 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A CATALOGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS GEMSTONES HA,MPDEN 'COUNTY (PART FOUR) By RALPH GOSSE P.O. Box 5351, Albany...will be amended in a later issue. NOTE: (ESSEX COUNTY, was erroneously listed as part three in caption...Catalogue of Massachusetts Gemstones." Readers please note the correct County to be BERKSHIRE COUNTY.) AGATE...outcrops of basalt. Hampden County The chief occurrence of agate in Massachusetts is a number of ancient...masses eroded from basalt. in Hampden and Hampshire Counties Westfield, Lane Company traprock Choice |  | | Report (issue) | | SURFICIAL GEOLOGY OF THE MOUNT TOM QUADRANGLE, MASSACHUSETTS by Frederick D. Larsen U.S. Geological Survey...U3 East Berlin Formation ............... 56 Hampden Basalt 65 Holyoke Basalt ....................... 184 Stage I ..................... 186 Westfield Gap ................ Paper Mills delta Stage...Bedrock geology of the Mount Tom quadrangle, Massachusetts ................. In pocket Surficial geology...geology of the Mount Tom quadrangle, Massachusetts ................. In pocket North-south projected profiles |  | | Book | | MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | several New Jersey localities, and datolite after quartz is reported from Russia. Pseudomorphs of chalcedony...fissure veins. Associated minerals include calcite, quartz, prehnite, danburite, axinite, garnet, and the...heulandite, pectolite, apophyllite, calcite,, and quartz, and its crystal aggregates often form the matrix...matrix for one or more of these species. In Massachusetts, datolite fills veins and open cavities in trap...as the Cheapside quarry at Deerfield, Franklin County, where it occurred with prehnite. Crystals from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurstogetherwith quartz and calcite in cavities in a massivefemrginous quartzite. The Hampden County, Massachusett'sbabingtonite...found together with quartz and calcite at the Lane trap-rock quarry near Westfield (SmithsonianInstitution...Figure I shows the Mossbauer spectrum of the Westfield babingtonite taken at room temperature. Three...babingtonite Wes t Gemany 53.20 98.32 Massachusetts from Westfield, from Herbornseelbach, Veloc ly mm/sec...areas with temperature in the spectra of the Westfield bamm/sec bingtonite are within the experimental |  | | Report (volume) | | SURVEY No. 116 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY CATALOGUE SLIPS. United States. Department...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | hy | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington...topographer. XXIII. Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts, by Raphael Pnnipelly, J. E. Wolff, and T. Nelson |  | | Report (issue) | | quadrangle, Massachusetts, Holmes. 1 map (scale 1:24,000), 8 data sheets. Massachusetts Dept. of Public...observations Station msabor __ Actl* Location: County Hampden Road location Town Meatfiald ^ Ina«ti>...observations: Location: County Station maabor x w*8tfl * ld Inactiv* Pit Hampden Coordinator Road location... Megaacopic obeenratiooa Field Statiaa Laeati County Road location Textural deacriptioo af deposit:...s*gaaeopic observations: Station mmber x Aetlvo County Hampden Toiro ..Waatflald Pit 5*2° 09* Road location |  | | Report (volume) | | LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES MASSACHUSETTS BENJAMIN KENDALL EMEKSON WASHINGTON...after .olivine ............. FiG. 1. Garnet, with quartz iuclosures.......................................inineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass. This lexicon was prepared to accompany...MINERALOGICAL LEXICON OF FRANKLIN, HAMPSHIRE, AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES, MASS. By B. K. EMERSON. INTRODUCTION...within the area of the three river counties in Massachusetts. Each citation from the original documents is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry...collected at Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253...the Melrose and nearby mines at Stoneham, Oxford County. Phenomenal trapezohedral almandine crystals exhibiting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Boston, Johanson and Savage from Leominster, Massachusetts, Verrow and the late Percy Leggett from Gorham...sphalerite, columbite, manganapatite, autunite, the quartz varieties: colorless, 565 Downloaded by [University...almandite. In a nearby prospect pit specimens of clear quartz were found which had small smoky spherical spots...sections were found of asteriated clear and rose quartz, aquamarine and almandite of a deep red color....too the quartz evidently solidified last and fills all the interstices. Since most this quartz is fissured |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | medium grained sand consisting almost entirely of quartz (brown, smoky, colorless) plus a tiny amount of...Between Naugatuck and Beacon Falls, both in New Haven County, Conn., the Naugatuck River flows through a wide...grained, lustrous gray sand consisting chiefly of quartz (colorless to smoky) and lustrous silvery muscovite...grained, brown sand consisting entirely of brown quartz. "Sand from Timothy Branch, Brandywine (Prince...New York 28, N. Y."—on label. River Sand from Westfield, Mass. This interesting sample was sent in by |  | | Report (issue) | | -quadrangle, Berkshire, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties, Massachusetts by Stephen A. Norton \\ Explanation...1250 feet on the brook draining north into the. Westfield River at the east edge of the quadrangle. Their...fine-to medium-grained, light green to silvery, quartz-muscovite-chlorite schist, commonly with gattiet...art'.nolito (needly), oii >',oc insc, rptdotc, quartz, r Rphf-w, and opaque minerals. 06r. These rocks...1966), fin- to mediumgrained hornblende-plagloclase-quartz-epidote gneiss with accessory sphene, chlorite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xline—crystalline CALIFORNIA — From near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif, we have a deep blue dumortierite that was... This fine 3x5 inch specimen comes from Teller County, Colorado. ARIZONA — "Would you please identify...identify this specimen for me? I know it is quartz but what is the silvery particles? I have had it lying around...for 3 years believing it to be just a piece of quartz til the other day when I sawed off this piece sent...was found July 2, 1959, near Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona." — sent in by Clyde N. Hall, Elbridge |  | | Book (edition) | | CongresS; J / in the year 1834, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth in the Clerk's Office of the ...Secretary of the of said i ; District of Massachusetts. by Edward D. Bangs, in the name and District...Excellency, John davis, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts. I HAVE the honor to present you with the second...the 3d of March , 1830, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed a Resolve, authorizing and requesting...Antiquarian Society at Worcester; One copy to the Massachusetts Historical Society One copy to the Boston Society |  | | Report (volume) | | OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 597 GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON....................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...member........................... Northeastern Massachusetts..................................... General..................................... Western Massachusetts...............................................district............................. Eastern Massachusetts............................................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localities than St. John. 2. Intrusive granite and quartz-diorite; perhaps later than the position here assigned...effusives, including the base of the Cambrian. quartz-porphyry, felsite-porphyry, diabase, and feldspar-porphyrites...description of each of the rocks of Essex county, Massachusetts. These comprise plutonic rocks, volcanic...the geology of the Green Mountain region in Massachusetts. The Algonkian rocks comprise the Washington...MARSTERS, 3 Report on the Geology of Essex County, Massachusetts, to accompany map, by JOHNH. SEARS,Bull |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bloodstone (quartz). Bloodstone is green quartz (plasma) dotted or spotted with red quartz (jasper). It...eastern minerals. "Am sending you a sample of two quartz xls coated with siderite and calcite xls. Small...specimens! One was a slender, 3 inch dark smoky quartz xl encrusted with lustrous, brown drusy siderite...siderite xls. The other was a 21/, inch smoky quartz xl, two faces of which were coated by dark gray drusy...'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | te from a newly discovered locality in Yavapai County, Ariz., on the Verde River near Camp Verde, Ariz...be of interest. These were collected in Yavapai County, East of Prescott, Arizona. "They were taken from...asbestos, from a deposit near Jamestown, Tuolumne County, to its plant in Baltimore, Md. "Asbestos experts...Keystone mine at Copperopolis, Calaveras Co.; drusy quartz on bluish-gray chalcedony from the New Idria mine...and she had been fishing on Duke's Creek in White County (Ga.) with her nephew, Jere Chambers. Mrs. Lanier |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | along a trend within the Morefield mine in Amelia County, Virginia. Brightwell (1999, 2001) analyzed amazonite...Bulletin describing a twin of datolite from Westfield, Massachusetts. In a major paper on datolite published...hiddenite occur in cavities found in steeply dipping quartz veins that cut migmatitic host rocks at the Rist...Rist property, Hiddenite, North Carolina. The quartz veins are typically 1-10 cm wide and crosscut all...or absence of emerald or hiddenite. Many of the quartz veins developed cavities that contain a suite of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BABINGTONITE AND EPIDOTE FROM WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS Cnanlos Palacno, H antar iI U niver si.ty,Cambrid...beauty of specimens,since the babingtonite from Westfield, Mass., far surpasses that of Holyoke in attractiveness...University, visiting the well-known trap quarry at Westfield in the spring of 1935, brought back a number of...the following partial list of mineral sequences. Quartz, calcite Calcite only Datolite only Calcite, datolite...Chlorite, calcite, babingtonite Calcite, babingtonite Quartz, prehnite, babingtonite, calcite Ring structures |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SEVENTH SUMMER MEETING, HELD AT SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, AUGUST 27 AND 28, 1895 H e rm a n L e R oy............. 2 Geology of old Hampshire county, in Massachusetts [abstract] ; by B. K. Emerson...........been recognized as far south as Gloucester, Massachusetts, but the influence of what was probably the...the Merrimack river at Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts, and Manchester, New Hampshire; on the Connecticut...Connecticut at Holyoke, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and Bellows Falls, New Hampshire. 7. With a submergence |  | Keppie, J.D., Dallmeyer, R.D., Krogh, T.E., Aftalion, M. (1993) Dating mineralization using several isotopic methods: an example from the South Mountain Batholith, Nova Scotia, Canada. Chemical Geology, 103 (1) 251-270 doi:10.1016/0009-2541(93)90305-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA CRoyal Ontario, Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto...anomalously young isotopic ages (Millet Brook and Westfield) have been analyzed for U, Pb and Ar isotopes...6 Ma (4°Ar/3gAr plateau ages). New data from Westfield indicate that a paraintrusive porphyry was intruded...Rb-Sr whole-rock isochron age of ~ 270 Ma at Westfield reflect isotopic resetting that occurred below...250-300-Ma model Pb ages (including Millet Brook and Westfield) are located within, or close to, the Tobiatic |  | | Report (issue) | | Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of PUblic Works H. A. MacDonald, Commissioner U.S. Department...geologic map of the Plainfield-Hawley area, Massachusetts Plate 2 - Geologic map of the manganese deposits...deposits on the A. G. Betts property, Plainfield, Massachusetts. ****** Figure 1 - Key map showing locations...Plainfield-Hawley and CharlemontHeath areas, Massachusetts. Figure 2 - Garnet in schist. Camera lucida... Geology of the Plainfield-Hawley area of Massachusetts (with special reference to deposits of manganese |  | | Report (volume) | | Formation, a New Stratigraphic Unit in Western Massachusetts By NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., ROLFE S. STANLEY, and...BULLETIN 1324-B Prepared in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works A thin unit of calc-silicate...FORMATION, A NEW STRATIGRAPHIG UNIT IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS By NORMAN L. HATCH, JR., ROLFE S. STANLEY, and...of the Berkshire anticlinorium in southern Massachusetts and is here named the Russell Mountain Formation...across most of western Massachusetts has shown that in southwestern Massachusetts a thin discontinuous |  | | Report (volume) | | onshore and offshore early Mesozoic geology of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia...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...Maritime Maryland Massachusetts, Deerfield basin Massachusetts, Hartford basin Massachusetts, other Morocco |
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Lane & Son traprock quarries, Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA