Silver City (Hills Pond) dome (Record #781) occurrence of asbestos in Woodson county, KS

Silver City (Hills Pond) dome

occurrence of asbestos in Woodson county, KS

Geologic information

Name of site	Silver City (Hills Pond) dome
Development	occurrence
State	KS
County	Woodson
Geographic location:	-95.7867, 37.7475
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Fibrous mineral	chrysotile
Associated minerals	olivine antigorite lizardite phlogopite richterite magnetite
Host rock types	lamproite sill
Geologic map unit	-95.7867, 37.7475
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Reference information

Wagner, H.C., 1954, Geology of the Fredonia quadrangle, Kansas: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-49, scale 1:62,500.

[http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/gq49]

Cullers, R.L., Ramakrishnan, Subramanian, Berendsen, Pieter, and Griffin, Tom, 1985, Geochemistry and peterogenesis of lamproites, Late Cretaceous age, Woodson County, Kansas, U.S.A.: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 49, no. 6, p. 1383-1402.