Ma compared...dissolved in the glass at quenching, the alkali feldspar crystallizing from excess Ar-rich melt contain
	*Hays, James D. - Ed.* (1970) Geological Investigations of the North Pacific. GSA Memoir 126. Geological Society of America doi:10.1130/mem126**	Report (issue)
	which Evernden and Curtis believe to be too young. Feldspar separated from tuffs overlying the normally...INVESTIGATIONS age is apparently OF THE too young NORTH PACIFIC to represent the large event...of layer “A” give very young ages of about 20 my. This age seems much too young and may only represent...low-grade metamorphic minerals, such as epidote, albite, prehnite and pumpellyite, in these fragments indicates...and weathered to a mixture consisting mainly of albite, quartz and clay minerals. Other small grains of
	*Nairn, Alan E. M., Stehli, Francis G. - Eds.* (1974) The Ocean Basins and Margins Vol. 2 - The North Atlantic. Plenum Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-3033-2**	Book (volume)
	along the north coast of Spain, the only other young deformation is found off the African coast south...that a basement complex encountered in St. Lucie County, Florida, has been dated as Cambrian (Bass, 1969)...running from the Cowles Magazines well in St. Lucie County, Florida, via the Superior well on Andros, and...the bottom of the Socony Mobil #1 State in Dare County yielded an age of 585 + 40 m.y., while those from...even for fresh rocks save in the case of very young basalts. Bass, however, reports the results

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Albite from Young Feldspar Mine, Moneta-Forest, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Albite from
Young Feldspar Mine, Moneta-Forest, Bedford County, Virginia, USA