Turnstone Geological Services Ltd

Campbellford, Ontario, Canada

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The following table summarizes the contents of this site. The "heading" represents a single document or starting-point.
The "topics" define the subject matter in more detail, whether it is hosted on a single page
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SEE the full listing of the Rock of the Month feature!

Classification of Topics Available on this Site

Heading Topics
Welcome Page --- NEW Turnstone Logo, Summary and Contact Information
Summary Profile; sommaire en français; resumen en español
Contents Page Directory of Contents
--- Central Route to Major Topics
Introduction to Turnstone --- NEW A Brief Summary of Turnstone Activities and Products
--- Includes the Following Vignettes:
--- Indian Meteorites - List with Input from MINLIB [updated June 2005]
--- Reflectance Spectra of the Rare Palladium Mineral, Cabriite
--- Textures in Silica from a Mexican Precious-metals Vein Deposit
--- Introduction to the MINLIB Database
--- Links to Meteorite and other Mineralogical Work at IsoTrace Lab
NEW --- Graham Wilson - Select Bibliography & Public Presentations
NEW --- Geographic Location of Projects
Technical & Geopolitical Bibliographies & Catalogues
--- Annotated
--- 24 selections from MINLIB database
--- 35 less-technical selections from MINLIB & WORLD
--- a specific list for meteorites from India [updated June 2005]
--- Citations
--- 25 titles from MINLIB: references for descriptive mineralogy
--- 28 more titles: references for descriptive mineralogy, II
--- Publications & Students of Frank W. Beales
--- Publications of Eugen F. Stumpfl
--- Download some items in pdf format, including:
NEW Turnstone Glossary of Petrographic Terms [127 kb] - update of July 2010
NEW Compact Catalogue of Canadian Meteorites [143 kb] - update of April 2010
Escott Reid, Canadian Diplomat [79 kb]
Site Map This page, a more-detailed listing of currently-available content
Local Information Geology and Natural History, Campbellford area, Northumberland county, Ontario
-- Introductory Notes
NEW --- Bibliography of the District
NEW --- Seymour township bird list
NEW --- Seymour township flora and fauna
---- Introduction to Local Geology
----- Precambrian (Grenville) Shield
----- Paleozoic (Ordovician) Limestones
----- Quaternary Geology
------ News:
------- The Norwood Fireball Event of 06 May 2001
------- The Pennsylvania Fireball Event of 23 July 2001
--------- Links to other Web Sites
Slide Show Lake Superior Geology -- Multi-Audience Slide Show
--- Junior Tour
--- Standard Tour
--- Advanced Tour
Rocks, Minerals, Meteorites and Other Natural and Artificial Curios
1. Cannel Coal An Unusual Carbonaceous Rock
2. NEW Moganite - Silica Revisited?
Brief Notes and Bibliography
3. The "Rock of the Month"
2001 --- #1 ---- Apatite & Orange Calcite from Renfrew County, Ontario
--- #2 ---- Apatite & Biotite from the Bancroft area, Ontario
--- #3 ---- Meteorite Recognition
--- #4 ---- Cinnabar, Mercury Ore from Spain
--- #5 ---- Violarite, Nickel Ore from Sudbury, Ontario
--- #6 ---- Opal in Volcanic Rock from Honduras
2002 --- #7 ---- Holbrook Meteorite (Arizona)
--- #8 ---- Berthierite, Iron-Antimony Sulphide from Borneo
--- #9 ---- Charnockite, a Deep and Meaningful Granitoid Rock (Baffin Island)
--- #10 --- Stibnite from South Africa
--- #11 --- Fossil Bryozoan from Southern Ontario
--- #12 --- Banded Sphalerite from Nanisivik, Baffin Island
--- #13 --- Gabbro Boulder, Southern Ontario
--- #14 --- Corundum (Ruby & Sapphire) from India
--- #15 --- Cabriite (a Palladium Mineral) from Siberia
--- #16 --- Chert & Chalcedony (Pennsylvania)
--- #17-18 Double Take: Igneous Rocks from Earth & Space
2003 --- #19 --- Thallium in Nature (Utah)
--- #20 --- Mexican Silver Ore (Fresnillo, Zacatecas)
--- #21 --- Native Gold from California
--- #22 --- Pyroxmangite (`rhodonite') from Colorado
--- #23 --- Chert & Microfossils (Pennsylvania)
--- #24 --- Chert Provenance (Pennsylvania)
--- #25 --- Diamonds from Africa
--- #26 --- Diamond and Carbonado, Siberia & Africa
NEW --- #27 --- Copper-rich Slag, Belleville, Ontario
--- #28 --- Gabbro Boulder, Marmora, Ontario
--- #29 --- Shap Granite, Lake District, England
--- #30 --- Ross of Mull Granite, Scotland
2004 --- #31 --- Allivalite, Rhum, Scotland
--- #32 --- Appinite, Strontian area, Scotland
--- #33 --- Cylindrite from Bolivia
--- #34 --- Flint Walls, Essex, England
--- #35 --- Green Mica in Gold Ore, Western Australia
--- #36 --- Pyrite from Navajun, Spain
NEW --- #37 --- Fulgurite from Ontario
NEW --- #38 --- Ice - a Mineral!
--- #39 --- A Young Plutonic Rock from Borneo
--- #40 --- Cobalt-Nickel Arsenide Ore, Cobalt district, Ontario
--- #41 --- Winonaite (Rare Achondrite Meteorite) from Northwest Africa
--- #42 --- Pyrite from Nanisivik, Baffin Island
2005 --- #43 --- Khondalite from Kerala, south India
--- #44 --- Silicides in Fulgurite and Ferrosilicon
--- #45 --- Chrysocolla from Wyoming
--- #46 --- Graphite from the Bushveld of South Africa
--- #47 --- Granitic Pegmatite from the Grenville Province of S.E. Ontario
--- #48 --- Zinc-lead Vein from the Grenville Province of S.E. Ontario
--- #49 --- Moorabie chondrite, Australian meteorite
--- #50 --- Calcic anorthosite, northern Ontario
--- #51 --- Forsterite marble, Scotland
--- #52 --- Titaniferous metagabbro, Norway
--- #53 --- Halleflinta from southwest Wales
--- #54 --- Granite boulders of southeastern Wyoming, U.S.A.
2006 --- #55 --- Tektites from China
--- #56 --- Lamprophyre (intermediate porphyry) from British Columbia
--- #57 --- Pulaskite (syenite) from British Columbia
--- #58 --- Marbles of the Grenville province, S.E. Ontario
--- #59 --- Sphalerite-rich ore, English Lake District
--- #60 --- UG-2 chromitite, Bushveld complex, South Africa
NEW --- #61 --- Umangite: selenides from Moravia and Saskatchewan
--- #62 --- Mineralized andesite, Guanajuato, Mexico
NEW --- #63 --- Jasperoid, Jerritt Canyon, Nevada, U.S.A.
NEW --- #64 --- Anthraxolite hydrocarbon, Sudbury, Ontario
--- #65 --- Odegaardite, metagabbro from Norway
--- #66 --- Lepidolite, Harding pegmatite, New Mexico
2007 --- #67 --- Rucklidgeite, rare telluride, N.E. Ontario
NEW --- #68 --- Sulphidic charnockite, Kodaikanal, south India
--- #69 --- Dumortierite from Chile
--- #70 --- Jade from northern British Columbia
--- #71 --- Oxide-rich pegmatite, Grenville province, S.E. Ontario
--- #72 --- Palaeobeach with igneous pebbles, Cuba
NEW --- #73 --- Amethyst, Thunder Bay, N.W. Ontario
--- #74 --- Siltstone cobble, Slate Islands, N.W. Ontario
--- #75 --- Shatter cone, Slate Islands, N.W. Ontario
--- #76 --- Chert from the Crowe valley, S.E. Ontario
--- #77 --- Native gold from Guyana
--- #78 --- Native gold from Timmins, Ontario
2008 --- NEW --- #79 --- Fractured flint from Essex, England
NEW --- #80 --- Pyritic gold ore, Hemlo, Ontario
NEW --- #81 --- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario
NEW --- #81b -- Sperrylite, Sudbury, Ontario (.pdf, 138 kb)
NEW --- #82 --- Slickensides, northwest Ontario
NEW --- #83 --- NWA869 meteorite, Morocco
NEW --- #84 --- Concretion, northwest Ontario
NEW --- #85 --- Calcite from Zacatecas, Mexico
NEW --- #86 --- Gibeon meteorite, Namibia
NEW --- #87 --- Azurite from Spain
NEW --- #88 --- Banded iron formation, W.Australia
NEW --- #89 --- Brecciated chert, W.Australia
NEW --- #90 --- Scapolite from Quebec
2009 --- NEW --- #91 --- Grenville corundum, east of Bancroft, Ontario
NEW --- #92 --- Orbicular granite, coast of northern Chile
NEW --- #93 --- Campo del Cielo iron meteorite, Argentina
NEW --- #94 --- Agrellite and eudialyte, Kipawa, Quebec
NEW --- #95 --- Green micaceous gold ore, Hemlo, Ontario
NEW --- #96 --- Bournonite from Pulacayo, Bolivia
NEW --- #97 --- Massive sulphide bear as folk-art carving (Sudbury, Ontario)
NEW --- #98 --- Banded iron formation, south India
NEW --- #99 --- Galena, quartz and orpiment, Peru
NEW --- #100 --- Pegmatitic granite from Cornwall, England
NEW --- #101 --- Tourmaline-rich granitic breccia from Cornwall, England
NEW --- #102 --- Perthitic granite pegmatite, Grenville province, Ontario
2010 --- NEW --- #103 --- Amazonite feldspar from Quebec
NEW --- #104 --- Dhofar 485 howardite meteorite, Oman
NEW --- #105 --- Amazonite feldspar from Sidamo, southern Ethiopia
NEW --- #106 --- Native copper and datolite, northern Michigan, U.S.A.
NEW --- #107 --- Apatite and phlogopite, Palabora, South Africa
NEW --- #108 --- Basaltic volcanic bomb, Mount Fuji, Japan
NEW --- #109 --- Crocoite from Tasmania, Australia
NEW --- #110 --- Sea salt (in essence, "synthetic halite") from Essex, England
NEW --- #111 --- Graptolite fossils from Dyfed, Wales -- with interim image
NEW --- #112 --- Brucite ophicalcite (marble) from Skye, Scotland
NEW --- #113 --- Minium from Colorado and Arizona, U.S.A. -- with interim image
NEW --- #114 --- Peperite identified in outcrop in Tigrai, Ethiopia
2011 --- NEW --- #115 --- Chalcopyrite ore, McCreedy West mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
NEW --- #116 --- Springwater pallasite meteorite, Saskatchewan, Canada
NEW --- #117 --- Bencubbin CBa bencubbinite meteorite, W.Australia
NEW --- #118 --- Gujba CBa bencubbinite meteorite, Nigeria
NEW --- #119 --- NWA 5425 H4 chondrite meteorite, Morocco
NEW --- #120 --- Tourmalinite from Botallack, Cornwall, England
NEW --- #121 --- Putorana metal-rich basalt / pseudometeorite, Siberia
NEW --- #122 --- Calcite, Grenville province, Ontario
NEW --- #123 --- Fulgurite, Grant county, Nebraska, U.S.A.
NEW --- #124 --- Fulgurite, Florence, Arizona, U.S.A.
NEW --- #125 --- Chrome diopside, Russia
NEW --- #126 --- Native silver in vein, Silver Islet, Thunder Bay area, Ontario
2012 --- NEW --- #127 --- Seymchan pallasite / iron meteorite, Siberia
--- Economic geology: the underpinnings of modern society
--- Rock of the Month Feature, now with 127 linked entries, 2001-2012
--- Some possible future items for 2012 (not in order):
--- 1. Chiastolite-muscovite schist pebble, Newfoundland
--- 2. Toluca iron meteorite, Mexico
--- 3. Loellingite (löllingite), Broken Hill, N.S.W., Australia
--- 4. Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, Mexico
--- 5. Keweenawan peridotite, Midcontinent Rift, U.S.A. & Canada
--- 6. Coronitic metagabbro, Muskoka district, Ontario
--- 7. Blue John fluorite, Derbyshire, England
--- 8. Germanium minerals with tennantite, Tsumeb, Namibia
--- 9. Gold-silver tellurides from Colorado, U.S.A.
-- 10. Tin and/or tungsten ore from Cornwall, England
-- 11. Goethite, common weathering product, TBA
-- 12. NWA 5731, an LL3.2 chondritic meteorite, Morocco
Turnstone's Links Links to Scientific and News Web Sites Worldwide


Classification of Topics Available on this Site
AGID CANADA Book and Journal Donation Program
Archives - Welcome Page
-- Introduction to the Program
--- Latest News Updates
--- #1 Mongolia, June 2002
--- #2 Progress, Summer 2002
--- #3 Progress, Early 2003
--- #4 Progress, Autumn 2003
--- #5 Progress, April 2004
--- #6 Progress, October 2004
--- #7 Ethiopia, May 2005
--- #8 Mongolia, September 2006
--- #9 Nigeria, March 2008
NOTE --- #10Uganda, October 2008
Project now ended --- #11Texas and Africa, update to December 2010
--- Tour of the Warehouse Operation, and Current Status
---- Index to 36-part Book Catalogue, and List of Journals
---- 36 Thematic, Alphabetical Book Listings
----- Capsule Information, Global Scope

Document last revised 16 January 2012.


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