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| | Report (issue) | | The Crystalline
Rocks of South Carolina
By WILLIAM C. OVERSTREET and HENRY BELL III
GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY...of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge
provinces of South Carolina
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...and Precambrian(?) age_______________________
Carolina slate belt_________________________________________...Gneiss_________________________________
Biotite granite gneiss_______________________________
Intrusive...Maficdikes_______________________________________
Whiteside Granite_________________________________
Muscovite-perthite | 👁 Image
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CHAPTER I. GRANITE IN GENERAL .......................................................... 1..........
Varieties of granite..............................................................................
Varieties of the granite ...........................................
Mineral................................................
Granite..................................................................................
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Individual quarry areas......................................... | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK
OCTOBER 23-24, 1976
INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOLOGY
OF...Geology
Clemson University
C1emson, SC 29631
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1976 OFFICERS
President:
...Department of Geosciences
North CarOlina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
Vice-President:
Charles...Geological Sciences
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Secretary-Treasurer:
S. Duncan Heron, Jr.
Department...Department of Geology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Chairman of Membership Committee:
Arthur W. | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | COUNTIES, SOUTH CAROLINA —
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP OCTOBER 26-27, 1963
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...THE GEOLOGY OF PICKENS AND OCONEE COUNTIES, SOUTH CAROLINA
C. J. Cazeau
Department of Geology
State University...rock complex of the westernmost portion of
South Carolina, where the Piedmont and Blue Ridge physiographic...past three years by Brown in Pickens County and Cazeau in
Oconee County.
The overall geologic setting for...by youthful to
mature streams, the relief in the South is about 200 feet and
in the north is generally | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PETROLOGY
OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA GRANITES'
THOMAS LEONARD WATSON
Brooks Museum, University of Virginia...OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE CRYSTALLINE AREA
The South Carolina area of crystalline rocks extends northwestward...crystalline area which extends southwestward
from New York to northern central Alabama.
Until the recently...Director of the U. S. Geological Survey.
2 South Carolina Geological Survey, 1908, Series IV, Bull. No...No. 2, p. 505.
730
PETROLOGY
OF SOUTH
CAROLINA
GRANITES
73I
position and texture the gneisses | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Toxaway dome, eastern Blue Ridge,
South Carolina—North Carolina
ROBERT D. HATCHER, JR.
Geology Department...Clemson, South Carolina
ABSTRACT
The Toxaway dome is located in the Blue Ridge of North and
South Carolina...granitic gneiss (Toxaway
Gneiss, formerly Whiteside Granite) and a sliver of Tallulah Falls
Formation...Detailed mapping of the core of the dome in South
Carolina reveals that the sliver of Tallulah Falls Formation...Keith (1907) as a
mass of Whiteside Granite surrounded by a mass of Carolina
Gneiss. This is the easternmost | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | ROAD LOG FOR THE ANNUAL EXCURSION OF THE CAROLINA
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY1
OCTOBER 24 — 25, 1953
W.C. Overstreet...by the Director, U.S. Geological Survey.
The Carolina Geological Society wishes to express its appreciation...1
Bessemer granite
1
Yorkville granite
1
High- rank metamorphic rocks
1
Carolina gneiss
1
Biotite...Biotite gneiss unit of the Carolina gneiss
3
Toluca quartz monzonite
4
Cherryville quartz monzonite...area, Shelby, N.C.
5
3: Field trip stops.
6
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Guidebook for 1953 Annual Meeting | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Guidebook for 1956 Annual Meeting
Pages 1-4
KINGS MOUNTAIN BELT1
CAROLINA...known as the Yorkville “granite”, and
that to the northwest as the Whiteside “granite” (now divided
into the...joints and
by numerous drag folds that pitch steeply south-southwest.
Most of the kyanite crystals are less...hydrothermal solutions derived from the Yorkville “granite.” In
1952, D. B. Potter mapped in detail the distribution...indirect
evidence that the Yorkville “granite”, rather than the Whiteside or either of its sub-units, is the | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Franklin-Sylva district of southern North Carolina contains a number of rnultiphase, composite, aplite-pegmatite...sequence of intrusion has been: 1. batholiths
of Whiteside tonalite-granodiorite, 2. dikes of aplitic tonalite-granodiorite...mica production, is chiefly in southwestern North Carolina
(Haywood, Jackson,Transylvania, Macon and Clay...southeastern part extending southwestward into Rabun County,
Georgia (Griffitts et al., 1946; Oison el al....petrologically simplified
mappable units: the Carolina "formation"-dominantly biotitic gneiss,
and the | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | OF THE KINGS MOUNTAIN DISTRICT,
NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
By ARTHUR KEITH and DOUGLAS B. STERRETT...divided between North Carolina and South Carolina, the part in North Carolina being a little
larger....peaks in the Kings
Mountain quadrangle, to the south. The smooth, broad ridges pass
rather sharply into... Allisons, Clark, and Beaverdam creeks and the South
Fork of Catawba River.
The Southern Railway runs...MOUNTAIN DISTRICT,
Mine or prospect
NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
TIN RESOURCES OF KINGS MOUNTAIN DISTRICT | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Inside back cover
Monazite placers of North and South Carolina .............................................mined in the Piedmont province of North and South
Carolina from 1887 to 1911, and again intermittently...of Fredericksburg, Va., south-southwestward for
200 miles into North Carolina. Monazite-bearing rocks...placers that were formerly mined in North and
South Carolina. These placers were sampled, and
the monazite...country rock, and certain granitic gneisses
of the Carolina gneiss. Some of the associated pegmatites
also | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | Mica Deposits of
the Blue Ridge in
North Carolina
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577
Work done...done in part in cooperation with the
North Carolina Department of Conservation and
Development and in part...Administration
Mica Deposits of
the Blue Ridge in
North Carolina
By FRANK G. LESURE
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Work done in part in cooperation with the
North Carolina Department of Conservation and
Development and...Layered granitic gneiss______________________
Granite and nonlayered granitic gneiss._______
Upper Precambrian | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | North Carolina State Library
jleigh
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NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT...71
EXPLANATORY TEXT
FOR
GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA
By
JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD
RALEIGH...RALEIGH
1958
Norffe Carolir* St**
NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
WILLIAM...71
EXPLANATORY TEXT
FOR
GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH CAROLINA
By
JASPER L. STUCKEY and STEPHEN G. CONRAD
RALEIGH...Spindale
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Raleigh, North Carolina
February 4, 1958
To His Excellency, HONORABLE | 👁 Image
| | Book | | 2-l GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 34 county, Guilford county, Gaston county, and at Beam's farm, near...Iredell county. 59. GUMMITE. Discovered by Prof. Kerr in 1877, at Flat Rock, Mitchell county. Often...species but a being mechanical mixture, the North Carolina variety : Uranic hydrate, 40.10 per cent. ...Mitchell county. A similar mineral is found in small quantity at Buchanan mine, Mitchell county. 60. PSILOMELANE...coatings of the quartz at Scott's Hill, Burke county, together with pyrolusite at Beck's ore MINERALOGY | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | Geology of North Carolina.
QE
147
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1866-1887
Pt.2
V.2
Chap.1
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Geology of North Carolina.
CHAPTER I.
MINERALOGY.
BY F. A. GENTH AND W...in America.
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GEOLOGY OP NORTH CAROLINA.
2
light a great many
new and rare species....continuing
Among these, Mr. W. E. Hidden, of
New York, has spent many months in explorations and mining...within a
few days
,
so that the list of
North Carolina mineral species has been
very considerably extended | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | LOCALITIES
NORTH CAROLINA,
BEING CHAPTER I, OP THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE
GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Reprinted...data have been embodied.
Sev-
GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
4
eral
causes have been operative in giving...much success. Among these,
Mr. W. E. Hidden, of New York, has spent many months in
explorations and mining...matter of commercial interest.
GEOLOGY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
6
Dr. C. L. Hunter has also kindly furnished...days, so that the
list
having been
of North Carolina
mineral species has been very considerably extended | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | 'THE
GEOLOGICAL
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CAROLINA''" i
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GOTEENMENT
LIBRARY... Powell,
director |
| The | minerals of North Carolina | by | Frederick
Augustus Geiitk | [Vignette]...W. Powell, director |
|
The | mineralsof North Carolina | by | Frederick Augustus Genth |
[Vignette] |...Powell, director |
|
The | :aainerals of North Carolina | by | FrederickAugustusGenth j
[Vignette] |
Washington...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County,
New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. "Williams | 👁 Image
| | Book | | District , the hematite ore bodies of west and south Cumbria
and the evaporitesof the Vale of Eden.
A...of the extensive hematite deposits of west and south
Cumbria has also long been the subject of speculation...hematite in the
Carboniferous Limestone of west and south Cumbria. Although
small amounts of ore were obtained...quarrying continues today to produce limestone, slate, granite,
sand and gravel and brick clay. Diatomite was...particularly extensive area of country
(eg Shap Granite or Eskdale) no grid reference is given. For each | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sr.se., A.R.C.S., D.l.C., F.G.S., and H. C. M. WHITESIDE,
s.se., A.R.S.lIt
[Received 26th January, 1935...northerly
being called Low Rigg and the one to the south, High Rigg.
Low Rigg and High Rigg are separated...but Low Rigg is a smaller outcrop of the same granite on
the western side of the valley. It has been...Rigg Lavas belong) lie two
miles to the west and south-west respectively of High Rigg.
The general geology...directly above the St. John's Microgranite
at Bramcrag Quarry on the eastern side of St. John's-in-theVale, and | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large variety of minerals and gemstones in North Carolina annually attracts
thousands of collectors to the...world.
Some Mineral Collecting
Sites in North Carolina
T H E C O L L E C T I N G L O C A L I T I E S...publication Mineral Collecting Sites in North
Carolina: Information Circular 24 (1978). For a more comprehensive...locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can be ordered from the
North Carolina Department...Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps
can be | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | noRm c
ult
NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE, DIRECTOR
DIVISION...DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN-SYLVA
DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA
BY
J. C. OLSON
AND OTHERS
PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
RALEIGH
1946
*
4
NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT...DEPOSITS OF THE FRANKLIN SYLVA
DISTRICT, NORTH CAROLINA
By
J. C. OLSON
and Others
PREPARED BY GEOLOGICAL...OF THE INTERIOR
IN COOPERATION WITH THE
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
RALEIGH | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Heinrich Ries of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Respectfully submitted,
C. S. Hunr,eur,
Jx., Secretary...257. 50
4,300.00
6M Atlantic CoastLine, 4|
5M New York Central,5..
5M SouthernRailway, 5
4C Great Northern...Australia,
Bolivia, Holland, Japan, New Zealand,, South Africa, and Spain. These contributions were
received...southeast part of Park County and in the
north-central part of Fremont County, Colorado, is underlain...chiefly by pre-Cambrian
rocks, bounded, except on the south, by extrusive igneous rocks of Tertiary age. The | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust
long spurs...the color of
the rainbow.
The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...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 | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet
thick in the north.
ALEXANDER COUNTY
FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d
RR siding of Clay⎯agate.
CALHOUN COUNTY
AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals).
CRAWFORD COUNTY
PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite.
EDWARDS COUNTY
AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite.
FULTON COUNTY
FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized
gastropods (Pennsylvanian age).
GRUNDY COUNTY
AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | 👁 Image
| | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet
thick in the north.
ALEXANDER COUNTY
FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d
RR siding of Clay⎯agate.
CALHOUN COUNTY
AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals).
CRAWFORD COUNTY
PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite.
EDWARDS COUNTY
AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite.
FULTON COUNTY
FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized
gastropods (Pennsylvanian age).
GRUNDY COUNTY
AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |
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