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| 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 |
| | --- Geographic Location of Projects |
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| 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] |
| NEW | --- Compact Catalogue of Canadian Meteorites, update of May 2009 [pdf file] |
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| | --- 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 in pdf format |
| Turnstone Glossary of Petrographic Terms [184 kb] |
| Compact Catalogue of Canadian Meteorites [138 kb] |
| Escott Reid, Canadian Diplomat [79 kb] |
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| 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 |
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1. Cannel Coal | An Unusual Carbonaceous Rock |
2. NEW Moganite - Silica Revisited?
| Brief Notes and Bibliography |
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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 |
| | --- #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 |
| | --- #37 --- Fulgurite from Ontario |
| | --- #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 |
| | --- #63 --- in prep. 63 Jasperoid |
| | --- #64 --- in prep. 64 Anthraxolite / thucholite (hydrocarbons) |
| | --- #65 --- Odegaardite, metagabbro from Norway |
| | --- #66 --- Lepidolite, Harding pegmatite, New Mexico |
| 2007 | --- #67 --- Rucklidgeite, a rare telluride |
| | --- #68 --- in prep. 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 |
| | --- #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, 216 kb) |
| NEW | --- #82 --- Slickensides, northwest Ontario |
| NEW | --- #83 --- NWA869 meteorite |
| 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 |
| 2009NEW | --- #91 --- Grenville corundum, east of Bancroft, Ontario |
| NEW | --- #92 --- Orbicular granite, on the north Chilean coast |
| 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 |
| 2010NEW | --- #103 --- Amazonite feldspar from Quebec |
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| | --- Economic geology: the underpinnings of modern society |
| | --- Rock of the Month Feature, now with 100 entries, 2001-2010 |
| | --- coming in 2010: tentative program, including: minium, a fossil, rocks from |
| | --- coming in 2010: northern Ethiopia and Scotland; rare meteorites; and Essex sea salt |
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| Turnstone's Links | Links to Scientific and News Web Sites Worldwide |