 | | Report (volume) | | Quadrangle Rhode Island By GEORGE E. MOORE, JR. GEOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND GEOLOGICAL...State of Rhode Island Development Council UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1964...rocks______________________________________________ Rhode Island Formation____________________________________...Pier Granite__________________________________ Westerly Granite__________________________________________...1. Bedrock geology of the Kingston quadrangle: Rhode Island__ In pocket TABLE Page TABLE 1. Modes of |  | | Report (issue) | | from bedrock at shallow depth. Fishers Island, Wicopesett Island, Napatree Point, and Sandy Point are...underlies most of western Rhode Island and extends westward in a Deit north of Long Island Sound to the vicinity...sequences of similar but poorly-dated rocks in Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts and in the western...unconformably overlie the granitic gneiss terrain of Rhode Island (Quinn, 1971, p. M-3). Although no Narragansett...the Narragansett Pier and dikes of the related Westerly Granite cut the metamorphic rocks of the Mystic |  | | Report (volume) | | Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...sedimentary rocks of Pennsylvanian age, younger Westerly Granite, and underlying igneous and metamorphic...age UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AN OVERVIEW Rhode Island MINERALS & COLLECTORS F. WILLIAM MILLER Harvard Mineralogical Museum 24 Oxford...A L SPECIES and many varieties occur within Rhode Island. Part of this abundance is attributable to the...Northern Zone, including Providence County and the northern towns of Kent County, 2) the Middle Zone, including...northern towns of Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern...southwestern Newport County. The greatest number of species and varieties appear in the Northern Zone. Miller |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AMERICA NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND PART II. REMAINING COUNTIES Lrovn W. FrsnBn...Oligoclase Olivine Prochlorite Phlogopite Pyroxene Quartz Amethystine Asbestiform Carnelian Flint Jaspcr...Staurolite Stilbite Zoisite BRISTOL COUNTY The major portion of Bristol County shows sedimentary rocks consisting...consisting chiefly of the Rhode Island formation of shales, con_ glomerates and sandstones. B. K. Ernerson2has...are mainly agatized quartz similar to the Diamond Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 R. D. BALLARD Woods Hole Oceanographic...is exposed in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island as well as in the Maritime Provinces to the...calc-alkalic Narragansett Pier and Westerly granites of southern Rhode Island, one must go east of the Clinton-Newbury...grains surrounded by colorless anhedral crystals of quartz. Many of the large K-feldspar grains clearly exhibit...amphibole (in sample 419) fill interstices between quartz and K-feldspar. In all rocks sparse reddish-brown |  | | Report (volume) | | 115 A (lECKJKAPHIC DKTIOXARY OF KHODK ISLAM; WASHINGTON GOVKRNMKNT PRINTING 181)4 OFF1OK LIBRARY...survey | no. 115 | [Seal of the department] | Washington | government printing office | 1894 Second title:...geographic dictionary | of | Rhode Island | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington | government printing...dictionary | of | Khode Island | hy | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] Washington | government printing office...dictionary | of | Ehode Island | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | . Washington | government printing office |  | White, Art F., Schulz, Marjorie S., Lowenstern, Jacob B., Vivit, Davison V., Bullen, Thomas D. (2005) The ubiquitous nature of accessory calcite in granitoid rocks: Implications for weathering, solute evolution, and petrogenesis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69 (6) 1455-1471 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2004.09.012 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ⫹ .00 doi:10...345 Middlefield Road MS-420, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (Received September 19, 2003; accepted in revised...History in Washington D. C. (81 samples), Wards Scientific Incorporated, Rochester, NY, USA (13 samples)...California, and the Panola watershed in Georgia, USA (samples A1-A4, Table 1). Details of the experimental...maximum value of 18.8 g kg⫺1 for the Westerly Granite from Rhode Island, USA (N60). The acid digestion/GC analyses |  | | Report (volume) | | MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ........................................ Granitic quartz, its texture and colors..................................................................... Rhode Island...............................................statement.......................................... Westerly and Niantic.....................................the granites............................. The Westerly quarries................................. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with albite and epidote, sericitic albite gneiss, quartz-sericite schist, and quartzitic schist. Numerous...almost wholly composed of quartz and feldspars, to a norite free from quartz and containing at least 50...Associated Metamorphic Sediments in Southwestern Rhode Island," Am. Jour. Sci., 4th ser., 1910, XXIX, 447-57...in southeastern Connecticut and southwestern Rhode Island, the author became convinced that all of the...of a continuation of the work eastward into Rhode Island. In the Connecticut area the granites, which |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WILLIAM M. BRUNET Roxbury Road Washington, Connecticut 06793 Litchfield County, the largest, most beautiful...are known to have been reported from Litchfield County, 63 from the town of Litchfield alone, according...CONNECTICUT Middlesex County or the BranchvilleRidgefield region of Fairfield County. However, a pegmatite...the best in Middlesex County is located in North Woodbury. Furthermore, the county was the loca tion of... mag netite and nickel ores. Marble, talc and quartz quarrying was locally important for varying periods |  | | Report (volume) | | COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT FEINTING OFFICE 1923 ADDITIONAL...SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVEENMENT FEINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 50 CENTS A COPY PUECHASEE AGEEES NOT...Maine____________________ Milford, N. H________________________ Westerly and Charlestown, R. I____________ Conclusions...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Peabody, Quincy) and the Rhode Island subalkaline group (Narragansett Pier, Westerly). Analyses for three...three samples from each pluton indicate that the Westerly granite is heterogeneous in both major and trace...abundances vary considerably (factor of 2) in both Rhode Island granites. Zr and I-I_fare heterogeneously distributed...Depletion of Tb, Dy, Yb, Lu, Zr, Hf and Ta in the Rhode Island granites suggest participation of zircon or...subalkaline Narragansett Pier and Westerly granites of Rhode Island (Fig. 1). For alkaline granites the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | measurements on metamorphic minerals in the Rhode Island and Wamsutta formations of Pennaylvsnian (Allegheny)...Narragansett Basin in Massachusetts and R,hode Island were deposited during an active erogenic event...of zircons from the crystalline rocks of t,he Rhode Island region by the lead-alpha method. The two groups...Wsmsutta formation, Rhode beginning with the oldest: Pondville conglomerate, Island formation, and the...be partly contemporaneous with the are lower Rhode Island formation (KNOX, 1944). Although these formations |  | | Report (issue) | | Hope Valley Alaskite Gneiss than to the Permian Westerly and Narraganssett Pier Granites, which have distinctly...tilted uplift of the coastal belt parallel to Long Island Sound (Dixon and Lundgren, 1968, p. 229; Rodgers...terrane in Massachusetts (Bloody Bluff fault) and Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut (Lake Char fault) into...before emplacement of undeformed dikes of Permian Westerly Granite. Retrogressive metamorphism of Permian...Pier and Westerly Granites of Permian age. The latter, extensive in adjacent southern Rhode Island, form |  | Anovitz, Lawrence M., Cheshire, Michael C., Hermann, Raphael P., Gu, Xin, Sheets, Julia M., Brantley, Susan L., Cole, David R., Ilton, Eugene S., Mildner, David F.R., Gagnon, Cedric, Allard, Lawrence F., Littrell, Kenneth C. (2021) Oxidation and associated pore structure modification during experimental alteration of granite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 292. 532-556 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2020.08.016 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA Materials Science and Technology Division, MS 6064...Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA c Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and Department...Park, PA 16802, USA d School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA e Pacific Northwest...WA 99352, USA f NIST Center for Neutron Research, Stop 6102, Gaithersburg, MD 208990, USA g Center for...Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA h Chemical & Engineering Materials Division, MS 6393 |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY B. K. EMERSON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1917............................................... Washington gneiss......,- .................................................................... Worcester County, Mass....................................... Westboro...formation......................................... Rhode Island...............................................formation........................................... Rhode Island formation ................................. |  | | Catalog/List | | Amphibolc AEGIRINE-AUGITE-Sce Pyroxene AGATE-Sec Quartz ALABANDITE (magancsc sulfide) Xline, with sphalcritc...Peristerile (Jvfoonstone), opalescent cleavage, with quartz showing albite twinning or polysynthetic twin bands...potassium, iron, manganese and titanium) Bladed in quartz; Colorado . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . ...BISMUTITE (A basic bismuth carbonate} ,\llassi/Je with quartz; New Mexico, 1 x 2 ", 1 . 5 0. . . . . . 170 BITUMINOUS...CASSITERITE (tin oxide) Massive in andalusite; Washington . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . 31 Massive in |  | | Report (chapter) | | magmatism was not related to a simple subduction island-arc setting. Igneous activity ranging in age from...other smaller plutonic bodies (about 345 Ma) in Rhode Island (Hermes & Zartman 1985), the Rattlesnake pluton...in press). A few intermediate monzodiorites and quartz diorites are present in the Scituate Complex (Jordan...classification as part of the Avalon zone. In Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts subordinate volcanic...2). The Spencer Hill volcanics, which consist of quartz-feldspar porphyry and volcaniclastic rocks, exhibit |  | | Report (issue) | | Ashaway and Voluntovm. quadrangles, Connecticut-Rhode Island by Tomas Feininger U.i S. Geological Survey... Muscovitic facies ................ Escoheag Quartz Diorite Gneiss Fine-grained facies 58 59 64 ....... 110 Westerly Granite -- ; ................ . . HI Aplite, pegmatite, and vein quartz Mafic dikes...158 Mechanism of intrusion ................ 162 Quartz-sillimanite anc. q;^r\,£-sillimanite--muscovite...veins, and dikes and their significance in the Rhode Island batholith and adjacent rocks ....... 184 Structural |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | S.A.) 2 Department of Geology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R1 02881 (U.S.A.) Received November...loss of lead. Zircon from the late-stage, aplitic Westerly Granite exhibits a more pronounced lead inheritance...late Paleozoic N a r r a g a n sett Pier a n d Westerly G r a n i t e s that contains a n A r c h e a...basin along the southern coastline of R h o d e Island a n d southeasternmost C o n n e c t i c u t (Fig...(Nb) Biotite/hornblende quartz monzonite (Nm) m WesterlyGranite Rhode Island Formation DEVONIAN ROCKS |  | | Report (issue) | | centers of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, namely, Concord, Conway, and Milford, in New...Rockport, in Massachusetts, and Westerly and Niantic in Rhode Island. The quarry at -Chester, Mass.,...quarries of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island will follow the plan of the economic part of...kinds produced. Among these are the fine-grained Westerly granites, so well adapted to the most delicate...N. H. ; used in the Congressional Library at Washington; the olive-colored granites of Rockport, Mass |  | | Catalog/List | | FOSS I LS ACTINOLITE-See Amphibole AGATF,--See Quartz AESCHYNITE-See Eschynite ALABASTER-See Gypsum ALBERTITE...Peristerile (Moonstone), opalescent Cleavage, with quartz showing albite twinning or poly synthetic twin...Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMETHYST-See Quartz AMPHIB'OLE (Chiefly complex metasilicates of calcium...(hydrous uranium calcium phosphate) Coating apatite or quartz. Strong green fluorescence; New Hampshire .. ....potassium, iron, manganese, and titanium) Bladed in quartz; Colorado ... .. ... . ... .... ..... .... ... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rock samples (when practical) included: essential quartz, potassic feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, and accessory...samples were: Conway and equivalent(P) granites, 14; Westerly granite, 3; Middletown and Monson gneisses, 10;...ilmenite (or hematite) percentage in magnetite. Quartz showed no spectral variation. The primary purpose...the examination of certain minerals (essential quartz, potassic feldspar, plagioclase, biotite, and accessory...NW New Hampshire, and SW Maine Westerly Granite— (3)— SW Rhode Island and SE Connecticut Middletown and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 02881 Abstract. Dike rocks from the New England platform of Rhode Island...02138, USA 3 Hydrocarbon Exploration Co., Inc., 447 San Jacinta Bldg., Houston, TX 77702, USA Offprint...Hermes (1) an olivine normative tpye, and three quartz normative varieties characterized by (2) high TiOz...to dominate terrane south of Maryland, whereas quartz normative types are more prominent to the north...rocks through olivine/hypersthene-normative and quartz-normative varieties. Collectively this suite is |
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