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Zircon from
Gassetts, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA


Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gassetts, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:618160
Long-form Identifier:1:3:618160:4
GUID (UUID V4):baafb84a-5ef2-48a5-9440-6f9c92e7d0c8
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
6.8km (4.3 miles) ⓘCavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
18.2km (11.3 miles) ⓘAscutney Mountain complex, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
23.4km (14.5 miles) ⓘTown of Athens, Windham County, Vermont, USA
28.6km (17.8 miles) ⓘCuttingsville, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) ⓘChandlers Mill Quarry, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) ⓘGeorge Frank Smith Quarry, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
29.2km (18.1 miles) ⓘGranite Hill, Cuttingsville, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont, USA
30.0km (18.6 miles) ⓘBeryl Mountain Quarry, South Acworth, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) ⓘChickering Mine, Walpole, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
33.4km (20.8 miles) ⓘFitzgibbons Mine, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GRAND, ISLE: L Jirrwowwux/ lot* llMt UK* U'A VERMONT Mineral Locality Index VANDALL T. K I N G P.O....Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions map; adapted from U.S. Geological...of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS he state of Vermont is relatively small,...quar­ ry in the world is in Rochester (Windsor Co.), Vermont. Min­ eral products mined "as is" for their...maintained. (The disuse of cobblestone roads prevents Vermont from being a giant mining state today, but in the
Report (issue)
Bedrock Geologic Map of the Chester Quadrangle, Windsor County, Vermont By Nicholas M. Ratcliffe1 Open-File...endorsement by the U.S. Government. 'Reston, Va. 1995 Chester Quadrangle, VT DESCRIPTION OF MAP UNITS (major...(cover sequence rocks) COVER SEQUENCE ROCKS OF THE CHESTER DOME Waits River Formation (Lower Devonian and...phyllite; thickness variable from 0 to 10 m Chester Quadrangle, VT Calc-silicate member, light-gray-green-...volcaniclastic rocks and interbedded metasediment, Chester Quadrangle, VT for this reason the unit is interpreted
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GEOLOGIST ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES AND GEOLOGY OF VERMONT 1929-1930 SEVENTEENTH OF THIS SERIES GEORGE H...H. PERKINS State Geologist STAFF OF THE VERMONT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1929-1930 GEORGE H. PEinuNs, State...University of Vermont. ELBRIDGE C. JACOBS, Assistant CONTENTS Geologist, University of Vermont. CHARLES...PHYSIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT, G. H. PERKINS ..................... THE aEOLOGY OF VERMONT OCHER DEPOSITS,...107 MOUNT MONADNOCK III VERMONT, J. E. Worr ................... LIST OF VERMONT MINERALS, G. H. PERKINS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotope systematics of garnets from the Gassetts Schist, Vermont (see section 3 and Vance and Holland 1993)... 1991; Mezger et al. 1991, 1993). Only garnet, zircon, monazite, allanite and titanite can provide time...information are garnet, titanite, sphene, monazite and zircon. Of these, garnet is the only one that also provides...D. VANCE 3. PROGRADE PROCESSES IN THE GASSETTS SCHIST, VERMONT The diffusion rates of Sm and Nd, and...minerals that have low diffusion rates for cations are zircon and monazite. The critical advantage of garnet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variation in muscovite of the Gassetts Schist and associated gneiss, Vermont Appalachians Willis E. Hames...24061, U.S.A. 1 Abstract An exposure near Gassetts, Vermont, contains lithologies varying from staurolite-kyanite... Hames et al.: 40Ar/39Ar Age of Muscovite in the Gassetts Schist A 385 Kyanite B Margarite Orthoclase...Hames et al.: 40Ar/39Ar Age of Muscovite in the Gassetts Schist and bulk compositions. Titanium substitution...along the western flank of the Chester-Athens domes near Gassetts, Vermont (Fig. 3). The aluminous schists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
certain garnetiferous mica schist in south-central Vermont has beennamed Gassettsschist by C. H. Richardsonlfrom...Richardsonlfrom the excellent exposures near Gassetts station in Chester township. For the r Published by permission...Reading, Cavendish, Baltimore and Chester, Vermont: Report oJ the Vermont State Geotrogist,1927-28, p 225...tourmaline, chlorite, biotite, magnetite, rutile, and zircon. The metamorphism of the schist is not closely... Tabular habit of staurolite in the schist at Gassetts. The muscovite is worthy of particular mention
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metamorphic garnet – The Straits Schist, Connecticut, USA Leo J. Millonig a,b,∗ , Richard Albert a,b , Axel...Cincinnati, P.O. Box 0013, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, USA b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...garnet and zircon, monazite, and xenotime from The Straits Schist, western Connecticut, USA, to constrain...combined U–Pb age of 406.1 ± 8.3 Ma. Metamorphic zircon yielded age clusters at 446.2 ± 4.2 Ma, 413.3 ±...The ∌446 Ma age peak is attributed to detrital zircon formed during the waning stages of the Taconian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0420, USA ABSTRACT The two major Early to Middle Palaeozoic...Planetary Sciences, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 415 416 T . R. A R M S T R O N G , R. J . T R...State, western Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. As suggested by Stanley & Ratcliffe (1985), this...noted in the text: (1) Dutchess County, New York State; (2) Westchester County, New York State; (3) Waterbury...Nashoba Block and Avalonia; (6) Gassetts Schist locality and Chester Dome, Vermont; (7) Hatfield pluton and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calcic pelitic schists from the Strafford Dome, Vermont, USA T. M E N A R D ' A N D F. S. SPEAR' 1 Department...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA ABSTRACT Metamorphism of the Gile Mountain Formation...Townshend-Brownington Syncline in east-central Vermont records two nappe-style events, D1 and D2, followed...tectonic history of western New Hampshire and eastern Vermont include Spear & Rumble (1986), Kohn et al. (1992)...history of the Strafford Dome in east-central Vermont (Fig. 1). The Strafford Dome is an excellent location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
s / o 16 ratios of six schists f r o m Dutchess County, N e w York, to be g r e a t e r t h a n those...schists from the Lincoln Mountain quadrangle, Vermont, undertaken by TAYLOR et at. (1963). The rocks...AND ISOTOPIC RESULTS OF INDMDUAL AREAS Dutchess County, southeastern New York, and adjoining areas Geology...metamorphism and structure of the rocks in Dutchess County, southeastern New York, have been described by...metamorphic geology and sample locations in Dutchess County and vicinity (after B ~ x , 1936; BA~TH,1936; CARROT
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this study: the northern Appalachians (Vermont, Maine, New York, USA); North American Cordillera (North Cascades...Cascades Range, Washington; Snake Range, Nevada, USA); western Rocky Mountains (British Columbia, Canada);...University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA e-mail: dwhitney@umn.edu are characterized by high-angle...confined to a garnet-bearing schist from SE Vermont, USA. 123 Contrib Mineral Petrol (2010) 160:591–607...Dutchess County, NY (Gt zone) Core: alm61sps25prp3grs11 Rim: alm77sps10prp6grs8 Dutchess County, NY (St
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism of pelitic rocks from Townshend Dam, VT, USA. This modeling builds on a published companion study...well-studied pelitic schists of Townshend Dam, VT, USA. Geological setting The spillway at Townshend Dam...later arched over the Athens dome (part of the Chester–Willoughby arch) during Devonian Acadian deformation... 1  a Simplified geologic map of southeastern Vermont. Star denotes sample location at Townshend Dam...Pressure–temperature conditions vary across southeastern Vermont, as the area is structurally complex. Estimated
Report (issue)
INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT 1939-1940 REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST ON THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT 1939-1940...Shop, Barre, Vt. RELIEF MAP OF VERMONT - FOREWORD STATE OF VERMONT OFFICE OF STATE GEOLOGIST BURLINGTON...Board of Conservation and Development, Montpeiier, Vermont, Gentlemen: I herewith present my biennial Report...deposits and to deveolp new mineral products in Vermont. Visits to many mineral localities have been made...Fleming Museum, University of Vermont. December, 1940. Fom many years Vermont stood first among the States
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
petrological study of a single garnet from the Gassetts Schist, Vermont Derek Vance and Tim Holland Department...in the Acadian metamorphic terrain of eastern Vermont have been analysed for major elements and segregated...metapelite from the Gassetts Schist which crops out on the west side of the Chester Dome, SE Vermont (Fig. 1),...lodged in the Harker Collection, Cambridge. The Chester Dome (and the smaller Athens Dome to the south)...older than the Appalachian orogen - they yield zircon upper intercept ages of ~950 Ma - and have been
Report (volume)
changes in stratigraphic nomenclature in Oregon, Vermont, Massachusetts, and southern Pakistan U.S. GEOLOGICAL...stratigraphy of the Connecticut Valley trough, eastern Vermont, by Norman L. Hatch, Jr. S 3. Revisions to the...Massachusetts, and the southern Green Mountains, Vermont and Massachusetts, by Nicholas M. Ratcliffe 9 4...Foulweather and Euchre Mountain quadrangles, Lincoln County, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations...Stratigraphy of the Connecticut Valley Trough, Eastern Vermont By Norman L. Hatch, Jr. Abstract Proposed changes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Georgia. The Cobb p:bbles have been found in Chicago, County specimen was collected by Bob Cook Co., III., on...away." Delphi is in the western part of Carroll County in the central part of the state. IOWA — A nice...is on a hillside on State highway 385, in Owen County, about 10 miles southeast of Gratz, Ky. LOUISIANA...Parish, La. ROCKS AND MINERALS MAINE — Small brown zircon xls have been found with albite, columbite, smoky...from Mr. Gettings, other locality in Westchester County, if dated Feb. 27, 1952, reads: not in the whole
Report (issue)
THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGY OF THE WINDSOR QUADRANGELE, MASSACHUSETTS Stephen Alien Norton...southern Vermont, and southwestern New Hampshire. 6 Regional geologic map of southern Vermont northwestern...in tables. 18 Strat igraphic column for the Windsor quadrangle, Massachusetts. 26 Interbedded flaggy...Mountain. 105 8 Development of minor folds in the Windsor quadrangle. 111 Development of sigmoid distribution...in the Windsor quadrangle, Massachusetts. . . 17^ 22 23 Assemblages found in the Windsor quadrangle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitic intrusions. In southern Quebec and northern Vermont, a series of NW–SE transects across the CVG trough...D1 crustal thickening event which originates in Vermont and progresses to southern QuĂ©bec where it peaked...D2 event associated with continuous burial in Vermont from 378 to 355 Ma, which produced peak metamorphic...by more than 15 km between southern Quebec and Vermont, and this can be attributed to the occurrence of...thousand kilometres, from southern New England (USA) to GaspĂ© Peninsula (Canada). This sedimentary sequence
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 USA Journal Pre-proof Abstract Metamorphic P–T paths...Orfordville Belt (Vermont), Townshend Dam (Vermont), the re Connecticut Valley Trough (Vermont), and Sifnos...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 USA na Keywords: Inclusion barometry; QuiG barometry;...Orfordville Belt (Vermont), Townshend Dam (Vermont), the re Connecticut Valley Trough (Vermont), and Sifnos...anatexis and prior to exhumation. Orfordville belt, Vermont P–T paths based on garnet zoning for two garne
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Ndray-Szab6, 1929). In 1953 Pierre Sauvd found, in Fannin-county material, a crystal with strikingly monoclinic...PierreSauv~ trouva, darts une r6colte de Fannin county, un cristal de morphologie typiquement monoclinique...finding staurolite crystals tabular on b, in Gassetts, Vermont. Though perhaps unusual the habit had already...had just brought them back with him from Fannin county. Sauv~ happened to pick a single crystal and soon...D. in geology, was so enthralled by his Fannin-county material that he was taking time out to conduct
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Copyright 0 1995 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All nghts reserved 001&7037/95 $9.50 + .oo Pergamon...in garnets from The Straits Schist, Connecticut, USA, using the Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (SXRF)...thin section of the Straits Schist, Connecticut, USA. Although modeling of the partitioning behavior of...Accessory chlorite, tourmaline, ilmenite, apatite, zircon, and monazite are also present. Muscovite and biotite...crystallized at about 400 Ma. Accessory phases such as zircon and monazite, however, crystallized at about 383
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21218, USA b WiscSIMS, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Received...ïŹfteen samples from Barrovian terrains in eastern Vermont, USA, and the Central Swiss Alps. The most common...from a single stratigraphic unit in east-central Vermont (Fig. 1) to evaluate the eïŹ€ects of lithology and...Swiss Alps Gass Gassetts, Vermont, USA Q1d Gile Mountain Fm., east-central Vermont, USA Q1J Gile Mountain...Mountain Fm., east-central Vermont, USA Q2A Gile Mountain Fm., east-central Vermont, USA 3-4F Waits River Fm
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existence. Mrs. Marguerite R. Collyer of the Rockland County Gem and Mineral Society remains as Chairman of... Jacobs of the Bellows Falls Mineral Club, of Vermont, took charge from here, and on Tuesday led the...along Route 5 and the Connecticut River to Gassetts, Vermont, to pan gold, stopping on the way at the Carlton...2nd—North Jersey Mineralogical Society. 3rd—Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society. M-4 One Locality Group:...Lapidary Society of Washington, D. C. 2nd—Rockland County Mineral & Gem Society. 3rd—Gemcutters Guild of
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July 8th, 1951, to French Creek Mines, in Chester County, Penn. When sixty-one rockhounds pounded the...the home of Russell W. Leitch in Springfield, Vermont, to learn the details of a five day field trip...trip to the better known localities of Vermont and New Hampshire. After being briefed, our motor cavalcade...Vail's Motor Court on route 11 going west from Chester; this was to be our headquarters. The gang was...place. The localities visited in Vermont were: Newfane, Chester, Gassetts, Grafton and Windham. The New
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classical spiral garnet porphyroblasts of south-east Vermont: evidence for non-rotation N. H A Y W A R D * Department...classical spiral garnet porphyroblasts of south-east Vermont, USA, generally did not rotate, relative to geographical...collected at 28 different locations around the Chester and Athens domes. The results indicate that the...porphyroblasts of south-east Vermont, in the western New England Appalachians, USA, have often been cited as...garnet porphyroblasts from Nepal, Pakistan and Vermont are commonly separated by nearly orthogonal truncations
 
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