 | | Book | | zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...such as apophyllite, gyrolite, okenite, prehnite, datolite, tacharanite, and clay are easily affected by...hemispherical front-lens. Type Locality: H(lwenegg, Hegau, Germany Nomenclature: From its framework structure and...combination with {110} and {OIl} is found only at Hegau, Germany (Figs. 15,18,26,27) while {WI} and {OW} in combination | | | Book | | zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...such as apophyllite, gyrolite, okenite, prehnite, datolite, tacharanite, and clay are easily affected by...hemispherical front-lens. Type Locality: H(lwenegg, Hegau, Germany Nomenclature: From its framework structure and...combination with {110} and {OIl} is found only at Hegau, Germany (Figs. 15,18,26,27) while {WI} and {OW} in combination |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | issue), datolite has been suggested as the topic of this Connoisseur’s Choice feature. Datolite crystals...green, and pink to white and colorless; nodular datolite is typically white or pastel shades of pink, yellow...fluorescence characterizes some New Jersey datolite. Datolite is commonly seen in monoclinic (2/m) crystals...of some datolite and is derived from the Greek word dateisthal meaning “to divide.” Datolite is a calcium...CaBSiO4(OH) and is a member of the gadolinite-datolite group. Most analyses show very minor amounts of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mountain (details on page 5) In this issue … Datolite nodule Quincy Mine, Michigan Source: Brandes (2019)...into a later newsletter. Mineral of the month: Datolite ................. p. 2 November program details.................................. p. 14 Manassas quarry geology, pt. 2 ................. p. 15 Upcoming...... p. 21 Mineral of the Month Datolite by Sue Marcus Datolite, our mineral this month, is not a...collectors like me, it is attainable! Etymology Datolite was named in 1806 by Jens Esmark, a DanishNorwegian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | states: 3 two concentric curving "The sills diabase [asso- which follow the bedding of the Mesozoic...in the form of a dike of rather fine grained diabase about 50 feet wide; this can be traced southwestward...relation appears. A feet meadow back along small quarry has been TRANSACTIONS OF WAGNER |2 MINERALOGY...secondary minerals, chiefly calcite, prehnite and datolite, the last being confined to a narrow layer about...the upper side of the great mass of intrusive diabase on this point can be obtained at the present |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | accessible for study in silu. The visitor to a trap quarry productive of minerals finds that a t every depth...by R. B. Gage2and one by L. C. Eakins a of the diabase of the.Nemark Formation from New Jersey localities...sheets and fragments which occupy the joints in the diabase, or the fragments which make up the brecciated...of boron, which is a principal constituent of datolite and fluorine, and of which apophyllite generally...generally but not always contains a small proportion. Datolite is a basic orthosilicate of boron and calcium |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the Bergen Hill occurrence in the Palisades diabase and five quarries located in the First Watchung...Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great...Great Notch (Fig. 1). Several important diabase localities not covered include the intrusives be tween...two Hudson County localities, Laurel (Snake) Hill quarry, Secaucus, and Fort Lee. The geology and mineralogy...dark-colored dike and flow rocks, chiefly basalt and diabase. have occurred from these localities have been |  | | Journal (issue) | | Interstate Bridge Columbia River Oregon 2. DATOLITE FROM THE HALF ROUND ROADCUT, PE ELL, LEWIS COUNTY...Tschernich 526 Avenue A Snohomish, Washington 98290 Datolite is a rather rare borosilicate mineral described...engineer fOr Weyerhaeuser, in veins cutting a massive diabase sill along Weyerhaeuser logging road 3000, in an...along the 3000 road passing a quarry at 3.1 miles and reachin12: the datolite site 4.8 miles from the junction...veins containing zeolites, datolite, and calcite cutting a massi\'e diabase sill. One major vein, which |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bull Run Quarry Loudoun County, Virginia H O W A R D R. F R E E L A N D 10340 Hollyberry Drive Richmond...al., 1978; Narsavage, 1977), and at the Fairfax quarry near Centreville, Virginia (Medici, 1972; Mitchell...environments. Bull Run quarry located in Loudoun County, Virginia, is one such quarry. To date, nearly twenty...twenty mineral species from the quarry have been identified. As far as can be determined, two of the min...ously in Virginia. THE QUARRY The Bull Run quarry is located in a Triassic-age diabase sill within the Piedmont |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Valley with Emphasis on Reed's Gap Quarry near Durham Reed's Gap quarry, near Durham, Connecticut. Photo...of 1 >78 and 1979 of minerals being found during quarry operations. (Ashland recently sold its interests...and Plainville were visited: the North Branford quarry was surveyed in 1976. c The standard available...This was particularly the case with the Durham quarry where several interesting discoveries were made...in trap rock with calcite and quartz. Reed s Gap quarry; collected 1979. NEW BRITAIN QUARR F - e a s |  | | Journal (issue) | | PUBLISHED 1944 MONTHLY ... CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ............................................................................... DYER SERPENTINE QUARRY NEAR DELIG:·ff, MD. By Peter 143 144 144 145 145...zones in basic igneous rocks such as basalt and diabase ; rarely they may be found filJing fractures in...aggregrates usually of an apple /Zreeo color ; datolite ( 14) in stoutish glassy complex crystals which...they are found in the basic igneous rock of that region. Of the above localities the writer has visited |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cambridge on the border of the Boston Basin. A large quarry for road metal has been operated there for some...MINERALOGICALSOCIETY OF AMERICA 297 in a quarry opened recently in the diabase at the foot of Mt. Tom, a few hundred...prehnite and calcite in gash veins traversing the diabase. Openings in the vein are coated with masses of...BaerxcroNrrE rRoM lJxnRrocn, Massacuusnrrs. A small quarry was openedin Uxbridge, Mass. many years since,in... oligoclase,albite, calcite. Nassau, Germany Contact Diabase and slate Ilvaite, beudantite, jasper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | opening of numerous quarries both in the Palisades diabase and in the thick basalt sheets of the Watchung...flow cooling on the earth surface, and intrusive diabase and gabbroic rocks formed by lava flow cooling...basalt traprock quarry in the Paterson, N. J . area. ROCKS A N D MINERALS 725 The diabase intrusives,...belt of New Jersey. For various reasons quarrying diabase for aggregate is done on a limited scale. In New...quartz and calcite was found at the upper New Street Quarry in Paterson, N. J. during the leveling operations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Brunswick formations of the Newark Group by diabase sills produced unusually varied and unique mineral...diopside-hedenbergite, andradite and grossular, prehnite, datolite, idoerase and wollastonite. Within a meter of...retrogressive metamorphism, produced hydrous minerals. Datolite, tourmaline, scapolite and fluorite suggest minor...specularite, and an expanding 14 A mineral and talc. Datolite occurs locally within a few inches of a contact...5 m below the Palisade Sill and in the Granton Quarry (Van Houten, 1969, Figs. 9, 30, 31) commonly are |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...clefts in the Mont Blanc Swiss-French border region. genbach quarry specimens (see the Record, They really...prices would otherwise be way out of reach. buck region. This can produce some surprises both ways. Another...high altitudes of the Goscheneralp (canton Uri) region also offered a- as “the pyromorphite place,” continues...interesting minerals offered in several such study in Germany and some marvelous letters as this. A special thanks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mallison Falls, Windham, Maine, and at the Dexter quarry, Lincoln County, Rhode Island. A historical occurrence...occurrence is with prehnite in gneiss at Ward’s quarry, Pelham, Massachusetts. It has been reported from...County. Scolecite has been collected in the diabase quarry at Manassas, Prince William County, and near...Mountain area north of Yale and in the 2001237 Road quarry at Wolf Point, Cowlitz County, Washington; in large...7.5 cm long with other zeolites in the Pioneer quarry at Bremerton, Kitsap 250 ROCKS & MINERALS County; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINENALOGIST 6 FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: TIfu DATOLITE LOCALITY NEAR WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS EARL V...Mass. Springf.el,il, The beautiful crystallized datolite specimenswhich are found in all collectionslabeled..."Westfield, Mass.," have come from northernmost quarry being a little over a mile from the trolley line...search,to obtain a number of specimensof very fine datolite. This locality is easily accessibleand should...greatly crushed,slickensidedand altered fragments of diabase more or less veined and cemented by secondary minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite, prehnite, datolite, apophyllite, chabazite, and, occasionally, sulfides...calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite are recorded from the railroad tunnels through...single analcime crystal on serandite from the Demix quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. This 3.7-cm specimen...Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union County, and quarries near Millington...such as Rushland, Bucks County; faulted Triassic diabase in the Cornwall Nos. 3 and 4 magnetite mines, Cornwall |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Harvard University, visiting the well-known trap quarry at Westfield in the spring of 1935, brought back...locality.2 The specimensconsist of veins in the diabase, narrow for the most part but expanding to a width...sequences. Quartz, calcite Calcite only Datolite only Calcite, datolite, apophyllite Qrartz, chlorite, calcite...(iron-rich), prehnite Calcite, epidote (iron-poor), datolite Qraartz, chlorite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, calcite...calcite Ring structures, epidote, datolite, epidote, prehnite, datolite It is clear from this list that |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sandstones, conglomerates, shales, and limestones. Diabase intruded these sediments dur ing L a t e Triassic-Early...sedimentary rocks (usually lime stone) by diabase. T h e diabase has caused the alteration o f the surrounding...w i t h iron minerals pre cipitated from the diabase. Where the sediments have either not been changed...Magnetite on and surrounding orthoclase. Note datolite with magnetite. Longest feldspar crystal 47 mm...Magnetite octahedrons on datolite. Largest crystal 44 mm. Right: Magnetite grains on datolite. Specimen is 1 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BI-MONTHLY 1951 MINERALS OF THE ARLINGTON TRAP ROCK QUARRY ON GOOSE CREEK, LOUDOUN CO., VA. By FRENCH MORGAN...18, D. C. The writer first became aware of this quarry during the fall of 1943 when the newly organized...field trip to the locality It was an old producing quarry at that time, and has probably been in operation...were reported as being of considerable size. The quarry is located a mile and onehalf south of Virginia...Mineralogy and Petrology of Intrusive Triassic Diabase at Goose Creek, Loudoun Co., Va. (Proceedings of |  | | Report (volume) | | THE CRYSTAL CAVITIES OF THE NEW JERSEY ZEOLITE REGION BY WALDEMAR T. SCHALLER 0'60C PROPERT1 tk ' ...the mineral complex of the New Jersey traprock region have long excited the interest of mineralogists...chemical composition of the river waters of the region is such as to allow the formation of glauberite...even though no glauberite has been found in this region. Some quartz cores, infiltration pseudomorphs in...NEW JERSEY ZEOLITE REGION By WALDEMAR T. SCHALLER INTRODUCTION The zeolite region of New Jersey, as it |  | | Book (volume) | | reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). PRECIOUS The Precious Stones. Precious others...hollowed out The vacant. man form the on left Germany with to be have posture greater a window... A was banks soon quartzite and sheets of diabase, form the of the temperature original and...Griqualand mines, of than half not 1867. region a shale, across, of are production little-explored...the generated current of about lining wide diabase by chemical lined process time, the time |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | W. G. Wyckhofi, took part. At a quarry in Leesburg a vein of datolite cut the Crystallized specimens of...Iimestone conglomerate of the Newark formation. datolite associated with calcite and barite and an unidentified...Creek the quarry is cut by a diabase sill. apophyllite, laumontite and calcite. Numerous diabase pegmatites |  | | Report (issue) | | Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS Illustrations... List of Figures Figure 1. Index map showing region covered in this report. Stfaded area is covered...Figure 2. Block diagram of the Washington, D.C. region showing physiographic provinces and major geographic...Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville...and locations of mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre |
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Diabase quarry, Hartenrod, Bad Endbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany