 | | Report (edition) | | PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY OF 0144 00141189 1 v < 2 £ m- c oi; c» tt*s“S S Si! at tss^s isl^j...1 ' s WJ= ~S 5! s „3 &«eq Sjg® . . PENNSYLVANIA 1 .8 ^2»SS 3 d 5-s &s z l|lt« 7* < OF ...GEOLOGY REPORT 1976 33 MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Alan R. Geyer Robert C. Smith, John H....Graphics by Albert E. VanOlden COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES TOPOGRAPHIC...II Copyrighted 1976 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Quotations from this book may be published if |  | | Journal (issue) | | The French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania......................................105...address of Kustos is P.O. Box 332, Stewartstown, Pennsylvania 17363 (telephone 717-993-6930; fax 717-993-9036)...3 /# l D ohrm ann G old collec tion, G illette quarry (CT), Spanish fluorite $12 H ouston M useum Catalog...Geochemistry of the Sterling Hill zinc deposit, Sussex County, New Jersey. Geological Society o f America Bulletin...minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. United States Geological Survey Pro |  | | Report (volume) | | diabase, west-central New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania 141 By Jonathan M. Husch An overview of early...faulting and diabase intrusion, Newark basin, Pennsylvania 176 By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe and William C....selected early Mesozoic copper occurrences in Pennsylvania 320 By R.C. Smith II, S.W. Berkheiser, Jr.,...uranium-bearing sequences in the Newark basin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the San Juan basin, New...Palisades sill near the Ramapo fault in Rockland County, New York, as an intrusion of fine-grained diabase |  | | Report (volume) | | of M assachusetts, Connecticut, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia , Maryland , North Carolina, and other...geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland , North Carolina, and South...appropriate, the applicable early Mesozoic basin, State, county, or 7 1/2minute USGS topographic quadrangle covered...the State are cited. More than one basin, State, county, or quadrangle may appear for an entry. A State...C.-S.C.) Deep River (N.C.) Durham (N.C.) Davie County (N.C.) Dan River and Danville (N.C.-Va.) Scottsburg |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OF GEOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY, SOUTHAMPTON. K. R. DYER (1) N. HAMILTON (2) R. D. PINGREE (1) 21st October...Compositions include fayalite-hedenbergite-, riebeckite- and biotite-granites and minor syenites. Successive...may Volcanic rocks Early ring-dykes I ^ I Riebeckite- & foyolite-granites KW1 Coarse-grained hornblende-biotite-...composed of syenite, monzonite, and hastingsite- and riebeckite-granite are invaded and partly obliterated by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport...Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller attributes...Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls and pipes; red and yellow ochre...from the Dex ter quarry (originally Hackleton's Rock) at Lincoln, Provi dence County, in 1640. Limestone |  | | Report (volume) | | 147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico...structures in the San Mateo Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 5...Mountains, 10. sees. 33-35, T. 4 S., R. 6 W., Socorro County, N.Mex. Anapra Sandstone 1. Early Cretaceous 2...6. 7. 9. 10. at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dofta Ana County, New Mexico, Appendix 2 in Lovejoy, E. M. P., Geology |  | | Book | | Cadieux Ste-Anne de Bellvue Ste-Dorothee Francon Quarry Montreal 127 Mount Royal 128 Brossard 129 Masson...there are also riebeckite microgranites and quartz syenites w i th about 10% riebeckite. Age K-Ar on hornblende...Aegir ine is sometimes found as overgrowths on riebeckite and is locally associated with astrophyllite...Age A K-A r age of 2057±56 Ma was obtained on riebeckite from granite. K-A r ages detern1ined on biotite...biotite, muscovite, horn blende and riebeckite range from 2057 to 2·1 66 Ma (Wanless et al, ] 979, pp. 34-8) |  | | Journal (issue) | | minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local museum...accommodation (and the meeting dinner) is at the County Hotel, Llandudno, LL30 1BD just a little way along...to book their own accommodation, either at the County Hotel (which offers a discounted rate for Russell...members (Neil Hubbard, Roy Starkey, Oneta Wilson, Alan Dyer, Chris Jewson, Michael Doel, Frank Bouweraerts and... chrysotile, erionite, grunerite, rchterite, riebeckite, tremolite and winchite. although not all of |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |  | | Report (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | those of aegirine among the pyroxenes." That riebeckite holds chemically, as well as optically, the same...reasonable doubt that the Mynydd Mawr mineral is riebeckite. The blue tourmaline which I described, not without...to have been himself deceived by the Socotra riebeckite, regarding it as a pseudomorph of tourmaline...from Mynydd Mawr. Besides the larger crystals of riebeckite, Sauer finds in the Socotra granite microlites...the rock of Mynydd Mawr. That these belong to riebeckite, rather than to tourmaline, is proved by the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PC-MOS (CMTE Elek- Sample Tchermakitic hornblende Riebeckite Grunerite Descriotion. natural AOE 1OT natural...Vulcan'sThroneamphiboleand(b) amphibolecompositions reportedby Dyer et al. (1993).Opencircles: OH + F + Cl-, solidcircles: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Acmite CaSiO3 "Amphibole" Hornblende Pargasite Riebeckite Diffusing Do species (mZs -1) Q Temperature...French) (Diffusion Data 9:E219) 115 Beattie IR, Dyer A (1957). Trans Faraday Soc 53:61-66 (see also Mineral...Beattie IR (1962). Trans Faraday Soc 58:138-i44 117 Dyer A, Molyneux A (1968). J Inorg Nucl Chem 30:829 837...Am Mineral 50:465.475 (Mineral Abstr 17:475) 122 Dyer A, Molyneux A (1968). J Inorg Nucl Chem 30:2831-2840...Stat Sol A5:K159-K161 (Diffusion Data 5 : D63) 126 Dyer A, Gettins RB, Molyneux A (1968). J Inorg Nucl Chem |  | | Journal (issue) | | MONTHLY Contents for March, 1948 CHI PS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................l THE GEOLOGY OF LOWER MILFORD TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA. ( Part l ). By Charles W . Brown ................ ,., ,..,..,,., ,., ..... CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY w ...... ,_, ............... - ... • • .....and mineralogy of the Sku ll Valley area, Tooele County, Utah, are here described ; physiographic history...1830, the Skull Valley area, in central Tooele County, Utah, was not studied or mapped in any detail |  | | Book (volume) | | ........................................402 Pennsylvania .............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map .......................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarry chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Report (issue) | | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60...barrens of the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Figure 11. Water-filled adit of the |  | | Book | | Shelly Clays and Gravels of, 95, 282 Abergavenny, County, 01, 135 Aberystwyth, Geology of, 78, 532 Pebbles... 73, 351 Anderson, G-eorg-e. Vitrified 1% County Down, Geology of 270 Tempest. Volthe Two Sicilies... Hdberleimi, sp. nov. 72, sp. nov. 66, 250 Dyer, 150, 153 {Eutactd) spJicerocarpus, Carr. ; 71...Athrotaxites, 72, 193 Frischman7ti, 72, 194 laxus, Dyer, sp. nov. 72, 195 AnthraCoal Region, S4, 463 Ashburton... Ashprington Volcanic Devon), 89, 332 Series Dyer, nov. sp. 72, 195 (S. lycopodioides, 72, 194 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Epstein (1976) Stoffregen et al. (1994) Dyer and Molyneux (1968) Dyer and Molyneux (1968) Suzuoki and Epstein...O’Neil and Kharaka (1976) Graham (1981) Graham (1981) Dyer and Faghihian (1998a) Suzuoki and Epstein (1976)...Tsutsumi (1978) Sakai and Tsutsumi (1978) Dyer and Faghihian (1998b) Dyer and Faghihian (1998b) Guo and Qian...Glaucophane 368.00 Hornblende 371.80 Pargasite 368.00 Riebeckite 372.56 Tremolite 368.00 Annite 181.80 Biotite...in minerals. American Mineralogist, 65, 174–182. Dyer, A. and Faghihian, H. (1998a) Diffusion in heteroionic |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Mineralogical Record's array of state issues. Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, Kentucky, North...the western slope of the Mosquito Range, in Lake County, Colorado, about 128 km (80 miles) southwest of...Henriette and Maid of Erin properties. In 1893 Lake County began to pro duce considerable gold, chiefly from...the Smithsonian In stitution, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, the Denver Museum of |  | | Book | | followed in the text by the old county name, old regional or present county names, as appropriate, depending...Mineral Collection localities use predominantly old county names to an extent. SCOTLAND.THECOUNTRY, PHYSIOGRAPHY...Rock of Gibraltar, its strata and caves, appeared in 1798 (Imrie, 1798). (He served at Gibraltar as an...Minerals and A Mineralogical Description of tlie County of Dumfries Uameson, 1805a, and 1805b), the latter...Robert Jameson had undertaken fieldwork in that county, the results of which culminated in the appearance |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Book | | Peter Davidson, Ian Dossett, Giles Droop, Alan Dyer, John Ebner, John Faithfull, Jeffrey deFourestier...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens..."Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists, as it was merged with Westmorland...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during |  | | Book (volume) | | ........................................343 Pennsylvania...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |
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Dyer Quarry, Gibraltar, Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA