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Sillimanite in South Carolina
Laurence Lowe Smith
Sillimanite in South Carolina
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists (June 1945) 40 (4): 298-304
Sillimanite in South Carolina
Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists (June 1945) 40 (4): 298-304
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Appalachians
- ceramic materials
- economic geology
- granites
- igneous rocks
- industrial minerals
- intrusions
- metamorphic rocks
- metamorphism
- mineral deposits, genesis
- minerals
- nesosilicates
- North America
- occurrence
- orthosilicates
- petrology
- Piedmont
- plutonic rocks
- resources
- schists
- silicates
- sillimanite
- sillimanite deposits
- South Carolina
- United States
- Piedmont sillimanite
- Piedmont sillimanite deposits
- Piedmont deposits
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
Sillimanite has been found throughout a long belt in the Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia. The host rock is a quartz mica schist, which presumably was originally an arenaceous sediment containing considerable aluminum. Sillimanite has been formed from biotite by the action of granite intrusions. Some deposits show promise of commercial value.
ISSN: 0361-0128
EISSN: 1554-0774
Coden: ECGLAL
Serial Title: Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists
Serial Volume: 40
Serial Issue: 4
Title: Sillimanite in South Carolina
Author(s): Smith, Laurence Lowe
Pages: 298-304
Published: 194506
Text Language: English
Publisher: Economic Geology Publishing Company,
Lancaster, PA,
United States
Accession Number: 1949-015572
Categories: Economic geology of nonmetal deposits
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus.
N32°04'00" - N35°12'00", W83°15'00" - W78°31'60"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Abstract, Copyright, Society of Economic Geologists. Reference includes data from Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Update Code: 1949
