 | | Report (volume) | | GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BTJIiIiETIN 615 RHODE ISLAND COAL BY GEORGE H. ASHLEY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT............ History of development and use of Rhode Island coal ....................... Early history................. Reason for low heat value of Rhode Island coal......................... 5 7 7 9 11 14...Behavior of Rhode Island coal toward moisture ......................... 37 Utilization of Rhode Island coal...60 ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATE I. Sketch map of the Rhode Island coal field........................ II. Views |  | | Report (volume) | | Quadrangle Rhode Island-Massachusetts By SAMUEL J. POLLOCK 3EOLOGY OF SELECTED QUADRANGLES IN RHODE ISLAND...with the Development Council of the State of Rhode Island JNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON..._ _ _ _ _ _ _ Rhode Island Formation ________ -------------------________ Rhode Island Formation, undifferentiated_...Tiverton________________ Conglomerate on Aquidneck Island and at Fogland Point and High Hill Point_ _ _ _...1. Geologic map of the Tiverton quadrangle, Rhode Island- Massachusetts ___________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AMERICA NOTES ON THE MINERAL LOCALITIES OF RHODE ISLAND PART II. REMAINING COUNTIES Lrovn W. FrsnBn...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...Hill area of Providence County. The Bristol area, in the vicinity of portsmouth Ferry, was famed years... K. Gedney: Notes on the Mineral Localities of Rhode lsland. Arn. Mineral.,11, No. 12, pp. 334-340, (1926 |  | | 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...Washington County, and 3) the Southern Zone consisting of Washington County and southwestern Newport County...in what is now Rhode Island—for example, steatite from Johnston in Providence County for carving bowls |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xline—crystalline "California — Nice specimens of graphite in schist may be obtained in a road cut on Little...masses and lustrous black flakes of graphite in white schist. "Graphite from Little Tujunga Canyon (road...metagraywacke along the county road half way between Chestnut Gap and Lebanon School, Fannin County, Ga. These crystals...aluminum silicate rocks. This area is in Clearwater County, Idaho, and any visiting rockhounds can get directions...in Vernon Parish, La. M A I N E — From Cranberry Island, Muscongus Bay (Lincoln Co.), Maine, we have a |  | Wintsch, Robert P., O'Connell, Anne F., Ransom, Barbara L., Wiechmann, Mark J. (1981) Evidence for the influence of fCH 4 on the crystallinity of disseminated carbon in greenschist facies rocks, Rhode Island, USA. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 77 (3) 207-213 doi:10.1007/bf00373536 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Disseminated Carbon in Greenschist Facies Rocks, Rhode Island, U S A R o b e r t P. Wintsch, Anne F. O'Connell...Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA Abstract. Disseminated carbon has been extracted...development of graphite crystallinity in the greenschist facies rocks in R h o d e Island. Introduction...becomes progressively better organized into the graphite structure with increasing m e t a m o r p h i...well-ordered graphite. These same studies show that uniformly well-crystallized graphite is not produced |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Conversion of carbonaceous material to graphite during metamorphism PETER R. BUSECK and HUANG Bo-JUN’...becomes ordered, eventually to form wel&crystaIlized graphite. It has long been known from X-ray studies that...considerable additional detail regarding the process of graphite development. .The process is considerably more...and, for well-crystallized graphite, discrete spots. Well-crystallized graphite crystals appear in the chlorite...increasingly crystalline and pure material, with graphite as the end product. There are many steps that |  | | Report (issue) | | AND LIGNITE. KHODE ISLAND ANTHRACITE.1 By GEORGE H. ASHLEY. INTRODUCTION. Rhode Island anthracite has long...paper has been prepared after a study of the Rhode Island anthracite field and summarizes the location...mines in this field. The coal has been known in Rhode Island for 150 years or more and during the last 100...numerous inquiries for information in regard to Rhode Island coal and its value, the writer visited the field...LOCATION OF THE COAL FIELD. « The location of the Rhode Island coal field and the places at which the coal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MrNBnALocIsT JULY, 1918 No. 7 FIBROUS QUARTZ FROM RHODE ISLAND ALFRED C. HAWKINS M elcorologi.cal Section,...localities in southeastern Massachusetts or Rhode Island. The oecurrence of this material at Worcester...pyrite." As the occurrences at two localities in Rhode Island which have been studied by the writer appear...deposits, which the strata originally contained, into graphite, which has been mined at the "coal" mine at Portsurouth...sizes. Most of the quartz veins of this kind in Rhode Island carry relatively small amounts of foreign materials |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | From Organic Matter to Graphite: Graphitization Peter R. Buseck1 and Olivier Beyssac2 1811-5209/14/0010-421$2...conditions of Earth’s crust, with the end product being graphite. In this graphitization process, they pass progressively...nanostructures before finally attaining the stable graphite structure. Characterizing this rich array of carbon...material into purecarbon, end-member crystalline graphite. It occurs in a variety of terrestrial and extraterrestrial...different degrees KEYWORDS : graphitic carbon, graphite, transmission electron microscopy, TEM, of crystallographic |  | | 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...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss------------- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...several recent trips to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in...Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito County. The town of Hollister is 80 miles northwest of...northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote section of the county and was never worked...Cummington, Mass., at West Cummington in Hampshire County. I have heard them tell how they used to draw out |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GROWTH ZONED MANGANESE GARNET IN CHLORITOID, GRAPHITE SCHISTS NEAR MORLAIX, NORTH-WEST FRANCE G. M.... Growth zoned manganese garnet in chloritoid, graphite schists near Morlaix, north-west France. Proceedings...chloritoid + quartz + muscovite + chlorite + rutile + graphite + pyrite. Garnet and chloritoid grew after the...Department of Geology, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth P01 3QL. INTRODUCTION This paper...chloritoid + quartz + muscovite + chlorite + rutile + graphite + pyrite. The mineral chemistry of chloritoidbearing |  | | Journal (issue) | | ... 462 NOTES ON SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES IN RHODE ISLAND. By Willard Stone Winslotv, fr. ........................................ 476 MOLYBDENlTE AT NEWPORT, N . H . ........................................10 ao, NOTES ON SOME MINERAL LOCALITIES IN RHODE ISLAND 1g llt :cl 1y & id of rd ;t- ! DO ire...like to hear about localities for minerals in Rhode Island. From time to time • very interesting articles...are two famous limestone deposits in northern Rhode Island, once noted for their profusion of mineral specimens |  | | Report (issue) | | the Portsmouth mine. The Narragansett basin is in southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island...plutonism, which converted some of the coal into graphite and natural coke (Gray and others, 1978). Coal...tectonically thickened. Some of the coal at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was used to smelt copper imported from...mid-nineteenth century. More than 1 million tons of Portsmouth coal was mined from three beds, 0.8 m to 1.8...Pennsylvanian. All the minable coal beds are in the Rhode Island Formation, a graywacke sequence containing as |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on...brachiopod in gray chert. Fowlers Beach is in Sussex County, Delaware, on Delaware Bay. FLORIDA—At the 6th...the Hypotheek lead mine near Kingston, Shoshone County. The anglesite is found in cavities of galena as |  | | Report (volume) | | Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Report (issue) | | bedrock map (which also showed the geology of Rhode Island) was published in 1917 by Benjamin K. Emerson...Emerson, B.K., 1917, Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 597, 289 p...metavolcanic rocks older than the Proterozoic Z Rhode Island and Dedham batholiths.......... Rocks possibly...Conglomerate (Pp), Wamsutta Formation (Pw, Pwv), Rhode Island Formation (Pr, Prc), and Dighton Conglomerate........................................... 44 Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts batholiths and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | located in the Eureka Mining District in Yavapai County, Arizona. From this old mine we have a number of...They come from the Blue Creek Mt. Mine, Del Norte County, Calif., which I own. The ore of my mine is very...xls. "This is a section of a geode found in Brown County, in the vicinity of Bean Blossom, Indiana."—on...item from L. F. Grashel, 1702 Highland Ave., Portsmouth, Ohio. "I am sending you a specimen of nearly...Found on Stafford Ridge, near Carter City in Carter County, Ky." The streak is brown chert (quartz). LOUISIANA |  | | Catalog/List | | AGGLOMERATE: Agglomerate .........................Custer County, Colorado " Volcanic ...............Magnet Cove...Amphibolite ...........................Albemarle County, Virgi11ia " (Fayalitc-bcaring) .......Near Mcsaba...: ........San Juan County, Colorado " Porphyry ...................Boulder County, Colorado " S ........Anhydrite, crystalline ....................Lyon County, Ncvada ANORTHOSITE: Anort?, osite, gray ........Arkose-scc Sandstone " " ............... Essex County, New York dark brown ...Rochester, New York green |  | | Book | | Geology & Geophysics Geology, University of Rhode Island Science, Bentley College Earth Sciences & Geography...Hingham, Massachusetts Geology, University of Rhode Island Earth Sciences & Geography, Bridgewater State...and Development of Plum Island, Massachusetts: An Example of a Barrier Island System by J. Richard Jones...Pre-Pennsylvanian Rocks of Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands, Rhode Island by Suzanne Mahlburg Kay and William M. Chappie...Metamorphism in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island by James W. Skehan, S. J., Daniel P. Murray |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................................... Rhode Island...............................................L. Miller, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem. Rhode Island__Prof. C. W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina__...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Book | | of Saratoga in Now York, by Doct. John H. Steel. county A (Steel.') 1822." (N. G.) " New Farmer and... W. Garnet, manganesian, massive, at Jones' Graphite, in granite. (C.) Eddy BELFAST. Hornstone, near...the banks of the Androseoggin, silver white, Graphite, in in rolled pieces. Pyritous Copper, with...in argillite and mica slate. (C.) FREEPORT. Graphite, in a friable granite. (C.) GARDINER. Schorl...GORHAM. Graphite. (C.) GREENWOOD. Graphite, 6 m. from Paris Court House. (C.) Schorl, with graphite. HARPSWELL |  | | Report (issue) | | Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-292-A Prepared...Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont R. Randall Schumann EDITOR OPEN-FILE...Preliminary Geologic Radon Potential Assessment of Rhode Island Linda C.S. Gundersen andR. Randall Schumann...aerial radioactivity, and indoor radon data by county. Because of constraints on the scales of maps presented...The reports are available in county formats and State summaries. The county reports typically contain both |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and much used in industry, is found in De Kalb County, 4 miles northwest of Fort Payne, Ala. There a...Another deposit is reported as being in Clarke County-" ARIZONA—Earl Mayer, 1753 " I " St, Yuma, Ariz...might now add, that Clinton is the county seat of Van Buren county. As stated, this bridge is in the wilds...know of two pivot rocks near Shirley, Van Buren county, and one about three-fourths mile from edge of...of Hot Springs National Park, Garland county, on one point of Sugar Loaf Mt., near the top crest." CALIFORNIA—The |
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