 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | members from Ethiopia, the United States, France and Germany, and includes archeologists, an thropologists...babingtonite, gypsum, calcite, quartz, thaumasite, albite, silver, and other minerals belong ing to the...GREGORY MUSEUM (Continued from page 127) The basalt quarries in the Paterson, and sizes up to 1"; crystals...associated with prehnite; red stil from traprock quarries can be faceted. bite; 3" balls of pectolite with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FIRST IN A SERIES ON EAST COAST TRAPROCK QUARRIES riassic Traprock Minerals of EW J E R S E Y JOSEPH...New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a prolific source of beautifully...Hill occurrence in the Palisades diabase and five quarries located in the First Watchung Mountain: Upper...applied to dark-colored dike and flow rocks, chiefly basalt and diabase. have occurred from these localities...Mountain traprock (basalt) quarries in New Jersey. Upper and Lower New Street quarries are located in Paterson; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was fortunate to live close to a number of basalt quarries in the Scotch Plains-Watchung area from which...well as the Summit, Bound Brook, and Millington quarries. After graduating from high school in 1953, he...tourmaline pocket. In ad dition, the family owns five quarries, located within ten miles of the store, which...for albite, N a A l S i 0 , triclinic; name applied to very pure, white, platy and lamellar albite occurring...Massachusetts, the type locality, had variously been called albite and siliceous spar. Brooke felt that a new name |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Devon, Ste-Marie-aux-Mines, East and West Germany, Switzerland (three!), the Hohe Tauem of Austria...Layers of basalt, the familiar black volcanic rock, cover all the rocky planets. When basalt is heated...Mars and the Moon are not large enough to heat basalt to this extent, 808 Figure 6. Aquamarine, 27 cm...primitive microbes took advantage of the fact that basalt and many other volcanic rocks are chemically "reduced"-that...green diopside, prehnite, fluorapophyllite-(K) and albite. Green grossulars have been collected at different |  | | Book | | Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...numerous crystal pockets, associated with small albite crystals; the platy, flattened-rhombohedral ilmenite...Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially stilbite), whereas...resting on cavity linings of sharp, opaque white albite ("pericline") crystals emerged from Imilchil around...their circumferences, occur in matrix of white albite, sometimes with the brown zircon crystals. Evseev |  | | Journal (issue) | | Boulder, Colorado. After high school, he traveled in Germany and enrolled at the University at Marburg. After...After a year of study, however, he left Germany because of World War II. Hal received his B.S. in Chemistry...grandson, Robert Wright, who is currently living in Germany. The pertinent text is as follows: Bryce McMurdo...Cumberland, and also with Collecting Naturalists in Germany, Russia, India, and America.” Wright Senior’s 1860...Cumberland, and also with Collecting Naturalists in Germany, Russia, India, and America, from whom he is constantly |  | | Book | | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...24 feldspar; triclink Pl. 44 microcline, Fig. 8 albite. No of axes - - - --Designations Interaxial...formation of spinel twins, and lamellar twinning in albite, respectively. Twins are formed according to various...A B C D 8 Lamellar twinning illustrated in albite. (A) Triclinic axial cross with interaxial angles...bite. (C) Two albite crystals, mirror images of each other, joine.d along b (the 'albite law'). The face |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | also a few small specimens of calcite in vugs of basalt which fl. a cream to green and phos. green. From..."What is the greasy feeling mineral coating the albite? It comes from Bennett quarry, Buckfield (Oxford...occurs as a greasy, greenish-gray coating on whitish albite. MARYLAND — "What are the clear crystals in this..." N E W JERSEY — From one of the traprock (basalt) quarries around Hawthorne (Passaic Co.), N . J., we |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thin (3-7 meter), moderately dipping (20”-30”s) albite-rich rock unit exposed on a small knoll near Paris...Late-stage boron-rich fluids frequently replace albite, quartz, and other species. The pegmatites of Maine...length. They were collected in one of ten basalt quarries in the small village of Sawda near Jalgaon...and contain well-developed crystals of quartz, albite, anatase, brookite, fluorapatite, and other minerals...have formed was quartz, followed by brookite and albite. Minor pyrite, halloysite, and calcite precipitated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...light gray matrix along with very gemmy, clear albite crystals up to IV 2 cm. The rich color of the anatase...anatase was particularly striking, and the albite was as good as I have ever seen. The Geneva bourse...interesting minerals offered in several such study in Germany and some marvelous letters as this. A special thanks...Az Micro xls in Basalt matrix TN 60< NATROLITE Horseshoe Dam,Az Clear xls in basalt SCabl.75 GEARKSUTITE |  | | Book | | zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...laumontite is replaced by lawsonite, and analcime by albite or jadeite. Minute zeolite crystals that form at...cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets | | | Book | | zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...laumontite is replaced by lawsonite, and analcime by albite or jadeite. Minute zeolite crystals that form at...cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets |  | | Journal (issue) | | card that secures the privll.... of fflMV mines, quarries, dlA>s, IOCleti•, ~ libraries. (3) The riaht to...France, associated with axinite, and accompanied by albite, calcite, epidote, orthoclase and sometimes incrusted...mineral is now found in the Orenaug Hills basalt quarries near Woodbury, sometimes in good specimens...crystallized epidote occurs at the Lane's basalt quarries near Westfield, and make very charming specimens...not in the world, occur in the traprock (basalt ) quarries of New Jersey, particularly around Paterson |  | | Book | | CUMULATE ROCK gas bubble holes VESICULAR BASALT flow structure BASALT METAMORPHIC ROCKS These rocks are...together in one geological environment. For example, basalt, scoria, spilite, and volcanic bombs are found...human activity, such as roadcuts, mine dumps, and quarries. Good examples are also found where nature has...MOUNTAINS VOLCANIC REGIONS dolomite BEACHES tuff QUARRIES MINES ROAD CUTS volcanic bomb amber kimberlite...tourmaline basalt BASALT ASSOCIATION quartz rhodochrosite kyanite muscovite mica albite feldspar |  | | Report (issue) | | District Lapidary Club Inc. Tony Annear Tylden Quarries Ltd. Victorian Division of the Gemmological Association...principal localities (Figure 1.1) have been old quarries, now inaccessible, from which stone was extracted...constructed. A suite of zeolites reminiscent of the old quarries was briefly exposed during the making of an extensive...km south from the site of the old Corporation quarries. A discovery of similar zeolites has been made...zeolites was made at Clifton Hill in the Corporation quarries. The specimens were much more abund_ant and the |  | | Report (issue) | | Distribution of Tertiary plutonic centres with associated basalt lava flows and north-west trending dykes 28 Fig...Ireland Fig 8 South West England: distribution of quarries in igneous and metamorphic rocks Fig 9 Wales:... 37 39 Fig 10 The Midlands: distribution of quarries in igneous and metamorphic rocks (counties of...England and Southern Scotland: distribution of quarries and igneous intrusives 43 V Summary Igneous...United Kingdom. Igneous rock is often produced from quarries located in relatively small outcrops of preferred |  | | Journal (issue) | | famous localities of Australia are the old basalt quarries in Richmond, in the southeastern part of the...largest city of Australia. The quarries, known as the Council Quarries and worked by the City of Melbourne...been abandoned for some time. In their days, the quarries produced a number of interesting minerals, many...collections. Among the minerals known from the quarries are: Ana/cite: in crystals associated with phacolite...acicular crystals in basalt. Chabazite: beautiful glassy crystals found in cavities of basalt and associated |  | | Book | | on quartz, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The large crystal measures almost 2 1/2 inches...on quartz, Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, Germany); crystals up to 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long. 6 ...with the NO 3group. Apatite, Fichtelgebirge (Germany), 2x 12 Scheelite, Tae-Wha (Korea), 1x The...8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost identical in size. They form an unbroken...siderite, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The largest crystal measures about 1/2 inch (1 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Institute of Mineralogy, Hannover University, Germany, using a Philips automatic X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer... ii) basalts, and iii) sandstone (Fig. 2). The basalt occurs in the form of a flow. The lava was most...thickness of the basalt sheet as revealed from boreholes Fig. 2. Distribution of basalt in relation to...xenoliths (in vol.%) AZ Host basalt Plagioclase K-feldspar Host basalt 55% An77–57 3.5–0.3 mm 32% An49–28...decreases rapidly in the western direction where the basalt sheet terminates against the alluvium deposits |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fair illustrating the mineral occurrences in the Basalt around Spokane, Washington. Conspicuous among these...zeolites. Mike and his family collected brecciated basalt which they sold to Ward’s Natural Science Establishment...collecting agates and arrowheads in rural Iowa quarries and stream beds: lean but geographically appropriate...(1949–2001) Joe Jochen Nagel was born in Montabaur, Germany, in 1949. His family soon emigrated to the US,...Jeff Scovil photo. (bottom left) Hambergite with albite, 8.6 cm, from Shengus, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu |  | | Journal (issue) | | of these specimens come from the industrial basalt quarries, but there are also small, and usually very...the lava flow cools, the magma solidifies to form basalt, and minerals begin crystallizing from the cooling...many quarries around virtually every city or large town in the state and, of course, these quarries are...simply insufficient. Drilling and blasting of the basalt is required to create a big enough well, and this...words, these Indian “wells” are more like small quarries. Furthermore, the harsh climate which includes |  | | Journal (issue) | | Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...Mandarino COVER: ELBAITE crystal with quartz and albite, an extraordinarily large specimen (33 cm; over...passion for mineralogy began. He explored the quarries around Jadotville and, between 1967 and 1989,...about the nearly horizontal outpourings of ancient basalt lava flows, one atop another in layer-cake fashion...hoped to avoid, because it reduced the value of the basalt for purposes of filling and construction. My early |  | | Book | | from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite from Germany Pages 124-125: Wulfenite crys¬ tals with mimetite...orthoclase; polysynthetic twins are typical of albite; while cyclic twins can be found in aragonite,...cavities of basalts in India. Above: Beryl and albite, beautiful examples of crystals found in granitic...iron-rose-crystal form, but also titanite, epi¬ dote, albite, anatase, rutile and apatite. Above: Titanite...of spectacular cavi¬ ties of orthoclase, quartz, albite and fluorite, often associated with a large number |  | | Report (volume) | | England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product__________ Method of tr...The granite railroads_______________________ The quarries, their granite and finished product_______ Caledonia...________ Geology of Byegate quarries__________ Quarries ________________________ Groton____________________________...Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite...______________ ______ Geology of Barre quarries____________ Quarries _______________________ Cabot __________________ |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood...Institut fur Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany. Duane Mellor: Geology Library, Yale University...Berlin, Germany. Peter Susse: MINABS, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon...Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany. Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon...France; Andreasberg, Freiberg(*), and Schneeberg(*), Germany; Pribram(*), Jachymov, and Schemnitz, Czech Republic; |
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