Rockhounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey
by Robert Beard
Rockhounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey
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| Acknowledgments |
ix
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| Introduction |
1
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| Rockhounding Basics |
4
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| Pennsylvania Geology |
10
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| Pennsylvania Natural Resources |
13
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| New Jersey Geology |
17
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| New Jersey Natural Resources |
19
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| How To Use This Guide |
22
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| Pennsylvania Sites | |
| Piedmont Province | |
| 1. Prospect Park Kyanite |
26
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| 2. Smedley Park Apatite |
29
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| 3. Oreland Goethite |
32
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| 4. Phoenixville Dolomite Crystals |
35
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| 5. Hay Creek Prehnite and Stilbite |
37
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| 6. Morgantown Stromatolitic Cambrian Carbonates |
39
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| 7. Fruitville Pike Pseudomorphs |
42
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| 8. Mud and Grubb Lake Goethite Bombshells |
45
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| 9. Safe Harbor Quarry |
48
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| 10. Delta Slate Quarries |
51
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| 11. Strickhousers Iron Mines |
53
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| 12. Howard Tunnel Phyllite |
56
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| 13. Accomac Road Serpentine Minerals |
59
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| 14. Rossville Malachite-Azurite |
61
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| 15. Dillsburg Diabase Minerals |
64
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| 16. Hershey Specular Hematite |
66
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| 17. Fontana Quarries Calcite |
69
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| 18. Cornwall Magnetite |
72
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| New England Province | |
| 19. Antietam Molybdenite |
75
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| 20. Allentown Jasper Cliffs |
78
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| 21. Constitution Drive Rare Earth Minerals |
80
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| 22. Hellertown Thomas Iron Slag |
83
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| Ridge and Valley Province | |
| 23. Easton Tremolite and Phlogopite |
85
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| 24. St. Anthony's Nose Schorl |
88
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| 25. Pen Argyl Ordovician Slate |
91
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| 26. Saylorsburg Devonian Fossils |
93
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| 27. Beltzville State Park Devonian Fossils |
96
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| 28. Lehighton Lehigh Canal Devonian Fossils |
98
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| 29. Lehighton Quartz Crystals |
101
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| 30. Deer Lake Devonian Fossils |
103
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| 31. Molino Devonian Banded Sediments |
106
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| 32. St. Clair Pennsylvanian Fern Fossils |
108
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| 33. Suedberg Devonian Fossils |
111
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| 34. Sharp Mountain Boxcar Rocks |
114
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| 35. Centralia Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils |
117
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| 36. Shamokin Whaleback Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils |
120
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| 37. Dalmatia Devonian Fossils |
123
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| 38. Rockville Devonian Fossils |
125
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| 39. Harrisburg Boxwork Limestone |
128
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| 40. Mechanicsburg Cabbage Head Quartz |
131
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| 41. Boiling Springs - Reading Banks Cryptomelane and Goethite |
134
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| 42. Carbaugh Reservoir Metavolcanics |
137
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| 43. Waggoners Gap Turquoise |
140
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| 44. Shermans Dale Devonian Fossils |
142
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| 45. New Bloomfield Devonian Fossils |
144
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| 46. Roxbury Ordovician Fossils |
146
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| 47. Seven Stars Devonian Pelecypods |
148
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| 48. Walker Lake Ordovician - Devonian Brachiopods |
150
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| 49. Kreamer Wavellite |
154
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| 50. Danville Devonian Fossils |
156
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| 51. PPL Montour Preserve Fossils |
158
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| 52. Lime Ridge Calcite and Early Devonian Fossils |
161
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| 53. Nanticoke Concrete City |
163
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| 54. Bellefonte Ordovician Fossils |
166
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| 55. Turnpike Devonian Graptolites |
169
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| Appalachian Plateaus Province | |
| 56. Johnstown Pennsylvanian Fossils |
172
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| 57. Uniontown Mississippian Fossils |
176
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| 58. Carmichaels Pennsylvanian Plant Fossils |
179
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| 59. North Vandergrift Barite - Sphalerite Nodules |
182
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| 60. Frick Park Pennsylvanian Fossils |
184
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| 61. South Heights Pennsylvanian Crinoid Fossils |
186
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| 62. Franklin Siderite-Sphalerite Nodules |
188
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| 63. Titusville Mississippian Fossils |
191
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| 64. Union City Dam Devonian Horseshoe Crabs & Trace Fossils |
193
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| New Jersey Sites | |
| Coastal Plain Province | |
| 65. Mount Holly Iron Oxide Cemented Sandstone |
198
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| 66. Mullica Hill Vivianite |
201
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| 67. Bear Swamp Hill Quartz Pebbles |
204
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| 68. Harrisville Pond Bog Iron |
207
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| 69. Cape May Diamonds |
210
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| 70. Big Brook Late Cretaceous Fossils |
212
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| 71. Sayreville Marcasite and Amber |
215
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| Piedmont Province | |
| 72. Corys Brook Vesicular Basalt and Potential Carnelian |
218
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| 73. Stirling Brook Carnelian Agate |
221
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| 74. North Arlington Schuyler Copper Mine |
224
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| 75. Snake Hill Magnetite, Malachite, and Stilbite |
227
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| 76. Jersey City Bergen Arches Calcite |
230
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| 77. Hoboken Serpentine |
233
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| 78. North Bergen Banded Hornfels |
236
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| 79. New Street Quarries and Great Falls of the Passaic |
238
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| Highlands Province | |
| 80. Lake Valhalla Yellow Serpentine |
242
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| 81. Wanaque Roomy and Blue Mines Magnetite |
245
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| 82. West Milford - Bearfort Mountain Puddingstone |
248
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| 83. Cranberry Lake Iron Mines |
250
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| 84. Sterling Hill Mine and Mine Run Dump |
253
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| 85. Buckwheat Dump and Franklin Mineral Museum |
255
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| 86. Hamburg Stromatolites |
257
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| 87. Marble Mountain Hematite Mine |
259
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| Valley and Ridge Province | |
| 88. Pahaquarry Copper Mines |
262
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| 89. Montague Quartz Crystals |
266
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| References Cited |
268
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| Index |
275
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| About the Author |
278
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