Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont, Volume 9 |
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actinolite anticline bands Barre Bennington biotite Blue bluish-gray Brandon Brook calcareous calcite marble Cambrian carbonate chlorite cleavage coarse color contains County dark degrees east deposits dike dolo dolomite dolomite marble Dorset Dorset Mountain east side eastern fault feet thick feldspar folds foliation formation geology gneiss grade grain diameter granite graphitic Graphitic marble gray Green Mountain Greensboro Hardwick hematite Hill inch interbedded irregular Lake ledge lenses light lime limestone magnetite marble beds mass mica millimeter mineral mottled muscovite Ordovician outcrops oxide phyllite Pittsford Plate plicated polish Pond Pownal Proctor pyrite quarry quartz quartzite quartzose range ridge River road rock schist sedimentary sediments sericite sericite schist serpentine shade shown shows slate slope stone strike surface Survey Swanton syncline Taconic talc texture thin section township twinned U. S. Geol valley veins Vermont Marble Company village West Rutland western White marble Woodbury
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Page 51 - MARBLE AND MARBLE WORKING. A Handbook for Architects, Sculptors, Marble Quarry Owners and Workers, and all engaged in the Building and Decorative Industries. Containing numerous Illustrations and 13 Coloured Plates. By WG RENWICK, Author of "The Marble Industry," "The Working of Marble for Decorative Purposes,
Page 360 - Areas of catchment for water supply, sites for reservoirs, and routes of canals may be ascertained from these maps. 3. Political. — In all questions relating to political or legislative matters. For these purposes they afford accurate information as to the relations of boundaries and towns to natural features. 4. Administrative and military. — In all questions relating to Federal or State administration of public works, as canals, reservations, parks, highways, and as military base maps on which...
Page 24 - The Chemical Composition of Limestones from upraised Coral Islands, with Notes on their Microscopical Structures. By ERNEST W. SKEATS. 76 pp. June, 1903. Memoirs : — Vol. XXVI. No. 4. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, 1899-1900. V. Sharks
Page 159 - Plagioclase. A term applied to all those feldspars that are not potash feldspars. Polarized light. Light whose vibrations, unlike those of ordinary light, which extend in all directions, are in only one plane.
Page 360 - In connection with legislation involving the granting of charters, rights, etc., when a physical knowledge of the country may be desirable or necessary.
Page 24 - Dublin, vol. 6, 1856, pp. 114-119, figs. 1-3, showing a vertical "dike" of dolomite 1 to 2 feet thick crossing horizontal beds of limestone, also dolomite replacing the upper part of a series of horizontal and undulating beds of limestone, the boundary between the two rocks zigzagging most irregularly across the bedding planes. See also Harkness, Robert, On the jointings in the Carboniferous and Devonian rocks in the district around Cork; and on the dolomites of the same district: Quart.
Page 1 - The marble district specially considered lies west of the Green Mountain Range in Bennington, Rutland, and Addison counties, but the reddish dolomite marble quarried at Swanton, in Franklin County, and the black calcite marble quarried on Isle la Motte, in Grand Isle County, are also described. The green serpentine of Roxbury, nearly in the center of the State, in Washington County, and the chrome mica schist of Shrewsbury, in Rutland County, have also been included. The bulletin covers all the quarries...
Page 53 - Vermont, descriptive, theoretical, economical, and scenographical, 1861, vol. 1, pp. 394-424; vol. 2, pp. 690-692, 751-780. MANLEY, JE, Rutland County marble, with a history of the marble industry of Vermont and a statement of comparative value: First Ann. Rept. Vermont State Board Agr., Man. and Min., 1872, pp. 656-666. MERRILL, GEORGE P., Special reports on mines and quarries: Twelfth Census US, 1900, pp. 791-795. Stones for building and decoration, 3d ed., 1908, pp. 231-239, 372-374, 513. NEWBERRY,...
Page 9 - ... and Schneider on p. 189. The data of geochemistry, 2d ed.: Bull. US Geol. Survey No. 491, 1911, pp. 117-119, 396, 534-544, 593-596. CROOK, T., On dedolomitization: Geol. Mag., London, dec. 5, vol. 8, 1911, pp. 339445. DELEPINE, G., Recherches sur le calcaire carbonifere de la Belgique, Paris, 1911. DEWEY, CHESTER, Notice of the flexible or elastic marble of Berkshire County: Am. Jour. Sci., 1st ser., vol. 9, 1825, p. 241. DIEULAFAIT, - — , Existence du manganese a l'6tat de diffusion complete...
Page 50 - CLARK, WB, and MATHEWS, EB, Report on the physical features of Maryland, together with an account of the exhibits of Maryland mineral resources made by the Maryland Geological Survey: Maryland Geol.