Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Berlin | Town |
| Hartford County | County |
| Connecticut | State |
| USA | Country |
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Locality type:
Largest Settlements:
| Place | Population |
|---|---|
| Kensington | 8,459 (2017) |
Other Languages:
French:
Berlin, Comté de Hartford, Connecticut, États-Unis
German:
Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, Vereinigte Staaten
Italian:
Berlin, Contea di Hartford, Connecticut, Stati Uniti d'America
Russian:
Берлин, Хартфорд, Коннектикут, Соединённые Штаты Америки
Simplified Chinese:
柏林 , 哈特福德縣, 康乃狄克州, 美国
Spanish:
Berlin, Condado de Hartford, Connecticut, Estados Unidos
Basque:
Berlin , Hartford konderria, Connecticut
Catalan:
Berlin, Connecticut, Estats Units d’Amèrica
Chechen:
Берлин , Коннектикут, Америкин Цхьаьнатоьхна Штаташ
Dutch:
Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
Esperanto:
Berlino, Konektikuto
Haitian:
Berlin, Konèktikòt, Etazini
Hungarian:
Berlin, Hartford megye, Connecticut, Amerikai Egyesült Államok
Japanese:
バーリン , ハートフォード郡, コネチカット州, アメリカ合衆国
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Берлин , Коннектикут, Америка Құрама Штаттары
Kyrgyz:
Берлин, Америка Кошмо Штаттары
Polish:
Berlin, Hrabstwo Hartford, Connecticut, Stany Zjednoczone
Romanian:
Berlin, Comitatul Hartford, Connecticut, Statele Unite ale Americii
Swedish:
Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Tatar:
Берлин , Коннектикут, Америка Кушма Штатлары
Turkish:
Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
Ukrainian:
Берлін, Гартфорд, Коннектикут, Сполучені Штати Америки
Urdu:
برلن، کنیکٹیکٹ, ہارٹفورڈ کاؤنٹی، کنیکٹیکٹ, کنیکٹیکٹ, ریاستہائے متحدہ امریکا
Volapük:
Berlin , Connecticut, Lamerikän
Welsh:
Berlin, Connecticut, Unol Daleithiau America
Berlin (/ˈbɜːrlɪn/ BUR-lin) is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It was incorporated in 1785. The geographic center of Connecticut is located in the town. Berlin is residential and industrial, and is served by the Amtrak station of the same name. Berlin also has two hamlets: Kensington and East Berlin.
It is underlain by heavily faulted Jurassic sedimentary (Shuttle Meadow and East Berlin formations) and basaltic rocks (Talcott, Holyoke and Hampden formations). Many of the faults are mineralized with calcite, quartz, dolomite, barite and copper sulfides. Vesicles in the basalts also can contain calcite, prehnite and zeolites. The East Berlin formation, which contains several lakebed sequences, including fossiliferous and petroleum rich black shales, is named for the village in the eastern part of the town, where it is well exposed in road cuts along state Routes 9, 15, and 372, especially where all three intersect. Dinosaur footprints are common in the mudstones and sandstones.
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This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded from this region.Mineral List
Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities9 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Baryte Formula: BaSO4 Habit: slightly divergent tabular coxcomb aggregates Colour: pearly white Description: In slightly divergent "coxcomb" aggregates that are brittle and tend to break into slightly rhombic fragments. Very difficult to detach it in large masses. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 Localities: Habit: botryoidal aggregates Colour: white Fluorescence: yellow-white Reference: Former Don Miller collection |
| ⓘ Dolomite Formula: CaMg(CO3)2 Localities: Habit: rhombohedral Colour: tan Description: Specimens from a 2-cm-thick vein of dolomite with small vugs lined with crystals and partly filled with fluorite. Reference: Former Ed Force collection |
| ⓘ Fluorite Formula: CaF2 Habit: cubic Colour: aqua and purple Fluorescence: violet Description: Partly filling small vugs in a 2-cm-thick vein of dolomite. Reference: Former Ed Force collection |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS Habit: cubic Description: "small cubical crystals, foliated, and finely granular; the crystals which are exposed to the air are often covered with a thin pulverulent coat, or they are beautifully iridescent." Percival, 1822. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ✪ 'Petroleum var. Bitumen' Colour: black Description: "...found in veins in connection with crystallized quartz; the quartz often appears in geodes whose cavities are filled with coal [bitumen]; narrow veins have their walls lined with crystallized plates of quartz, and are filled with coal [bitumen]; the coal [bitumen] has never been found in large masses: the largest that I have seen not more than two or three pounds. The larger masses are foliated, shining, brittle, and very bituminous; but it more usually has the appearance of cinders so mixed up with silicious matter as to be hardly combustible." Percival, 1822. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ⓘ Prehnite Formula: Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 Localities: Reference: Harold Moritz collection |
| ⓘ 'Pumpellyite Subgroup' Formula: Ca2XAl2[Si2O6(OH)][SiO4](OH)2A Colour: green Description: Originally believed to be fine-grained chlorite. In gas vesicles in basalt. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 Localities: Habit: lining geodes, in parallel-growth plates, prismatic Description: In geodes and crystallized plates, loose in the stream - some nearly perfect, one an inch long, with the prism and two pyramids, and some slightly tinged with amethyst. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Agate Colour: blue and white Description: In gas vesicles in basalt. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst Formula: SiO2 Localities: Reference: Fred Schuster; |
| ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony Formula: SiO2 Description: In gas vesicles in basalt. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
| ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS Habit: massive Colour: yellow and black Description: "it is in much larger masses than the galena" Percival, 1822. Reference: Percival, James Gates. (1822), Notice of the locality of sulphate of barytes from which a specimen was analysed by Mr. G. T. Bowen; and various other mineral localities in Berlin, Conn., American Journal of Science: s. 1, 5: 42-45. |
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| Group 3 - Halides | |||
| ⓘ | Fluorite | 3.AB.25 | CaF2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | var. Agate | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | var. Amethyst | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | var. Chalcedony | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Baryte | 7.AD.35 | BaSO4 |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Prehnite | 9.DP.20 | Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 |
| Unclassified Minerals, Rocks, etc. | |||
| ⓘ | 'Petroleum var. Bitumen' | - | |
| ⓘ | 'Pumpellyite Subgroup' | - | Ca2XAl2[Si2O6(OH)][SiO4](OH)2A |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Prehnite | Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Pumpellyite Subgroup | Ca2XAl2[Si2O6(OH)][SiO4](OH)2A |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| C | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | ⓘ Prehnite | Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Pumpellyite Subgroup | Ca2XAl2[Si2O6(OH)][SiO4](OH)2A |
| O | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| F | Fluorine | |
| F | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | ⓘ Prehnite | Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 |
| Al | ⓘ Pumpellyite Subgroup | Ca2XAl2[Si2O6(OH)][SiO4](OH)2A |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Prehnite | Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Amethyst | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Pumpellyite Subgroup | Ca2XAl2[Si2O6(OH)][SiO4](OH)2A |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Ca | ⓘ Prehnite | Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2 |
| Ca | ⓘ Pumpellyite Subgroup | Ca2XAl2[Si2O6(OH)][SiO4](OH)2A |
| Ca | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Ca | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| Ba | Barium | |
| Ba | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
Fossils
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| Wikipedia: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin,_Connecticut |
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| Wikidata ID: | Q821199 |
| GeoNames ID: | 5282244 |
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Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA