 | | Report (issue) | | Professional Paper 126 GEOLOGY OF THE COASTAL PLAIN OF TEXAS WEST OF BRAZOS RIVER BY ALEXANDER DEUSSEN WASHINGTON... . . . . . . . 37 Section at Maxwell, Caldwell County.................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . 41 Section near Elgin, Bastrop County .................... , ................ : ...Sections on Leon Creek and Medina River, Bexar County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .................... 47 Section at Rockdale, Milam County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the first place. And if you want to know the county (foreign money orders demand it), it is Westchester...east of Asheboro, in the southern part of Randolph County, North Carolina, is a prominence that rises above...the little town of Murfreesboro, the county seat of Pike County, Ark., as we ,vanted to visit the nearby...ot1ce Texas' 1reate■t Mineral locality. Not wi■itecl • locality i■ now under water. 352 sas-Texas border...line. The Arkansas section is the county seat of Miller County. The Texas section is the larger and is also |  | | Report (volume) | | Boletfn de Minas, nos. 2, 8. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no....Geological Survey: Supplementary Report, Harlan County. Frankfort, Ky. Lake Superior Mining Institute:...Tennessee, vol. 7; Bulletin 19. Nashville, Tenn. Texas, University of: Bulletin, 1722. Austin, Tex. Torrey...Chicago, 111. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Braxton-Clay. Morgantown, W. 'Va. Wyoming...357-401, 64 figs., November 20, 1916... 41. The Boyd County mastodon, Tetrabelodon-osborni: Nebraska Geol. |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................ 6 New Genus of Pterosaur from Texas ..................................................we had ever been—both born and raised in South Texas. Bobbie, the boys, our driver, and I drove without...sent as a field engineer to Sweetwater, in West Texas. I would not get a company car right away, but they...grandparents owned a Funeral Home and a Florist Shop in Smithville, TX. I used to visit during the summers when...so I could reach the table. My best friend in Smithville, when I visited my maternal grandmother, was |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Report (issue) | | B, Sub-Chattanooga residuum near Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn. C, Photomicrograph of a Tasmanites spore...Characteristic outcrop of the Chattanooga shale in De Kalb County, Tenn________________________________ Follows 18...diamond-drill holes that passes 2 miles south of Smithville, Tenn______ 37 Cross section along an east-west...diamond-drill holes that passes 3 miles south of Smithville _________ 38 Correlation of units of the Chattanooga...-___-_____ 72 Localities of drill holes near Smithville, Tenn_________________________________________________________ |  | | Book (volume) | | that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Report (volume) | | the east approach to Sligo Bridge near Smithville, DeK'alb County, Tenn., was designated by Hass (1956...basal sandstone at locality 4J-3 (pi. 16), Etowah County, Ala. As the difference in lithology of beds of...chert showed 85 percent silica, much of it as chalcedony. Normally the Chattanooga shale contains about...Killebrew (1900, p. 141-142) for exposures in Maury County, Tenn. Outside of the Central Basin of Tennessee...Bacon Bend of the Little Tennessee River in Monroe County is an outcrop of shale that may be transitional |  | | Book | | through Itasca and St. Louis Counties into Lake County. Hibbing is about the center of this historic area...replaced by dark hematite. Near Calumet in Itasca County abundant mollusks, arthropods, and sharks teeth...Iron Range is mostly in Crow Wing County, extending into Aitkin County. In 1936, near the town of Crosby...Superior 14 EVELETHO IRON WEEWATIN _W 57 LOWS COUNTY to Duluth Y The Mesabi Iron Range dump. Binghamite...be jaspers, silicified algae, carnelian, clear chalcedony, and other polishable material. Rhodochrosite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | wrong. I found this about sixteen years ago, near Smithville, Lawrence Co., Arkansas. It will weigh about...staurolites (Fairy Crosses) which come from Fannin County, Georgia. There were 25 xls in the packet—all loose...calcite xls, part of which are coated with white chalcedony. Specimen comes from a hillside near Rt. 43,...centuries. The location is northwestern Cimarron county, 18 miles west and 13 miles north of Boise City—in...fluorspar mine, outside of Rome, Smith Co., Tenn. TEXAS—¿A brownish platy mass of barite (stained brown |  | | Report (issue) | | C CAROL A. HILL, Albuquerque ALONZO D. JACKA, Texas Tech BOB JULYAN, Albuquerque SHARI A. KELLEY, SMU...Sandstone across most of southern New Mexico and west Texas. Locally, lower El Paso beds overlie plutonic and...Arizona, across southern New Mexico, to Van Horn, Texas, indicate the El Paso was deposited in shallow waters...completely dolostone at Beach Mountain near Van Horn, Texas, at Bishop Cap, and in the Sacramento, San Andres...mountain ranges from southeast Arizona to west Texas. Parts of it have been investigated in biostratigraphic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac...1907, Endicott discoYered amazon stone in Custer County, aquamarine and rose quartz at the Wild Rose claim...(later known as the Devils Hole pegmatite), Fremont County and facetable almandine garnets near Canon City...Richland County, Wisconsin. He married Effie I. circa 1890 in Wisconsin and moved to Rye, Pueblo county, Colorado... and Rosebud lode claims, all located north of Texas Creek in the Devils Hole topographic basin, and |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...easily discernible quartz crystals surrounded by chalcedony that is crystalline only to the eye of the microscope...a quality closely allied to fracture pattern; chalcedony and jasper, because of their cryptocrystalline...rock cools, leaving a mold in which casts of chalcedony form. Or the tree substance may be replaced slowly...a gun," writes a Colorado collector. "As far as Texas is concerned," says a Texan, "the legislature, prodded |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pinheiro. An:elope Valley Branch, Los Angeles County Library, Lancaster, CaliforMay 1-3—Fourteenth Annual...ARDIS WALKER PRESIDENT TRONA—Ardis M. Walker, Kern County supervisor and descendent of gold rush pioneers...Harry E. Lee of Lone Pine, Seth Droubay of Inyo County, R. R. Henderson of Ontario, Mrs. George Palmer...Lemon yellow 17—Carlsbad Caverns are in—Arizona Texas Colorado New Mexico 18—If you started down the Colorado...kinds of fossil material, petrified wood, jasper, chalcedony, agate and moss agate—but the beauty of these |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...nodule may contain a center of surrounded by chalcedony easily discernible quartz crystals that crystalline...mass. Tenacity is a quality closely allied chalcedony and jasper, because of their makeup, are tougher...granite except and cools, gas pockets may be chalcedony or opal, de- dissolved from the lava. Similarly...northern Idaho. the cells with silica, or a cast of chalcedony space left Two other formations create conditions |  | | Report (volume) | | 248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted would be impracticable...Phillips, W. B., The mineral resources of Texas: Univ. Texas Bull. 365, Sci. Ser. 29, 1914. Among other...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Report (issue) | | collection of geodes from Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County; and many quarry operators for granting us permission...Indians knew of and used Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County (4).2 Ball (1941, p. 39) summarized the various...The Indians found that Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Ind., contained two desirable products, a jaspery...car__________ 2 Localities are given by the name of the county followed by a number in parentheses. This number...AND DISTRIBUTION 13 Kentland in southern Newton County. Here middle Ordovician limestones and dolomites |  | | Book (volume) | | the Southern Gem and Mineral Company of El Paso, Texas. Information on the Virgin Valley opal deposits...L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region were described...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...quartz, binghamite and sagenite cabochons Carved chalcedony figurines Chrysocolla specimen Montana moss agates |  | | Report (volume) | | .......Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Report (volume) | | figs. 1931. A contribution to the Eocene of Texas: Texas Agr. and Mech. College Bull., 4th ser., vok...of Texas: Jour. Geology, vol. 45, pp. 528-537, 8 text-figs. Barbour, Erwin H. . 1898. Chalcedony-lime...Mesozoic flora of the Atlantic Coastal Plain; VIII, Texas: Torrey Bot. Club Bull., vol. 39, pp. 387-406. 1912c...a date palm in the Tertiary deposits of eastern Texas: Am. Jour. Sci., 4th ser., vol. 37, pp. 403-406...il. 1916i. A fossil nutmeg from the Tertiary of Texas: Am. Jour. Sci., 4th ser., vol. 42, pp. 241-245 |  | | Book | | Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin...pyrite, quartz family minerals ( agate, carnelian, chalcedony, chert, flint, jasp-agate, jasper, quartzite...especially valuing the deep red carnelian variety of chalcedony. Although the Sumerians used almost all the common...color; assigned to Gad), agate (perhaps green · chalcedony or "chrysoprase"; Foreword xvi i assigned...[agate-jasper, i.e., our "jasp-agate"], cerachates [chalcedony], smaragdachates [green agate], haemachates [red |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...such as the cryptocrystalline quartz known as chalcedony, eral and. filled with crystals of the perhaps...clearly, see diagram below left 3. layers of chalcedony tonishment they found that most tourmaline |
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