Granite Mountains mineralization

Poland K. A. and Allen J. C. (1991) Magma sources for Mesozoic anorogenic granites of the White Mountain magma series. New England, USA. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 109, 195-211. 

Wilson PN, Parry WT, Nash WP (1992) Characterization of hydrothermal tobelitic veins from black shale, Oquirrh Mountains, Utah. Clays Clay Minerals 40 405-420 Wolf MB, London D (1997) Boron in granitic magmas stability of tourmahne in equilibrium with biotite and cordierite. Contrib Mineral Petrol 130 12-30... 

Surface waters that originate in basins where the major rocks are granite contain very small amounts of dissolved minerals, not more than approximately 30 mg/liter. These are an important group of waters for example, the water supplies of New York City (from the Catskill Mountains), San Francisco and Oakland (from the Sierra Nevada Mountains), Seattle (from the Cascade Mountains), and many rivers and lakes in New England are of this type. They are illustrated by Type A, in Table 1-4,... 

Kovach J, Faure G (1978) Rubidium-strontium geochronology of granitic rocks from Mt. Chapman, Whitmore Mountains, West Antarctica. Antarctic J US 13(4) 17-18 Leat PT, RQey TR, Storey BC, Kelley SP, Millar IL (2000) Middle Jurassic ultramafle lamprophyre dyke within the Ferrar magmatic province, Pensacola Mountains. Antarctica Mineral Mag 64 95-111... 

Clay is a natural, earthy mixture of very small crystals of certain silicate sheet minerals. These minerals form by the weathering of granite, the rock that composes the backbone of mountain ranges. Clay minerals easily adsorb water, and wet clay is moldable. The wet platelike crystals adhere to one another to give a plastic, or easily deformable, mass. It is this plasticity of wet clay that allows the potter to form usefiil and artistic shapes. 

K-feldspar, Blue Star pluton, Mineral Range 18.76 K-feldspar, granite of Desert Mountain 18.86... 

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