 | | 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) | | LOWER M ID D L E ORDOVICIAN ROCKS IN TAZEW ELL COUNTY I B U L L E T IN O F T H E G E O L O G IC A...STRATIGRAPHY OF THE LOWER M IDDLE ORDOVICIAN OF TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA BY B Y RO N N . C O O PER A N D C H IL.................................. Zone 3. Blocky chert................................................... 820 COOPER AND PROUTY— ORDOVICIAN OF TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA Page Proposed classification............ 821 2. Generalized geologic map of Tazewell County............................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | San Antonio. Texas 78204 Rex Gerber, Vice-President 4105 Harry. Corpus Christi. Texas 78411 FEATURES....... 40 FIELD TRIPS Beachcomblng In Jefferson County, Washington by Jean Rose Williams .......... 22...San Antonio. Texas 78228 Mrs_ Viola Smith. Treasurer 1215 South 41st Street, Temple. Texas 76501 GEMS a...- Boise, Idaho TERRACE ROCK SHOP - San Antonio, Texas TURNOR'S GEM ROCK - Phoenix, Arizona DAVID P. WILBER... CA. Host. Gem end Mlnwel Society of San Mateo County. H.B. Murnan, P.O. Box 53, NAS Moffett Field, CA |  | | Report (issue) | | .............. Pearl River Confining Unit .................................... Pearl River Aquifer.....Southeastern Coastal Plain Aquifer System Continued Pearl River Aquifer Continued Rocks of Sabinian and Midwayan...well KK-34, Tuscaloosa County, Ala., to Azoline F. Thian well No. 1, Hancock County, Miss. 20. /-/' from...Buchanan well No. 2, Dallas County, Ala., to F.W. Sherrill well, Baldwin County, Ala. 21. L-L' from Hooker...Company well, Lowndes County, Miss., to M.R. Headley well No. 1, Claiborne County, Miss. 22. N'-N" from |  | | Journal (issue) | | Sciences of Philadelphia (Paleontology) Richard M. Pearl, Colorado College (Mineralogy) Ben H, Wilson, Joliet...Annual Meeting. November 10-12, 1949. El Paso, Texas. Magnetic By Survey For Has Minerals Proven...Rock, a Cretaceous chalk spire in eastern Gove County, Kansas. See “Scenic Kansas’’, pages 11-12. Photo...depth of many feet along a wide belt from Canada to Texas. In some places wind-blown dust covers’ these ancient...northeastern Kansas, Doniphan County Rock City, southwest of Minneapolis, Ottawa County THE EARTH SCIENCE |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Corbett of Baltimore, Maryland; Professor Richard Pearl of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Professor Jack...made into jewelry and ornaments. Pearls, coral, pearl shell, and amber are definitely gems, although they...a gun," writes a Colorado collector. "As far as Texas is concerned," says a Texan, "the legislature, prodded...corners of the claimed area, and filing in the county land agent's office. In addition he has to show |  | | Journal (issue) | | 6500 De Moss Drive, P.O. Box 740252 Houston Texas, TX 77074 USA Tel : +1 832 641 5014 ; +234 803 715 8372...material can be found. Our destination was Seminole County, Oklahoma. The agate and conglomerates are named...made from finds along the back roads of Seminole County WWW.ROCKNGEM.COM | NOVEMBER 2021 15 16 ROCK&GEM...Pennsylvanian formations in east-central Oklahoma contain chert clasts. However, the Boley Conglomerate contains...in an alluvial delta. The Vamoosa contains more chert conglomerate than any other formation in the area |  | | Book (volume) | | Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...International, Fallbrook, CA; John R. Latendresse, American Pearl Co., Nashville, TN; Otto J. Acknowledgments Laube...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Russell P. MacFall Harold L. McCleery Richard M. Pearl Henry P. Zuidema Published bi-m« pe at Mount Morris...me many things about the trade, even as to how a pearl is peeled and the instruments used in doing it Sincerely...Grand Rapids to Birch Lake at the St. Louis County-Lake County line. In the east the summits are 400 feet...here in order of decreasing abundance: silica (chert), iron silicates (minneso- Mr. and Mrs. Shepard...Jaspers are often found A gal asper, a multi-colored chert with a “ ('¢ ntorted banding’, is a popular polishing |  | | Book | | Kentucky Fossil-Brachiopod Gemstone-Freshwater Pearl Soil-Crider Series Mineral-Coal Rock-Agate * Maryland...Series * "Tennessee Rock-Limestone Gem-Freshwater Pearl Fossil-Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) thoracica...life in North America. Turquoise, flint, quartz, pearl, nephrite jade, and agate were sacred gems and...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional |  | | Report (issue) | | of the western boundary of Florida westward to Texas. (See fig. 15.) Citronelle, a town on the Mobile...& Ohio Railroad, in the northern part of Mobile County, Ala., was chosen as the type locality because...type locality for the new name being in Lafayette County, Miss., 2 where, according to Berry, 3 the " Orange...~ "' Geologic section from Washington-Mobile county line, Ala., to the G~lf of Mexico 8 f 400 200...restricted to the area from western Florida to eastern Texas and does not deal with the Atlantic border of the |  | | Report (issue) | | Kisatchie Wold, extending across Louisiana, into Texas on the one hand and into Mississippi the Fayette...imprints of marine fossils, River, in Claiborne County, Miss., by Wailes, the first and some of .the associated...Paper 46, pp. 42-43, 1906. a Kennedy, William, Texas Geol. Survey Third Ann. Rept., p.63, 1892. 4 Wailes...seq., 1906. 1 other portions of Louisiana and Texas, so that office work was not completed until the...continuation of this formation eastward beyond Pearl River. The next extensive report dealing with the |  | | Report (issue) | | nomenclature in the Big Hatchet Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, by Augustus K. Armstrong and Bernard...Formations, Cla11am County, Washington, by Parke D. Snavely, Jr., Alan R. Niem, and James E. Pearl .............Mississippian strata of the Big Hatchet Mountains, Hidalgo County, southwestern New Mexico .................... Map...of the Sandy Springs Group ................... County outline map of part of Georgia showing known outcrop...Makah Formations in their type localities, Clallam County, Washington ................ Map showing area of |  | | 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 (volume) | | Geology and Construction-Material Resources of Marion County, Kansas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN Prepared... Geology and Construction-Material Resources of Marion County, Kansas By F. E. BYRNE, C. P. WALTERS, J. L. HILL...1907Geology and construction-material resources of Marion County, Kansas, by F. E. Byrne [and others] Washington...Geologic and construction-materials map of Marion County, Kans_-__---.____._______-_.-__-___._--_____-_-____...4. Stratigraphic units that crop out in Marion County, Kans. In pocket Page FIGURE 3. Index map of | | | Book (volume) | | Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache... Fallbrook, CA; John R. Latendresse, An1erican Pearl Co., Nashville, TN; Otto J. lX Acknowledgments...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA........................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | while the last chapter embraces substances such as pearl and amber which are of animal or vegetable origin...helpful in suggesting improvements in the section on Pearl and Shell. Many of the uniformly excellent publications...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...Ind. Fortville is in N.W. Hancock County, near the Hamilton County line; the gravel pit is close by,... just over the line in Hamilton County. "For your World News department I am sending you an amethyst...specimens around Melrose which is in S.W. Monroe County in the southern part of the state. Some of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | AGTA Gemological Testing Center, New York, NY10017, USA e-mail: info@agta-gtc.org 2. SSEF Swiss Gemmological...appearance of structures within them give the scallop pearl a peculiar surface sheen. SG and Raman data indicate...indicate that the perfectly round 5.91 ct scallop pearl described is composed in the main of calcite rather...and UV/visible spectra for the 5.91 ct scallop pearl are described. These data are compared with similar...magnificus, Nodipecten nodosus, Nodipecten subnodosus, USA Introduction Not frequently seen but relatively |  | | Journal (issue) | | Langston (SCFMS) 4813 Hollowbrook Fort Worth. Texas 76103 Publisher and Editorial Director- DON MacLACHLAN... San Antonio. Texas 78204 Rex Gerber. Vice-President 4105 Harry, Corpus Christi, Texas 78411 Mrs. Evelyn...San Antonio. Texas 78228 Mrs. Viola Smith, Treasurer 1215 South 41st Street, Temple. Texas 76501 OEMS...Augite Diopside Enstatite Actinollte Barkevlkite Chert Jasper Breccia Pumice Perthlte Nephellne Hornblende...Omphaclte Phlogopite Cummingtonite Basalt Radlolarian Chert Tuff Almandlne GROUP No. 4 - ROCKS. M INERALS, CRYSTALS |  | | Book (volume) | | quality, colorful flint that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal...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) | | quality, colorful flint that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABAMA—Arbacoochee, a tiny town in southern Cleburne County of N / E Alabama, was famous over 100 years ago... Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M. Pearl of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo., told...miles west of Shoshone, near Bliss, in Gooding County, Idaho. This is on Highway 30. Hope you can identify...weighs 4 lbs., 9 ozs. This cluster is made up of a chert base and upon this drusy quartz and sphalerite simultaneously...have the rare combination of six minerals on a chert rock base. Any combination of over five kinds of |  | | Journal (issue) | | San Anton io. Texas 78204 Rex Gerber. Vice-President 4105 Harry. Corpus Chnsl1. Texas 78411 I FIELD...San Antonio. Texas 78228 Mrs. Viola Smith. Treasurer 1215 South 41st Street. Temple, Texas 76501 GEMS...Augite Diopside Enstatite Actinolite Barkevikite Chert Jasper Braccia Pumice Perthite Nepheline Hornblende...Omphacite Phlogopite Cummingtonite Basalt Radiolarian Chert Tuff Almandine GROUP No. 4 - ROCKS. MINERALS, CRYSTALS...CA. Host. Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo County. H.B. Murnan. P.O. Box 53. NAS Moffett Field. CA |  | | Report (issue) | | INVESTIGATIONS, No. 18 CHERT RESOURCES OF THE LOWER ILLINOIS VALLEY A Study of Chert Raw Material Distributions...William Sylvester White Judge, Circuit Court Cook County, Chicago C. Leplie Kanatzar, Ph.D. Dean of MacMurray...Archaeological Program. Meyers’ analysis of geological chert sources of the lower Illinois Valley, the second...cultures adapted and which they in part re¬ flect. Chert probably represents the single most important raw...6 Macoupin Chert Survey Field Note Form . 16 4 SECTION II 1 2 3 4 Map of the Pearl, Hardin and Brussels |
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